Lennox
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Mary Marshall Hodgkinson (1823-1889) : A woman of intellect and self-determination
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave Acknowledging information contained in Lennox Head Public School Centenary 1882* and the research of Sara Maroske, particularly A taste for botanic science’: Ferdinand Mueller’s female collectors and the history of Australian Botany. Mary Hodgkinson arrived in the Lennox district in 1866, one of the area’s earliest settlers. Despite…
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John Sharpe Jnr & The Pines homestead.
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave. Based on Ref: The Pioneering Sharpe Family by Bruce McCabe Sharpe in Memories of Early North Creek and Lennox Head by Hilary Wilson. It is perhaps, one of our district’s greatest historic losses that The Pines homesteadat Skennars Head burnt to the ground following a grassfire circa 1960.…
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James Ross: Cedar-cutter, beachcomber and mailman.
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave Locals all know and use Ross Lane, but who was the first Ross in the North Creek area? James Ross was born in Sweden about 1833. He arrived free aboard the vessel “Oriental Queen” in 1853 and soon afterwards moved to the north coast. Here he engaged in…
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Isabella Donnelly Henderson: 1839-1871
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave I travel Henderson Lane daily, and whilst I know a little about John Austin Henderson, his wife Isabella fired my imagination because it was her tragic death that led John to move from Ballina onto the family property in Lennox. Isabella was born in 1839, the daughter of…
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Elizabeth Silke Horseman, the bargeman’s daughter and wife.
Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave Elizabeth Silke Horseman, a nursemaid aged just sixteen, arrived in Australia with her family in 1841. She was the daughter of William Horseman, a barge-builder and carpenter— the Horseman men generationally working as bargemen. Her mother, Eliza nee Evans was a schoolmistress, and three of Elizabeth’s seven siblings immigrated…
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Elizabeth King Coleman – a cedar cutter’s daughter and wife.
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave Elizabeth Gray was born in March 1846, the daughter of an Irish immigrant cedar-cutter and sawyer, Peter Gray and his wife Mary Ann. Elizabeth’s childhood was spent in cedar camps at Wardell, living in tents or small shacks. During the 1850s, cedar harvesting was the lifeblood of the…
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