BIOGRAPHY

Copyright: Jacqueline Grant 1994. Second Edition 1999. Third Edition 2019

ISBN 0-646-17563-7

John Grant was fortunate to be a 'Macquarie convict' because of Macquarie's benevolent attitude to convicts. Grant's story began as a chronicle of one Irish convict but developed into a history of early New South Wales - but with a difference. The powerful figures are in this history but it is not their story.

'Jacqueline Grant has made a fine job of weaving the Grant story into the early history of the colony. Her account is well-researched and well-written.'

Professor Patrick O'Farrell, Sydney University

'A rattling good yarn.'

Sid Ingham, Assoc. Professor History, Monash University

An abbreviated 2019 version of 'Providence'.

Grant was given this accolade because he was one of the three earliest land recipients in the Vale of Clwydd near Hartley NSW and he built there the first permanent home, Moyne Farm, named after his village in Ireland.

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Martin Mason arrived in Sydney as surgeon aboard Britannia just 10 years after The First Fleet . A later role saw him forced by law to attend convicts' floggings of over 50 lashes. His descendant, poet Robert D. Fitzgerald, wrote a moving verse about Mason at an imaginary flogging incident titled 'The Wind At Your Door'.

Mason became the first General Practitioner in the colony when he established his practice at the Hawkesbury. Political involvement resulted in Mason attending the London Court Martial of Lt-Col Johnston in 1811 in support of Bligh. Another Fitzgerald poem, 'Private Property', reflects on Mason's untimely death at Portsmouth, England, in 1812 and the suspicious circumstances surrounding it.

Her Jewish family flees Russia's anti-semitic May Laws of the 1880s. Harbin in China is their first refuge with a later move to Tientsin where Freda Altshuler is born in 1911. She is 14 when the family reaches Australia.

A moving tale from a myriad of her memories.

Frank Barnes' family wrote in the Introduction to this book: 'He has lived 96 years of history: some of the events that may have been seen as normal living to him become for us a fascinating window on life in the early 1900s.'

Bob Crosby, a dairyman first at Homebush and later at Bossley Park outside Sydney

tells many wholesome and marvellous yarns.

He had an historian's interest in the past so his book is not just about himself.

An English youth, William Malyon, becomes an indentured apothecary in Sydney in 1844.

This story includes a descendant in-law's role in WW11 and his years as a POW on the Burma Railway.

Inspired throughout his life by his experiences at New Zealand's Canterbury Agricultural College, Rodney Tonkin has been a constructive member of many organisations and established pathways to overcoming whatever challenges came his way. The regional city of Orange in NSW has been the beneficiary.

SOCIAL HISTORY

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'Veronique' ... cocks a snoot at all ambitious developers.

D. & M.Bowman

We fell in love with a stone ruin and bought it although we could not afford a new hat.

C.& B. Edelman

Vacancy outweighed the disadvantages of borer-ridden floors, no hot water and a forest of lantana.

T. & M.Farrell

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Constance Vidal was the visionary who built a Road House above Whale Beach in 1929 just 17 years after the first successful sale of land on the Barrenjoey Peninsula.

Culinary delights have been Jonah's mainstay with more recent expansion into a chic retreat.

Early recipes and photographs are highlights.

Compiled & Written by

Jacqueline Grant

People, Places, Publications 1998

'The Centenary Book of its Public School is a memorial to Quambone's brave beginnings. It is also a testament to the invaluable contribution made by succeeding generations of pupils and teachers to our community, locally and throughout the Commonwealth.'

Hon. Douglas Moppett,

BSc Agr, MLC

FAMILY HISTORY

1990

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The tale unfolds of eight pioneers in southern New South Wales in the 1800s. Olive Blackwood and Jack McDonough are two of their grandchildren and their lives are followed through two World Wars and the Depression up to their old age. Set mainly in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.

2021

English Richards ancestors back to the 1600s are discovered in this 'unearthing' of early Australians - with convicts aplenty!

Male thieves and a highwayman join with female robbers and an Irish fraudster to start a new life on George Street, Sydney, and then as successful landowners in the Upper Murray region.

Mary Tolson 2003

Compiled: Jacqueline Grant

A story of enduring love of two people, man and wife, and their large family of twelve, farming on the Hawkesbury River and Cattai Creek. The hardships were real, with floods and crop failures but this remarkable man of the soil, and his inspiring wife, left a legacy of amazing proportions.