February 2009

Contents

• February meeting and contents - page 1Introduces a talk on miniature collecting and features on Mittagong’s ironworks and historical research.
• Archives report and newspaper notices - page 2Linda Emery reports on indexing and photograph preservation; notices mention Bowral blacksmiths and a local magistrate.
• The Rocks and Moss Vale lodge - page 3Reviews Grace Karskens’s history of early Sydney and reprints a 1903 Moss Vale lodge notice.
• Lake Alexandra and the Fitzroy ironworks - page 4David Kemmis proposes an earlier origin for the lake in connection with a cable tramway, distinguishing his interpretation from the previous account.
• Fitzroy ironworks tramways - page 5Kemmis describes routes between the ironworks and coal mines, remaining earthworks and the difficulties of the cable tramway.
• Tramway notes and Emma Bourne - page 6Concludes Kemmis’s referenced tramway account and introduces newspaper reports about the disappearance of Emma Bourne.
• Emma Bourne inquest - page 7Reprints nineteenth-century inquest reporting, including its uncertain identification and finding that the cause of death was not established.
• Diary and supporters - page 8Lists Society events and newsletter supporters in 2009.

Issue highlights

• David Kemmis examines the Fitzroy ironworks tramways and proposes an earlier origin for Lake Alexandra (pp.4-6).
• The issue reprints reports of an inquest into remains thought possibly to be those of Emma Bourne (pp.6-7).
• An archives report describes ongoing newspaper indexing and photograph preservation (p.2).

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