DANIEL ERNEST WADE

Daniel Ernest Wade was born in 19890, the youngest child of Thomas Wade and Ellen nee Spradford.

Daniel Ernest Wade (front of first photo) with his father, brothers and sister.

The photo was taken on the day of his mother's funeral (Ellen Wade nee Spradford) - 29 May 1912

Source: Toni McIntyre

Ivy Beatrice Wade nee Watson on her wedding day, 1913

Wife of Daniel Ernest Wade

Source: Toni McIntyre

Daniel married Ivy Beatrice Watson (daughter of Mary Jane Hughes) in Gulgong in 1913 (NSW BDM 5261/1913) and they had 9 children. He died in Mudgee District Hospital, 31 July 1938 (aged 48 years).

Daniel Wade (right) was an apprentice at The Times Bakery.

Source: Toni McIntyre

NEWS ITEMS

1938 - DEATH - Mr. D. E. Wade

THE death occurred in the Mudgee Hospital last evening of Mr. Daniel Ernest Wade, a very highly respected citizen, aged 47 years. About a fortnight ago, deceased contracted pleurisy and pneumonia, and although a great fight was made to save his life, the effort proved unavailing. 

The late Mr. Wade was born at Tallawang, and spent the whole of his life in the Mudgee and Gulgong districts. The fates were very unkind to him during the past 18 months or so. While following his occupation as a laborer, he had the misfortune to pierce his foot with a pick, and, complications setting in, he spent a long time in the Mudgee and Sydney hospitals, where operations were performed, and portion of a toe removed. He battled on gamely in spite of this disability, and earned the reputation of being a capable and conscientious workmen while in the employ of the local council. 

He is survived by a sorrowing widow and nine sons and daughters, the youngest being four years of age. To these and other sorrowing ones the deepest sympathy of the whole district will be extended. A service was held in St. John's Church of England this afternoon by the Rev. A. G. Powell, and the funeral took place in the general cemetery. Messrs. J. C. Swords and Son were in charge of the arrangements.

Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Mon 1 Aug 1938 Page 2

FREEMAN

John E Freeman had the Publicans Licence for the Commercial Hotel, Log Paddock. Mudgee District, 30 Nov 1878 - 30 June 1879

- FREEMAN John E residence Log Paddock, where situated Log Paddock.
Source: 1878-79 Electoral Roll Mudgee (from www.ihr.com.au)

NEWS ITEMS

1879 - [DEATH]

Mudgee. Thursday. John Edward Freeman, an innkeeper at Log Paddock, suddenly dropped dead lost evening. At the inquiry held on the body to-day, the medical evidence showed that death resulted from natural causes.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 14 Feb 1879

1879 - [INQUEST]
MUDGEE. (From the Western Post, Feb. 14.)

An inquest was held before the coroner (Mr. D. Meares, P.M.) yesterday (Thursday) at the Commercial Hotel, Log Paddock, on the body of John Edward Freeman, the landlord of that hotel, then lying there dead. From the evidence of Mrs. Freeman it appeared that her husband had complained occasionally for some months, and particularly for a week past, and had consulted Dr.Newton twice within a few days. On the day of his death, however, he seemed better, and had not spoken of being ill. In the afternoon of Wednesday, his wife came to Mudgee, leaving him and a niece named Mary Pearce in the house. Shortly after her leaving home, Freeman said he had a very bad pain in his heart, but he got relief after a time, and went about his ordinary business. Between 4 and o o'clock he had several customers in the bar, and was sitting speaking to them, when he fell to the floor, exclaiming " Oh, my heart !" He was raised up and put on a sofa, but he never spoke again, and died in a few minutes. Dr. Newton stated that he had attended deceased at different times for about three years, and had seen him twice last week. He suffered from disease of the kidneys, which a post-mortem examination showed to have been the cause of his death. There was a large quantity of blood in the peritoneum, and an abscess in the left kidney. The jury gave a verdict in accordance with this evidence.

Source: Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, Thu 20 Feb 1879

WOOL

Bales of LGC Gulgong wool in a woolstore, Yennora

Source: SLNSW, Date: Sep 1974 Author/creator: Jack Hickson

Local intel: LGC is Leslie Gordon Campbell of 'Argyll'

Bill Jones, Barry Hollow, John Rayner, John O'Brien, Roger Starr, Malcolm Dorman, Dallas Campbell all learned wool classing and the venue for the classes was the Gulgong Showground Pavilion.

Source: Ailsa Campbell

Wool display at Gulgong Show

L to R: Andrew Rayner, Clyde Donnelly and Percy Thompson

Source: Mudgee Guardian via Janice Donnelly Moore

CHARLES LONERAGAN

Charles Adrian Loneragan was born in the Mudgee district on 30 September 1913 to Richard J and Lulita M Loneragan (NSW BDM 51964/1913). He married Kathleen Brigid Shannon in 1936 in Sydney (NSW BDM 17192/1936). Their children included:

• Richard John - born 23.8.31
• Mary - born 25.10.39
• Michael Charles - born 2.11.42

Prior to joining the RAAF (called up under AFR 445, 11/3/1940), he was a farmer/grazier at "The Lagoon", Gulgong. He served in the Northern Territory north of parallel 14.5°  south latitude from 23 June 1944 to 2 July 1944 and from 3 July 1944 to 23 Jan 1945 with No 2 Squadron and No 1 Squadron.

He carried out 29 Operational Missions - total of 200 Operational Hours. For his Operational Service he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; the 1939-45 Star and the Pacific Star.

Source: NAA: DGPS Records NSW 992/76.

GONDOLIERS

The Gondoliers was a popular band in Gulgong in the 1960s. Members included George Vukovich, Wayne Jones and Bob Carpenter.

NEWS ITEMS

2013 - Gondoliers to reunite, 45 years on

A favourite local band of the mid-1960s will reunite for the Back to Gulgong weekend.

The Gondoliers, consisting of Dave Brooker, George Vukovich, Wayne Jones, Bob Carpenter, Neville Roach and Peter Harkins, will play at the Prince of Wales Hotel on Friday and Saturday nights, as well as performing on the back of a truck in Saturday morning's parade.

It will be the first time the band has played together in around 45 years.

The Gondoliers began in the early 1960s with Peter Harkins, who now operates Tamworth's Cheapa Music, and George Vukovich, who is now a station manager in outback Queensland.

The duo was dubbed The Gongdalairs by Frank Halloran, a journalist at the Mudgee Guardian, where Harkins was an apprentice letterpress printer.

As the band grew, new lead singer Dave Brooker said the name didn't sound sophisticated, and the group developed into The Gondoliers.

Brooker, the band's blind sax-playing frontman, came from Muswellbrook, and worked at 2MG as a radio announcer and ad salesman.

He and Bob Carpenter lived in Mudgee, and would jump in Carpenter's MG to join the rest of the band in Gulgong for rehearsals.

The Gondoliers played B&S balls, weddings, dances and corporate events from Mudgee and Gulgong into the Hunter and as far west as Warren, and early in their career travelled to Canberra to take third place in the country championships of the 'Battle of the Sounds'.

The owners of the Prince of Wales Hotel invited the band to re-form for this weekend's reunion, and for the first time all six members - including drummers who served at different times - were brought together.

'I'm excited about getting together again,' said Carpenter, who hadn't picked up his bass guitar for 45 years until three weeks ago.

'Who would have thought there'd be an opportunity for the band to get together, not just to see each other, but to play together'?

He said his playing skills were coming back 'surprisingly well' - the brain knows what to do, and the fingers just have to catch up.

Carpenter said audiences could look forward to plenty of classic rock and roll from the '50s and '60s, with Brooker doing great versions of Roy Orbison's songs, as well as tracks from groups including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Band members began arriving in Gulgong on Thursday, and while Carpenter said the town had changed for the better, Harkins easily recognised his mother's old house and said Gulgong hadn't changed at all.

Source: Mudgee Guardian, October 3, 2013

GARDAM

Railey Gardam arrived in NSW aboard the "Herefordshire" in December 1853, aged 20. He was brought to Sydney by the Sydney Railway Company to work on the Sydney to Parramatta Railway which opened in 1855.

He met Elizabeth Walters at Cadia, the site of a copper mine and a copper smelter, marrying in 1862. Around 1867/8 the world price for copper declined and while the women stayed in Cadia, their men left to find work. 

In 1876, Elizabeth  Gardam nee Walters remarried in Newcastle, giving her conjugal status as "widowed" and her age as 31 (she was really 34). She never signed her name to any documents e.g. wedding and children's birth certificates which could suggest she was unsure about whether her first husband, Railey, was alive or dead.

In fact, Gardam had been living with Mary Jane McNamara near Gulgong and was charged with her murder at Yamble in 1873. The couple had produced two children:

• Stephen Gardam (NSW BDM 12951/1870)
• James Gardasm (NSW BDM 19124/1872)

After Railey Gardam was charged and presumably imprisoned awaiting trial, the two little boys were placed in care.

NEWS ITEMS

1873 - Willful Murder

Railey Gardam charged with the murder of May Jane McNamara, with whom he had been living as man and wife, at Yamble, Lowe’s Station on the Mudgee River, on the night of 30th December. The rum bottle was at the bottom of the mischief and it was proved from the man’s own admissions to his friends that he had struck the woman several blows on the evening of her death.

Dr. Ramsay stated the results of the post mortem showed the injuries cased by the beating was the cause of death. Remanded to Mudgee Sessions.

Source: Gulgong Guardian, Issue No 145, 4 January 1873

1873 - APPREHENSIONS

Source: New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930) Wed 15 Jan 1873 [Issue No.3] Page 23

Source: New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930) Wed 12 Feb 1873 [Issue No.7] Page 53

1873 - STATE RECORDS
GARDEM Railey
Criminal Indictments Index 1863-1919
Citation: NRS 13492 [9/2630 p.114]; Reel 1860 | 

Offence: Murder | 

Place of Trial: Mudgee Circuit Court | 

Sentence: To be imprisoned in Mudgee Gaol for 48 hours

Number	INX-86-4975
Title	GARDEM Railey
Index Name	Criminal Indictments Index 1863-1919
Name	Railey
Surname	GARDEM
Index Number	86
ECommerce	Category B
Offence	Murder
Place of Trial	Mudgee Circuit Court
Verdict	Guilty of manslaughter
Sentence	To be imprisoned in Mudgee Gaol for 48 hours
Judge	STEPHEN
Citation	NRS 13492 [9/2630 p.114]; Reel 1860
Date of Trial	17 Apr 1873

Source: NSW state archives: criminal indictments index

1873 - POLICE NOTES

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25/1/73

Henry Garden 5 years

“ __ destitute his mother dead (murdered) and his father in gaol under committal for trial for murder"

Gulgong 17 January 1873
T A Browne PM
Henry Tebbutt __

Age 5 years _ Protestant_ Henry alias Robert

Police Department
Mudgee 23.1.73

Mems

Charles Gardem the father of the two boys forwarded from Gulgong Bench has informed the Gaolers at Mudgee that the eldest boy’s name is Robert and the younger Stephen.

Charles Gardem is now awaiting trial on a charge of murdering the mother of the boys with whom he lived in a state of adultery.

Thos H Weble

Sergeant

___ and in ___ ___ ______


The Sup.t
Ships V-----

Returned from the Industrial School for girls 14 November 1874

Source: Gregory Archbold

MEBUL SCHOOL

Once named Cudgebegong School, after 1917 it was known as Mebul School.

NEWS ITEMS

1918 - [FUNDRAISING]
The employees of the Tallewang (near Gulgong) iron mines have presented the District Hospital with a cheque for £10. The Mebul subsidised school also made an appeal for funds for the hospital. This is the first school in the district to make an attempt to raise funds for the hospital, and although there are only nine children attending the school, they collected the sum of £2 6s. 6d. from the few people residing in the locality.

Source: The Voice of the North (NSW : 1918 - 1933) Fri 9 Aug 1918 Page 8

1922 - [STAFFING]

Mr. W. F. Dunn. M.L.A., has received information from the Department of Education that a teacher will be appointed to take up duties at the Mebul school as soon as possible. There is a shortage of teachers at present and it may be some time before one is available.

When a teacher has been appointed, if the attendance fall below ten the question of closing the school will be considered.

Source:  Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Thu 28 Sep 1922 Page 5

1923 - Hospital Social. AT MEBUL

Some weeks ago the Gulgong Hospital Committee woke up to the fact that the credit balance was fast diminishing. It was then decided to try and rouse interest in outside centres, and a special committee was appointed to do the work. Several outside centres will hold functions in the near future. The little centre of Mebul held the first one on Wednesday last, and it was a huge success.

When the news was conveved to the Mebul and district folk that hospital finances were getting low, Mr. Chas. Wright, an ardent worker for the hospital, called a meeting. Miss Gladys Wright was appointed secretary. She went to work with a will, and in just two weeks the function was organised. The hospital benefits to the extent of about £60, truly a fine result for the Mebul district, when times are so bad for everyone. Evidently the people of Mebul and district forgot the drought for the time being, and spent freely. 

The little Mebul school was the scene of the gaiety. There are some 'live wires' at Mebul, particularly Mr. C. Wright and Mr. P. Tonkyn, while the ladies are ever ready to help a deserving cause. The secretary is deserving of great praise for the splendid result of her efforts, and she and the other people of the district have the warm thanks of the committee. Dancing was commenced at 8 p.m., and continued until 3 a.m. Splendid music was supplied bv Miss Rita Watts (Gulgong), while Miss Wright played a number of extras. The ladies who prepared the supper carried out the work in an excellent manner. Mr. C. Wright thanked all helpers, and praised the hospital, adding that whereas a private hospital cost four or five guineas a week, patients could go into the Gulgong hospital for £2/2/ a week. Of course, it is not compulsory to pay anything if a patient could not afford a fee. The hospital is a public institution, and is considered one of the best institutions in the State, thanks to the sterling qualities of Matron Snelson. Other centres will need to work hard to beat Mebul. — Gulgong 'Advertiser.'

Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Thu 7 Jun 1923 Page 9

1923 - MY HOME.
Nellie Lett writes: —

Dear Editor,—

My home is at Mebul, 16 miles West of Gulgong and 34 miles east of Wellington, which are our nearest towns. Mebul has an area of about 36 sq. miles, most of which is rich agricultural land, the remainder being good pasture land.

On this land many thousands of sheep and cattle graze peacefully through the day except in a drought such as we have just experienced, when the men have to lop oak, kurrajong, and other trees for them. The Mebul Creek has never been known to go dry by our oldest residents, so we always have a water supply for our stock, but it is too brackish for household use. We have a post and telegraph office about four miles from my home and two subsidised schools. The one I attend, at Upper Mebul, has nine pupils and the Mebul subsidised school has six. When the first public school was opened at Mebul (Cudgebegong, as it was then called), over 40 years ago, the class roll numbered 54. The population then was nearly 200, but death has claimed all but two of the early pioneers, while the younger people seek new homes near the towns or in the city. As a result our population is now only 80.

Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Mon 24 Sep 1923 Page 1