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Lyn Forde

Town Planning

Photo of the old St Marys Council now the headquarters of the Society courtesy of Tom Thorburn. IN his minutes submitted to St Marys’ Council in August 1947, Mayor Alderman Joseph Cook said that the town planners Messrs Bunning and Madden submitted a revised residential area to the Town Planning Committee to accommodate a population […]

16 August 2023

Lyn Forde

Death by Drowning

Photo of grave from Find a Grave website. AN inquest was held by District Coroner John King Lethbridge and a jury of seven in August 1896 on the death of Elizabeth Warden, wife of William Warden who met her death by falling into a well. William, who was employed at Gillespie’s flour mill in Sydney […]

11 August 2023

Lyn Forde

Caught in the Tunnel

By Lyn Forde – President/Research Officer of St Marys & District Historical Society Inc. In 1912, word reached Penrith that Rowland Cochrane had been cut to pieces in the Glenbrook railway tunnel. He was born in 1887, the youngest son of Mr and Mrs John & Betsy Ann Cochrane (Margarson) of Doonmore Street who were […]

07 July 2023

Lyn Forde

The Morehead Family

By Lyn Forde – President/Research Officer of St Marys & District Historical Society Inc. THE Morehead family like many other families coming from overseas were determined to keep the name “Arthur” within the family tree. Arthur James Morehead, born in Ireland in 1810 came to Australia with his family on the “Thomas & Henry” as […]

22 June 2023

Lyn Forde

Death by Hanging

Penrith settlement began in the Castlereagh area along the Nepean River, but the Hawkesbury area was already settled.  In September 1808, Hugh Dowling was on trial before A Bell, Esquire for armed burglary at the Hawksbury, stealing cash and clothing from the dwelling house of William Styles. Hugh was brought before the court on a […]

07 June 2023

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