Colwell Wood Cottage
In our previous HAFS Newsletter 55, February 2018, p46, we reprinted an article about Colwell Wood Cottage, County Devon, which was for sale (at the time). The property includes 75 acres of woodland, including Colwell Wood, Scrub Wood and part of Offwell Woods, and a restored cottage built about 1805. It is situated in an […]
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, a model for Northanger Abbey?
Was Farleigh Hungerford Castle a model for Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen? From a discussion raised by Austen author, Janine Barchas, in her essay, The Real Bluebeard of Bath: a Historical Model for Northanger Abbey, published in Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol 32, 2010, pp115-134: see www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number32/barchas.pdf. (more…)
The Jackson Papers Revisited
Many of you will have heard of the The Jackson Papers and we have previously published articles about them and how HAFS worked to acquire a microfilm copy of at least some of them. As previously reported, we have recently had the microfilm converted into a digital copy taking up many cd’s. By way of […]
HAFS Resources
Members may not be aware that we have a significant volume of printed resources available for members’ use and research, housed at Tyrrell’s Vineyard, Pokolbin in an area of the Winery which HAFS is able to use for this purpose, thanks to the Tyrrell Family’s generosity. Apart from books and other written and visual materials, […]
Introduction to the Jackson Papers
by the Rev JE Jackson & transcribed by Peter Sherlock In the year 1832, having never before been in the West of England, I went to reside at Farley Castle near Bath as companion to my elder brother, then Curate of the Parish. In 1832, I was ordained to the Curacy and resided at the […]
List of Awards and Honours
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Annual General Meeting 7 Oct 2018 at The King’s School, Parramatta
The next annual general meeting will be on Sunday 7 October 2018 at The King’s School at Parramatta. See the Notice of Meeting and Agenda here. We will have a service remembering Hungerfords in the chapel, followed by lunch and then our annual general meeting in one of the school’s halls. Details will follow later, but […]
Next Working Bee – TBA
Upcoming dates: Sunday 25th February 2018 Sunday 29th July 2018
Acquiring the Jackson Papers
The Research Papers of Canon JE Jackson MA, FSA (relating to the Hungerford Family) Canon John Edward Jackson (1805-1891) was a renowned English Historian and antiquary. He was trained for ordination and appointed as Curate of Farleigh Hungerford in 1834. From his studies in local history, he developed an interest in the Hungerford Family which […]
Finding Hungerford
The town of Hungerford is located on the border of New South Wales and Queensland on the Paroo River, which is often only a string of waterholes. However, when in flood, the river provides a good water source for cattle and travellers, at the northern end of the Murray-Darling Basin, 214 km north-west of Bourke […]
A Sunday Drive Around the World
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Tree Change
Margaret McMahon [E.6.12a.1b.5c=] was born in 1940 in Sydney. She followed her father into the legal profession and married Gregan McMahon [E.6.12a.1b.5c], also a solicitor. Together they established a successful legal practice in Paddington. In 1973 Margaret and Gregan and two small children, following what Margaret believed was an “instinctive migratory urge”, sold their business and […]