Francis McCaffrey Collection University of Wollongong Archives D92 The information reproduced here is for personal research only and must not be copied or published in any form. The notebooks are the property of the University of Wollongong. Spelling and grammar are as found in the original handwriting. Question marks indicate that the word was not clear - if you recognise any such words please email me. Notebook #13 Part 1 119 pages Recorded 1914? Page 1 Map: Midland Railway and Connections Page 2 Broughton's Head Farm 4000 acres Berry. Broughton Head is a headland overlooking the Bundewallah Creek which flows into Broughton Creek in the vicinity of the Village of Berry. Richardson's Farm 1920 acres and William Bland's Farm 917 acres were divided by the railway line at Toolijooa Station. Bland's Farm extended to the sea at the Seven Mile Beach. Overlooking Jamberoo, Kiama, Gerringong from Noorinan? or Bong Bong Mountain - there we have Nuninuna? Range or Saddleback Mountain. Bearing down the range we come to Boona Range - Mount Pleasant and then we have Bonaira and Munna Munnora Creek. This is Captain Farmer's 1000 acres. Retracing our steps westward on the northern side of the range we come to Tootawallis? Gully and passsing over the range to the south side we come tho the tributaries of Ooarce? Creek. Burool - Rev. Thomas Kendall's 500 acres extended from Captain Farmer's Grant to the township of Kiama and the sea coast. Andrew Byrne's Estate Dhrwalgha Creek. Drewalla - Fry's Creek joins the Minnimurra River at James W Colis' farm Page 3 Moses Brenan's Farm joined William Ritchie's 60 acrs and contained 300 acres - later on it was known as Wood's Flats. The Race Course and Cemetery land along the southern bank of the Minnimurra River. Warwa - west side of village of Jamberoo where Francis Clarke, William Davis, Edward Flood, Joseph King, James Wallace, George Wood, George (or Gate) Tate, Thomas Montgomery Perrott, Henry Linden, John Gouldsborough Lennox had 100 acres each; and Thomas Campbell had 320 acres of land. Old Bob Brindley and Dick Lewis had land at what was known as Carroll's Creek. Thomas Montgomery Perrott had two 100 acre farms. Hercules Wett 100 acres. Robert Young 60 acres. Patrick O'Meara 50 acres. Thomas Collins 50 acres. William Cole 50 acres. Lot Flannery 50 acres. The Woodstock subdivision was part of Moses Brenan's 300 acre grant. Towards Jerrara Creek Hughes and Hoskins owned 805 acres and Alexander Brodie Spark 628 acres. Murty Farraher owned 208 acres at Crawley's Forest in 2 lots. William Montague Manning purchased Captain James Farmer's 1000 acres. On portion of this property John Sharpe erected a flour mill. The property on which Sharpe's mill stood now belongs to David W? Page 4 Kiama near the corner of Manning St and Terralong St in Manning St two brothers John Cook and Alfred Cook erected a butcher's shop and carried on butchering there in the first fifties. William White had a abutcher shop in Bong Bong St in 1858 when Wilson was building the Iron? Store. Peter Walker the builder - Butcher White was a brother-in-law of George Wood of Spring Hill. Then there was a William White who lived at the Iron-bark range quarrying for stone. He boarded with Robert Walker in Bong Bong St for twelve months - a flash sort of man who wore a coloured waistcoat - with three rows of four penny pieces as buttons. It was he who was with old Charley Price on the McIvor diggings in Victoria in 1853. When Messrs B and W started to cut the canal at the Crook-haven heads the[y] had 200 convicts who were compelled to live on a prison hulk moored at the heads. Later on others were stationed in huts at Coolangatta while suitable buildings were being erected to accommodate the 'Bond and the Free'. Such as a prison, Court Room and Triangles. -- Vivienne Caldwell viv@zipworld.com.au Wollongong NSW http://www.zip.com.au/~viv