May 2024

Contents

• President’s column and commemorations - page 1ANZAC Day, the remembrance of Harlan Hall and Society museum activities.
• Museum remembrance and notices - page 2A photograph and remembrance of Harlan Hall, Society information and Bruce Moore’s column.
• Colonial asylums and Dormie House - page 3Heather Garnsey introduces Benevolent Asylum records for family historians; a short history of Moss Vale’s Dormie House accompanies the luncheon notice.
• Protestant Hall, Wildes Meadow - page 4Linda Emery traces Edward Moses’s selection in the Parish of Yarrawa and the founding and construction of the 1874 hall.
• Protestant Hall: later history and land records - page 5The hall’s changing uses and ownership, including the 1926 subdivision survey and deposited plan, with detailed endnotes.
• The Townsing Collection and Bundanoon Shops Project - page 6Philip Morton describes Bud and Maureen Townsing’s local history books and Maureen’s illustrated survey of Bundanoon’s shops.
• History of police at Bundanoon - page 7The mounted constable, James Calverley’s 1905 police residence and later police premises are traced through to the 1936 station.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in May 2024; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Heather Garnsey introduces Sydney Benevolent Asylum records, and a luncheon notice includes a short history of Dormie House (p.3).
• Linda Emery traces Wildes Meadow’s 1874 Protestant Hall and its changing ownership, using land records and a 1926 subdivision plan (pp.4-5).
• The Townsing collection includes Maureen Townsing’s Bundanoon Shops Project, while a separate article traces Bundanoon police premises (pp.6-7).

Original Society source