For those who will celebrate Australia day on Monday [At the Oval], spare a little thought about the following... The ground where the Oval and Tennis courts,fire Station, are located are on one of the two original land grants which took place in Martinsville [long before it was Martinsville],in the 1830s..... Moores sixty acres included all that land where the Martinsville School and Schoolhouse are now located and extended up to Deep Creek to the junction of Dora Creek which is located more or less behind the new fire station. An 1871 hand sketch of the land [as shown on pge 47 Cooranbong, Michael Chamberland], shows that this portion of land extended across Qwens Rd, until it met with Beadmores 100 acres.. The decription of the location of the land by todays standard would be a bit confusing in that, what was know as Deep Creek is now Dora Creek, and what was know as Dora Creek is now Gap Creek...These changes are shown on subsequent Parish Maps [Parish of Dora], which includes Martinsville, extending back into Cooranbong.. Sydney Dodds who purchased Mores 60 acres, is credited for starting a provisional School..The land where the School is now located was eventually purchased by the Government.....The following notice appeared in the Maitland Weekly Mercury Saturday 12 June 1897....Under Secretary for Public Instruction referring to letter presented on behalf of Mr. John Martin, of Martinsville, and stating that a com munication has been received from the Department of Lands in which it is notified that the Minister for Lands has approved of the permanent dedication qf 2 roods 22J- perches adjoining the south side of the Public School at Martinsville as an addition thereto. The District Inspector has been instructed to take the necessary action for the enclosing of the additional land with the school site.... An entry in the Maitland Mercury 1878, is a follows..Miss Dodd has, within the last week or two, opened a school at Deep Creek, four miles from Cooranbong, on the north-western side of the township, on the road to Wollombi...The location of this school where the present Tennis courts are now located and not where the present School Buildings are located......A provisional school was built at the present location and later became a public School. Sydney Dodds was appointed teacher at the Deep Creek Provisional School on the 1.12.1878, and on the 1.12.1879 apponted teacher of the Deep Creek, Public School...Sydney Dodds later taugtt at Sugarloaf School Mulbring, and Catherine Hill Bay School.... The following notice appeared in the Maitland Mercury 1880:Public Schools.-The undermentioned gentlemen have been appointed to form the Public School Boards of the Public schools established at the places specified in connection with their names respectively: Deep Creek-Messrs.James Maher, Denis Martin,and John Edgeton.. In 1895 the following notice appeared in the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate ...... Department of Public Instruction. Sydney, 8th May, 1895. TENDERS are invited for the Erection of a Public School Building (wood), MARTINSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL, near Coo ranbong. For conditions, see Government Gazette. Plans and Specifications may be seen at the School, and at the Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, where tenders will be received up to noon on MONDAY, 27th May, 1895. 95-442 J. GARRARD....... The school was only a Single roomed School; even in 1895 when a new School was built, it still remained a single room school....In 1923 an additional room was added..A report in the Maitland Dailey Mercury Reads [In Part].. MARTINSVILLE.....Saturday last was a red-letter day, in the seguestered valley of Martinsville, when the remodelled public, school was officially opened by the Hon. Water Bennett, M.L.A., who also unveiled a machine gun, which has been placed on the wall... The Machine gun was a WW1 Tommy gun, I remember it well, it was under the school building when I went to school at Martinsville, it was a great Toy to play with.. This entry will give the readers and idea of the number of students who attended the school.......... MARTINSVILLE...Steady rain set in on Saturday night and continued right up till Tuesday evening, doing a lot of good We have had a very cold and dry winter. An epedemic of measles has broken out here, and affects at least ten families........The attendance at the local school is reduced from 60 to 20. The epedemic is in a severe form.............[The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate (NSW : 1906 - 1954), Thursday 25 July 1918]... Beadmores Land. Owen Beadmore was Police Magistarte from Seaham, it would appear from entries ain various newspapers that he went to the Carcoar area when he left Martinsville.. His property of 100 acres, adjoined that of Thomas Moores and extended North to Deep Creek and to the West to what is now Geerings Lane, extending North and crossing over Deep Creek. The boundary then extended back in a virtual strait line until it met up once again with Moores Land..The 100 acre block also included that land on the South side of Wilkinson Rd, where William Bill Kildey and his family lived, and once again extended West to Gearings Lane adjoining the property of Bills father, Jack Kildey... One of the more colourful owners of Beadmore Land so it tseems was a man called Edward OGallagher, who according to Michael Chamberlains book [Cooranbong 1861-1996], built the present homestead,Woodside, which is now Heritage listed... An incident regarding Edward OGallagher is out lined below... Robert Patrick Sylvester, [ my Grt Uncle], purchased the property from OGallagher in 1906 selling it in 1924 to the Mashman family... Robert Patrick Sylvester,was a Government Contractor, building Roads and Bridges in the Lake Macquarie, Brisbane Water, and Hunter Valley areas... The property [Beadmores original grant],was recently purchased by the Cartwright family from the Morisset area.. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954),Thursday 18 December 1890.... WHITE WHISKY. For a long time past the residents of Cooranbong have complained about the peculiarly new and papery flavour of the whisky re tailed at certain hotels in the district, and rumour has been rife to the effect that a private still was being worked on a very ex tensive scale at no great distance. The police have long suspected this, too, and have been on the alert to catch the offenders. These individuals, however, have conducted their illicit business so secretly and shrewdly that they succeeded in evading the officers of the law, but for what period is not known. Yesterday Senior-Constable Aggett, of Gosford,and Constable Coghlan, of Cooranbong, acted upon a well-grounded suspicion, and came upon a still in full working order, at a place known as Deep Creek. They suc ceeded in arresting a man named Edward OGallagher, and conveyed him and the plant to the lookup at Cooranbong......This individual will be brought before the Cooranbong Police Court to-day. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/132656472?searchTerm=%22Edward%20O%27Gallagher%22& The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate (NSW : 1906 - 1954),Thursday 18 September 1919.. Martinsville. Who said Martinsville was behind the times 100 years, and no one to give a helping hand..The first settle ment of this place began in 1831, when two military grants were given to Beardsmore and Moore, consisting of 100 and 66 acres, respectively. Whether these men ever settled here is not drfinitely known, but in the early 60s the blacks had a camp where the school now stands. These grants are now owned by Mr. R. P. Sylvester, now a constructor of roads in the Gosford district, and Mr.Harry Hunter,a grandson of the late Mr. Jas. Walmsley. The old cottage is just now vacant, and is in the last stages of consumption, i.e., white ants. Blackberries are splendid croppers and will soon have charge. The site was known then as the Cleared Ground and Old Farm. Mr. Jas. Horgan and the Martin family took up their residence in the 70s, the locality being then known as Dora Creek, but in the 90 s the residents had the place re-named The Brush, and a short time after — about 1895 — it received the name of Martinsville, a name which should remind our folk that Captain Cook was born at Marton Yorkg. Many changes have taken place since 1880, but James and Daniel Horgan are still in the flesh, while Messrs. Patrick, Denis, and John Martin, and Mrs. John Maher (sister) are able to represent our pioneer, the late Mr William Martin. Many of the late comers have benefitted at the expense of the early settlers, but to the credit of Martinsville they have never needed any helping hand, but have fed the railway centres with their products, villi timber which grows to perfection on the Olney Forest Reserve Logs are sent from Morisset to Singleton and Maitland, Katoomba and Helys & Mullards mills to our own detriment. At last the local teamsters are think ing about renting local mill (which is worked somewhat irregular) upon the cooperative principle. Get a push on McDuff and are as follows. Get a push on and help yourselves Make your district what it should be — an industrial centre. Use brain and muscle. Work we want and work we must to overcome the huge war debt. New settlers are here and are of the progressive order. Help ycur local industry and raise the value of your homes. You have a dis trict equal to the best. We have supplied millions of sleepers for both foreign and State railways. We send piles from 60 to 90 feet to New Zealand and Sydney. We supply timber for house building to the large ceuties. Some of our orcbardists grow and supply the market with citrus fruits that command big prices, and I predict a boom in coal, and we shall certainly benefit thereby. Your correspondent forgot to mention that our Tennis Club has once more made a start. We are not behiud the times. Some of our residents have the sleeping disease. Wake up, ye sluggards, and get a move on. Your task is easy compared with the move the boys had in France. Welcome them back, and help them, and you wiil soon find you are reducing the cost of living. PROGRESS. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/167215969?searchTerm=Sylvester%20Martinsville&searchLimits
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