Sarah Ann Francois
Meet my next project. Her name is Sarah Ann Hanscombe. I know zero about her other than a quick look at an ancestry tree that had this photo. Let the journey begin.
Michael Cotter & Family Bailed Up
On the evening of 19th March 1857 a travelling hawker set up camp beside a creek near Michael Cotter's hut. Michael Cotter worked as a shepherd and caretaker of Mrs Gibson's Taylor Creek property near Wallah Wallah and was still away from the hut at the time. At home was his wife and children. While sitting on a log, the hawker, Mr Thomas Kerr was approached by three men with blackened faces one who drew a double barrelled shotgun and another who drew a double barrelled pistol on him. Kerr was forced into the hut with the family while his dray was emptied of it's money till and a number of expensive items of clothing and cutlery. He was told to stay in the hut for half an hour and not raise the alarm to give the bushrangers time to escape, but it was then that Michael Cotter and a companion arrived home where they too were forced into the hut with the threat that they would "blow (his) brains out" should he look at them closely. In the morning Cotter helped ...
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