Scandal and Skulduggery in early Sydney
In Sydney in 1828, alluring shoplifter Jane New caught the eye of Supreme Court Registrar John Stephen Jnr. Their resulting affair scandalised Sydney, and the consequences contributed to Britain’s decision to recall Governor Ralph Darling.
Presented by Carol Baxter - Hawkesbury Family History Group Meeting - 9 July 2008
Around the same time a gang of convicts and ex-convicts tunnelled through a sewerage drain into the vault of Sydney’s Bank of Australia. They stole the equivalent, in today’s terms, of around $20 million.
These stories, as told in Carol Baxter’s two books, An Irresistible Temptation: the true story of Jane New and a colonial scandal, and Breaking the Bank: An Extraordinary Colonial Robbery, will be the subject of her talk at the Hawkesbury Family History Group meeting on Wednesday 9 July 2008.
Carol Baxter is a Fellow of the Society of Australian Genealogists and the editor of the early New South Wales musters and convict indents publications. She is also a descendant of First Fleeter and early Hawkesbury settler William Nash, and of John Lees of Castlereagh who built the first Wesleyan church in Australia.
The meeting commences at 10am in the Tebbutt Room of Hawkesbury Central Library at the Deerubbin Centre at 300 George Street, Windsor. Anyone interested in family and local history is welcome to attend, there is no need to book and there is no charge. For more information contact Michelle Nichols, Local Studies Librarian by phone 4560-4466, or email mnichols@hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au
Contact details
Hawkesbury City Council
Tel: 02 4560 4444
Fax: 02 4560 4400
council@hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au
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