In finalising the research regarding Charles Simpson it became important to look a little further afield at an old stone cottage known as ‘Simpson’s Cottage’ at 64 Industrial Drive, Mayfield which was previously known as Bull’s Road, Waratah before the change of the area from Waratah to Mayfield North. There are conflicting accounts around theContinue reading “McNulty’s Cottage [Simpson’s]”
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Simpson’s Early Settlers at Waratah
The question posed in the chapter about Simpson’s sale of small portions of between three and five acres back in the chapter Charles Simpson – Small Portions Sale of Land at The Folly, Waratah, was why would Charles Simpson carve out these five small portions when he was selling the bulk of all his landContinue reading “Simpson’s Early Settlers at Waratah”
Charles Simpson – Small Portions Sale of Land at The Folly, Waratah
‘We arrived at a place then called The Folly now Waratah. The name given to an estate bought by a man named Charles Simpson, it was situated near the old Mill Padock which was a government grant to a man named Platt. He worked the place by government men who were convicts … We andContinue reading “Charles Simpson – Small Portions Sale of Land at The Folly, Waratah”
George Gray - Stonemason & Builder 