July 2013

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Society details and meeting notices printed in July 2013.
• President’s report and museum project - page 2Reports Society activities and progress on the Southern Highlands 1200 museum extension.
• Talk and Mittagong heritage tour - page 3Introduces a travel talk and planned pictorial and self-drive tours of historic Mittagong.
• Shoalhaven history fair - page 4Leonie Knapman reports the Society’s participation and interest in its cemetery transcriptions.
• Museum work and Bundanoon Public School - page 5Reports museum collections work and traces the school from early private and provisional education to the 1909 building.
• Murray family and Canyan Leigh - page 6Philip Morton follows Jane Murray’s property, post office, school and descendants in the Canyonleigh district.
• Canyonleigh, Joadja and communications - page 7Continues the family and district history through shale mining, timber, the post office, telephone service and the locality’s name.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal details printed in July 2013; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Bundanoon History Group traces local schooling from Emma Harriman’s private school in 1867 and Dinah Osborn’s provisional school in 1871 to the 1909 brick school (p.5).
• Philip Morton continues the Murray family history and follows Canyan Leigh’s post office, school, properties and later communications (pp.6-7).
• Society reports cover museum collections work, the Southern Highlands 1200 project and the Shoalhaven history fair (pp.2, 4-5).

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