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Rene Harris - Millfield resident. Recorded 1 January 1978. Parts 1 & 2
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SummaryTAPE 106A and B, Rene Harris
Recorded on 1st January 1978
Part 1 of 1.
0:18
Amelia Bridge
Bridget Lynch
The Diplocks
Rene doesn't know much about them, too early for her, but she recommends Jack talk to Clarrie Harris. Wollombi community.
2:46
Arthur Andrews. Scotts family. House called 'Dairy Arm'. Richard Thomas Harris.
Maria Harris - grandfather's sister - her father was Richard Harris and her mother was Susan Bocock or Pocock. Old family.
The Willis family
Ern Willis and his wife had a shop. They adopted a little girl called Ida Willis who went 'down Maitland way'.
5:24
The Walkers in Wollombi
Rebecca Thompson.
6:26
Rene worked in the hotel
Val Bridge was the licensee where the wine shop is today. The double storey stone house convict built, she grew up in a fellow called Bets (originally spelt Betz lived downstairs). He made cane furniture. He left and went to Sydney.
8:28
Old family - Jack Hawkins whose father was Laurie. He couldn't read.
Old Fred Fletcher and Old Joe Fletcher. Bill Fletcher with the horse stud.
11:18
Bill Crump. Steve Crump. Father was Mick who married a Carroll. Joe Carroll, a good runner who had one blue and one green eye. Tom Sampy was his friend.
14:44
The Scotts - Albert, Clarrie married Amy Thompson (3 girls and a boy) Rona married Keith Forbes and Doreen married Alec Purney. Arthur married Nellie Jurd (4 sons) Tom married Maven Bailey (3 sons and a daughter) and Dick married Olive Sweetman and Oz who never married and looks after Amy and Clarrie, & Hedley who died of cholera, there was a sister Grace (older than Dick) married Jim Bourke.
21:24
The Bourkes were related to the Lynchs'. Clarence Lynch, Ernest Lynch. The Lynchs just before Hospital Hill at Wollombi. The doctor, Dr Lance Berkeley.
23:08
The Goodwins. Ernie Lynch and Clarence Lynch daughter called Lavender Lynch. Between Millfield and Wollombi along the creek there were a lot of houses. Jimmy Crawford at Millfield a fine man whose mother was a Scobie.
26:42
Tommy Crawford always up in the store from West Cessnock
Edwin Crawford
Congewai swamp
The family called Krafts.
The McDougalls - 'the flogger of convicts' families say 'you've gone back far enough'.
The Roberts family George and Ned the blacksmith.
30:37
End of Tape 106, Side A.
Side B has been attached to this recording.
31:20
Harry Brown's brother had a wine shop at Laguna
McMullen
Watty Ford
Sternbeck
Goldsmiths
Tommy Verlakis
Burgess
Stapleford
Stoppard.
36:22
Jack's research through old newspapers like the Newcastle Herald and Maitland Mercury and Newcastle Chronicle. Names recurring in articles in back issues.
37:28
End of Tape 106, Side B.
SubjectHarris, IrenePersonJack DelaneyDelaney, Jack, 1919-2010PlaceCessnock, NSWLocation[1] Millfield, NSWIdentifier106A
Recorded on 1st January 1978
Part 1 of 1.
0:18
Amelia Bridge
Bridget Lynch
The Diplocks
Rene doesn't know much about them, too early for her, but she recommends Jack talk to Clarrie Harris. Wollombi community.
2:46
Arthur Andrews. Scotts family. House called 'Dairy Arm'. Richard Thomas Harris.
Maria Harris - grandfather's sister - her father was Richard Harris and her mother was Susan Bocock or Pocock. Old family.
The Willis family
Ern Willis and his wife had a shop. They adopted a little girl called Ida Willis who went 'down Maitland way'.
5:24
The Walkers in Wollombi
Rebecca Thompson.
6:26
Rene worked in the hotel
Val Bridge was the licensee where the wine shop is today. The double storey stone house convict built, she grew up in a fellow called Bets (originally spelt Betz lived downstairs). He made cane furniture. He left and went to Sydney.
8:28
Old family - Jack Hawkins whose father was Laurie. He couldn't read.
Old Fred Fletcher and Old Joe Fletcher. Bill Fletcher with the horse stud.
11:18
Bill Crump. Steve Crump. Father was Mick who married a Carroll. Joe Carroll, a good runner who had one blue and one green eye. Tom Sampy was his friend.
14:44
The Scotts - Albert, Clarrie married Amy Thompson (3 girls and a boy) Rona married Keith Forbes and Doreen married Alec Purney. Arthur married Nellie Jurd (4 sons) Tom married Maven Bailey (3 sons and a daughter) and Dick married Olive Sweetman and Oz who never married and looks after Amy and Clarrie, & Hedley who died of cholera, there was a sister Grace (older than Dick) married Jim Bourke.
21:24
The Bourkes were related to the Lynchs'. Clarence Lynch, Ernest Lynch. The Lynchs just before Hospital Hill at Wollombi. The doctor, Dr Lance Berkeley.
23:08
The Goodwins. Ernie Lynch and Clarence Lynch daughter called Lavender Lynch. Between Millfield and Wollombi along the creek there were a lot of houses. Jimmy Crawford at Millfield a fine man whose mother was a Scobie.
26:42
Tommy Crawford always up in the store from West Cessnock
Edwin Crawford
Congewai swamp
The family called Krafts.
The McDougalls - 'the flogger of convicts' families say 'you've gone back far enough'.
The Roberts family George and Ned the blacksmith.
30:37
End of Tape 106, Side A.
Side B has been attached to this recording.
31:20
Harry Brown's brother had a wine shop at Laguna
McMullen
Watty Ford
Sternbeck
Goldsmiths
Tommy Verlakis
Burgess
Stapleford
Stoppard.
36:22
Jack's research through old newspapers like the Newcastle Herald and Maitland Mercury and Newcastle Chronicle. Names recurring in articles in back issues.
37:28
End of Tape 106, Side B.
SubjectHarris, IrenePersonJack DelaneyDelaney, Jack, 1919-2010PlaceCessnock, NSWLocation[1] Millfield, NSWIdentifier106Aloading google map....
Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010, Rene Harris - Millfield resident. Recorded 1 January 1978. Parts 1 & 2, [106A]. Living Histories, accessed 01/10/2023, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/55679