IN THIS YEAR – 1884

When Melinda published Bellambi’s Lake  on September 6 in the ILLAWARRA MERCURY, her sons Henry and Basil were both dead. Henry had died in 1882 of phsithis. Her daughter Mary Josephine had died as well as two of Henry’s Infant daughters. Araluen and Orara. It seems Melinda was again living on the Illawarra although that needs further investigation. The McNally land was in Fairy Meadow near the Lake in the poem. These things were happening in NSW.

BENT STREET EARLY 1800s. NLA

 

• FRANCIS PATRICK MORAN BECAME ARCHBISHOP OF THE SYDNEY DIOCESE
• THE GOULBURN GAOL OPENED
• THE GUNSMITH OPENED IN ERSKINE STREET AND MOVED PREMISES IN CASTLEREAGH STREET.

Stiefater, F. May be spelt Stievater

Erskine Street, Sydney NSW. 1888-1889

104 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW. 1884-1887

105 Castlereagh St., Sydney NSW. 1881

24 Barcom Street, Sydney NSW. 1880

10 Erskine St., Sydney NSW. 1883-1884

 

• Daisy Bates CBE JP

Although Daisy May Bates was born 16 Oct 1863 TIP as Margaret May O’Dwyer, the daughter of James Edward O’Dwyer and Marguarette nee Hunt, she was raised in England and migrated to Australia in 1884 where, because of poor health, she lived briefly in Townsville before becoming a governess in Berry NSW. In 1884 (13 Mar) she married The Breaker (Edwin Henry Morant or Murrant) in Charters Towers QLD [QLD Marriage Index: 1884/825 Edwin Henry Murrant & Daisy May O'Dwyer] but the couple soon separated. In …….

• William Granville de Laune Ryrie : 1884 he began working as a jackaroo at Goonal Station, north west of Moree, NSW
• THESE RAILWAY LINES OPENED IN 1884:

3 Jan., 1884
Joppa Junction to Tarago

9 June, 1884
Capertee to Rylstone

19 Aug., 1884
Armidale to Glen Innes

2 Sept., 1884
Nyngan to Byrock

10 Sept., 1884
Rylstone to Mudgee

16 Sept., 1884
Narrandera to Jerilderie

15 Oct., 1884
Sydney to Hurstville

 

• The stock routes became formalised in NSW from 1884 and got government-funded artesian bores, which entrenched these routes in the landscape. The roads followed the stock routes across the dry plains, just as they had along the rivers, because that is where the water was. And the modern highways largely follow those same routes.

As a result, the map of the roads through the Paroo is the historical documentation of the critical role water plays in determining where we go.  www.icomos.org/australia/Tracks/17%20Pearson,%20%20Paroo.doc –

 

• Tribe, Catherine, d. 1884 WAS BURIED IN THE SIR JOHN JAMISON CATHOLIC CEMETERY IN 1884. Sir John Jamison travelled to NSW on the same ship as Judith McNally and her 3 children , William, Mary and Eliza ( Mother and siblings of Melinda ).

 

• In 1884, prompted by interest in developing the colony’s water resources, the NSW Government convened the first public inquiry into water conservation, known as the Lyne Royal Commission (1884-1887), and appointed McKinney engineer

 

• UNIFORMS OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIA : BANDSMEN AND LANCERS UNIFORMS OF 1884

 

• THESE GOLDFIELDS WERE DECLARED:

• Crackenback Extension


March 1884 – Kosciusko, Guthega, Thredbo,
Clyde, Beloka, Mowamba, Bloomfield,
Grose, Popong, Inglegoodbee
Goldfield is 450sq miles


• Kiandra Extension


March 1884 – Wallace
Addicumbene, Nimmo, Midlingbank, Buckenderra,
Gungarun, Kalkite, Bullenbalong, Munyang,
Jindaboine, Myack and Cootamatong

• Snowy River
  March 1884 – Wellesley, Wallace
  Coonhoonbula, Jimenbuen, Tongaroo,
  Napier Bo Bundara, Bulgandra, Marrinumbla
  Maffra, Peters, Ironmongy and Bungarby

 

• CHECK THIS SITE : Homestead Leases by Rusheen Craig. Originally land in Far West of NSW was divided into vast pastoral holdings. In 1884 homestead leases were introduced and a person could apply for a ’small’ 10,240 acre homestead lease. The onlines indexes to homestead leases cover 1885-1914 and the Western Land Leases indexes cover 1903-1910.

 

• When the All Blacks first played overseas (NSW) in 1884 they are understood to have worn blue jerseys with a gold fern leaf.

 

• ANN TOMSON adjusted to life having been born without arms.

 

• GEORGE READY SNR WAS AMONGST THE FIRST STEAM TRAM DRIVERS IN SYDNEY.

 

• Diamonds have also been re¬ported from the Mittagong area, N.S.W., in 1884:  FROM THE DIAMOND DICTIONARY http://www.diamonddictionary.net/content/blogcategory/0/52/

 

 

• The British colonisation of Australia commenced in 1788 and oysters were
  initially used for food and production of lime. Concerns about unsustainable
  exploitation led to introduction of legislation that directed the oyster industry to

aquaculture in 1884.

 

• GRANVILLE TECHNICAL COLLEGE WAS FOUNDED

 

• NSW FIRE BRIGADES WERE ESTABLISHED

 

• MAUD EARL DIED AT THE AGE OF 13 AND WAS BURIED IN WHAT IS NOW PIONEER PARK CEMETERY AT WOLLONGONG.

  Pioneer Park Cemetery
  Wollongong, South Coast & Illawarra Region, New South Wales, Australia

 

• Frederick William Parsons [1852-1933] served as an Alderman on Strathfield Council from 1890 to 1914 and elected Mayor in 1895-7. Parsons was a real estate agent and auctioneer and was one of the organisers of the petition to NSW Government in September 1884 to incorporate Strathfield Municipality.

 

 

• In May 1881, a larger building was purchased in Cumberland Street, The Rocks, Sydney for ‘The Providence’ and was seen also as a temporary Novitiate for those postulants who entered in 1880-81. In 1884 the Novitiate was formally established there. Dean Kenny, retired pastor of the North Sydney parish, however, donated his house (‘Alma Cottage’) to the Sisters for their use as a Novitiate. He considered the location in Alma Lane off Mount Street more appropriate than the house they occupied in The Rocks area. By May 1884, Mary MacKillop had moved in and later acquired Alma Terrace.