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Monthly Archives: August 2021

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Edwin May: Gloucester’s first police constable

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 29, 2021

Edwin Erskine May joined the mounted police force in 1877 and was stationed at Dungog as a constable. The nearby town of Copeland, then known as Back Creek…

19 River Street, Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsAugust 28, 2021

For nearly a century this beautiful timber house at 19 River Street, Taree has overlooked the Manning River. Florence Emma Billingham…

The mysterious wedding photo

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsAugust 28, 2021

This wedding photo, stored at the Batemans Bay Heritage Museum, was donated by the Dunne Family and is described as a 1920s wedding…

Stephen Powles: Poor to Prof

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 28, 2021

Stephen Powles grew up in Latham Avenue, Chatham in a State Government Housing Commission rental in the 1950s and 60s…

Croquet in Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsAugust 17, 2021

Following a public meeting of interested persons in Taree in April 1937, the formation of Taree Croquet Club took place on 7 August of that year…

Mary Ann Gogerly

People, PlacesBy Janine RobertsAugust 16, 2021

In 1938, Mary Ann Gogerly passed away at the age of 90. Her life had been one of adventure, sadness and resilience…

Captain John Gogerly

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 16, 2021

In 1898 Gogerly’s name became legend when he ran into one of the fiercest storms to hit the east coast while sailing to Sydney in the “Venture”. He strapped himself to the tiller…

Ernie Gorton, leather craftsman, Nabiac

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 13, 2021

Ernie became interested in leather goods and entered the trade of saddler and bootmaker. He set up business in Clarence Town but believing he would be more successful…

The Gorton Family two generations on…

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 13, 2021

Noel Gorton was born at the Australian Agricultural Company’s headquarters in Carrington around 1828. His father George had arrived in Australia in 1826 to work for the company…

George Gorton and the Australian Agricultural Company

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 13, 2021

A smallpox epidemic 200 years ago on Lord Barrington’s Estate in Berkshire, England brought tragedy to the Gorton family. William Gorton was an agricultural labourer who lived and worked on the estate…

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