June 2021

Contents

• President’s column and Society news - page 1The return of meetings, proposed Mittagong building works and introductions to the Hanks family and Bowral hospitals.
• A reader’s family-history letter - page 2A member discusses connections among the Atkinson, Jenkins and Wade families; a photograph introduces Bowral’s Strathmore hospital.
• Old South Road and Lower Mittagong - page 3A short history of the road, its later deviation and an illustrated topographical plan by I. V. Mackey.
• The Hanks family - page 4Carolyn Dougherty begins a two-part account of James and Sarah Hanks and their daughters, including Harriet’s Lower Mittagong connections.
• Harriet Rowe, Mary Hanks and land holdings - page 5A mapped interpretation of Rowe’s holdings and the family’s later property history; the series continues in the next issue.
• Bowral private hospitals - page 6A partial history of Chester, Strathmore and Yarrum, their buildings and the nurses who ran them.
• Yarrum and the Lamond family - page 7Louisa Dienis’s maternity hospital, a recollection of its opening and the Bowral newspaper family.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in June 2021; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• The route of the Great Southern Road through Lower Mittagong is discussed (p.3).
• The Hanks and Rowe family history at Lower Mittagong begins (p.4).
• The Rowe family papers include property holdings and the locally remembered Rowes Cottage (p.5).
• The Bowral private hospitals history considers their premises and nurses (pp.6-7).

Original Society source