Collection: Local Book

"This bicentenary souvenir commemorates William Cox and the road he built in 1814-1815 which first expanded European settlement outside the Sydney basin. It contains a new transcript of Cox's journal as well as seminal documents from Governor Macquarie and a list of the men who 'laboured for thei...

William Cox was a soldier, road builder, and pioneering pastoralist in the colony of New South Wales. He made his name building the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814. In this biography, Richard Cox a descendant gives the details of William Cox's life

A scrapbook on the life of William Hart, an aviator born in April 1885. His youth was spent fishing in the Hawkesbury River. As a teenager he made several flights over the suburbs of Sydney. In 1911, he flew from Penrith to Parramatta and back again.

Biographical information on Willliam Hart, Australia's first formally recognised aviator.

The lives of parishioners are remembered in the windows, plaques, panels which line the walls of the church.

Family history of the Cowling, Lake, Cupitt, Price, Lane, Napier, Holmes, Keating, Weal, Windus, Hawkins, and Sneddon families - from Wollongong, Sydney, Windsor, Cobbitty and Mittagong districts