Virginia is a heritage-listed homestead and former pastoral property at Charleyong Road, Mayfield, Queanbeyan-Palerang Region, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1830 to 1925. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 18 November 1999. History The Roberts family settled in the Braidwood district in the mid-1830s, and have associations with the pastoral properties known as Mayfield, Virginia and Ooranook. John Cocking, born in Nottingham in 1791, was married to Anna Maria Whitmore in London in 1816. It appears that the couple had eight children born between 1816 and 1834, and also changed their surname to Roberts during this time. In 1834, Maria Roberts and her children boarded the Margaret bound for Sydney, Australia, accompanied by her brother-in-law Robert Roberts (who had also changed his name) and his wife Mary. It is not known when John Roberts arrived in Sydney, but it is speculated that he had arrived before his wife and brother to search for suitable land for the families to settle. It is also possible that John Roberts was a "remittance man", meaning that his family paid him to stay away. Shortly after disembarkation, the two Roberts families lived on Kent Street in Sydney's Rocks area, but moved to the Braidwood district by November 1835. At this time, John Roberts' request to purchase 100 acres at Boro Creek Swamp "to enable him to erect a warehouse and establishment for the convenience of travellers and acting as a Veterinary Surgeon and Farrier" had been granted. The land grant referred to was Portion 1 of the Parish of Nadgigomar, County of Argyle; this parcel of land was to the north of the Boro Creek. Today this land is within the boundaries of the Mayfield estate, as defined by the SCA in 2009. John Roberts built the Star and Garter Inn on this land grant in . He held the license for the Star and Garter Inn in 1836 and 1837; his brother Robert Roberts was a publican here also. In March 1836, John Roberts purchased 200 acres of land on the Boro Creek (Portion 43 of the Parish of Larbert) which later became the foundation of Mayfield. This parcel of land was in the vicinity of "Bora", which was one of three stations marked by Assistant Surveyor Robert Hoddle on his map of the district in 1824. "Bora" is also marked on a 1924