Pamela Dowling wrote: > > Could anyone please tell me what sort of place Terrys Meadows is - town, > settlement, farm , whatever???? According to a birth cert, it's near Dapto. > Also I can't find Broulee on any of my maps either. (SKS posted a URL for > an Aust Gazetteer, but it doesn't seem to work. - the Gaz, not the URL). Terry's Meadows >From Arthur Cousins, The Garden of New South Wales, Illawarra Historical Society edn, 1994 [1948], p. 44. "Samuel Terry received his 2000 acre grant on 9th January, 1821. It was on the south side of the Macquarie Rivulet, and was known as Terry's Meadows. To this he added Andrew Allen's 700 acres. Terry had large properties outside of Illawarra, and had grazing rights on the Shoalhaven. Next to Terry's grant, to the west, was John Paul's estate of 1400 acres, 600 acres of which were promised in 1823, and 800 acres in 1824. This property included Tulimbah and Tongarra. Still further west was a grant of 1200 acres promised to John Terry Hughes on 26th June, 1826, the deed being issued to Rosetta Terry on 12th November, 1857. Terry's Meadows was managed by an overseer and stockman, whose huts became a finder post for travellers passing through the Illawarra. They were specially referred to my Major Mitchell in describing the course of the road planned by him in 1834, the road going past these huts. Although not one of the original grantees, Samuel Terry was one of the first to have cattle in Illawarra, and he was one of the six, who in September, 1817, offered a reward of 20 pounds for the conviction of cattle thieves. When he died in 1838, his nephew, John Terry Hughes, succeeded to Terry's Meadows, whose name was changed to Albion Park." Broulee is down the coast near Moruya (I think) could someone else please enlighten us Viv -- Vivienne Caldwell viv@zipworld.com.au Wollongong NSW http://www.zip.com.au/~viv AUS-NSW-SE Mailing List http://www.zip.com.au/~viv/aus-nsw-se.htm