October 2015

Contents

• President’s column and meeting notices - page 1The president reflects on the school holidays and announces an archives show-and-tell meeting.
• Society notices - page 2Reports on a substituted meeting speaker, a new microfilm scanner and Society meeting arrangements.
• Browley and Oldbury tour; archives report - page 3Announces a Sutton Forest property tour and describes a donated Hoddle route tracing, Taylor family research, Wombeyan Caves photographs and biography-file digitisation.
• Early incidents at Berrima Gaol - page 4Philip Morton draws on nineteenth-century newspaper reports to describe the gaol’s early layout, changing use, prisoner transfers and escapes.
• Berrima Gaol enlargement and 1863 mutiny - page 5Continues the account with escapes during rebuilding, the prisoners’ 1863 protest, expansion and the later end of a harsh prison regime.
• Frank Caseley and the Light Horse - page 6Michele Woods presents research and family recollections about Frank Caseley’s First World War service and later life at Bullio, Welby and Mittagong.
• Riverview Cottage and early newspaper reports - page 7Records a 2015 proposal to remove Berrima’s Riverview Cottage from the State Heritage Register and reprints an 1831 account of robberies near Bong Bong.
• Society information - page 8Contact, opening, membership and committee information printed in October 2015; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• The archives report records a donated tracing of Hoddle’s Kiama-Mittagong route, Taylor family research and the digitisation of biography files (p.3).
• Philip Morton uses contemporary newspapers to trace early Berrima Gaol incidents, rebuilding and an 1863 prisoner mutiny (pp.4-5).
• Michele Woods recounts Light Horse veteran Frank Caseley’s wartime service and later connections to Bullio, Welby and Mittagong (p.6).
• The issue discusses a 2015 heritage-listing proposal for Riverview Cottage and reprints an 1831 report of robberies near Bong Bong (p.7).

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