In 1993, Gosford District Local History Study Group (not now in operation) published the ground-breaking 2-volume work "Masonry in the Central Coast 1892-1992" in the series "Historical Records of the Central Coast of New South Wales". The books record that Thomas DEASEY was initiated in The Rising Sun Lodge on 3.12.1892, and attained the high office of Master of the Lodge in 1896. Also recorded are the details that DEASEY came to NSW from Ireland with his parents Hugh and Margaret DEASEY (nee Latham) who had 15 children. Thomas was born at Schull, County Cork, Ireland, on 23.2.1857. He was married in Sydney on 29.9.1884 to an Irish woman named Annie TEAPE. Mary DEASEY (who became a teacher in Gosford) was one of Thomas and Anne's children, and was born in 1894. Mary and her sister Kathleen did not marry. Thomas DEASEY above, died Gosford 6.8.1941. He was buried in Bradys Gully Cemetery, now a memorial park adjacent to North Gosford Private Hospital. Gwen