MRS. MARY A. O‘LEARY of Lismore,1949 Obituary

Northern Star Lismore, NSW

5 May 1949

MRS. MARY A. O'LEARY.

The death occurred at St. Joseph's Hospice yesterday of Mrs. Mary Ann O'Leary, relict of the late Jeremiah John O'Leary, of Terania Street, North Lismore.

Mrs. O'Leary, who was born at Gundarimba, was a daughter of the late Francis Schneider, an early settler in that district, She married, at Gundurimba.

Her husband was for some year’s manager of the old Foley's butter factory. After residing in various parts of the State Mr. and Mrs. O'Leary settled in Lismore, where she resided for many years.

She is survived by two Son's Messrs Jack and Vincent (tim) of Lismore; Vera (Mrs. Donnelly), Bentley; Lillian (Mrs. Harrison), Bexhill; Ivy (Mrs. R. Pillinging) Balina;  Madge (Mrs. Burrows), Rose and Florrie (Mrs. H. Grennan), of Lismore. She was predeceased by her husband 13 years ago. 

Her funeral will leave St. Carthage Cathedral today after a service commencing at 2 p.m. for interment in the Catholic portion of the Lismore cemetery.

Northern Star Lismore, NSW

5 May 1949

O'LEARY.

The FUNERAL of the late MARY ANN O'LEARY, relict of the late Jeremiah John O'Leary, of Terania Street, North Lismore.

Loving mother of Jack and Vincent (Tim). Lismore, and Mrs. Donnelly (Bentley), Mrs. Harrison (Bexhill), Mrs. Burrows , (Lismore), Mrs. Pilling (Ballina), Rose (Lismore) and Mrs. H. Grennan (Lismore).

Will leave St. Carthage's Cathedral TO-DAY (THURSDAY), after a service commencing at 2 p.tn, for interment In the Catholic portion of the general cemetery.

COCHRAN, BROS., Funeral Directors, Lismore.

Northern Star Lismore, NSW

1949

6 May 1949

MRS. M. A. O'LEARY

Older residents of Gundurimba were well represented yesterday when Father Troy commenced the service for the late Mrs. Mary Ann O'Leary prior to interment in the Catholic portion of the general cemetery. 

Mrs. O'Leary was a native of the Gundurimba area and spent all her youth and portion of her married life in that district. The pallbearers at the church and graveside were Messrs. Jack and Vincent (sons), C. Harrison, R. Pilling, senior, and H. Grennan (sons in-laws) and R. Pilling, junior (grandson). Cochran Bros, conducting funeral arrangements. 

Northern Star Lismore, NSW

4 May 1950

O'LEARY—In loving memory of our dear mother and grandmother, Mary Ann O'Leary, who departed this life on May 4th, 1949.

Inserted by her loving sons, daughters and grandchildren.

LINK TO:- Mary Ann O'Leary nee Schneider's Family:- http://leathemhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/bugdens-pt-3-obituarys.html

Northern Star Lismore, NSW

9 Feb 1943

Wounded In Action

Mrs. M. O’Leary, of Macaulay Street, North Lismore has received word that her son, Sgt. V. P (Tim) O'Leary, has been wounded in action in New Guinea, and is now in a military hospital in Australia. 

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Wreck of the Ketch Rose : Two Lives Lost.

Wreck of the Ketch Rose: Two Lives Lost.

(From the. S. M. Herald.)

Tuesday 22 May 1877

The ketch Rose, John Buckley, master, with two sailors on board, left Newcastle for Lake Macquarie, with cargo, on Friday morning last, the 11th instant, at 11 a.m., and was totally wrecked between Terigal Haven and Tuggerah Beach Lake entrance, on Saturday night, the 12th instant, at about 11 o'clock. 

The two seamen are reported missing, and are believed, from the nature of the coast, to have been drowned the following particulars have reached us from a reliable authority.

It appears that a farmer named William Long, residing at Womberall Plains, on Monday morning last, sent a letter to senior constable F. Malarkey, stationed at Gosford, reporting that a vessel (believed to be the ketch Rose) was lying a total wreak in Chinaman Bay, district about six miles from Mr Lang's, and fifteen from Gosford; that the master, whose name was Buckley, was then at a Mr Channell's, on the Plains, and that two seamen were said to be missing.

The police magistrate was at once informed of the circumstance, and senior constable Malarkey and constable Preston immediately proceeded with Mr Reeve, to the wreck in the neighborhood of which the party arrived in the afternoon on Monday at 3 o'clock.

They found the Rose lying a total wreck at the northern extremity of the rocky reef in the above indicated locality, at about a quarter of a mile from the shore.

John Buckley, the late master of the vessel, was on the beach with three or four other parsons; but little, if anything, appeared to have been done toward saving the cargo. The police magistrate made inquiries on the spot as to the particulars of the casualty, and expressed some astonishment at Buckley not having at once reported the wreck, and the supposed loss of life-which would not have been made known to the police when it was but for the intelligence and good feeling of Mr. Long, who had very properly reported what had taken place as soon as it came to his knowledge.

The following is the account given by the master, a young man of about 22 years of age He says that the Rose belonged to Mr John O'Leary, of Cooranbong, but that the goods on board of her belonged to Mr Lancaster, of the saw mills at Wyee.

She left Newcastle on Friday morning last, at 11 am, and first proceeded southerly, being bound for the entrance of Lake Macquarie. The vessel started with an N W, Wind (A fair wind) and the captain kept it till, he got to the Lake Bar, at about 5 p.m. It' then, he says, came on to blow from the S W,' and he hove to off the island opposite to the entrance of Lake Macquarie.

The Rose remained hove to all night, the wind still continuing from the S W. Buckley says he thinks that what carried him away so far to the southward must have been the tidal current. On the Saturday morning he found the vessel off the land, about ten miles to the seaward of Broken Bay.

He could then just see the land, and make out where he was. He stood in for the land, and it came on to blow from the southward, and at about dark the Rose was about three miles off Terigal Point.

Buckley then ran along the coast for about an hour after dark, with a southerly wind, when it came on to blow from the S E. at 7 p.m. This lasted till 10 p.m., the wind being pretty light. It, then came on to blow from the eastward, and Buckley says he saw it coming, and prepared for it.

He told the two men to take in the mainsail; and from that he does not remember anything till he found himself lying on the beach, early on the Sunday morning. As soon as he had come to himself he looked about him, saw the vessel was wrecked, and could not see anything of his late companions.

He climbed the nearest headland, saw Terigal in the distance; and wandering on for a while, and arrived at last at Channel’s hut, at about 11 am. Here he remained until Monday between noon and 1 p m., when he returned to the beach.

The value of the cargo is stated to be about £200. The police continued the search for the bodies on Tuesday last, but up to the latest accounts they had not been discovered the following additional items have since been furnished by Mr. Henry Farrinden, master of the schooner Sea Bird.

The Sea Bird left Lake Macquarie for Sydney at 11 o'clock on Thursday morning and arrived here yesterday morning, after a fair passage, with a prevalence of a light westerly winds. When passing Towan Reef, about twenty-three miles to the northward of Terrigal Island.

Henry Farrinden in looking through his telescope, spied some dark object on the beach, he immediately put the helm down and luffed into the beech for the purpose of ascertaining what this strange object might be, and upon nearing the spot be found that it was the wreck of a small vessel, which proved to be the Rose, of Newcastle.

As was stated yesterday, she left Newcastle at 11 a m, on Friday, and reached Lake Macquarie bar at about three o’clock in the afternoon, being a short distance behind the ketch Star of Peace, which crossed the bar, but apparently the skipper of the Rose did not care to take the bar, and stood out to sea, shaping for the southward.

Mr. Boyd, the pilot at Lake Macquarie, and several others, came down to render any assistance to the Rose, but she steed off, and Mr. Farrinden did not hear or see anything of her until he saw her wrecked upon the beach, about twenty-three miles to the southward of Lake Macquarie.  

Joseph Henry Lancaster, Catherine Hill Bay, 1875.

This article is about JH Lancaster activity’s at the time, his name is miss- spelt Lankaster.

1875 The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW: 1843 - 1893) Thursday 2 September

Catherine Hill Bay.

(From a Correspondent of the Newcastle Chronicle.)

The following is a condensed account of the information which I spoke to you about, I was unable to send it to you before. The particulars, I have no doubt, you will find very interesting. 

The tract of land bordering Wyee Creek, is known as Wyee.

Lancaster's steam saw mill is situated at that place, about nine miles southerly from Coorumbung, and about five miles from the wharf on Lake Macquarie (as per plan of district). 

The proprietors of the mill are constructing a tramway from the mill to the intersection of the wharf-road with the Coorumbung and Gosford road, a distance of one and a half miles.

By this means, very boggy flats are avoided; from thence to the wharf, the road is hard, and follows the ridge. The tramway which is constructed of wooden sleepers and wooden rails, will be completed in about a month.

The mill has been erected purposely for the sawing of railway sleepers for Mr. Wakeford, contractor, Murrurundi, for railway extension north- Ward. Lancaster has the contract for 100,000 railway sleepers.

Building timber is also cut out of what would be wasted from the logs after the sleepers are cut.

Lancaster employs three horse and seven bullock teams to draw the logs and convey same to the wharf. 

The mill is on a section block of 640 acres adjoining Walker's 1100 acres. The dimensions of the shed are 100 x 40 feet. There are three circular saws worked by steam, in use at the mill, each making 800 revolutions per minute. The engine is 30 horse-power, nominal. The motion is convened to the machinery by means of a spur-wheel and pinion, 9 feet in diameter, and fly-wheel 14 feet in diameter.

The whole of the machinery is of the best description.

The timbers are so constructed that there is no perceptible vibration in the mill. 

Mr. Lankaster cuts on an average, 30,000 feet of timber per week.

A steamboat has been built, with a capacity of 100tons, to take the timber to the Lake Heads, so that the vessels may be more readily and easily loaded.

The vessels might take in a good cargo at the wharf, but the Pelican Point Flats are so shallow and the channel so narrow, that a vessel may have to unload half its cargo into punts to get across.

There is only six feet of water there, the channel being in places not wider than a vessel's length. The flats at Pelican Point must not be mistaken for the bar at the Lake Heads, they being about five miles from the Heads..

There's a kind of river connecting the Lake with the ocean, about four miles long, and it is near the entrance to the Lake that the flats are situated. It would not take much money for the Government to place a dredge at this place.

These flats are a great obstruction to trade, and the Administration ought to do something to militate against the evil; a dredge would answer all the purposes. You must not confound the Lake entrance at the sea; small vessels can get through that easily enough.

Mr. Lankaster employs twenty-five men at the mill, and there are about thirty children there needing instruction. Mr. Lambert states that he would build a school-room if a teacher was sent there, which would be considered a great boon.

It is the intention of the Church of England to hold services every month at Lankaster's, that gentleman having desired that Divine service should be held there.

The Church of England parish of Wickham, under the Rev. Mr. Dixon, takes in the Lake Heads, Catherine Hill Bay (New Wallsend), Cabbage Tree, Coorumbung, Newport, Wyee, &c, involving a journey of more than 150 miles ; the minister, setting out from Newcastle via Burwood, Williamson's, &c, and returning via Coorumbung, Teralba, and   Wallsend, thus making the entire circuit of Lake Macquarie.

The whole of this large district is making rapid strides in progress; on every hand industries are opening up, and numerous families settling down at different locations. At New Wallsend (Catherine Hill Bay), the coal is the best in the colony, and the pits are working favourably; the township will soon vie with any coal town in New South Wales.

The scenery is magnificent at Catherine Hill Bay; the country and the ocean is something grand. 

Property here may not be worth much now, but the richest men in the colonies have made their fortunes in possessing property primitively in less important places than New Wallsend and the district.

There are two other steam saw-mills in this important district - Messrs. King and Henry's, at Coorumbung ; and Mr. Moon's, six miles towards Teralba, several others are in course of erection.

The road between Coorumbung and Catherine Hill Bay is sadly needed in wet weather. The mail is taken to Catherine Hill Bay twice a week, but very irregularly. This is in consequence of the Government not even "logging the holy ground" and fixing the crossing places.

The road is full of holes in some places - even the high road going to New Wallsend - the holes are that large that they would take a horse and rider completely out of sight. In the winter time, it is still more frightful. 

The Government, if they thought of advancing the interests of a rising and prominent section of this colony, would at once place upon the estimates a sum for the making of a road from Coorumbung to Catherine Hill Bay.

"OLD BREAD". NSW Lancaster family.

Here is just a short but interesting news item.

1926 The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder (NSW : 1913 - 1954) Friday 27 August

FORTY YEARS' OLD BREAD

Mr. R. L. Paterson, of Wyee, writes: — 

Having read in the 'Gosford Times' a reprint from the "Cessnock Eagle' about bread being found in the ground at Cessnock supposed to be forty years old, I would like to state that there is living at Wyee an old gentleman, Mr. T. H. Lancaster, who says that his father, the late Mr. Joseph Lancaster, was a timber contractor living in Cessnock between 40 and 50 years ago. 

He had a lot of men engaged timber getting around where the town of Cessnock' now stands, and Mr. Lancaster states, as near as he can remember' those men had camps somewhere in the vicinity where the bread was found. The bread may be some thrown away from the old camps of those days