1887
1 Jan 1887 Saturday. New Year’s day. Good Templar’s Sports on the old Mulyan racecourse. Races at W Costello, Bang Bang.
2 Jan 1887 Sunday. Henry Dennis’ old stable burnt down.
3 Jan 1887 I went up to the Ciurt House to hear Matt Flood’s case for wife desertion. He was bound to pay 7/6 per week for 12 months.
4 Jan 1887 I was summonsed on the Coroner’s inquest on the fire at Dennis’ old stable. 12 on the jury. Brought in a verdict against Robert Nowland, a saddler, for setting the stable on fire accidentally.
5 Jan 1887 Not doing anything. Fine shower today.
6 Jan 1887 Doing nothing. George Hurst and I walked up to the Railway Station. The contractor, Goff, from Young, is commencing to put in the foundation of the Station House and Goods Shed. Men at work putting up the trucking yards.
7 Jan 1887 I got a cheque from P Walsh of Kikiamah for £73.7.4 for putting up a cottage. I walked down to George Hurst but he had gone to Goolagong to fish. A hot day.
8 Jan 1887 George Hurst and I paid all debts due on the cottage and divided the balance. Miss Periera died from the fever. 5 days ill. A letter from Minnie, Kikiamah.
9 Jan 1887 Sunday. At the Court House Hotel.
10 Jan 1887 I got an order from N Challacombe to build a wood kitchen up at his folly. Sent an order to Young for timber.
11/12 Jan 87 No timber came by train.
13 Jan 1887 Part of the timber came. G. Gillet brought it from the train.
14 Jan 1887 George Hurst and I put up all the posts that came.
15 Jan 1887 No work today.
16 Jan 1887 I was not well all day.
17 Jan 1887 Hurst and I ceiling a room at the folly.
18 Jan 1887 Finished the ceiling. Got boards and joists from H Francis and commenced to lay joists in the room we ceiled. 108 degrees in the shade.
19 Jan 1887 Boarding floor all day.
20 Jan 1887 We got the walls ready for papering.
21 Jan 1887 We got W Patterson to put on a lining and paper. Worked up to 11 o’clock. Raining all the morning.
22 Jan 1887 George Hurst and I working all day at the kitchen. Hot day.
23 Jan 1887 Sunday. At the Court House Hotel.
24 Jan 1887 George Hurst and I worked up to 4 o’clock. Heavy shower of rain came. It lasted one hour. In the front of P Murray’s store, the street was covered with water. The river rising.
25/27 Jan 87 Working at the cottage all day.
28 Jan 1887 We put the iron on the cottage.
29 Jan 1887 I worked up to 12 o’clock. I then went to Mr Nichol’s sale at the Railway Bridge. I bought two tables, 1 stretcher, 1 mattress and 5 plates. Great shower of rain.
30 Jan 1887 Sunday. I went up to the Railway station. Mrs Markham at Walsh’s Court House Hotel, laid up with typhoid fever.
31 Jan 1887 Working at the building. F.B.Freehill, Solicitor, Sydney addressed the electors of Cowra tonight at Madam Rigaut’s Hall. He is a protectionist.
1 Feb 1887 Working at the building. Mary and Grace O’Shaughnessy came by train from Young. They started early from Kikiamah and got to Young in time for the 9 o’clock train. A daughter of big Paddy Walsh got married to the oldest son of Peter Whittaker of Back Creek.[1]
2 Feb 1887 Cloudy day. Light shower at dark.
3 Feb 1887 Grace O’Shaughnessy went by coach to Bathurst to the Sisters of Mercy Convent to school. Grace Challacombe married Herman Davis, storekeeper, Cowra by Presbyterian parson at Cudgelo.[2] Raining all day. We worked at the cottage all day.
4 Feb 1887 A telegram from James (sic) Hacket, Telegraph Office, Bathurst that Grace O’Shaughnessy had arrived there, but her box could not be found. We are nearly finished at Challacombe’s kitchen. I got a cheque from him for £40 to pay some of the bills.
5 Feb 1887 George Hurst did not come to work. We got all our things removed from the Court House Hotel into a house of Taylor’s next door to Miss Cummins. Jeancarette(?) addressed Cowra electors in Madam Rigaut’s Hall. He is a staunch free trader.
6 Feb 1887 Sunday. I slept all night in the house we took.
7 Feb 1887 Mary O’Shaughnessy, James O’Shaughnessy, and I living in the house we took from Taylor. Garland from Carcoar addressed the electors of Cowra tonight in Madam Rigaut’s Music hall.
8 Feb 1887 I got two empty cases from P Murray. I ordered some timber from Francis for N Challacombe and went up after dinner. Timber not arrived. I came home again.
9 Feb 1887 George Hurst and I working at N Australian Joint Stock Bank, Cowra.’s cottage. James O’Shaughnessy up at Neila Creek and Morongla canvassing for Freehill, a protectionist.
10 Feb 1887 George Hurst and I finished Challacombe’s kitchen. Paid francis £15.9.3 for timber. Paid £4.12.11 for sundries. James O’Shaughnessy gone out to the Wallaroo canvassing.
11 Feb 1887 I am appointed scrutineer at Morongla Creek for Freehill and James Toohey came from Sydney. Toohey addressed the electors in favour of protection.
12 Feb 1887 I rode out to olf langfield’s, the Polling Place on Morongla Creek. McPherson Returning Officer. Young Fitzgerald Poll Clerk. And harry Hough scrutineer for Garland. There were only 17 (sic) voted – 10 for freehill, 8 for garland, 7 for Jeanerette. We came on to Cowra. Garland at the head of the Poll. Jeanerette next. Freehill last.
13 Feb 1887 Sunday. At home all day. Very windy.
14 Feb 1887 I went to a sale of fallon’s furniture at John Muir’s auction rooms. I bought a pair of fire dogs. And a plank to make a work bench. I got Sanson to bring Joey the galah from Walsh’s Court House Hotel and the plank from Muir’s and some timber from Schofields.
15 Feb 1887 I commenced to make a safe. I got £100 from P Murray. Hot sultry day. Rain after dark.
16 Feb 1887 I got P Murray’s cheque cashed at the bank. Making the safe. River rose last night. A good shower at dark.
17/19 Feb 87 Working at the safe all day.
20 Feb 1887 Sunday. Sunday. At home all day.
21 Feb 1887 I finished the safe. George Hurst and I went up to P Murray’s cottage to see if we could board the verandah with railway sleepers. Kimberley the Protestant parson died from typhoid fever. Paid J.E.Taylor three weeks rent. Hot day.
22 Feb 1887 Kimberley buried today. Garland and Jeanerette came from Sydney by train to a banquet given them tonight. I was making a bird cage all day.
23 Feb 1887 Making a bird cage.
24 Feb 1887 Judge Docker up. Civil cases on.
25 Feb 1887 No criminal cases today. Finished the bird cage. Sultry day.
26 Feb 1887 No work today.
27 Feb 1887 Sunday. Great rain at 6 o’clock this morning. Thunder all day.
28 Feb 1887 George Hurst and I commenced to lay down sleepers for a floor on P Murray’s back verandah.
1 Mar 1887 George Hurst and I working at the verandah. We had to cart some of the timber from the store. N Challacombe paid up his bill for putting up his house.
2 Mar 1887 We finished boarding Murray’s verandah.
3/6 Mar 1887 At home.
7 Mar 1887 George Hurst and I went up to Davis’ place to put up some paper, but it had not come from Sydney. Henry Dennis fined £5 for selling liquor on Sunday.
8 Mar 1887 George Hurst and I repairing chairs for Mrs Daly. Sultry day.
9 Mar 1887 I was making a wash stand. P Walsh started 5,000 feet of sawn timber for Cowra from Gault’s Sawmill, Weddin Mountain.
10 Mar 1887 I finished the wash stand. Heavy rain. Minnie went up to P Murray’s cottage.
11 Mar 1887 One load of Walsh’s timber came. 2,600 feet. We unloaded it and put on some battens on Davis’ wash house. Great rain last night.
12 Mar 1887 Hurst and I put on half the iron on Davis’ wash house, when it commenced to rain. We put up 3 window rollers in the parlour. Raining all the evening.
13 Mar 1887 Sunday. At home all day. Weather clearing.
14 Mar 1887 We finished putting on the iron on the wash house and pulled off all the paper of the parlour walls.
15 Mar 1887 We put up the parlour mantle piece and tacked on strips of zinc on the cracks between the slabs and repaired the floor.
16 Mar 1887 Making some brackets for the window blinds.
17 Mar 1887 Making a small cedar table.
18 Mar 1887 Making the table.
19 Mar 1887 I went up to Fishburn’s sale at the Railway bridge. I saw Tom Joyce and his son there and P Fitzgibbon . Not much sold. Raining all morning.
20 Mar 1887 Sunday. At home all day.
21 Mar 1887 George Hurst and I took the new table up to Mrs Davis and came back and laid out a cottage for P Walsh.
22 Mar 1887 Went up to Davis’ and put up a mantle piece and took all the calico and paper off the walls.
23 Mar 1887 Commenced to put up Walsh’s cottage.
24 Mar 1887 I was cutting blocks up to 12 o’clock. Hurst working for Mrs Davis. I went up after dinner and assisted him to put up a mirror and laid the carpet.
25 Mar 1887 Working art the cottage.
26 Mar 1887 We worked up to 2 o’clock and then we went to Mulally’s sale.
27 Mar 1887 Sunday. At home all day.
28 Mar 1887 We went to Parson Kimberley’s sale. We bought a marble top wash stand for £4.2.6.
29/30 Mar 1887 We were working at the cottage.
31 Mar 1887 Mary Caldwell married to Syd Lane. Cowra Races put off till tomorrow. Raining all day.
1 Apr 1887 Cowra Races. Leon’s Circus. We worked all day.
2 Apr 1887 Working all day. Circus again tonight. H Davis paid Hurst and me £9.14.0 for work done.
3 Apr 1887 Sunday. At home all day.
4 Apr 1887 We put on the skillion iron. Commenced to rain. We put up slabs in the evening.
5 Apr 1887 We put iron on the back and both ends.
6 Apr 1887 We put up the verandah posts ready for the iron.
7 Apr 1887 We put on all the iron. Heavy showers in the evening.
8 Apr 1887 Good Friday. All business places closed. Work at home.
9 Apr 1887 Making a cupboard for Miss Cummins. We went to Costello’s sale at the lemonade factory. Not much to be sold there. We went from there to Muir’s sale rooms. Horses, sheep, cattle and some furniture.
10 Apr 1887 Easter Sunday. At home all day.
11 Apr 1887 Easter Monday. Making a cupboard for Miss Cummins. Raining all day.
12 Apr 1887 Raining all night and all day. Working at the cottage all day. Putting up slabs.
13 Apr 1887 Working all day at the cottage. Weather clearing. River rising. We got some sawn timber from Periera. Tom Markham carted three loads of sand.
14 Apr 1887 We worked at the cottage up to 12 o’clock. In the evening, we put on a roof for Loudon, the Baker, next door to Dennis’s Hotel. We fixed the cupboard for Miss Cummins. Sultry day.
15 Apr 1887 We worked at the cottage up to 4 o’clock and then went out and put on some iron for Loudon, the Baker.
16 Apr 1887 I got my Deeds from P Murray. We put some more iron for Loudon the Baker, then went to the cottage and laid some joists in the front room and boarded in the back room. Collins commenced the chimney. Fine day.
17 Apr 1887 Sunday. Minnie and I walked up to the Railway Station and waited until the train went out. We met Mrs Davis and Hannah Walsh there. We came back by the railway bridge and down the river to the old traffic bridge and crossed.
18 Apr 1887 George Hurst and I boarding the floors at the cottage all day. Paid Flint £4.7.11 for timber from Young. Foggy morning.
19 Apr 1887 Minnie went in Thomas Walsh’s buggy with Mrs Walsh and Kate Walsh. Tom Middlemiss driving. A Middlemiss in another buggy with Minnie Mulally, Hannah Walsh and Hannah Middlemiss. We worked all day at the cottage
20 Apr 1887 Bridget Walsh to be married today at her father’s place, Kikiamah, to Patrick Cullinane.[3] George Hurst and I took the marble top sideboard to W. Boxalls. Working at the cottage.
21 Apr 1887 Working at the cottage. Cold night.
22 Apr 1887 Working at the cottage. Putting up doors. Sanson the plumber put up the spouting. Mary O’Shaughnessy came from Kikiamah.
23 Apr 1887 Working all day, putting up door stops. George Hurst putting up doors. Advanced George Collins £1.4.0. Fine day.
24 Apr 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the railway bridge and across it up to the Railway Station and saw the train start. H.Hall paid the last instalment for the blue horse.
25 Apr 1887 Working at the cottage. Gave Taylor notice that we were going to leave the cottage. Fine day.
26 Apr 1887 Working at the cottage. Cold night.
27 Apr 1887 George Hurst and I finished the cottage.
28 Apr 1887 George Hurst and I put up 3 verandah posts to Murray’s old store. We removed one load of our furniture into the cottage we finished.
29 Apr 1887 We removed all our things to the cottage. No work today.
30 Apr 1887 Hurst and I finished putting the iron on Loudon’s Baker’s shop.
1 May 1887 Sunday. We went with James O’Shaughnessy in Peter Murray’s buggy to the Railway Station. I had a look at a tank there of Fishburn’s that he had for sale.
2 May 1887 I (cut) some blocks. I fixed a stand for a tank. Assisted george Hurst to finish at the baker’s.
3 May 1887 George Hurst and I commenced to put up 2 skillions rooms at the first cottage we built for P Walsh. I got a tank from Fishburn, railway contractor £4.10.0
4 May 1887 We worked at the skillion all day. Sanson finished the spouting. A little rain at dark.
5 May 1887 We put the iron on the skillion and put up some slabs.
6 May 1887 Working at the skillion. White frost this morning.
7 May 1887 I cut up two pigs for T Walsh, Court House Hotel. We finished the floors of the skillions.
8 May 1887 Sunday. Raining all day. Mary Connell staying with us.
9 May 1887 Working all day at the skillion. Austin left P Walsh’s cottage. Collins commenced the chimney. Fine day.
10 May 1887 We finished the cottage at 12 o’clock. We went to Fishburn’s sale at the railway Bridge. I bought one lot of timber at 6/3 per 100 feet. George Hurst bought two lots. Mrs Still died at 12 o’clock. Cold day.
11 May 1887 We got Tom Markham woth two horses and dray to go with us to the railway bridge for the timber we bought. Got back at 12 o’clock. Mrs Still buried today. Very cold day.
12 May 1887 Hurst went by coach to Brundah, Wood’s Station to arrange about putting up a woolshed. Paid Simeon and Sanson. Cold day.
13 May 1887 No work. Hurst came from Brundah. Cold day.
14 May 1887 We put up a verandah post for P Murray. Paid Collins £3.15.0 for three chimneys. Boxall’s and John Connelly’s lemonade factory burnt down to the ground at half past seven o’clock tonight.
15 May 1887 Sunday. I went up to where the lemonade factory was burnt down. The engine appears to be alright. The bottling engine is damaged. I went to the new goods shed.
16/18 May 87 Making a workshop.
19 May 1887 Working at the shop. A girl of Ted Coady’s, 8 years old, died in ten minutes. I sent a letter to H Woods at Goolagong about two allotments he wants to buy from me.
20 May 1887 At the workshop. An inquest on Coady’s girl. One of the Platts buried today.
21 May 1887 Coady took the coffin in a buggy with his wife and daughter to bury it in Carcoar. I finished the shop.
22 May 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the Railway Bridge across the Lachlan. They have all the trellis up, both ends connected. Fine day.
23 May 1887 A cheque from P Walsk of Kikiamah. £95.14.4 for building cottages. Making tables for Mrs Walsh, Court House Hotel.
24 May 1887 Queen’s Birthday. Poor fireworks tonight.
25 May 1887 Paid all our bills in connection with P Walsh’s buildings. Sold two allotments – Nos 6 and 7 – Goolagong township to H Woods for £30. Received £5 deposit.
26 May 1887 Cloudy all day. W Howey’s son buried today. Diptheria.
27 May 1887 Not doing any work.
28 May 1887 I went to a sale of D.W.Muir’s. Sent Mrs T Walsh the tables.
29 May 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the Railway Station. I sent away some specimens to the Town and Country Journal office to be tested.
30 May 1887 No work today.
31 May 1887 Making some brackets for the parlour. Got oils and paint for Walsh’s two cottages.
1 Jun 1887 Painting all day. Mr Hulle, Manager of the Commercial Bank, Cowra, came to see if we could build him a two room cottage close to the Bank. T Walsh came from Kikiamah.
2 Jun 1887 Making a table for the kitchen. Mrs Nelson, cordial manufacturer of Grenfell died from Bronchitis.
3 Jun 1887 Making a table. Loudon the baker paid Hurst for work we did. W Boxall paid for sideboard.
4 Jun 1887 Mrs Nelson buried in the Cowra Cemetery. Cold day.
5 Jun 1887 Sunday. Not out today. Cold day.
6/10 Jun 1887 No work. Very cold.
11 Jun 1887 John Muir, Auctioneer, selling off a chinaman’s stock of groceries in one of Madam Rigaut’s new shops.
12 Jun 1887 Sunday. Raining all night. Went up to the Railway Bridge and back.
13/14 Jun 87 Cold day. No work.
15 Jun 1887 Finished painting the front of the cottage we are living in. Engine crossed the Railway Bridge over the Lachlan River. Cold day..
16 Jun 1887 Finished painting back of cottage. Commenced to paint front of cottage next door. Frost and fog
17 Jun 1887 White frost this morning. Painting the cottage next door. I presented a Promissory Note of Mrs T H West’s for ten pounds. Dishonoured. I saw Mrs West tonight about it. She promised to see Mr Still, the manager about it.
18 Jun 1887 Frost this morning and a fog all day. Mrs T H West paid up for the Promissory Note. Queen’s Jubilee train first class to Sydney £1.4.5 for 14 days.
19 Jun 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the Railway Station. Foggy morning.
20 Jun 1887 I went to where George Hurst was working to arrange what day we would start to put up the ceiling in P Walsh’s two cottages. Painting in the evening. Lame girl of Charles Stibbard died.
21 Jun 1887. Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. 50 years on the throne. Raining most all day. Shops all closed. I was painting all day. Stibbard’s girl buried this evening. Mrs James Markham went by train to Sydney. Paid Thomas Markham £1.1.0.
22 Jun 1887 George Hurst and I making a coffin for a girl 7 years old. A daughter of Mrs Sparkes. A man named Glover living with her. Raining most all day.
23 Jun 1887 I went down to the Crosskeys place and assisted George Hurst to finish a kitchen there. In the evening I went up to the Court House, Judge Docker, Councillors Bennett and Fitzhardinge. Tom West and Ormsby case settled.
24 Jun 1887 I was called in as a jurymanon Beetson and Taylor’s case for breaking into Eugene Watt’s house near Bumbaldry. We found both guilty. Cold. Raining most all day.
25 Jun 1887 No work. Raining most all day. The river rose half a banker.
26 Jun 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the Railway Station to see the train go away.
27 Jun 1887 Hurst and I made a coffin for an infant of R Anderson’s. Frost.
28 Jun 1887 Hurst and I commenced to ceil a skillion room in P Walsh’s cottage next door. Hurst went to the funeral. We finished in the evening.
29 Jun 1887 I cut the sides and ends for the table. I did some painting. Laying the pipes up Kendal Street for the Railway Station water supply. Cloudy.
30 Jun 1887 George Hurst making a table. I ceiled a bedroom in the cottage we live in.
1 Jul 1887 Raining all day and all night. No work.
2 Jul 1887 George Hurst and I putting up a WC for Plunkett. I went to Limons the Chemist, sale.
3 Jul 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the new Goods Shed and from there to a quartz reff near George Lockyer’s.
4 Jul 1887 George Hurst and I worked for Plunkett about one hour. Raining the remainder of the day.
5 Jul 1887 Raining all day.
6 Jul 1887 Making a safe. Letter from R King. Paid Donnelly £2.12.0 for paint. Mrs Hayes died at the Railway Bridge.
7 Jul 1887 Making a safe for Mrs Walsh, Court House Hotel.
8 Jul 1887 George Hurst making a table. Working at the safe.
9 Jul 1887 Hurst finished the table.
10 Jul 1887 Sunday. Raining all day.
11 Jul 1887 George Hurst and I putting tables together for P Murray.
12 Jul 1887 Putting together reading tables. Cold day.
13 Jul 1887 Putting wardrobes together. Murray sent two cases of furniture to put together.
14 Jul 1887 We finished the wardrobes at 12 o’clock.
15 Jul 1887 I finished the safe for Mrs Walsh.
16 Jul 1887 Not doing much.
17 Jul 1887 Sunday. George Hurst rode my piebald horse out to W P Costello’s, Bang Bang. He agreed with Lydiard to put up a kitchen there.
18/23 Jul 87 Putting furniture together for P Murray.
24 Jul 1887 Sunday. At home all day. Very cold.
25 Jul 1887 George Hurst working for H Francis, putting the roof on Boxall’s new Lemonade factory. I put up the ceiling in our bedroom. Dr Gerrity married to Miss Constance freestone of Young.
26 Jul 1887 I commenced to make a tool box. Gertrude Arnold married to Jamieson of Grenfell.
27 Jul 1887 Putting up a door in Donnelly’s stable.
28 Jul 1887 Finished the door and commenced to lay down a floor of old slabs. Conway died at Mrs Maloney’s, near Bang Bang.
29 Jul 1887 Finished the floor and put up a partition. Mrs Daly died – old Mrs Payne’s daughter, the tall girl.
30 Jul 1887 Finished at Donnelly’s at 12 o’clock. A man died in the Hospital. James O’Shaughnessy gave P Murray one month’s notice.
31 Jul 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the Railway Station. Cold day. Commenced to rain after dark.
1 Aug 1887 Making a tool box all day. Harry Hall’s eldest daughter married to Bill Thompson.
2/5 Aug 1887 Making and finished and painted the tool box.
6 Aug 1887 Making pigeon holes for an office. Cold day.
7 Aug 1887 Sunday. Minnie and I walked up to the Railway Station. We saw the train off and came back across the new railway bridge across the Lachlan River.
8 Aug 1887 George Hurst and I ground all the tools to take to Bang Bang. I went to a sale of Jacobs in the Bank Chambers. Selling P Murray’s goods on the sly.
9 Aug 1887 George Hurst and I went in the train to Koorawatha to build a kitchen at the Hotel for Samuel Lydiard. W P Costello keeps the Hotel.
10 Aug 1887 Commenced to square posts for the kitchen.
11 Aug 1887 Squaring posts. George Collins came to build a chimney to the kitchen.
12 Aug 1887 Raining all day.
13 Aug 1887 Raining. We did some work. Hurst went to Cowra. Collins went home.
14 Aug 1887 I walked up to the waterfall and up Blackett’s Creek two miles. Got back at dark.
15 Aug 1887 George Hurst came from Cowra in the train this morning. We commenced work. Collins came.
16/19 Aug 87 Working at the kitchen.
20 Aug 1887 George Hurst went to Cowra with the Singer Sewing Machine men in their waggonette.
21 Aug 1887 Sunday. I walked up the right hand creek. I got a fossil in the creek.
22/24 Aug 87 Working at the kitchen. Young Show.
25 Aug 1887 We finished the kitchen by 8 o’clock. George Hurst took the tools and went by train to Cowra. I stayed to do some prospecting for coal up the right hand creek. I rode out with W P Costello up Blackett’s Creek. He took some rations to sleeper-getters. We took a good round (route) coming back. Ground very boggy.
26 Aug 1887 I walked up the right hand creek. I found some ironstone in a bed of pipeclay at the head of one of the left hand branches.
27 Aug 1887 Went up the left hand creek. Commenced to rain. Had to come back.
28 Aug 1887 Sunday. I came to Cowra in the train.
29 Aug 1887 George Hurst and I commenced to put up a stable for Robert Daly’s Australian Hotel. Cloudy. Thunder and lightning.
30 Aug 1887 Working at the stable.
31 Aug 1887 Half day. Raining all the morning.
1/3 Sep 1887 Working at Daly’s stable. Cold.
4 Sep 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the new Railway Station. It is nearly completed.
5/10 Sep 87 Working at the stable.
11 Sep 1887 Sunday. Showers all evening.
12 Sep 1887 Working at the stable. Catholic Bazaar on.
13 Sep 1887 I went to the Cowra Show. Bazaar tonight.
14 Sep 1887 I was on the Showground. Bazaar on.
15 Sep 1887 I went to Fishburn’s sale up at the Railway Bridge. Bazaar.
16 Sep 1887 Working at Daly’s stable.
17 Sep 1887 Working up to 12 o’clock. Hurst and I had some words with Daly. We packed up and left. The last night of the bazaar. We pulled down the tent at 12 o’clock.
18 Sep 1887 I got up at 6 o’clock and assisted to tie up the bazaar tent and put it in Schofield’s dray. Mass. Fine day.
19 Sep 1887 George Hurst and I walked up to the new railway bridge and had a look at Fishburn’s stables. H Hatfield is about buying it.
20/23 Sep 87 Hurst and I putting chairs together for P Murray. Paid rent for house on 23rd. Paid two bills to Francis.
25 Sep 1887 Sunday. I walked up to the new Railway Station. Light showers all day.
26 Sep 1887 Making a top for a desk.
27 Sep 1887 Painted the doors and windows.
28 Sep 1887 I got fifteen 20 foot battans from Schofield to make palings for the front of Ryan’s cottage. I painted the cottage next door that Hill is living in and half painted our own tank.
29 Sep 1887 I assisted George Hurst to repair a wagon at Umbablee’s(?) place.
30 Sep 1887 George Hurst rode to bang bang on my horse to see about some work to be done at the public house.
1 Oct 1887 George Hurst and I repairing fence in front of W Ryan’s cottage. James O’Shaughnessy left P Murray’s.
2 Oct 1887 Sunday. At home all day.
3 Oct 1887 Finished at Ryan’s cottage. Henry Ford’s sale at Howey ’s.
4 Oct 1887 James and I making a chair. Hill left the cottage next door. Gone to Young in the train.
5 Oct 1887 We finished the chair.
6 Oct 1887 I was sick. No work.
7 Oct 1887 Hurst and I ceiling and lining a room at W P Costello’s lemonade factory.
8 Oct 1887 We finished the room at Costello’s factiry about 4 o’clock.
9 Oct 1887 Sunday. Went up to the station in the evening. Saw the train off.
10 Oct 1887 Hurst and I flooring the kitchen at W P Costello’s factory.
11 Oct 1887 We finished Costello’s kitchen.
12 Oct 1887 Doing nothing. A Middlemiss sold Taragala to George Campbell.
13 Oct 1887 James O’Shaughnessy started for P Walsh’s, Kikiamah, riding the old piebald horse. No work today.
14/15 Oct 87 Making a folding chair.
16 Oct 1887 Sunday. Went up to the Railway Station in the evening.
17/20 Oct 87 Finished, painted and varnished the chair.
21 Oct 1887 George Hurst and I ceiled a room for old Mrs Robertson, and pulled down roof of an old skillion at the back of Oll’s shop. James O’Shaughnessy came from P Walsh’s, Kikiamah.
22 Oct 1887 We put the iron on the old skillion at the back of Oll’s by 12 o’clock. In the evening we went up to Fishburn’s final sale. At the new railway bridge.
23 Oct 1887 Sunday. Up at the station and saw the train away.
24 Oct 1887 Finished the skillion at Oll’s for Mrs Robertson.
25 Oct 1887 Hurst and I removed a partition for Mrs W P Costello at the factory. James O’Shaughnessy went by train to Sydney via Young.
26/29 Oct 87 Not doing anything. No work.
30 Oct 1887 Sunday. At home all day.
31 Oct 1887 Hurst and I making some furniture for Mrs Lane.
1/3 Nov 1887 Working at the furniture. Finished.
4 Nov 1887 No work.
5 Nov 1887 Hurst and I made a door frame for the cellar at the Oll’s shop. I got 100 bricks from Donnelly. We made the opening and put in the door frame. Collins, the bricklayer, is to build up to it. Fine rain last night and raining most all day.
6 Nov 1887 Sunday. Raining last night. Cloudy all day. Kate Enright married to John Simeon, Blacksmith.
7/10 Nov 87 Working at Oll’s kitchen. Sports in Carcoar. The first passenger train from here to Carcoar on 9th.
11 Nov 1887 Hurst and I commenced to build a kitchen for R Daly at the back of the store, opposite his own place. A man named Ryan keeps this store.
12/18 Nov 87 Working at the kitchen.Finished.
19 Nov 1887 I went to a sale of Stringer’s.
20 Nov 1887 Sunday. I went up to the Railway Station.
21 Nov 1887 Not doing anything.
22 Nov 1887 Miss Byrnes married to a fettler on the line, went by train to Sydney.
23 Nov 1887 I was painting the roof of Mrs Davis’ house with refrigerating paint. George Hurst taking down the calico in Mrs Davis’ bedroom.
24 Nov 1887 I finished the painting. Hurst putting on the calico. We tried to put on the ceiling papers but we failed. We had to get Patterson to do it.
25 Nov 1887 I went up to Davis and repaired the front spouting.
26 Nov 1887 I went up to Davis. Patterson finished the papering. I put on the skirting boards. Commenced to train.
27 Nov 1887 Sunday. Sunday. At home all day.
28 Nov 1887 Hurst and I picked out the ceiling boards to do the cottage. Pam living in the cottage next door.
29 Nov 1887 Hurst and I took down the ceiling in Minnie’s bedroom and put it up again. Sanson carted the boards. Paid 3/-
30 Nov 1887 Hurst and I put up the ceiling in our parlour and put on as coat of boiled (sic) on both ceilings.
1 Dec 1887 Hurst and I ceiled one room in the cottage next door.
2 Dec 1887 Great rain from 9 to 12 o’clock. We commenced to ceil the next room after dinner. Bob Ford married to Miss Anderson.
3 Dec 1887 Hurst and I finished P Walsh’s cottages.
4 Dec 1887 Sunday. Sunday. At home all day.
5 Dec 1887 Hurst and I commenced to put up a two room place at the old railway station for a man named Warren. One of the fettlers.
6/14 Dec 87 Hurst and I working at the cottage.
15 Dec 1887 We finished the cottage at 11 o’clock and , paid, we took the halh past four train to Koorawatha, Bang bang, W P Costello’s.
16 Dec 1887 Hurst tight. No work. We have to line and ceil four rooms.
17 Dec 1887 Hurst niot alright. No work. Raining most all day.
18 Dec 1887 Sunday. Hurst and I came in the train to Cowra.We left our tools at the Koorawatha Hotel, W P Costello’s. Mrs Lane had a young son.
19 Dec 1887 No work. Hot day. Rain in the evening.
20 Dec 1887 No work. A trial of strippers at R Chivers, Back Creek.
21 Dec 1887 No work. Cloudy day.
22 Dec 1887 Making a table.
23 Dec 1887 I finished the table. Heavy thunderstorm in the evening.
24 Dec 1887 Sultry day. Commenced to rain at 8 o’clock and rained all night.
25 Dec 1887 Sunday. Christmas Day. Raining all day.
26 Dec 1887 Boxing day. Raining all night and most all day. Mary and Grace O’Shaughnessy gone to a party at Taylor’s.
27/31 Dec 87 Doing nothing. No work.
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- It is doubtful that this P. Walsh was related to the eight Walsh siblings who came from from Co Limerick in 1844 and 1850. This Patrick Walsh, also born 1810 in Co. Limerick, died 27 Dec 1899 and is most likely the one who married Bridget Kelly 1839-1912 at Molong NSW in 1859. They had at least five children – Thomas (1862 d. as infant), Sarah (1864-1895), Thomas (1865-1937) and Mary Jane (1871-1938) and James (1871-?).↵
- Grace (1867-?) had a son and two daughters with Herman Davis.↵
- Bridget Mary 1852-1935. Kikiamah is the property on the old Young Grenfell road. Her husband was Patrick Michael Cullinane. There were four children. Two male Cullinanes married two Walsh sisters.↵