Rylstone Historical Society
The Cottage Museum
28 Louee Street
Rylstone
Ph: 6379 1840 or
6379 1255

Kandos BiCentennial Museum
22 Buchanan Street,
Kandos
Ph: 02 6379 4451

Henry Lawson Centre
147 Mayne Street
Gulgong
Ph: 02 6374 2049

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Contents

About us
Contact us and map
Local History Books for Sale
Recording Your History
Family Research
Major Sponsor—Mudgee Marriage Celebrant Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds

The Wiradjuri Nation

Beginning to Early Settlement
Aaron, Early Settlers, Martial Law
Windradine, A Dying Race
Peggy and Jimmy Lambert, Jimmy McDonald, Tom Penney
More about Peg and Jim Lambert — by Mickel Cowie
Massacres, Martial Law is declared
Jimmy Governor
Black Trackers
Wally Washbrook Aboriginal Elder.
Wiradjuri Nation by Norman McVicker OAM
The Cox Family, Wiradjuri, Winbourne and Burrundulla
Triamble Valley Aboriginals (Jim Birtles)

Information on Aboriginal Family History

Information on Diana Mudgee

Dreamtime Poems

Early Settlement

Bathurst settled first. Blaxland, Wentworth, Lawson, Cox
Mudgee is discovered: James Blackman, William Lawson, Cox family
First settler names in the district and properties, Mudgee becomes a village
Early days of Mudgee, slab buildings, churches, inns, Post Office, Courthouse, etc. gold, Mudgee to Mullamuddy a municipality
Hospitals, Post Office, banks
First gold discoveries
Norman McVicker—Robert Hoddle did NOT design Mudgee
James Blackman
William Lawson.
William Cox, road builder across Blue Mountains

James Watsford, 1st Mail Coach Driver over the Blue Mountains
George Cox, son of William Cox
George Henry Cox, son of George Cox

Cobb and Co

Cobb & Co and the Gold Rush, bushrangers.
Bushrangers, Rylstone, Home Rule, Denison Town.
Cob & Co, Cooyal, bushrangers..
Mudgee drivers, innkeepers, coachmen.
Cobb & Co Mail Routes in the Mudgee region.
The Deane Family, coachbuilders

Cobb & Co Change Stations around Mudgee

James Watsford, 1st Mail Coach Driver over the Blue Mountains

Changing Stations in Mudgee

Cobb & Co at Sofala

Highway Robbery

Railways

Capertee, Gulgong, Mudgee railways.

Elsie Winter's memoir

Capertee

History of Capertee

Some names and families of Capertee by Mickel Cowie

Cooyal

Cooyal's own lady bushranger, Mary Ann Bugg and her legendary husband Captain Thunderbolt

Gulgong

Gulgong Gold
Prince of Wales Opera House
Gulgong Cobb & Co
Rolf Underwood’s Robbery Under Arms
Rouse Family
Henry Lawson
Chinese Bushranger
News Snippets

Newspaper Reports

Murder and Mayhem - Newspaper Reports

Historic Newspaper Clippings

Rylstone Kandos

Kandos History

Rylstone History
Kandos WWI Veteran
History of Rylstone by Aboriginal Elder Jim Birtles
Kandos High School Year 9 Their Service, Our Heritage World War I and World War II project.
WWI Sidney George Robbins
WWI Waler Horses & General Chauvel of the Light Horse Brigade
Simpson and his donkey & Two Boys
Waler horses
Waler Horses & Cobb & Co
WWI Laurie McLeod
WWI Fred & Harry Travis
Whose side was God on?
Women in war
WWI Thomas Chadwick
Newspaper report
WWI John & Margaret Currie
Junge Family Photos
Kandos National Archive Records
World War I photos
WWII Prisoner of War Stalag 13
WWII Women in War
James Nolan WWII MBE
Jack Ferguson WWII Navy
Jack Tindale WWII Airforce
Australian Prisoners of War
Val Wade British Force WWII

Reg and Jenny Franks, Local POW Camps and Mosquito Bombers

The Village of Hill End

The Village of Sofala

Gold at Sofala

Cobb & Co at Sofala

News

Latest updates

Local Villages: Capertee Valley including Capertee, Glen Davis, Glen Alice, Torbane, Airly, Newnes, Glen Alice Cemetery

White Appropriation of the Capertee Valley by Mickel Cowie

Churches

St John the Baptist Anglican Church
Church of the Redeemer, Windeyer
Anglican Bush Churches
Other Churches

Sofala Church

St Matthew's Catholic Church, Botobolar

Christian Poetry and Christmas Poems

Related Community Resources

Gulgong Pioneers Museum.
Mudgee Museum.

About Norman McVicker

Folk Tales

Lue General Store by John Honeysett

Don Hobbs: Farm Machinery Collectors

Don Hobbs - Trip to a Cattle Duffer's Shack

John Woodrick: My Mudgee Beginnings

CRESP FAMILY COLLECTION Photos from their farm in Boinka Victoria

Laura Wallis - local historian's great grandmother writes of a journey to the Maitland Bar goldfields.

Wiliam Oxley by Paul Bech

Historical Film Star Photo Collection

Related Links

Turon Technology Museum
5833 Ilford Rd, Sofala

Mudgee Region Tourism