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The FIELD Family Newsletter

The Field Family Newsletter was produced 4 times a year from December 1999 through to February 2010. It was excellently edited by Dorothy Cefarin, and contained historical images, stories, as well as information on the births and deaths of family members. Due to ill health, Dorothy is no longer able to continue to produce the newsletter, but has kindly permitted me to include copies for people to see on my website.

Initially I had toyed with the idea of simply converting the newsletters to .pdf files and linking them to the website, but then realised that people had given permission for personal details like dates of birth etc to be printed in the newsletter. While it might be OK for a small family-oriented newsletter to contain the dates, I don't think people would like them placed on the internet for everyone to see. For that reason the dates have been removed for births & marriages, leaving just the year.

There have been very slight layout changes to the newletters, and the stories and items will be re-ordered so they are more uniform i.e. Births, Marriages, Anniversaries, Deaths, Obituaries & then stories, but I'll do this after all 41 Newsletters are online.

In time I will also start to index the newsletters on this page, showing what each contains, as well as linking people mentioned directly to their family page on this website. For now, this is a work in progress, and will expand by a few newsletters each week or so, until the entire 41 are placed online for everyone to read.

December 1999
- Welcome
- Plane crash deaths near Oberon
- Frank Henry Honeysett - Death report
- Nancy Kendall Goodman (nee Randall) - Death report
- Matilda Ruth Walsham (nee Randall) - Death report
- Thomas Higgins - Information Part 1
- Interview with Rita Allison (nee Broom) about her childhood and that of her grand-mother Lydia Broom
- My Young Life by Dorothy Cefarin (nee Pirie)

April 2000
- Welcome
- Request from Brian Smith about Thomas Steven Higgins
- Eve Harris Fayle - Birth report
- Aileen Baker (nee Imber) - Death report
- Geoffrey George Rope - Death report
- The Lower Nepean, by Rev. F.R.Swynny Part 1
- Thomas Higgins - Information Part 2
- Joseph Stanton - Nepean Times article on his death
- Henry Gorman - Nepean Times article on his death
- Mary June Stanton (nee Matthews) - Nepean Times article on her death

August 2000
- Welcome
- The Lower Nepean, by Rev. F.R.Swynny Part 1
- Robert James Higgins - Death report
- Janet Priscilla Ann Randall (by Gladys Starr)
- The Ghost of the Woman in Black, by Juliette Palmer-Frederick, from her book Romancing The Inns On The Western Road
- Pierce Field - Information and article on his death
- Sarah Field (nee Scott) - Probate, Nepean Times article on her death
- Michael Scott - Probate

December 2000
- Welcome
- Preparing for our next gathering of "A Distant Field Family"
- Mary Ann Strickland - 91st birthday report in the Forbes Times 15/9/1916
- Josiah Strickland - Report of death in Forbes & Parkes Gazette, 1881
- Josiah Strickland - Early Forbes - Old Time Reminiscences in Forbes Advocate
- Josiah Strickland - Early Days of Forbes - First fences on the Lachlan in Forbes Advocate
- Joseph Strickland - Information
- George William Rogers & Mildred May Rope - Seeking descendents
- Tom Wynne's interest in many convicts

March 2001
- Benjamin Russell Byron - Birth report
- Sarah Elizabeth McKenzie - Birth report
- Bridey Grace Drake - Birth report
- Vanessa Moore requests some certificates
- Betty Pont has a photo album owned by Emily Adelizer Richards and lists some of the images already confirmed
- John Dick requests information on Thomas Higgins
- Edward Field & William Field - are they related?
- Michael Arthur John Crowe - Obituary
- Janet Priscilla Ann Randall - Photo from Vanessa Moore
- Address delivered by G. Bunyan, Esq, May 1953
- Mary Ann Strickland - Report of her death in Forbes Times
- Letter to Dorothy from Arthur and Daphne Byron
- Field Family Gathering reminder

June 2001
- Welcome
- Burial of Thomas Higgins - letter from E B Wilcox
- Thomas Higgins tombstone engraving
- Barry John Morris - Obituary
- Edna Sylvia Johnson - Obituary
- Interview With Condobolin's First Mayoress
- Maria Jane Innes - 100th birthday report
- Louisa Catherine Grey Innes - Photo
- Eveline Australia Field - Information, Obituary & Probate
- Joseph Redway Strickland - 80th birthday & Information
- Field Family Gathering reminder

September 2001
- Owen John and Blake Stuart Jones - Birth report
- Henry Alfred Francis Hutchinson - Birth report
- Dorothy Dengate asks about Fields Gully
- Information on Edward Field and Elizabeth Mitchell
- Hilton Raymond Field - Obituary
- Robert Ronald Field, Edna Sylvia Field, 3.Edna Kelso (nee Walker) - Death notification
- William Richards - Obituary
- Thomas Richards - Obituary
- David Broadbent - Obituary
- The Old Schoolmaster - Story by L.J. Blake
- Request for help on picture of Thomas Albert Field
- Mary Ann Stanton - Information
- McCausland Lamrock - Information
- Field Family Gathering reminder

December 2001
- Welcome & information about the Field Family Gathering
- Poems by Grace Schofield
- Arthur James Byron - Obituary
- Extracts from the life story of James Rutledge
- Pierce Collits - Information
- Life For Survivors of The Revolution
- Letter to Dorothy from Glenys Walker

February 2002
- Welcome
- Request for information on John or Thomas Steven Higgins & descendents
- Arthur Rutledge - Information & Obituary
- Extract from A LINE OF FIELDS by Laurie Field
- From the Australian Editor of The Upper Room - Gloster Udy
- James Collitts Field - Obituary
- At Vale of Clwyde
- Request from Ian Brothers about convict Ships

May 2002
- Daphne Gwendalyn and Peter Douglas Douglas - Birth report
- James Brown - Information & Poetry written by him
- Lydia Brown - Burial information
- James Brown - Burial information
- Pioneering of Methodism in Canowindra
- Tom Wynn - Learning is for life
- Extracts from letter by Mary Talbot to her Patron in England

August 2002
- Welcome
- Kobie James Trotman - Birth report
- Chelsea Rose Knight - Birth report
- Zachary Cooper Tait Moore - Birth report
- Daphne Norma Miller - Obituary
- Thomas William Morris - Information, Obituary & Family Tree
- Poem
- James and Maria Field - Information
- Edward Patrick McDonnell - Obituary
- Early Doctors by G. Hunt
- Ellen Maria McDonnell - Obituary
- Castlereagh Cemetery Information

November 2002
- Gordon Alfred Wilcox - Obituary
- Cemetery Trips by David Rawsthorne
- Audrey Staines requests pictures of Sophia Fahy (nee Field)
- Extract of bible owned by Phillip Stickland

February 2003
- Gregory Lawless and Julie Bell - Marriage
- Request for images of Lauristina Cunningham (nee Scott)
- Edward Field II - Will
- John Randall - Court Transcript
- 1803-2003 Bi-Centenary of European Settlement Penrith

May 2003
- Grace Anne Richardson - Birth report
- Emily Grace Catt - Birth report
- Kiara Lee Summers - Birth report
- Grace Sherman - Obituary
- Request for images of John Rope and Maria Field
- 1803-2003 Bi-Centenary - Report
- Susannah Ravenscroft - Information
- Elizabeth Randall - Information
- Lydia Broom - Information
- Joseph Field - Death certificate

August 2003
- Lynne Randall and Ray Smith - Marriage
- Bernard John Stephens - Obituary
- Leila Stella May Price - Obituary
- A request from Frances Thornton about her grandmother Lillie Thornton
- A Family Historians Lament
- Edward Field mentioned in William Cox's diary
- Letter from Edward Field Jnr
- Letter from Josias Strickland
- Letter from Edward Field

November 2003
- Ben Wynn completed Computer Science degree
- Collits Inn wins best regional restaurant in NSW
- Request for information on Sophia Field
- Ruby Evaline Oldfield and son Harley Weston Wood - Information
- Harley Weston Wood - Obituary
- Joseph Jones - Information & Obituary

February 2004
- Jarvis Cole - Birth report
- June Stephens - Get well soon
- Horace George Collings - Obituary
- David Rawsthorne pays homage to a distant home
- Alice Elizabeth and Victor Albert Williams'60th Wedding Anniversary
- Rouse Hill cemetery names of interest
- Wilberforce cemetery names of interest
- Strickland family in 1922 Forbes

May 2004
- Welcome
- Campbell Jack Knight - Birth report
- Cain Riley Edwards - Birth report
- Joel Lea Reynolds - Birth report
- Sean Mulherin - Obituary
- John Keith Hudson - Obituary
- Ruby Kathleen Olsson - Obituary
- Thomas Field & Caroline Collet Marriage & Information
- Grant Field - Information, Probate & Obituary
- Extract from Sydney Cove Chronicle, June 1790
- Scarborough - Ship information
- Extract from New Holland Morning Post - Last ship of the Third Fleet arrives
- Information on early Australian Marriages
- Address of Hawksbury settlers to Bligh - Letter

August 2004
- Thomas James Summers - Birth report
- Fay and Ronald Field's 50th wedding anniversary
- Poor old Farmer Brown has had a hard life
- A special poem for senior citizens
- Hilton Henry Morris - Obituary
- Ella Jessie Morris (nee Atkins) - Obituary
- Arthur Orton Field - Information, Probate
- William Field & Elizabeth Landrau (nee Randall) - Information & Land Records

November 2004
- Nellie Frances Lee - Obituary
- Albert Ernest Wilcox - Obituary, Information
- Lucinda Ethel Pitchfork - Obituary, Information
- Request for information
- Eliza Field - Obituary
- Gertrude Mary Ann Field - Information

February 2005
- William Jack Davis - Birth report
- Rogan James Edwards - Birth report
- Esma Joy Kelly - Obituary & Eulogy
- James William Michael Cook - Obituary
- Thomas & Pam McMillan - 50th wedding anniversary
- Lola & James Connellan - 50th wedding anniversary
- Letter to Dorothy from Kate Cunningham
- Request for information on Margaret McMahon
- Betty Elizabeth Sarah – (Dixon) Mitchell Field - Who was she?

May 2005
- Mark Robert Whitla - Birth report
- Jazlyn Judith Margaret Strickland - Birth report
- Benjamin Paul Field and Kathryn Lee Garvin - Wedding report
- Luke Jon Field and Jean Alana Farrugia - Wedding report
- Dorothy Ann Field - Obituary
- Brian Stuart Lamrock - Obituary
- Henry Field - Information, obituary
- Margaret Field - Obituary
- Sophia Scott - Information
- Herbert Marshal Beuzeville - Information
- Pearce Collett - Trial
- Mary Ann Jones - Death transcript
- Joseph Jones & Rachel Kelly - Marriage transcript
- Request for information on Joseph Stanton and his brother John Poat Stanton

August 2005
- Hilton and Nicky Field's Silver wedding anniversary
- Agnes Ganey Piercy - Obituary
- Jed Cole - Birth report
- Emily Elizabeth Worrell - Birth report
- Request for a few missing addresses from Dorothy
- Renaye Stevie Straton (known as Buttriss) and Michael Ian Knight - Wedding
- Frances Field - Information
- Origin of the name Elizabeth Dixon
- Leave sleeping dogs (or is that sleeping convicts?) lie
- Website move
- Great floods of the Nepean River
- CD on our Family Tree

November 2005
- Welcome
- Request for a few missing addresses from Dorothy
- Photographing graves - A how-to by David Rawsthorne
- Back to Derriwong - 2005
- Lola McMillan and James Connellan - Wedding article from 1954
- Thomas Stephen Higgins - Information
- Noah's rules

February 2006
- Gwen and Tom Agnew - 50th wedding anniversary
- Photographing graves - A how-to by David Rawsthorne
- The Nepean River Valley, It's History, It's Floods, It's people (Part 1)
- Just For Fun.. gardening

May 2006
- Riley and Cooper Knight - Birth report
- Bella Rose Summers - Birth report
- Thomas David Dixon - Birth report
- Margaret and Kenneth Knowland - 60th wedding anniversary report
- Gordon Neil Rawsthorne - Obituary and part of eulogy
- Mervyn Thomas Rawsthorne - Obituary
- Edward Field - Information
- The Nepean River Valley, It's History, It's Floods, It's people (Part 2)
- Extract from "As It Was In The Beginning" by Joy Pickette and Mervyn Campbell

August 2006
- Shannon Grace Molineux Matthews - Birth report
- David's new family tree toy
- The Nepean River Valley, It's History, It's Floods, It's people (Part 2)
- Pierce Collits - Information
- Mary Collits - Information
- Pierce Collits and Mary Watkins - Marriage report
- James Collits - Information, Obituary
- Extract from The story of Trundle - by Chas. Wright
- Extract from The Women of Botany Bay – Portia Robinson
- Unmarked graves in the Forbes Cemetery by Geo. G. Reeve
- Just a little funny

November 2006
- Ellie Louisa Greenland - Birth report
- Natalie Louise Ross - Birth report
- Request for a few missing addresses from Dorothy
- William Eaton and his wife Jane Ison - By Betty Pont
- St. Peters Church Richmond NSW
- John Field - Information, Marriage report, Obituary
- Eliza Field - Information
- Joseph Scott - Death information
- Edward Field - Death information
- Eliza Stewart - Death information

February 2007
- Request for information
- Elizabeth Alice Williams - Obituary
- First Fleet Memorial Gardens
- Joseph Scott - Comments about his cause of death
- Extracts from Book “The Macarthur’s Of Camden” by S.M. Onslow
- 1788 – The people of the First Fleet
- Sydney Morning Herald 1932 - Deaths of Elizabeth and Mary Collits
- Extracts taken from Forbes Advocate by Elizabeth Mc Rae.. 1968
- Michael Herbert Scott Field - Biography, Will
- Mary Jane Field - Death information
- Early Midwives of Forbes and Other Private Hospitals

May 2007
- Early Midwives of Forbes and Other Private Hospitals
- Michael Scott Field - Information, Will
- Josiah (Toss) Field - Information, Will, Obituary
- Mary Ann Field - Will
- Roses From The Heart - Bonnets made by Betty Pont
- Poem
- Early Lachlan Settlement - Winning essay at Forbes Show 1917
- Exercise for seniors

August 2007
- Alan Fisher - Get Well soon
- Grace Celia Sherman (nee Wilcox) - Autobiography
- Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal, July 19th. 1882
- Death of Mr. T. Richards (Unknown date on paper)

November 2007
- Daphne Grace Byron - Obituary, Eulogy
- Letter from Hilton & Nicky Field
- The secret to living longer
- Arthur James Field - Death information
- Jessie Ethel (May) Field - Death Information, Probate, Will
- Hilton Field - Death Information, Will
- Vera May Scott & Charles Lee - wedding notice Forbes Advocate - 17/6/1930

February 2008
- Ian Gordon Hickman - Obituary, family story
- The Jacky Bundaburra Story - By Colin James
- Me And My Shape (Poem)
- Life in the 1500's

May 2008
- Sarah Louise Dixon - Birth
- Bailee William Field - Birth
- James Rawsthorne - Information, marriage information, death notice, stories
- Joseph Edward Rawsthorne - Death information, Obituary
- William Aaron - death notice
- Rebecca Glauder - Death Notice, obituary
- Bundaburra Jack - Death notice
- Life in the 1500’s

August 2008
- Vivienne Olga Holland - Obituary
- Continuation on the life of: The late Mr. Joseph E. Rawsthorne
- Maria Louisa Rawsthorne - Obituary
- Joseph Edward Rawsthorne - Baptism information
- Arthur Scott - Death information (murdered), coroners enquiry, probate
- Arthur Roy Scott - death information (Son of above)
- George Field - Death information, obituary
- Frances Mabel Field - Information
- Patrick Magee - Biographical information
- George Edward and Emily Field - Family information

November 2008
- Request for help
- Mabel Elizabeth Magee - Information
- Albert Thurlow - Information
- Arthur John Collits - Information, obituary, Birth notice
- B A Collits - Obituary

February 2009
- Ellie Grace Olsson - Birth
- Days Of Derriwong - Extract from a book by Rhonda Bassett
- National Trust Heritage Festival - 4 to 19 April 2009
- The Good Old Days
- Williams & Nowland Reunion
- Malcolm Frank Lamrock - Probate notice
- Josiah Stanton - Biographical information, death notice, coroners inquest, baptism
- Joseph Kendall Stanton - Biographical information, death notice (suicide)

May 2009
- Jack Daniel Molineux Matthews - Birth notice
- Alexander Arthur Stone - Birth notice
- Joseph Kendall Stanton - Death comments by Colin Field
- Maria Jones - Information, Biography, death notice
- William Weekes - Information
- Edward Field - Information
- Thomas Albert Field - Information, biography, obituary
- John Field - Information, death notice
- Life in the 1500’s
- Lauristina Margaret Wunsch (Nee Cunningham) - Extract from a book by Rhonda Bassett

February 2009
- Like Dead Birds In A Cage - Poem by 11 year old Melissa Lockerbie
- Esther Lees - Information, biography, coroners report
- Pierce Collits - Information, death reports
- Joseph Collits - Information, relationship with Mary Ann Perry
- Thomas Perry and Mary Ann Perry - Divorce notice
- John Field - Shot dead

February 2009
- Jennifer Anne Doyle and Simon Cole - Marriage announcement
- Sarah Mitchell - Information, christening, death
- James Morris - Information, land transfer, death
- Issue of James and Sarah Morris
- Edward Morris - Obituary
- James Evans and Sarah Purcell - Marriage
- John Purcell - Information
- Headstones of John Purcell, Charles and Harriett Purcell
- Alfred Field - Death notice
- Ivy Edith Field - Death notice

February 2010
- Mr John Field's Death - Nepean Times, 25/1/1913
- Letter from Dorothy Cefarin
- Letter from Gordon Aitkin