August 2010

Contents

• August meeting and contents - page 1Introduces a talk on Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie, the Bong Bong church visit and Bowral family history.
• Society news and archives - page 2Records collection acquisitions, a proposed Berrima tour and a reprinted 1889 Moss Vale municipal notice.
• Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie - page 3Introduces Beverley McClymont’s presentation on their lives and the colony in 1810.
• Lavinia Ford and a midwife’s suitcase - page 4Profiles the newsletter editor and describes Naomi Oxley’s nursing and midwifery collection donated to the museum.
• Christ Church, Bong Bong - page 5Philip Morton reports on Linda Emery’s church and graveyard tour, illustrated with Jan Reid’s photographs.
• The Stokes sisters of Bowral - page 6Linda Emery describes donated family documents and the Stokes family’s upholstery, funeral and soft-furnishing businesses.
• Where Trains Have Travelled - page 7Introduces David Kemmis’s book on railway routes and remnants, with views of Bowral station.
• Diary and supporters - page 8Lists Society meetings and newsletter supporters in 2010.

Issue highlights

• Linda Emery describes the donated Stokes family collection and Bowral furnishing businesses (p.6).
• The Society reports a visit to Christ Church, Bong Bong, and introduces David Kemmis’s book on former railway routes (pp.5, 7).
• Museum curator Bob Williams describes a midwife’s suitcase associated with Naomi Oxley (p.4).

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