June 2020

Contents

• President’s column and local recollections - page 1Reports on Society activities and museum renovations, remembers Trevor Bensley and Maureen Townsing, and traces a local legal practice from 1879.
• Society notices and Maureen Townsing - page 2Bruce Moore’s humorous cooking column appears alongside historical Society notices and a photograph of Maureen Townsing at a Society lunch.
• Exploring Exeter and the 1918 March to Freedom - page 3Notes the revised Exeter history and uses newly donated photographs and newspaper accounts to describe the wartime recruiting march through Bowral.
• Maureen Townsing’s research and Bowral library - page 4Pays tribute to Maureen and Bud Townsing’s research publications and recounts the history and memories of the children’s library at St Jude’s.
• The Alfred Stephens family and a research correction - page 5Describes the Stephens family’s toolbox and building work, and explains how the Townsings distinguished two similarly named immigrants using shipping records.
• Society history: 2017 - page 6Reviews exhibitions, the death of researcher Max Rogers, the Trove presentation, donated Throsby Park objects and formation of a research team.
• Society history: 2018-2019 - page 7Reviews the creative-past exhibition, opening of the digital gallery, the Sutton Forest memorial plaque and a museum exhibition award.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in June 2020; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Linda Emery introduces an updated edition of Exploring Exeter (p.3).
• The Society remembers researcher Maureen Townsing and her work on Bowral’s children’s library (p.4).
• The Stephens family research revisits Alfred Stephens and his father through their tools and family background (p.5).
• A review of the Society’s past decade recalls exhibitions, the museum extension and its volunteers (pp.6-7).

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