William Drought

I'm looking for William Drought, b 1833 Roscrea, Birr, Offaly. 

I'm not sure exactly when he arrived in Australia, only that it was the 1850's, and that he was here by 1861 as that's when he married Marie Elizabeth Kilpatrick at Merton, Victoria. 
 

His parents were John Drought and Catherine née Drought b abt 1810.

One story is that he brought horses with him from Ireland, and another is that  he came to Australia via America. 

He gave a set of silver dueling pistols to his daughter, my grandfather's mother. She discovered later upon communicating with a Drought lady in Canada that she also had a pair of silver dueling pistols. There must be a story in there somewhere. 

William also always wore a locket with a painting of a Miss Georgina Parsons. DNA has now indicated that my family have a fair number of Parsons matches, so she may have been a cousin. 

He and Marie Elizabeth Kilpatrick had 10 children. 

In 1891, when he was 60 years old, William had called his family together, he said, to tell them his story. Unfortunately he had a horse and buggy accident in the paddock whilst showing horses to buyers, and never recovered. He died four days later. Thus his family never did hear his story.