Beehive Hotel, Lowe's Paddock, 1872
Source: SLNSW
This is the Beehive Hotel of John Johnson. Johnson is the man leaning against the hitching rail with his legs crossed, with a white shirt and white hat.
The first [Beehive] hotel was in Isbester's paddock near Gulgong, and then it was rebuilt in Lowe's paddock between Canadian Lead and Home Rule all in the time frame that Beaufoy Merlin was in Gulgong.
Source: Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis Research, Gulgong (April 2007)
Beehive Hotel, Lowe's Paddock, 1872
Source: SLNSW
In this photo, John Johnson stands out front with his wife Matilda, daughter Clara (born 1869) and newborn son Clarence (born 1872).
Another child of a John and Matilda Johnson (possibly the same couple), named Ada Mary Johnson, was born in Coonamble in 1878.
Source: Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis Research, Gulgong (April 2007)
