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Monthly Archives: March 2021

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Captain Cromarty buried at Carrington Cemetery

Artefacts, PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 30, 2021

During a storm in 1838, a steamer lost its smaller boat which was stranded at One Mile Beach. Cromarty was asked to retrieve the boat and row it back to Port Stephens…

Clyde Smith and the SS Reliance

Artefacts, PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 24, 2021

Following the war, Clyde returned to Tea Gardens where he worked on the passenger steamer “SS Reliance” owned by Thurlow and Co. He held both an engineer’s ticket and master’s ticket so at times captained the ship…

Robert Clyde Smith and the Dalfram Strike

Events, PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 23, 2021

No. 4 Jetty at Port Kembla was the scene of a shocking fatality on 7 November 1938. A young man from Tea Gardens, Robert Clyde Smith, was crushed to death while unloading pig-iron (wrought iron) on to a ship bound for Japan…

Pietro Muscio’s diary

Artefacts, PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 22, 2021

In the twilight of Pietro Antonio Muscio’s life he sat down to write his ‘little story’ over a fortnight in November 1922. Using a fountain pen, exercise book and in English (his second language) he wrote his life story in 43 pages…

Joseph and Ada Tolhurst

PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 18, 2021

Joseph Tolhurst and his sister Ada share a gravestone in a small park at the end of Angel Close, Forster. Joseph was just 18 years old when he was killed at the Breckenridge Sawmills…

12 Alban Street, Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsMarch 11, 2021

12 Alban Street, Taree sits on traditional Birrbay land which later became part of the 2560 acres granted to William Wynter in 1839…

Josiah Miles

PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 4, 2021

In 1885, Josiah and his brother Thomas took over the Forster sawmill and shipbuilding yard which fronted Wallis Lake…

John Wylie Breckenridge: The Laird of Failford

PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 4, 2021

John Wylie Breckenridge (1846-1917) was the eldest son of John Wylie Paton Breckenridge of Forster…

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