The Great Western Road illustrated by Frank Walker FRAHS

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The Great Western Road
la n d his w ife w ere each 95 years old
at the tim e o f death; the w ife su rv iv ­
ing her husband three y ea rs. They
are interred in G oulburn cem etery. •
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The list is as fo llo w s .
Mrs. Raym ond, G oulburn, New South
Wales^ aged 90 y ea rs.
Airs. A dair, N ew castle, N ew South
W ales;, aged 88 y ea rs.
M r. E . L . Bull, Castlem aine, V icoria
; aged 80 y ea rs.
M r. F . E . Bull, Sydney, N ew South
iVales; aged 78 y ea rs.
M rs. W illiam son , Goulburn, N ew
South W ales; aged 76 years.
M r. W illiam M cL eod Bull, Bendigo,
V ictoria; aged 74 y ears .
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The venerable M rs. R aym ond Is the
widow o f M r. Sam uel Raym ond, barrister-at-law
, who held legal" ap p oin t­
m ents in the Suprem e Court o f N ew
South W ales, and w ho w as the son
o f M r. Jam es R aym ond, P ostm aster-
G eneral o f this State in the m id years
o f last century, and w ho lies' under
a handsom e m onum ent in S t. P eter's
A nglican Cem etery, C ook's R iver Road,
S t. P eters.
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M r. B a irs letter con tin u es:— “ F ather
named th6 tow n Sandhurst a fte r the
C ollege at H om e w h ere he w ent to
sch ool. M y eldest sister, M rs. K ate
Raym ond, lives at Goulburn, and m y
you n gest sister, M rs. W illiam son , is
stayin g w ith her. I am not sure o f
the m onth that fa th er cam e to V ic ­
toria ; it m igh t have been the e^id o f
1851, o r the beginning o f 1852. He
ibok charge o f Sandhurst goldfield first,
and then, to C astlem aine. W e w ere
burnt out at C astlem aine on fa th er's
90th birthday, and that is w hy I cannot
give you a better account o f the
early days, as w e lo st everyth in g *
Father, m other, one o f m y brothers,
and m yself only had the cloth in g we
were w earing. It w a s 'a cruel fate for
him, as he lived on the past m em ories
m ore than present-day a ffa irs. I
agree w ith you about the cells in the
rocks being storeh ouses fo r tools, e tc.
As fath er never had a prisoner flogged
we don’ t know w h y those m arks are
on the stones you speak o f . T here
were no proper bu rials un tjl fa th er
took ch a rg e. A nyon e who had died
were ju s t buried like d ogs; no coffin
or services, or an y th in g . F ather and
m other w ent to liv e w ith m y sister,
M rs. Raym ond, a fte r our hom e w as
destroyed by fire, fo u r years before
he died” .
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The “ m arked ston e” m entioned by
M r. Bull is a flat corru gated rock .
G ossip and tradition say that the
corru gation s were m fd e in order to
give the scou rger a better footh old
w hile perform in g his odious office. A
w hipping post w as said to have been
alon gside. The p ost disappeared, but
j the flag stone, or rock, rem ains. My
|ow n im pression is that the rock was
, the site o f a sm ith y, and the cor-
|-ligations were m ade to give the anvil
i‘ 'a footh old ” , not th6 fla gella tor.
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I M rs. W illiam son , w ritin g fo r her
sister, M rs. B aym ond, to M r. M cLeod,
v
( Bull, sa y s:— “ B lackheath w as fa th er’s
perm anent cam p. T w en ty M ile H ollow
Wijsj. know n b y that nam e when fath er
lived there. F ather w ent up to T w enty
M ile H ollow from Sydney soon a fter
his a rriva l in the C olon y. K ate (M rs
R aym on d ) thinks th a t fath er lived at
20 M ilo H ollow tw o or threo years.
F red w as born there, s o that would
be about 1S42. K ate was, at that time,
dow n at school at W ollon g on g w ith
A u n t K atie and M aggie, and so can-
'n o t give correct dates or tim es. She
think3 it quite lik ely that 20 M ile
H ollow is now w hat is called 'B u ll’ s
Cam p’ from tilings she has heard from
several people who have visited thoso
p a rts. The ‘d u g-ou ts’ m entioned as
cells fo r the punishm ent o f p rison ­
ers is m ost untrue. K ate also rem em ­
bers the ‘Old P ilgrim In n ’ quite w e ll.
There w as a flogger a t T w enty M ile
H ollow when fa th er w ent there, but
fa th er abolished all floggin g . He never
had a man flogged, and a t the end o f
tint y ea r he w rote to the G overnm ent
and advised the rem oval o f the flogger,
as he had no use fo r his services!
and they m igh t save his salary, so
he le ft . F ather never had an y trou ble
w ith the prison ers, except w hat a
g o o d talk w ou ld cu re” . (T o be resum
ed n ext w e e k .)
• • .
A n in terestin g letter from M isa R osa
resp ectin g a 90 year-old* gra n d fa th er’s
clock m ade b y Jam es O atley, •w ill have
atten tion p resen tly. C oncerning the
Question resp ectin g M r. R . H . H orne
the rwet c f the fiftie s and six ties
’n M elbourne. I have no aou ot He is
the B&mc m entioned b y a co rre sp o n d ­
ent. B ut the m atter w ou ld n ot in '
le re st ou r readers.
OUT T H E G R E A T W I S T E B B R O A D —
A L A N D M A R K — B U L L 'S CAM P—
A S T O R Y OP T H E R O A D -M A K IN G
G A N G S — W H A T “ T R A D IT IO N ”
D O E S P O B H IS T O R Y — S O K E
M O U N T A IN L E G E N D S .
1 have to thank m any corresp on d ­
ents fo r letters and telegram s co n ­
veyin g good w ishes on h a vin g passed
the 81st m ile post on L ife ’s H ig h w a y .
. . .
W hen M r. Sydney Cunyngham e m ade
his first trip over the B lu e M ountains
w ith his uncles, Charles and Jam es
W halan, o f O beron (see ‘‘T ru th "
15 /5 /’ 21), in the year 1844, they p a ssed
a landm ark on the B athurst-road,
m ileage 50, then know n as 18 M ile
H o llo w ; to-day as B u ll’ s Camp,
and w h y so nam ed? W ell, it w as this
w a y . In 1842 there cam e to Sydney
w ith the 99th R egim en t, Captain J .
H . N . Bull, who w as im m ediately detailed
lo r duty w ith 60 n on -com s and
p rivates o f h is regim ent,, to take
ch arge o f a road-m aking gan g, cam ped
at IS M ile H ollow , in w h ich charge
he su cceed ed Captain D ay, who, w en t
w ith the B arney expedition to F o rt
C urtis to fou nd a new settlem ent,
w h ich d id not then becom e "fou n d ed ” .
Captain B ull cam ped w ith h is fa m ily