September 2017

Contents

• President’s column and place-name talk - page 1Bruce Moore introduces the issue and announces a talk by David Blair on the Australian National Placenames Survey.
• Society notices and history conference - page 2Continues the president’s column and previews the Royal Australian Historical Society conference at Cowra.
• Carol Nolan and Rowes Hill cemetery - page 3Carolyn Dougherty describes Carol Nolan’s research into the cemetery, including people buried in unmarked graves.
• Rowes Hill cemetery and school - page 4Continues the cemetery history and reproduces information prepared for a sign based on Society research.
• The de Cairos Rego musical family - page 5Linda Emery traces pianist and teacher Iris de Cairos Rego, her family and their Mittagong connections.
• Museum visits and Golden Cross remedies - page 6Reports school visits to the museum and introduces a display of printing blocks used by Bundanoon homeopath and photographer Gus Nicholas.
• Henry William Taylor of Moss Vale - page 7Philip Morton begins a history of Taylor’s family, early work, store and Commercial Hotel.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in 2017; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Carol Nolan’s research into Rowes Hill Cemetery is remembered (p.3).
• A cemetery sign recounts land donated by Thomas Troy at Lower Mittagong (p.4).
• Linda Emery profiles the de Cairos Rego musical family; the museum describes Bundanoon homeopath Gus Nicholas’s remedy advertising blocks (pp.5-6).
• Philip Morton begins a history of Moss Vale civic figure Henry William Taylor (p.7).

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