We’d love to get your feedback on Trove. The survey will take about 5 minutes. At end of this survey, you have the option of entering a monthly draw for the chance to win a $50 gift card...Start the survey

Those were the days : being a record of the doings of the men and women of the Hawkesbury 50 years ago and more / by J.C.L. Fitzpatrick

Creator
Fitzpatrick, J. C. L. (John Charles Lucas)
Call Number
NL 994.4 FIT
Created/Published
Sydney : N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1923
Images
224
View Catalogue

Contents

Those Were the Days More Hawkesbury History 1
THOSE WERE THE DAYS 5
THOSE WERE THE DAYS 7
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 8
CONTENTS. 9
RIVER HAWKESBURY. 11
THOSE WERE THE DAYS 15
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS OF THE HAWKESBURY. 24
EARLY RECORDS FROM THE "SYDNEY GAZETTE.” 30
CENTENARY OF WINDSOR. 46
WHEN WE WERE BOYS TOGETHER. 51
SOMETHING ABOUT DAN MAYNE. [Written by Himself—1906.] 59
MORE OF DAN MAYNE’S REMINISCENCES. 63
PIONEER-HENRY KABLE. 70
BLACK HORSE HOTEL, RICHMOND. 78
SURGEON ARNDELL. 85
AN OLD CO-OPERATIVE CUSTOM. 88
OLD SQUATTERS’ HOTEL. 91
RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS. 94
WINDSOR POST OFFICE. 98
WINDSOR’S FIRST POSTMAN (The Late Mr. Thomas Cambridge). 101
AN OLD RIVER TRADER. 103
JOHNNY HIGGERSON. 107
DR. MARTIN MASON. 111
“A GOVERNOR’S PRIMITIVE HOUSE.” “The Windsor of New South Wales.” 114
HAWKESBURY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 117
WINDSOR’S FIRST HOTEL. 120
WINDSOR IN THE ’SIXTIES. [Sydney Morning Herald—August 22, 1862.] 122
RICHMOND METHODIST CHURCH. 124
PLACE-NAMES OF THE DISTRICT. 126
HAWKESBURY RACES. 128
JONATHAN LEET. 131
DAN MAYNE and SIR FREDERICK POTTINGER, 134
MARGARET CATCHPOLE AGAIN. 139
FIRST FARMER. 145
EARLIEST WINDSOR NEWSPAPER. 148
AN OLD RECORD. 149
EVERINGHAMS. 150
MR. GEORGE M. PITT. 152
WINDREDS. 154
FIRST AUSTRALIAN POET. 156
REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN. 159
TOMBSTONE SCRIBES. 161
HAWKESBURY VOLUNTEERS OF 1860. 163
FLYING PIEMAN. 164
MR. JOHN TEBBUTT. 167
FAMOUS OLD FAMILY. 173
DIAMOND WEDDING. 175
EARLY SHIPPING REGULATIONS. 177
FIRST EIGHT-HOUR DAY. 177
POETS AND THE HAWKESBURY. 178
“DICK DRIVER.” 181
NEARLY 60 YEARS AGO. 185
WAREHOUSE WOMAN. 186
DEATH OF A PIONEER. 187
OLDEST BUILDING. 189
OLD FITZROY BRIDGE OVER THE SOUTH CREEK, WINDSOR. 190
ARNDELLS. 191
OLD EBENEZER CHURCH. 193
STRANGE SPORTS OF THE EARLY DAYS. 194
HAWKESBURY BENEVOLENT SOCIETY AND HOSPITAL. 196
JAMES RUSE. First Hawkesbury Farmer. 199
CLARENDON HOUSE. 202
AN HISTORIC PICTURE. 205
EARLY-DAY FARMING. 207
PICTURESQUE RUIN. 209
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. (From Various Sources.) 210
“AT RICHMOND. 212
ADVERTISEMENT OF 1854. 213
HOW A SMART YANKEE FELL IN AT RICHMOND. 217
OLD HAWKESBURY EVENTS. 219
[Chapter heading not available] 224

Text

Those Were the Days  

More Hawkesbury History  

By  

J. C. L. FITZPATRICK, M.L.A.  

N.S.W. BOOKSTALL CO, LIMITED,  

SYDNEY.  

Cite

Citation options:
Work identifier

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-72952796

APA citation

Fitzpatrick, J. C. L. (1923). Those were the days : being a record of the doings of the men and women of the Hawkesbury 50 years ago and more Retrieved March 14, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-72952796

MLA citation

Fitzpatrick, J. C. L. Those were the days : being a record of the doings of the men and women of the Hawkesbury 50 years ago and more Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co, 1923. Web. 14 March 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-72952796>

Harvard/Australian citation

Fitzpatrick, J. C. L. 1923, Those were the days : being a record of the doings of the men and women of the Hawkesbury 50 years ago and more N.S.W. Bookstall Co, Sydney viewed 14 March 2025 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-72952796

Wikipedia citation

{{Citation
  | author1=Fitzpatrick, J. C. L.
  | title=Those were the days : being a record of the doings of the men and women of the Hawkesbury 50 years ago and more
  | year=1923
  | section=208 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
  | location=Sydney
  | publisher=N.S.W. Bookstall Co
  | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-72952796
  | id=nla.obj-72952796
  | access-date=14 March 2025
  | via=Trove
}}

Citations are automatically generated and may require some modification to conform to exact standards.

Download

Select the images you want to download, or the whole document.

Available formats
TIF high resolution
Include
All
Current

Or select a range of images:

Selected: 1 - 224 (224 Images)

Order

You can order a copy of this work from Copies Direct.

Copies Direct supplies reproductions of collection material for a fee. This service is offered by the National Library of Australia

Include

Or select a range of images:

1 - 224 (224 Images)

Share

Share on Twitter

Share on Facebook

What can I do with this?

Out of Copyright

Reason for copyright status
Created/Published Date is Before 1955

You may order a copy through Copies Direct or use the online copy for research or study; for other uses Contact us.

Copyright status was determined using the following information:

Creator Status
Creator(s) Considered Dead
Creator date of death
1923
Material type
Literary, dramatic or musical work
Published status
Published
Publication date
1923
Government copyright ownership
No Government Copyright Ownership

Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply.

For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Share Close

Copy and paste one of these options to share this book elsewhere.

NOTE: We've tested EMBED on blogspot.com blogs as well as self-hosted Wordpress blogs. This feature will NOT work on wordpress.com blogs.

About this book Close