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June 2020 PRICE $2.50 NEWSLETTER OF THE HAWKESBURY FAMILY HISTORY GROUP ISSN 0811-9031 June 2020 PRICE $2.50 Two little girls, Mary Avern collection Courtesy Hawkesbury Library Service June 2020 HAWKESBURY CRIER (JUNE 2020) PAGE 1 HAWKESBURY FAMILY CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE HISTORY GROUP Bizarre drowning at Sackville…………………………...3 Sentenced to Debt……………………………………………6 Bligh’s address………………………………………………….7 Search for Henry & Elizabeth Baldwin graves….13 The legacy of inspirational music teachers……...17 Walker family – new book…………………….………..20 The Greens of Green’s Corner, Bullridge………...21 Online Jigsaw puzzles……………………………………..24 The Hawkesbury Family History Group (HFHG) is Arthur Charles Johnston………………………………….25 for people who have an interest in family history in the Hawkesbury area or live in the Hawkesbury Some Hawkesbury headstones………………..……..27 and are conducting research. There are no joining or membership fees. The group meets every 2nd Events, Websites & Reunions………………….……..28 Wednesday of the month (except January) at Hawkesbury Central Library, 300 George Street, Windsor commencing at 10am. W: www.hfhg.hawkesbury.net.au NEW ONLINE The HAWKESBURY CRIER is the quarterly newsletter of the HFHG and is edited by Michelle Nichols. The cost is $5 x 1 year / $10 x 2 years, sent JIGSAW PUZZLES electronically as a PDF. Download order form from www.hfhg.hawkesbury.net.au Articles, notices and enquiries are always welcome for the Hawkesbury Crier. Preferably typed and can be sent by email to [email protected] Contact details: Michelle Nichols, Local History Librarian Hawkesbury Library Service 300 George Street Windsor 2756 NSW Phone (02) 4560-4466 / Fax (02) 4560-4472 Email [email protected] Find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/HawkesburyFHG See p. 24 Find the Library on Facebook www.facebook.com/HawkesburyLibrary HAWKESBURY CRIER (JUNE 2020) PAGE 2 Bizarre drowning at Sackville By Michelle Nichols A strange incident placed the Hawkesbury in the spotlight in 1928. A man accompanied by two young women, were arrested at Sackville with a stolen car. Constable Gillis, Gladys Jefferys, Jean Smith & Constable Hitchcock at Windsor Court House. Courtesy Windsor & Richmond Gazette 13 January 1928. The alarm was raised by a local resident, who reported to the Wilberforce police a suspicious vehicle and occupants, camping in a car at Sackville. Constable Cavanagh investigated and found George Peters aged 19, Jean Smith and Gladys Jefferys, both 16, asleep in the car. Cavanagh became suspicious when they could not provide a licence or proof of car ownership. After confirmation with Parramatta Police the car was stolen, the trio were arrested and taken to Windsor Police Station. Following examination of their belongings, questions were asked about some clothing. Peters claimed they were his but it was obvious they were not his size. One of the girls informed police “the clothing belonged to another man, Leslie Chisholm, who was with them, and who was drowned in the river at Sackville Reach” two days previous. Chisholm was the son of the caretaker of the Brunswick Football ground. HAWKESBURY CRIER (JUNE 2020) PAGE 3 The curious story unfolded, how the group travelled from Melbourne, on Christmas Day in a stolen car which was discarded after breaking down, and another stolen. The group were staying in a Marrickville boarding house and on January 4, stole another car to travel to Brisbane. They stayed overnight at North Richmond before making their way to Sackville where Jean, Chisholm’s companion for 12 months, quarrelled with him when he intending going for a swim. She told him he wasn’t acquainted with the river. Afterwards he said goodbye “in case you don't see me again” and headed to the river. Chisholm asked Peters if he wanted to go but he declined as he couldn’t swim. He told the inquest, he watched Chisholm swim about half-way across the river, then heard him cry 'snag' and saw him turn to swim back. He “watched him until he reached … the bank and saw him no more.” Peters went to where Chisholm should have landed but could not see him and decided he had already come ashore. When the question was raised, why didn’t anyone call for help, there was more concern being discovered with a stolen car. Headlines from Windsor & Richmond Gazette 13 January 1928. After sometime the trio went down the riverbank and found Chisholm’s clothing. They took it and spent the next day wondering if anything had been reported. At first the Police were cynical about the story but after talking to the boarding house manager, it was confirmed there was a fourth member of the party. On Sunday the police organised a search party at Sackville with a motor launch and located Chisholm’s body from a depth of 4.5m. At the Inquest different versions of the event were presented but police warned the trio to keep to the truth. A snag could not be found in the spot mentioned but police wondered if Chisholm just got tangled in the weeds? Dr Arnold examined his body at the Windsor Hospital morgue and found no evidence of violence but “all the signs of death by drowning.” HAWKESBURY CRIER (JUNE 2020) PAGE 4 After the inquest the three were charged at Newtown Court with unlawfully taking and using a vehicle, with £50 bail. Peters, who was still on a 12-month good behaviour bond for stealing a motorbike, was also charged with having an unlicensed revolver which belonged to Chisholm’s father. Chisholm’s father states before the inquest that he believed his son was “coerced into the escapade that ended in his death” and his son had never given him any trouble prior to this. Chisholm’s body was returned to his family in Melbourne with the funeral held on 11 January, Leslie’s 17th birthday. Prisoners Photos showing George Peters Courtesy State Records Gaol Inmates Prisoners Photos Index 1870 to 1930 Available to search online at State Records https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and- indexes/node/1566/browse HAWKESBURY CRIER (JUNE 2020) PAGE 5 ‘Sentenced to Debt: Robert Forrester, First Fleeter’ By Louise Wilson I will always be grateful to Robert Forrester, and the Hawkesbury, for teaching me Australian history. The school version in my youth was very limited in its scope. When you set off down the addictive track of family history, as I did over twenty years ago, the main attraction was the allure of filling in ‘the tree’. Eventually I discovered that one of the names on my chart arrived in Australia as a convict in 1788. My mother recoiled in horror. Oh no! A convict! I was thrilled. The First Fleet. The start of European settlement of this country. That story has absorbed me ever since. I unearthed every scrap of primary evidence I could find about my First Fleeter and interwove it with other people’s versions of the times in which he lived. In January 2009 I published the story of ‘Robert Forrester, First Fleeter’. This case study tracked, for the first time, the flood experiences at the Hawkesbury with the debts incurred by an industrious settler and the difficulties caused by the lack of a financial payments system. (My majors at university happened to be in economics and mathematics.) Since then I’ve done a lot more reading, researching and thinking, making numerous field trips to the Hawkesbury. Readers have asked me questions, highlighting areas needing further explanation. I’ve studied the work of other primary researchers. I’ve cross-checked different versions of history against original sources wherever possible. I’ve more closely examined Robert Forrester’s interactions with the Aboriginal population, for which he has been incorrectly blamed by some for the outbreak of a frontier war at the Hawkesbury, and the amazing role played by Robert’s partner Isabella Ramsay in 1799 when she tried to defend three Aboriginal boys against harm from her neighbours. Some of our cultural norms needed highlighting: the men’s mateship and women’s friendship groups established during long sea voyages, and the sense of community spirit engendered by the Hawkesbury’s natural disasters. The result is the new book ‘Sentenced to Debt: Robert Forrester, First Fleeter’, published in May 2020, in full colour. Written for a general readership, the book uses the life of an ordinary, unlettered person to tell a true story of what really happened when modern Australia was born. Louise Wilson PO Box 3055 South Melbourne VIC 3205 www.louisewilson.com.au HAWKESBURY CRIER (JUNE 2020) PAGE 6 Bligh’s address 1807 Portrait of Rear-Admiral William Bligh [picture] / A. Huey pinxt. 1814 Courtesy of State Library of NSW Back in the early 19th century, Captain William Bligh 1754-1817, was the fourth Governor of NSW from 13 August 1806 to 26 January 1808. The inhabitants of the Hawkesbury were very loyal to Governor Bligh. A controversial figure, he arrived in the colony in 1806 with instructions to bring the military under control and curtail the trade of spirits in the colony. Bligh was presented with a special address from John Macarthur and a number of freemen however the Hawkesbury settlers, were not happy and created their own address. The address was presented by John Bowman, Thomas Matcham Pitt and George Crossley. Below is a transcription of the address and the names of the inhabitants who signed the address. The original four page address is part of the Banks Papers and held by the State Library of NSW and can be viewed online https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/banks/section- 07/series-40/40-115-copy-of-address-of-hawksbury-sic- HAWKESBURY CRIER (JUNE 2020) PAGE 7 Was
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