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Tag Archives: Forster

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The Dun family of Hillside Dairy, Cape Hawke

PlacesBy Janine RobertsOctober 11, 2021

In 1925 Thomas bought a dairy farm situated on Minor Road which is now called Cape Hawke Road, Forster…

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…

Forster’s first police constable: Edward William Mitchell

People, PlacesBy Janine RobertsAugust 5, 2021

Early policing in NSW began in 1789 when civilians called the “Night Watch” were tasked to guard Sydney Town. On 1 March 1862 the NSW Police Force was established…

Thomas Buckle

Artefacts, PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 4, 2021

On the corner of Little Street and Memorial Drive, Forster, is a bench which was unveiled in 1949 outside the former residence of Thomas Buckle…

Pipers Bay, Forster

PlacesBy Janine RobertsJune 29, 2021

William Brisbane Piper born in 1844 at Brisbane Waters trained as a shipwright with his father. The last ship constructed by William’s father called ‘Jonathan’…

George Garlick Godwin

Artefacts, PeopleBy Janine RobertsJune 18, 2021

George Garlick Godwin was born around 1803 in Wiltshire, England. He was given a life sentence for pig stealing and transported to Australia on the convict ship ‘Burrell’ in 1830…

William Baird

Artefacts, PeopleBy Janine RobertsApril 15, 2021

This photograph from the 1960s shows the headstone of William Baird at the Angel Close Historic Cemetery in Forster. William Baird was born in 1851 in Sydney…

Alfred Basham and Jane Middlemiss

Artefacts, PeopleBy Janine RobertsApril 12, 2021

In the Angel Close Historic Cemetery at Forster lies the remains of Alfred Basham and Jane Middlemiss. While these two youths were not related nor did they die together they were nevertheless connected…

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…

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…

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