FIDELIA S. T. HILL POET

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2549850

The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 2 June 1840, page 1.

MELINDA KENDALL : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS

REVIEWS OF TOMPSON’S POETRY 1826

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2186819

From convicts to founding fathers—three notable Sydney doctors

http://www.jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/full/94/7/358

 

Gillian Hull BA

 

FROM JOURNAL OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

Bathsheba Ghost, Matron of the Sydney Infirmary 1852–66 : a Silenced Life

Judith Godden

HISTORY COOPERATIVE JOURNALS

ABSTRACT

Bathsheba Ghost was Matron of Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary (now Sydney Hospital) from 1852–66. She has been subsumed into the ‘before’ narrative of the bad old days at Sydney Hospital (and Australia) before rescue by the arrival from England of middle-class nurses trained under the auspices of the iconic Florence Nightingale. Matron Bathsheba Ghost was one of the few working-class women who rose to prominence, on her own merits, from a convict past. With her recognition also comes recognition of the major Sydney hospital when it was a pre-industrial style workplace not yet dominated by medical needs. It was an institution run by prominent male philanthropists whose rules were subverted and adapted by the staff, their families and the destitute, chronically ill who found a temporary home.

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/hah/9.1/br_2.html

Judith Godden, Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale’s Envoy to Australia (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2006). ISBN 9781920898397 and 1 920898 39 5. x + 373 pp.

Lucy Osburn was born in 1836, the daughter of a Yorkshire wine and spirit merchant (bankrupted when she was six years old) and his wife, whose family was at the core of the Leeds medical establishment. In the late 1850s Lucy was employed as a ’superior servant’ by a relative through marriage who was a medical missionary in Jerusalem. Her claim to have assisted with surgical patients—upon which her biographer casts doubts—was a factor in her acceptance in 1866 for nurse training at St Thomas’s Hospital under the auspices of Florence Nightingale and the hospital matron, Miss Wardroper; equally important was Osburn’s status as a financially independent ‘lady,’ courtesy of an inheritance from a great-aunt.

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lab/87/godden.html

IN THIS YEAR – 1868

1868	A BIG YEAR FOR MELINDA. Inc HENRY’S MARRIAGE , MELINDA’S  INSOLVENCY OTHER MYSTERIOUS MATTERS. SOME BACKGROUND AFFAIRS OF 1868 IN SYDNEY AS SEEN IN NLA HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS ARE BELOW.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1321931	INTERCOLONIAL RIFLE MATCH. THE MATCH BETWEEN NSW AND VICTORIA TAKES PLACE IN PADDINGTON.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1318675	PLEURO PNEUMONIA WAS ATTACKING THE CATTLE HERDS AND A CURE WAS BEING SOUGHT.
THE HANGING TREE	Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands
http://hdl.handle.net/2100/314 FROM UTS REPOSITORY	Title: Strangers in a Strange Land: The 1868 Aborigines and other Indigenous Performers in Mid-Victorian Britain Authors: Sampson, David Description: Enshrined by cricket history, the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England has become popularly established as a uniquely benign public transaction in the history of contact between Aborigines, pastoralist settlers and British colonialism.

 

 

 

 

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:11318&dsID=kirkpatrick99.pdf

Builders and Barbecues

Meredith Walker

Abstract

In identifying buildings of significance, considerable attention has been given to the works of individual architects; but much of the character of the
suburbs has always been the work of builders constructing houses on spec or to order. In Annandale, a later 19th Century inner-west suburb of
Sydney, there is a variety of dwelling types and facades ‘scattered’ throughout the suburb, and clearly the work of individual builders. The
Newcastle suburb of Hamilton South-East, is similar. Techniques for investigating the work of builders and their contribution to suburban character
is discussed, using detail plans and other sewerage records. Suggestions about analysis, conservation and promotion are made, including
reference to the contribution of owners, through barbecues and other works.

The Rise of the State in Education

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest/pdfs/independent2.pdf

 

Policy: A Journal of Public Policy and Ideas
The Centre for Independent Studies, Winter 1991
Part Two: The Abolition of Parental Fees
Edwin G. West

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LAND AT UPPER HALF MOON REACH, HAWKESBURY RIVER

 http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/cemetery/half_moon_farm/history.pdf

Compiled by Michelle Nichols (1995)

 

MELINDA KENDALL : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS

IN THIS YEAR – 1837 – including selected poetry

1837 has now come to our attention as a very significant year in the life of MELINDA MCNALLY KENDALL. She married BASIL O KENDALL in 1835, on the 1 August . A child appears to have been born shortly later and then died . Those details are under investigation now. Basil and Melinda were living in Sydney at this time. They are still there  in early 1837 when a series of very dodgy events take place. In fact there is strong indication that BASIL and DODGY are inseparable terms. SYDNEY in 1837 – lets look at the NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIAN HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS and see what was happening in Sydney in this time. The KENDALL Boys are working for THOS BARKER at one or other of his mills. What else is happening as a background to the life of this young wife.

I have included some lines of verse published in that year. The first proven MELINDA poems were published in ILLAWARRA MERCURY in the early 1880s but it is believed from anecdotal evidence that she wrote in years much earlier than that. I have therefore included other lines by other poets published as were hers in the Newsapers. We know she grew up on the Hawkesbury Banks as did Harpur and Tompson. Obviously she is the parent preceding the poetry of HENRY KENDALL. As to what when and where she was writing – the search continues. In the meantime – 1837 in SYDNEY. Her year of marital alteration.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2187360 The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 11 January 1827, page 1.	TOMPSON’S POEMS: NOTICE.-Mr. Robert HOWE alone is impowered hy me to receive Payment for the Copies of this Work, which are, or may be, delivered to Subscribers. C. TOMPSON. Clydesdale, Dec. 30, 1826. Also for sale was a book of sacred poetry, the sales of which would be appropriated towards the debt incurred in building the SCOT CHURCH. Rev Mr Dunmore Lang’s poems these were.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208646 An original piece of poetry from 1837. The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 3 January 1837, page 3.	ORIGINAL POETRY The following doggerel we publish for the amusement of our readers ; they are evidently from the pen of some school boy not yet out of his teens. The last lines of the two last verses made us laugh outright ; but let them speak for them- selves : - LINES TO MISS -. You’ll press my hand-you’ll kiss my brow, And thrill in my embrace ; But when I’m gone what doubts will throw Their wildness on thy face You’ve held me-press’d me to your heart, Your lips have clung to mine ; Then sworn your love-you could not part Such happ ness was thine. And when our lips in passion mov’d – Responsive to our bliss. ”I was then you said how true you lov’d, No words could equal this. . . . Now you doubt me-and you’ve spurn’d me, Because (you know not why) All my gilts-they are returned me With not e’en tear or sigh ! Well ! since ’tis so, we’d better part, So now I’ll say-” Farewell !” I’ve left some fraction of my heart, And that I’ll use right well . But-hate me-this is all I’ll ask In future girl from thee; I thought ‘twould be a heavier task – But thank my stars I’m free.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208685 The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 5 January 1837	ROBERT LILLY who was steward on the ISABELLA stands in court accused of stealing a quantity of tortoiseshell. CHARLES MORGAN LEWIS who was COMMANDER of the ISABELLA – identifies the tortoiseshell and states that he has never seen one piece of tortoiseshell which was like another. The penalty for stealing tortoiseshell was no small thing.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208694 The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 5 January 1837, page 4	LINES BY ELIZABETH ANN BRIDGES, AGED ELEVEN YEARS: On her Sister Margaret Jane, who died June 14, 1833. aged nine years and eleven months. On that sad morn we stood around her bed, And gazed upon her altered countenance, Each feature bore the stamp of death – Death held her firmly in his cruel grasp ; READ ON -
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208755 The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 10 January 1837, page 4.	STANZAS. I saw thee ‘mid the festive blaze Of many a laughing, sunny eye ; And sylph-like through the dance’s maze Glide gracefully. I saw the thousands round thy throne, And all the glory gather’d there; And then I felt for me alone Was dark despair. Thy forms undimm’d, thy joyous eye Creates an atmosphere of light ; And angels love to wander nigh A gem so bright. But look on me. There was a time, When I could smile as well as thou, And glory in unwasted time; How alter’d now ! . .. .. .. … If thou art happy, why not I ? Thy bridal wreath I gladly twine, Fix the last, sacred bud, and die, All joy is thine. . . . . Live ,then, another’s heart to bless; But when a new-form’d grave you see, Dark with the dullest loneliness, Then think of me !
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208809	AUTHORS ARE LIKE SHEEP. THEY RUN AFTER ONE ANOTHER WITHOUT KNOWING THE WHY OR WHEREFORE. READ ON : It is followed by an intriguing discourse on ROMANICISM and the CONVERSION OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208813 SELECT POETRY of a love parted across the seas. The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 12 January 1837, page 4.	THE PARTED GIRL The evening shades have gather’d o’er Yon bark upon the billow READ ON
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208960 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 21 January 1837, page 4	TO MY WIFE I’VE SLIGHTED THEE , I’VE BLIGHTED THEE READ ON : This is a deeply moving piece. Slighted and Blighted in Heart but not in Fame. The Fame remains unsullied.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2209084 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 28 January 1837, page 3.	” CHARMING JACK “ whilst playing billiards with other lads ‘of similar kidney ‘ exited with the BLACK BALL. BLACK-BALLED himself they called it. It was in a public house in Castlereagh-street  kept by MR BROWN and his wife. READ ON TO DISCOVER HIS FATE BEFORE THE BENCH :
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-articl e2209381	ASSIGNED SERVANTS. A COMPLAINT IS MADE by an ENQUIRER as to why the NEW SETTLERS are having to wait for extended periods for servants to be assigned to them. Ship after ship goes past and still they have no men. The EDITOR of the SYDNEY GAZETTE promises that  he will have more to say on the subject if the Enquirer’s complaints be proven to be true.

RANDOM NLA ARTICLES

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2178181 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 5 September 1818, page 1.

INSTRUCTION TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GIVEN GRANTS IN 1818 INCLLUDING IN CASTLEREAGH WHERE WE HAVE BEEN TOLD JUDITH WAS GRANTED LAND.