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The FIELD Family Newsletter

3rd Edition, August 2000, Edited by Dorothy Cefarin
Reprinted here with permission

Welcome to the third edition of our newsletter, the response has been great. I'm eagerly awaiting your stories about your ancestors so come on lets share them. If you don't then this could well be the last paper printed.

An Email from Frank McGrath in America asks for your help. Quote: "Mrs Sarah White English, widow of James English, died in her home at Northside, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (1929). She was the last living child of Henry and Elizabeth White of Connellsville, descendants respectively of Captain Thomas Field and William Penn. I've looked at about 200 US military records of Thomas Field and none was a captain. According to "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopaedia of Fayette County Pennsylvania" published 100 years ago "Dorothea Day" was Sarah's maternal grandmother. I have hit a brick wall searching for background on Dorothea Day. I do notice there are Days listed in From A Distant Field. 92 year old Dolly Day Giles and 16 year old Sarah White are both listed in the home of Henry White in the 1860 census. My guess is that Edward Field and Dolly Giles are cousins and you look up a Captain Thomas Field in England when researching. After looking up the sight of "From A Distant Field" I seem to remember my mother and grandmother talking about an ancestor who they thought was the second person to sail around the Cape of Good hope to get to Australia. Sarah White English was my great-grandmother. If anyone know anything I would be most grateful."

ED: There are quite a few Days in our family tree, if anyone can help please let me know and I will pass it on to Frank.

The Lower Nepean Continued

Nearly 100 Years Ago (By Rev. F. R. Swynny)

It was a lovely morning in the month of November, 1840 when in company with Rev. Frederick Lewis, the Methodist minister at Windsor, James Rutledge for the first time drove over the ironbark ridges from Windsor. Everything was very new and grand, and pleasing so that the schoolmaster, who had recently arrived in the colony, was quite enchanted by the scene.

A triangular plain, about 25 square miles in extent, the fields were white unto harvest, and the reapers were busy cutting down abundant crops of wheat and barley. As they drove on to the little weatherboard Methodist chapel in the centre they could see on their left on the southern extremity of the plain, stood Penrith, at the south-western angle, on a beautiful elevation, was "Regentville", a handsome residence, the site of which was granted to Sir John Jamison in 1817. On their right there was a plateau overlooking the whole, containing the burial-ground, church, and parsonage, associated with the name of the Rev. Henry Fulton, M.A. Towards the northern extremity was the grant made to John Single, free settler, in 1823, by Governor Brisbane, on which he had erected his residence.

Looking towards the centre he saw a gentle elevation on which there were still standing the stone chimneys and other remains of the stockade where the convicts were domiciled when employed in cutting a passage through Lapstone Hill and making a road over the Blue Mountains to the farthest west. There for many years hundreds of convicts were kept as slaves under a strong military guard, there stood the triangles, and there, almost daily, was blood drawn from the backs of incorrigibles by the unsparing lash.

Looking around again towards the right, on the road leading from Emu to Richmond, he could see a neat weatherboard chapel, 28 feet by 16 feet, in good repair with a board over the door on which were inscribed the words "PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD". This was the Wesleyan chapel, but just on the other side of the creek is a dwelling house fronting the travellers, and another building attached to it. This was the first Wesleyan church ever built in Australia. The dwelling house is that in which Mr. John Lees lived and died. Both the first chapel and that one which the travellers saw by the roadside were the gifts of Mr John Lees to the Methodist Mission and both of them pre-date any Methodist church in Australia. Mr. Rutledge and his fellow traveller observed furrows in the paddock in which the chapel stood. Mr Lees had dedicated everything he grew and harvested to the missionary's table in Sydney free of charge. The story is recorded in the report of the Wesleyan Missionary Society for 1820. When Mr. Lees died his mantle seems to have fallen on his youngest daughter, Mrs. Forman, who in1840, was living in the house next to the chapel where she helped and fed travellers. Dinner over, a service was held in the church which was crowded with attentive hearers. To this congregation James Rutledge was introduced by Rev Frederick Lewis as the one whom he had promised them for teaching the young to read and for guiding the old in the way to heaven.

The little church stirred many memories in the mind of James Rutledge as he wrote in 1860 of his advent there 20 years before. In it the Rev. Samuel Leigh, first Methodist minister in Australia had prayed that "the little one might become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation." There Leigh's first colleague, the Rev. Walter Lawry, and the next to arrive, the Rev. Benjamin Carvosso, had from time to time "cast their bread upon the waters".

The first tea meeting ever held in NSW was held at Castlereagh on January 6th 1841. The chapel had become too small, and it was found necessary to build a brick chapel on a stone foundation. The people were not wealthy, but the money was raised by holding twenty-two tea meetings. Mr. John Lees and his friend Mr. Stockfish were the early stalwarts of the chapel.

On the road from Penrith to Richmond, a few miles out from the former town, the church built by the proceeds of these numerous tea meetings is still in use, and is one of the oldest Methodist church in continuous use in the state.

Our sympathy is extended to Jean Russell and Family at the loss of her brother Robert James Higgins who passed away on 25th March 2000. Robert was born on 7th January 1923. He was predeceased by his brother Leslie Frank Higgins who was born on 2nd May 1921 and died on 16th November 1985. Both are buried in the lawn portion, Anglican Section of the Forbes Cemetery. Robert leaves a wife Edna and four adult children: Susan and Sally in Sydney, Garry and Alan in Brisbane. Parents of Robert and Leslie were Frank Bathurst Higgins and Edith Mary Elizabeth Higgins (nee Day).

They are "Safe in the arms of Jesus"

Personal notices are most welcome in this paper. It allows those distant relatives to know what is happening and those keeping records to update them.

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Janet Priscilla Ann Randall

Taken from research done by Gladys Starr 1988

Janet was born at Lawsons Creek, Mudgee, NSW on 24th July 1868, the first of a family of seven girls and one boy born to George Randall and Mary (nee Niven). Her birth Certificate was witnessed by William Gawthorne and Mrs Rope, both of whom were related to the Randall family. The paternal g-g-grandparents of Janet Randall were convicts Anthony Rope and Elizabeth Pulley, both landed with the First Fleet on January 26th 1788. The maternal g-g-grandparents of Janet were Edward Field, a trooper in the NSW Corps, arriving with the Second Fleet on 28th June 1790, and Elizabeth Mitchell, a convict who arrived one year later with the Third Fleet on 9th July 1791. These families intermarried and are now dispersed throughout Australia.

Janet's photograph suggests a quiet, dignified young woman of the late Victorian era. She was not very tall probably about 5ft - 5ft.2", of slight build and black curly hair and large blue eyes. It appears that George and Mary intended their daughter should not be disadvantaged and, according to Janet's niece, Mary Smith, Janet was taught the crafts of a gentlewoman of the time during her early years in Mudgee, she was educated in music and the arts, and became a talented pianist and organist. Mary Smith writes: "As the eldest child she (Janet) was the "apple of her father's eye" and was taught everything that ladies of that era were taught. No free tuition in those days, all had to be paid for, and embroidery, oil and water painting, music (piano and organ.)"

Janet's great ambition was to become a concert pianist which she pursued with vigor and determination, practicing many hours every day. Her music survives. Despite her efforts, tragety and illness ended any hope of success as a concert pianist, although music in one form or another, appears to have been important in her life.

During the mid 1880's, probably 1884, George and Mary Randell moved their family from Mudgee to Sydney where they resided at Leichhardt. According to Mary Smith, Janet earned her living as a music teacher in Leichhardt. At this time she was also organist for the Leichhardt Baptist Church and her Bible, appropriately inscribed, was a gift of appreciation from members of the Church. The presentation note reads:
"Presented to Miss Randall from a few members of the Leichhardt Baptist Church as a small token of esteem for your labour of self denial as Organist for the past 18 months. June 12th 1887 "God is love".

Janet was then 19 years of age and was soon to meet two important men in her life. Her first love was a tall handsome young man named Elijah Olive but for some reason, not now known, Janet's parents did not approve of Elijah. Janet instead married Ernest Carter Frankland at Leichhardt on 23rd October 1895, and the couple made their home in Tamworth, NSW., where Ernest was the Manager of Hunter's Shoe Store. Ernest was apparently well-educated and at the age of 27 years, was well-presented, well-employed and the owner of a good deal of land at North Ryde. The preference for Ernest as a husband for their daughter Janet, by George and Mary Randell, might well have been the influence of these material factors.

On 22nd September, 1896, Jessie Mary Frankland, their first and only child (my mother) was born at Tamworth. The family lived and worked in Tamworth for several years until Ernest suffered a disastrous fall from his push bike and resulting head injuries. This accident had a devastating and far reaching effect on the lives of Ernest, Janet, and their daughter Jessie Mary.

Ernest began to act strangely and sometimes violent. It appears that he was not able to function as Manager in the shoe store, and Janet, probably indesperation, sent word to her mother in Sydney for help. Mary Randell travelled to Tamworth by train and took Ernest and the child back to the Randell home "The Oaks", at North Ryde. Janet remained in Tamworth and continued to look after the Shoe Store. Subsequent events proved that Ernest must have been very ill indeed, and probably needed careful medical attention. There seemed to be no mention of medical help for the unfortunate man. About June 1900 Ernest Frankland was missing from the Randell home at North Ryde and could not be found.

Quoting Mary Smith: "Then began a time of rain, about 26 inches - weeks of it. Frankland was found to be missing one day and never came home that night. Police and friends looked and search through the dense bush but no trace was found... Frankland was never heard of again...."

The Supreme court of NSW in administering probate on his estate in 1913, decreed that Ernest Frankland had died about "June 1900". No death certificate has ever been issued.

Elijah Olive was at this time in South Africa serving with the Armed Forces in the Boer War and word of Janet's predicament was sent to him by his sister. Subsequently he returned to Australia and was re-united with Janet.

It would have been impossible for Janet to marry again at the time of Elijah's return due to the mandatory statutory waiting period (probably then 7 years) following the disappearance and presumed death of a spouse but the events which followed suggest that Elijah and Janet probably lived at Tamworth on his return to Australia. May Olive (Maisie) was born on 21st March 1905. She was half-sister to Jessie Mary Frankland. Elijah Olive and Janet were married at Tamworth on 19th June, 1905. It is possible that the birth of Emily May provided a satisfactory reason for waiver of the statutory waiting period.

When their baby Emily May was about three months old Janet and Elijah, with Janet's elder daughter Jessie Mary, left Australia to make their home in Johannesburg, South Africa. An old photograph shows Janet holding the small baby, Emily May with Jessie Mary, about 8 years of age standing nearby, and Elijah with several mail companions grouped together in front of their home in Johannesburg. Janet had sent the photograph to her mother in Sydney with an inscription to say that the house was "their home". The family lived in South Africa for about two years during which time Jessie Mary was educated at a Convent School. Jessie Mary took the surname of "Olive" but remained legally registered as "Jessie Mary Frankland" under which name she was later married.

The evidence convincingly shows that Janet and Elijah returned to Australia about the end of 1908 and settled with their family in Western Australia at Victoria Park. There they remained until 1913. Jessie Mary passed an examination in music in August/September 1909 in Perth W.A. her certificate still survives. Probate registered on the estate of Ernest Carter Frankland on 17th February 1913, was granted in favour of "Janet Priscilla Ann Olive of Victoria Park Western Australia, the wife of Elijah Olive". The travels of Janet and Elijah are in part confirmed by the recollection of their daughter Emily May (my aunty now aged 88 years), who states that:
"When she was 8, Janet, Jessie and she came over to Sydney on 6 weeks holiday to visit the family.... and didn't want to go back so Elijah sold the house in Western Australia and moved into the house built by George Randell called "Grandell" in Shepherd Street Ryde".

"Grandell" was a large weatherboard house with an iron roof, with the traditional bull-nose roofed verandah at the front, typical of the pre-World War 1 era. It was situated well back and elevated on a half acre block with a little creek running diagonally across the front yard. According to my mother "Grandell" was built by George Randell with the help of Elijah Olive, specifically for Janet and her family. A chalk quarry was situated next door and was still working in the 1920's.

Janet and Elijah probably returned to Sydney about the middle of 1913. Janet was apparently starting to show symptoms of an illness which would progressivly incapicitate her. The nature of Janet's illness not clear, but according to Emily May, Elijah tried desperately to find a cure but without success. As Janet's condition became worse over several years, the Randells were concerned that Janet was not receiving the appropriate treatment and took Janet and Emily May from their home with Elijah in "Grendell" and took them to the Randell home in North Ryde called "The Oaks", no doubt with the best of intentions of looking after her. However a photograph of Janet with the elderly parents, George and Mary, showed her emaciated, frail and very ill. Janet slowly became paralysed despite the efforts of the Randell sisters who "all had a hand in trying to cure Janet - faith healing etc." Emily May was a victim of circumstances and "did all kinds of housework" for the Randell household as well as trying to look after her sick mother. Elijah was left alone at "Grandell".

The marriage of Jessie Mary to Thomas Moncrief in 1918 and the death of Elijah from pneumonic flu in the epidemic which killed thousands following World War 1, placed the ailing Janet and the young Emily May dependant on the charity of the Randell family. Only 14 years of age, Emily May carried the great burden of caring for her sick mother, a near impossible task for a young untrained girl, and one apparently recognised as such by her cousin, Mary Smith who wrote (for her mother) that: "Jessie (Janet) became an invalid and was nursed by daughter Maisie (Emily May)... a great responsibility for a 14 year old girl."

According to Emily May (told in her late years), her mother Janet wanted to leave the Randell home and go back to her own home "Garndell" but Jessie Mary with her husband Thomas, told of finding her sick mother paralysed and uncared for in her pitiful condition, confined to her bed in a small room at the back of the house. The anger felt by Jessie Mary against the Randell family in 1920 for their treatment of her mother, remained with her for her entire life. Jessie Mary died in 1978 but she never forgave them and to my knowledge never once communicated with any one of the Randell family since 1920.

Jessie Mary took her terminally ill mother and young Emily May to the home she and Thomas Moncrief had established with their young son in Lynton Avenue Ryde.

Emily May was sent to college to learn office work, and Janet was given some care and comfort in her final year. Janet was completely paralysed for some time before her death, her only movement was the ability to blink one eye lid which she used as her means of communication. (My mother said 2 blinks meant "yes" and 1 blink meant "no"). Janet could not speak or swallow and was spoon fed with milk by allowing the fluid to run down her throat. Despite this difficulty Janet gained weight but suffered from bed sores. Her intellect was not apparently effected by her illness and one can only imagine the anguish she suffered in the final years. Janet's great misery ended mercifully when she died on 14th May 1921, at "Grafton" Linton Avenue, Ryde. The nature of her illness was said to be "Creeping Paralysis".

Janet's legacy to her daughters, Jessie Mary and Emily May was the house "Grendell" in Shepherd Street, Ryde and their great proficiency in the art of needlework, embroidery and crochet work, taught them by their mother, and perhaps to Janet of more importance, their ability to play the piano. "Grandell" was sold in the 1930's. Jessie May died in 1978 and surviving Emily May is now 83 years old. The are many descendants of Janet Priscilla Ann Randell who may one day read this brief biography. Perhaps this writing may preserve the memory of my grandmother Janet for the people she loved.
By Gladys Starr.

ED: The above is a very sad but interesting story about one of our dear loved ones. Do we have a Medical Practitioner in our Family that may be able shed some light as to what the illness is called in today's terms? Please let me know as people may like to know about the different illnesses our predecessors suffered as many

A big THANK YOU to Juliette Palmer-Frederick for permission to print the story The Ghost Of The Woman in Black from her book Romancing The Inns On The Western Road. Also you can look up History Highway Inns, which tells all about the old hotels between Emu Plains and Hartley on the web.

The Ghost of the Woman in Black

The legend of the Ghost of the Woman in Black started after the murder of Caroline Collits, the young wife of William Collits. She was only 17 years of age, the daughter of the infamous innkeeper, William James, who had been charged with assisting his wife to commit suicide at the Woodman's Inn at Woodford. John Walsh was charged with Caroline's murder and on reading the court proceedings, the story unfolds in a most gruesome way.

It was the 3rd of January, 1842, summer in the Blue Mountains. William Collits and his wife, Caroline had been at Mr Kibble's Plough Inn at Hartley. William was trying to convince Caroline to come and live back home, they had not been living together for some months. His mother had died the year before and he was missing her. John Walsh, Caroline's brother-in-law, was at the Inn and told them that Mr Gardiner of the Scotch Thistle at Blackheath, wanted to see them. Caroline had been living with her sister, Maria and brother-in-law, John Walsh at Blackheath and refused to go home with William saying she "had plenty of money and didn't want any from him." Her sister was about eight and a half months pregnant at the time of this discussion.

In month passed, William had frequently gone to the Walsh's to try and convince Caroline to come home. He knew that Walsh had mistreated her on many occasions when he was drinking and running her out of the house. The trouble with William was that he was considered to be slow-witted. Despite this the Walshes were well aware that he was a Collitt and had substantial property. They badgered him as all his visits to give Maria five head of cattle. When they were married in 1840, William had brought Caroline and her sister to Hartley and his mother had given them some cattle to look after. Maria and Walsh were married and began to take property rights over everything and everyone. William also suspected what Walsh had "lain with his (William's) wife" was carrying on an affair with her.

They left the Plough Inn as there were no spirits, only porter and ale. Caroline still refused to go home with William and they went to Joseph Jagger's inn, The Coach and Horses (which became the Mt. Victoria Inn and is now Rosedale) in Hartley. Walsh had been drinking all day and was drunk when they arrived at the Inn. There was Caroline and William, John Walsh and Andrew Gardiner's stockman, Leone Howard. Leone called for a glass of brandy for each of the men and a glass of syrup of cloves for Caroline. Walsh wanted a second round but Mr Jagger's would not let him have any more as he was already drunk. Walsh took Caroline by the arm and said "come home with me, my girl. While I have got a home, you shall have one, and while I have a shilling, you shall have half of it."

They all left the inn together, they had stayed five minutes or so. It had been dark for about two hours and there was no moon. Leone Howard had gone his own way and Walsh escorted Caroline as they all three, Walsh, William and Caroline gone up the hill about a mile. Walsh asked where his wife was, he was told she was at Blackheath. By now, Walsh was very drunk and suddenly attacked William, knocking him down. Caroline grabbed Walsh's arm and said "Don't hit him." William jumped up and started to run, Caroline calling out, "Run, run or he'll kill you!" Walsh ran after him but William got away and didn't see him again until he reached the Gardner's Inn (The Scotch Thistle) and had been in bed for about two hours. There were a number of other men there and when Walsh arrived William asked. "Where is my wife?" Walsh replied. "Mr. Jagger's son and four men rushed me, your wife flew into my arms for protection. Jagger's son up with a pistol and struck me here (pointing to his face). Young Jaggers had stripped me naked. I was forced to run for my life, and stopped at the box where the soldiers are and borrowed a Government shirt." Walsh then went to his wife's room to bed.

The next morning at 6a.m. the driver of the Hartley to Penrith mail coach, midway between the top of Mt. Victoria and Soldier's Pinch, about 3 miles from Jagger's Inn, saw some clothes lying in the road and after them, a body. The horses shied and when Matthew got down he gathered the clothes and tied them in the shawl which was four of five yards from the rest. They were all separate, the trousers, next the waistcoat, next the shirt, next the neckerchief, then the boots; the body was nearly opposite, off the road, stripped to above the middle. He recognised the body as Caroline Collits. He covered the body. There were braces saturated with blood lying a yard away, off the road. The body on its back, the head very much disfigured and a stone smeared with blood and human hair adhering to it, found close to the body. The right temple was crushed, the wound was inflicted with the stone as it fitted the depression; there were several other wounds on her head. The body was quite stiff, and Matthews did not disturb it. After alerting the soldiers, the mail coach continued on its way to Gardiner's, when they met Walsh and William Collits. William said he was looking for his wife, and when Matthew Wall asked him where he had left his wife the previous evening, he replied "at the top of the hill after Walsh punched me and knocked me down."

Walsh then said he had been run away with and had to take a shirt back. Matthew called him a murdered and told William his wife was "up the road," dead! William went running up the road with a Richard Rogers, a bondsman, there were two prisoners from the stockade now guarding the body.

When William saw Walsh he accused him of murdering his wife. Rogers took Walsh to the Chief Constable of Hartley, Thomas Finn, at the Coach and Horses Inn and he was then taken into custody. Rogers warned him if he attempted to escape he would "knock his brains out."

Sergeant Jones of H.M. 80th Regiment, stationed at the stockade recalled that at about 11 o'clock the night of the 3rd January, the prisoner had come to the hut and knocked him up relating a story that Jagger's son and four other men had knocked him down and taken the woman Collits from him, and on hearing one of them say "they better cut off his head" he ran away. Sergeant Jones did not believe his story as he seemed to be roused from a drunken state, showing marks on his face he said were from a pistol but were more like marks from finger nails. He suggested Walsh should go to Gardiner's and get assistance, he didn't return. Walsh had presented himself without clothes and requested a shirt from the Government stores. That is what he was wearing when he returned to Gardiner's Inn, saying he had been set upon and stripped naked.

Subsequent witnesses absolved Jagger's sons of any wrongdoing. After all the evidence was presented the jury deliberated for about half an hour. When they returned they pronounced John Walsh guilty.

His Honour, Mr. Justice Stephen concurred with their findings and passed sentence of death upon the prisoner forthwith. The trial had occupied the whole day, up to past eight in the evening of Tuesday 31/3/1842.

Maria gave birth to a daughter who was baptised Eliza on 27/3/1842 by Father Michael Cavanagh.

John Walsh was hung later in the year at Bathurst on Tuesday 3/5/1842

There does not seem to be any record of where Caroline Collits was buried. It is thought that she was buried in the old Collits graveyard, but there is no headstone to be found.

And I wonder what happened to Eliza and her unfortunate mother, Maria?

After this sensational crime, there was said to be a 100 year curse placed on that part of the road. Many people swore they saw the ghost of the Woman in Black, saying she clung on to the back of the coaches or wagons after midnight in the mists of the mountains. Henry Lawson was sure he saw her and wrote a poem, "The Ghost at the Second Bridge". Even during the Second World War shift workers travelling to and from the Lithgow Small Arms factory were sure she had clung to the back of the buses on some moonless nights. Then, after 1942 there seemed to be no sign of the Ghost of the Woman in Black - the hundred years had passed.

Pierce Field. Fourth child of Esther and Edward Field II
Born: 5/8/1837 Died: 9/9/1916 and buried C. of E Forbes General Cemeters (GS)
Married: Sarah Sophia Scott, daughter of Mr. Michael and Mrs. Sarah Scott at Hartley on 24/8.1959

Biographical Data

The following extract appeared in the Forbes Times on Tuesday, 12th September, 1916.

Mr Pierce Field

A resident of the district for over 60 years, Mr. Pierce Field passed away in his 79th year at the residence of his son Mr. Josiah ("Toss") Field of the Orange Road on Saturday evening. The deceased had been in failing health for some years, but about a fortnight ago he was taken with a paralytic stroke, which hastened his end, and was the immediate cause of his demise.

The late Mr. Field was born at Penrith and came to this district when hewas about 17 year of age. For many years he was in the employ of Mrs. M.A. Strickland of Bundaburra Station but in after years he acquired property at Carrawobitty, where he resided for upwards of the last 40 years and where he reared a large and highly respected family, most of whom reside in this district. A sorrowing widow, who is ow in her 77th year and 8 sons and 3 daughters survive him, the sons being Messers Pierce (of the Bogan), Michael (Bourke), Edward (Queensland), Josiah, James, Joseph, Randolph (Forbes), and Hilton (Mungery). The daughters are Mrs. Arthur Scott (Forbes, Mrs. Tom Laneyrie (Forbes) and Mrs. J.Owens (Condobolin).

The funeral of the deceased took place on Sunday afternoon and was well attended. The remains were interred in the Church of England portion of the local cemetery, but owing to the absence of the Rev A J Gardner at Eugowra the service at the graveside was conducted by Mr. Clark. The funeral arrangements in both instances were carried out by Mr. W.E. Lithje.

Note:

The property Carrawobitty remained in posession of the Coward family up until the decease of Mr. Reg Coward (a cousin of the famous British playwright Mr Noel Coward). It was taken up by the Government in the early 1950's and cut up for Soldiers' Settlement dairying blocks, the residence plus a few acres of land was turned into an Old Peoples Home and is still used for that purpose today (1984) (PIW).

Mr. and Mrs. Reg Coward it is understood had no family.

No. 112706 Probate Office

Field, Sarah late of Forbes, Widow

In her will dated 10th February, 1922 Sarah Field appointed her son Herbert Randolph Field the sole executor of her Will. Due to illness Sarah Field was unable to sign her name and made a mark "X".

7/6/1922 Probate was granted to Herbert Randolph Field of Trundle in the State of N.S.W., Carrier, the sole executor named in the Will.

The testarix foed at Forbes on 14/2/1923. Estate sworn ar 124.0.0.

Forbes Advocate - 14th February, 1922

Obituary - Mrs Sarah Field

A very old resident of the Forbes district, in the person of Mrs. Sarah Field, passed away at her home on the Orange Road about 5 o'clock on tuesday afternoon last at the advanced age of 82 years. The deceased was the relect of the late Pierce Field, who predeceased her by 5 of 6 years. She was a native of Hartley, where she was married, her maiden name being Scott. With her husband shge came to Forbes about 52 years ago, when the Forbes gold fields were still going strong. They first went to live at "Bogabigal", where she remained for 5 of 6 years, and then shifted to Carrawobitty where Mrs. Field lived after her husbands death until about two years ago when she came into town. She leaves 8 sons and 3 daughters. There were 13 in all but twins died in infancy. The funeral on Wednesday was to the Roman Catholic cemetery, the deceased's remains being laid beside those of her father Michael Scott. Ref Father Sexton officiated at the graveside and T. Peasley directed the funeral arrangements.>

No. 18958 Probate Office on N.S.W.

SCOTT, Michael late of Carrawobitty near Forbes, Farmer, Dec'd

9/10/1889 By Petition. Admon with the power of Sale of the estate and effects of the abovenamed deceased was granted to Sarah Field of Carrawobitty, Forbes (wife of Pierce Field of the same place, farmer) the only child. Sureties. James McMurtrie Plasterer and William Effingham Jones Auctioner both of Forbes.

Interstate died 1/6/1875. Goods sworn at 20.