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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, Rylstone12 Comments
Local history, social life

No Water, No Life

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 Kandos History

The "Wishing Well" piques childhood enchantment but perhaps I was always too focused on the present or future to stroll down a leaf-littered path into the past.

Tagged Local history, Rylstone, social life2 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
family history, Rylstone, social life, war

1st Australian Horse – the Rylstone troop

February 22, 2019February 26, 2019 Kandos History

On that day young bloods, sons of pastoralists mainly, rode in to Rylstone on their horses, were inspected, learnt the conditions of the regiment and were sworn in at the courthouse.

Tagged family history, Rylstone, social life, war3 Comments
cement history, family history, social life

Hunting Harleston

December 28, 2018December 29, 2018 Kandos History

The turn of the century was a time when young rural men in particular, hungry for their own bit of land, raked among the hills, dales and gullies to identify and secure a portion of crown land.

Tagged family history, Farming, Local history, Rylstone, social life10 Comments

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