ON THIS DAY - Shoalhaven Holidays
ON THIS DAY - Shoalhaven Holidays
ON THIS DAY - Shoalhaven Holidays
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- On This Day -<br />
24 1928 The S.S. Merimbula grounded on Whale Point (Currarong) at<br />
1.00am. All fourteen passengers and thirty five crew survived. The<br />
Merimbula was a high class passenger vessel built in 1909 at Troon<br />
in Scotland. It had 96 saloons and ten second class cabins and<br />
plied between Sydney and Eden with charter sailings between<br />
Melbourne and Tasmania. Her loss marked the end of steam<br />
passenger services on the NSW South Coast.<br />
MARCH 28<br />
MARCH 29<br />
26 1818 Dr. Charles Throsby (Explorer) stayed at Yarranghaa (this is now<br />
known as Yarrunga), Kangaroo Valley.<br />
1 1864 The first show of the <strong>Shoalhaven</strong> Estate Agricultural Association.<br />
President was David Berry.<br />
MARCH 30<br />
1 1818 Dr. Charles Throsby and party reached the spot "Parronrah", now<br />
Kangaroo Valley, and noted the fertile plains.<br />
14 1890 Patrick Caffery died aged 86. On the 3rd March, 1832, in Ireland, he<br />
had been convicted of "stealing a gun" and was sentenced to hang.<br />
Receiving a reprive he was sentenced to seven years "across the<br />
seas". On 1st July, 1832 he sailed from Dublin leaving behind his<br />
wife Anne and infant son John. Caffery arrived in <strong>Shoalhaven</strong> in<br />
November 1832 and worked for Berry as a convict shepherd. In<br />
1836 he received his ticket to leave and was able to bring his wife<br />
and son out from Rosconnor, Ireland. He continued working in the<br />
<strong>Shoalhaven</strong> and over a long, and often lonely, life his wife Anne bore<br />
him three daughters and five sons. Anne died on 12th August,<br />
1875. Patrick and Anne Caffery were a true pioneering family of the<br />
<strong>Shoalhaven</strong> district. Their many descendants (to the 6th<br />
generation) still live in the <strong>Shoalhaven</strong>.<br />
1 1892 First sale of town lots, Bomaderry.<br />
11 1893 The City Bank of Sydney opened a branch at Nowra.<br />
MARCH 31<br />
26 1818 Dr. Charles Throsby climbed out of Kangaroo Valley over the Bugong<br />
Gap.<br />
16 1892 The Numbaa area of between 5,000 and 6,000 acres was auctioned<br />
off from the Berry Estate. Preference to secure the land that they<br />
had been farming for many years was in all cases given to the<br />
tennant farmers.<br />
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