Skip to content

Kandos History

Kandos a Rare 20th Century Town

  • Facebook
  • Home
  • About Kandos
    • Brochures
  • Publications
    • articles
    • books
  • Family History
  • Blog
  • Contact

Tag: pioneers

Aboriginal history, family history, Local history, Rylstone, social life

Dabee Country

April 17, 2020April 16, 2020 Kandos History

They were absentee landowners, colonial gentry, fraternising with their peers, making deals, raising capital and writing letters to public officials and newspapers. They paid an overseer to manage their holding.

Tagged Aboriginal history, family history, Farming, Local history, pioneers, Rylstone14 Comments
family history, Kandos sport

Beatrice Hayley Kandos Sporting Hero

January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 Kandos History

On 7th February 1962 Beatrice shared the front cover of the Australian Women's Weekly Teenagers' Weekly with two other sporting heroes from the bush, tennis player Margaret Court from Albury and squash player Heather Blundell from Queanbeyan.

Tagged Farming, pioneers6 Comments
Rural life, social life

What’s a Wool Press?

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Kandos History

Is it any surprise then that many Australians in the nineteenth century, especially those newly arrived, saw opportunity in sheep farming? Little labour (most of the year) and big returns.

Tagged Farming, pioneers8 Comments
Aboriginal history, family history, Rural life

Land, Lots of Land

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 Kandos History

It was a familiar scene: a rough dirt road, dry creek bed, scrubby bushland. I saw no evidence of cultivation or construction, just shadows, silence, rustlings. But overwhelmingly I felt a sense of connection. I belonged there. I had sprung from this spot.

Tagged family history, landscape, pioneers4 Comments
family history

A Founding Mother

September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 Kandos History

This is the story of a gutsy, red-headed, seventeen-year-old, Sarah Bellamy

Tagged family history, pioneers, Rylstone, social life8 Comments

Posts navigation

Older posts
Follow Kandos History on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 854 other followers

Categories

  • Aboriginal history
  • architecture
  • cement history
  • Clandulla
  • family history
  • Ilford
  • Kandos businesses
  • Kandos Public School history
  • Kandos sport
  • Local history
  • migrant history
  • Occupations
  • racing
  • Rural life
  • Rylstone
  • social life
  • Uncategorized
  • war

Search

All text copyright © Colleen O’Sullivan

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 854 other followers

  • Facebook
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×