Coonabarabran History Group Inc. in Coonabarabran, New South Wales | Genealogist
Coonabarabran History Group Inc.
Locality: Coonabarabran, New South Wales
Phone: +61 2 6842 5000
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25.01.2022 Coonabarabran History Group members were welcomed to Gilgandra by members of the Gilgandra History Group.
16.01.2022 Coonabarabran DPS Local & Family History Group members enjoyed a delicious lunch at Tibuc Cafe today.
14.01.2022 Coonabarabran As It Was In the Beginning Volume 2 is now available from our History Centre, John Street, Coonabarabran for $25, or posted for $40. The original book by Joy Pickette and Mervyn Campbell was released in 1983. Due to many requests for copies of the book Coonabarabran History Group decided to reprint the book. Joy Pickette revised the book and has added extra content to the original text and photos. Our web site has details of other books also available to purchase.
14.01.2022 Warrumbungle Shire Council welcomed the Coonabarabran DPS Local & Family History Group Inc. to the Visitors Information Centre with a delicious morning tea.
12.01.2022 Vale - Christine Walton Christine was in her second year as President of the Coonabarabran DPS Local & Family History Group Inc. at the time of her recent death on the 9th January, 2019. She was a conscientious President and a very keen member of our group. Christine willingly shared her vast knowledge of the history of the Binnaway and Coonabarabran areas. She will be greatly missed by us all and our sincere sympathies are with her family at this very sad time.
12.01.2022 Members of the D.P.S. Local and Family History Group are thinking of our Committee member Alice Erickson who passed away in Coonabarabran on 18/6/2018, aged 78 years. Alice was the instigator and first President when the group was incorporated in 2002 and stayed a member until her passing. Alice was an enthusiastic family and local history researcher and worked tirelessly assisting people with their inquiries. Alice was very knowledgeable of where to find information both online and in libraries. Alice also enjoyed the social aspect and excursions with the group. Members of the group attended her Memorial Service held in the C.W.A. Hall on 25/6/2018 and the internment in the Wark Family Cemetery at Idakabul, Coonabarabran. We miss you Alice, Di. Salisbury.
10.01.2022 Coonabarabran Local and Family History Group were delighted to be welcomed to the Visitors Information Centre on 17th May, 2019 with a morning tea hosted by Warrumbungle Shire Council. Mayor Mr. Dennis Todd welcomed the ten members in attendance and our President Mrs. Sandi Spackman thanked Council for their assistance in providing us with room for us to continue our activities. Mr. Fred Clancy from Council together with Information Centre staff also were there to welcome us. We will continue to sell our books which we have published on the Coonabarabran area and to undertake research on Family and Local History.
10.01.2022 D.P.S. Local and Family History Group members have been visiting sites on the route John Oxley took in the district 200 years ago. They gathered at the newly formed John Oxley rest area along the Baradine Road, 3 k. north of Bugaldi on 13/8/2018. Local historian and D.P.S. member John Whitehead explained that it was exactly 200 years since John Oxley passed through the area. More work is still to be done on this rest area project. A visit on 25/8/2018 was also made by members to the John Oxley rest area on the Gunnedah Road and to Goally on the Garrawilla Road near Rocky Glen, members were shown where John Oxley and his men camped near a spring. John Whitehead gave a talk on Oxley's travel's through the area. A lovely B.B.Q. picnic lunch was enjoyed by members and local farmers of the area. Dianne Salisbury.
10.01.2022 New books available on our website: ‘Coonabarabran as it was in the Beginning’ & 'Footprints in the Sands of Time'. Both $25 + $15 pp. Take a look in our Facebook shop (on the left) for some Great Christmas gifts!
09.01.2022 Our D.P.S. Local and Family History Group has moved our office to the Coonabarabran Visitor Information Centre on the Highway on the southern approach to the town. We will be selling our local history books and continue to research family history for clients looking for information.
07.01.2022 A visit by seven members of the D.P.S. to the Field Family Cemetery was made on the 26th May, 2018. This cemetery is situated close to Coonabarabran at Nandi and contains many graves of the Field Family and their relatives. The earliest internment was made in 1863 and the latest in 1921. There are six headstones and approx.17 unmarked graves in the cemetery. Details of this cemetery are listed in our book "Isolated Graves in the Coonabarabran Area".
02.01.2022 Congratulations to two members of our group who have been recognized by Warrumbungle Shire Council in the Australia Day Awards. David Rayner was honored with the Senior Citizen of the Year for his contribution to the community. Joy Pickette was recognized with the Cultural Achievement Award for all the time and research she has put into assisting people in tracing their Family History and for the work and effort in publishing many books about Coonabarabran. The group is delighted to have these two prestigious awards made to two of our members.
