The Allsopp & Barnes families of Murrumburrah

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A series of family history recollections

by Hazel M. Foley (b.1912)

Hazel M. Foley, 1929

1. Introduction

The following collection of reminiscences and images were provided by Roger Foley of Lismore, to the present compiler in June 2024. They primarily relate to the pioneering Allsopp and Barnes families of Murrumburrah, of whom Mr. Foley is related. Three reminiscences are by Hazel M. Foley, Roger's mother, and a brief one from Roger. Some of the individuals mentioned below include the following:

  • Allsopp, Frederick - son of Thomas Allsopp (1844-1919).
  • Allsopp, Harold - father of Hazel M. Foley. [Grandfather of Roger Foley]
  • Allsopp, Jack - brother of Hazel M. Foley. [Uncle of Roger Foley]
  • Allsopp, Ken - brother of Hazel M. Foley. [Uncle of Roger Foley]
  • Allsopp, Mary Ann (nee Biggs) (1845-1932) - wife of Thomas Allsopp. [Great-grandmother of Roger Foley]
  • Allsopp, Thomas (1844 - 2 February 1919) - the original settler and mill owner at Murrumburrah. One time mayor and landowner. Died at Mosman, Sydney. He and his wife had five sons and three daughters. [Great-grandfather of Roger Foley]
  • Allsopp, Thomas Plimsoll - son of Thomas Allsopp.
  • Barnes, Agnes "Granny" - wife of George Barnes. [Great-grandmother of Roger Foley]
  • Barnes, Bert - son of George and Agnes.
  • Barnes, Edith - daughter of George and Agnes.
  • Barnes, George Robert - original settler at Murrumburrah and store owner. [Great-grandfather of Roger Foley]
  • Barnes, John - killed by bushranger 1863.
  • Barnes, Laurel Bessie - daughter of George and Agnes and mother of Ken, Jack and Hazel M. Foley. [Grandmother of Roger Foley]
  • Barnes, Les - son of George and Agnes.
  • Barnes, Lillian "Nip" - daughter of George and Agnes.
  • Barnes, Nellie - daughter of George and Agnes.
  • Barnes, Robert - brother of George.
  • Foley, Bob - husband of Hazel M. Foley. [Father of Roger Foley]
  • Foley, Hazel M. (b.1912) - daughter of Laurel Barnes and Harold Allsopp. [Mother of Roger Foley]
  • Foley, John - husband of Narnie.
  • Foley, Narnie - wife of John Foley. [Grandmother of Roger Foley]
  • Foley, Roger - son of Hazel M. Foley.

The following are two summary family tree diagrams for Roger Foley, relating to the Allsopp and Barnes lines of descent. They do not include details such as dates. From the charts we can see that Roger is a direct descendent of Murrumburrah Lord Mayor and flour mill owner Thomas Allsopp and his wife Mary Ann; and Murrumburrah shop owner John Barnes, who was murdered by a bushranger in 1863. His sons Thomas and George then operated the famous Murrumburrah store of T. & G. Barnes.


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2. Reminiscences of Hazel & Roger Foley

The following reminiscences were recorded by Hazel M. Foley and Roger Foley. They include both local history and family history.

The Land of Golden Opportunities

Hazel M. Foley

Less than 100 years after Capt. Phillip arrived at Sydney Cove with a handful of prisoners and a small army to commence the first settlement of Australia, my grandfather George Barnes arrived. He started farms in the Bathurst area with his brothers who had followed later. Imagine the daring young men setting sail in a wooden vessel on a hazardous uncharted voyage taking 3 months or more to seek their fortune in a land beset with unknown dangers.

After travelling hundreds of miles on horseback searching for their Valhalla they finally settled in a pretty valley through which flowed a creek and surrounded by gently rolling hills named Murrumburrah. There was a rough road built from Goulburn along which they brought supplies of grain and provisions and set about planting wheat and tending a few sheep. The township of Berrima was about halfway from Goulburn and the Cobb and Co. coaches later stopped there to refresh and take off next morning with a team of fresh horses. It was here that my grandfather met Agnes a young girl whose father ran the store.

At Murrumburrah a homestead was built of wattle bark and mud which I will always remember as a very grand place – long low verandah across the front, 4 or 5 bedrooms, lounge, dining room, office, a long winding hall which all seemed to follow the contours of the land. There was a covered walkway from the main house which led to a vast kitchen, pantry and storerooms. From the kitchen door there was a short way away a partly closed in laundry with a stone to heat the flat irons, two very large coppers to boil the clothes, an anvil to press the sheets etc., tables on which to iron clothes and several tubs. Grannie Barnes - her name was Agnes - had married George and gone to live in this homestead where she had two sons Bert and Les and four daughters, Edith, Nellie, Laurel (my mother) and Nip the youngest.

By the time I arrived on the scene, Murrumburrah had grown into a thriving town with three banks, a hotel, a general store owned by my grandfather and his brother Robert, a School of Arts, jeweler, blacksmith, flour mill, solicitors, doctors, hospital, picture show and lots more. Grandpa owned most of the houses and the surrounding farms and orchards. My father and mother lived in a fine house in the main street along which grew peppercorn trees. Across the lane at the back of the house we had a paddock in which we always had a cow for Dad to milk so that we had plenty of fresh milk and cream and butter. Grandpa was the Mayor of the town and very much respected as the founder of the town. My brother Ken and I had great fun watching all the ceaseless activities of the town. My father, Harold Allsopp, rode his horse to work at Allsopp’s Silver Spray Flour Mills owned by his father.

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My Father

Hazel M. Foley

When my brother Ken was 15 and my brother Jack was 8 our mother died after an illness lasting several years. We lived in a large house called “Varenna” in Byron Street, Coogee, and our Granny Barnes came down to arrange for a housekeeper called Ethel St Clair, affectionately called Saint, to care for us all (she truly was a saint).

My brother Ken was a pupil of the Sydney Boys Grammar School in College Street and I went off to the Sydney Girls High School at Moore Park whilst Jack went to the Coogee Public School. Dad was a broken-hearted man and his mill at Concord West failed and he was forced to sell it. The employees of the mill were dishonest and he was bankrupt.

Dad did his best to keep the family together and after selling our beautiful home he rented a cottage in Sully Street Randwick for several years and went to work for the Grain Elevators in various country towns as a Government Supervisor. Saint was majordomo of the home and Dad came home most weekends. My brother Ken left school where he spent most of the school days wagging and going to billiard saloons with school mates. A very old friend gave him a job in his firm of chartered accountants. He was unable to cope with the pressure of work and mourning for his lost mother. He stayed home from work and spent most of the time in bed. Our doctor suggested he spent some time in Broughton Hall but he went from bad to worse. Saint became ill and we could not carry on too long in the house we rented in Randwick. I was working and Jack still at school when we both went to board with a work mate of mine and her family.

Dad was paying our board and still working mostly in the country. He was trying to change his work so that he could get Ken out of hospital. The Hockeys from Dubbo offered to take Ken to recuperate on their property – a wonderful gesture. I went to Dubbo for holidays and Jack stayed at Murrumburrah. Ken was a great worry to all – he went out on a horse and never came back for hours. After a search party located him still sitting on the horse with no bridle and the horse wandering at will. I felt that something had to be done for him so I contacted Dad and asked him to find a place where he could stay with Ken and meet me at Central with Ken. We took Ken to a boarding house in Coogee where he and Dad stayed together.

Meanwhile, Stevens, the father of a mate of mine called Joyce, at whose home Jack and I were staying at the time became very nasty towards Jack. He had a son about the same age as Jack and they, Mr. Stevens and son, appeared to be very jealous of the fuss Mrs. Stevens was making of Jack and Mr. Stevens asked me to find suitable accommodation for Jack. All the time we were there Dad was paying board to me once a week which I passed to Mrs. Stevens together with half my salary. Ken was a big trouble to Dad who was to put a new machine on the market.

I contacted Granny Barnes in Murrumburrah and she asked Nell and Edie to rent a place and keep the children together. This place was a small cottage in Mount Street, Coogee, and Ken, Jack, Aunt Nell and Aunt Edie and I went to stay there. The Aunts said that they did not want Dad near the place so I used to meet him every week to collect our board for Aunt Nell. Nell arranged to have our furniture etc. retrieved from storage but the piano was kept to pay for the overdue storage.

Auntie Edie was the only one who played the piano and she said she would lend me the money to have it sent to us if I paid her back at the rate of ten shillings a week out of my salary. That is how the piano was returned to the fold. It wasn’t long before Auntie Nell asked me to tell Dad to take Ken. Dad always used to say that the kiddies were better off with their mother’s family until he could stabilise himself financially. He was forced to put Ken in hospital again and later he got the opportunity of going to Brisbane where he took Ken. I don’t know what happened there but both Ken and Dad were in Goodna Hospital for a time.

Andy Hockey, a true friend, sponsored Dad to go to Dubbo where he stayed for some months until he was able to sponsor Ken to leave Goodna in his care. Dad got an opportunity to work in Dalby where he took Ken hoping to rehabilitate him in a country town. After Edie died she left Ken a small amount and he bought that block of land at Harden. Dad went to stay and look after him. By this time Jack and I were settled; Jack with aunts and working at Maritime Services and I was boarding with old friends, the Kellys, at Bondi.

I would like to say that from the time my mother died my mother’s sisters (mainly Nell) systematically, literally stole anything of value from our home under the pretext of “looking after it”. Silverware, jewellery, ornaments to say nothing of furniture and household effects. I could not say much whilst Jack was still staying with them. Fate or providence was not kind to Dad and I cannot keep but admire him for his cheerfulness in spite of such untold adversity. It is my opinion that GP, as we called Dad, acted well beyond the call of duty and in the best possible way in the most distressing circumstances and disregarding self-interest placed the well-being of his children first in his life. I guess he was too soft-hearted, forgiving, trusting and honest for this greedy world. Looking back in retrospect Ken was too sensitive, gentle and generous-hearted to cope with two hard-hearted, frustrated aunts. This is the true story as I remember it well.

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Murrumburrah

Hazel M. Foley

In the mid nineteenth century my grandfather George and his brother Thomas Barnes arrived in the colony of New South Wales. They travelled on horseback over a vast area South-west of Sydney and finally pitched their camp some 250-300 miles from the first settlement on the banks of a leafy stream which ever after was referred to as “The Creek”. The Creek was surrounded by rolling hills and it was not long before the brothers set about planting wheat and running some sheep. George built a homestead on the bank of The Creek and a station on some property some 10 miles away on the hills which the help of indentured labourers, which was called “Benmore”.

There was no road to Murrumburrah but a coach line started up from Goulburn when the railway reached that point. Some other members of the Barnes family followed and also were granted a property at Wallendbeen. The Barnes brothers built a store at Murrumburrah and on a trip by horseback of one of the Barnes brothers a famous, or infamous, bushranger called Starlight bailed him up when he stopped to open the gate and asked him for his horse which he refused to surrender and was shot dead. He was very well known and respected in the whole of the South-west and there were over 100 mourners at his funeral who came by horse and carriage from as far away as Goulburn. At this point I must say that bushrangers roamed the South-west in gangs and our ancestors very rarely tangled with them, but gave them what they wanted which was food and ammunition.

My grandfather George Barnes was courting a young lady from Berrima called Agnes Biggs who had been educated at a school for young ladies in Sydney. The wedding was held at Berrima and the happy couple settled down in the rambling homestead by The Creek with pigeon loft and a large aviary for birds and a talking cockatoo who lived in a big pine tree in front of the house. My grandmother (Grannie Barnes) who was raised in the English tradition made a beautiful old English garden and in time had 4 girls and 2 boys (Nellie, Edith, Bertram, Leslie, Lilian (Nip) and my mother Laurel.

The dauntless Barnes Boys set up farms and orchards and a bacon factory and employed many people who came from as far away as Sydney to work in the thriving little township and surrounding farms. 

Meanwhile news of the wonderful success stories reached England and the ears of Thomas Allsopp, a miller, who took the hazardous sailing trip and completely overcome by the beauty of the township of Murrumburrah and the surrounding district. He returned to England with glowing accounts and brought out his wife and family and mill staff on the sailing ship “[Thomas] Plimsoll”. His third son, Thomas Plimsoll Allsopp, was born on the long voyage. He lost no time in procuring land on which to grow wheat and a mill to make flour which he exported worldwide including England and America. Thus, “Allsopp’s Silver Spray Flour Mills” was born and the flour from these mills won prizes in the World Fairs for many years.

Thomas Allsopp and his wife had 7 children (George, Oswald, Lilian, Beatrice, Frederick, Thomas Plimsoll and Harold). Oswald Allsopp married Nellie Barnes; Frederick Allsopp married Etty Barnes (a cousin of Nellie); Thomas Allsopp married another cousin of the Barnes clan; Harold Allsopp married my mother Laurel Barnes. Four of the Allsopp boys married into the Barnes family.

When my father and mother were married Thomas Allsopp senior built a home for them in the main street of Murrumburrah and my father worked in the mill. When I was a very small child I remember my father riding a horse to work every day and early every morning he milked our cow so that my brother Kenneth and I could drink fresh milk. We used to love to drink a cupful straight from the bucket when it was all warm and frothy.

In my early days in Murrumburrah we had a house maid, a nurse maid and a washer woman who used to come once a week and bring a toddler and a pair of twins in a pram. She lived in the church hall and could not stop having children. We often used to see about fourteen barefooted children careering around the church hall yard.

The town boasted three banks, an imposing Council Chambers (my grandfather Barnes was the Mayor), a School of Arts, a jeweller, a café, T. and G. Barnes store, a chemist, a doctor, a hospital, a butcher and a Chinese greengrocer call Tim, who always gave us a handful of peanuts, and of course, the Silver Spray Flour Mills.

Two Foley brothers arrived in the town. John Foley was the manager of the Commercial Bank and he married a school teacher called Violet Black who taught at the Murrumburrah Public School and was my father’s teacher before he went to board at Newington College and learnt to play the cornet in the school band and various musical instruments. John and Violet Foley had 4 children, Eileen, Jack, Claire and Francis.

My mother, and sometimes father, spent the summer holidays at Coogee where we paddled and played in the sand and bought fish from the fishing boats when they returned to the beach. We also used to see the race horses having their morning swim from Coogee Beach. After a transition from horseback or sulky to motor bike and sidecar, my father sported a “Swift and Booth” motor car, complete with running board, polished brass headlamps and a strapped down bonnet. What a thrill, and we immediately took off for a holiday in Sydney, zigzagging up and down the mountains. My mother used to walk down the precipitous parts and we would wait for her at the bottom. At the bottom of every hill there was a ditch and in spite of my mother’s care it did not stop her from sustaining a broken nose when it collided with the wooden bar holding the hood. On arriving at Parramatta after many days and nights at hotels on the way we ran into a quagmire and the car refused to budge. We continued the journey by train and abandoned the car to be pulled out of the mud by a team of horses.

Safely back in Murrumburrah my baby brother Jack was born and two days later the war (WW1) was over and we all danced around a huge bonfire in the main street.

My grandfather Allsopp had retired and bought a house opposite Centennial Park. He and his wife then moved to Mosman and the Allsopp clan used to visit. After Grandpa Allsopp died his family were all left a fortune and Dad built a mill at Concord West. He sold his home a Murrumburrah and bought a house at Coogee.

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Kings Cross Floozies

Roger Foley

I recall my mother would remove her lipstick before visiting her father, grandpa Harold, who told 7 year old me, in confidence, to watch out for the floozies and tarts up the Cross who reveal themselves as sexually available with lipstick and rouge ... This proved very handy later on, as I knew what to look for.

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3. Chronology

The following is a brief chronology of the Allsopp and Ward families of Murrumburrah and the Roger Foley line of descent. Some early historical material refers to their arrival in the area during the second half of the 1800s.

* 1840 - George Robert Barnes is born in England and arrived in Australia aged 9 months. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Barnes.

* 1844 - Thomas Allsopp (1844-1919) born in England.

* 1845 - Mary Ann Allsopp (nee Biggs) born (1845-1927).

* 1859 - John Barnes and family, including George Robert Barnes, settle in Murrumburrah and open up a retail store plus associated activities such as bacon manufacture.

* 1863 - John Barnes is killed by the bushranger John O'Meally, one of Ben Hall's gang, near Murrumburrah, whilst attempting to steal his horse. Portrait below.

John Barnes (d.1863)

* 1865 - Thomas Allsopp arrives in Australia and secures a job at the Burrowa Flour Mill. He marries Mary Ann Biggs around this time.

* Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 26 August 1876 - The following Allsopps arrives in Sydney aboard the Thomas Plimsoll along with other immigrants: James and Priscilla Allsopp; Thomas plus Mary Ann, Elizabeth and Jessie; and Frederick Allsopp.

* G. R. Barnes - postmaster at Murrumburrah until 1877.

* The Burrowa News, 26 May 1877. Inquest into the death of Joshua Lowe. At that time Thomas was operating a public house at Burrowa which sold liquor, called the Queen's Arms Hotel.

Thomas Allsopp deposed : I have known the deceased for the last four or five months, but only as an occasional customer of mine ; he appeared to me in good health ; I saw him on Wednesday evening last, and for the first time I noticed him taking spirits ; It was noticeable on him, but he was capable of transacting business ; he left my house between three and four o'clock that after-noon ; he told me that he had taken dinner at W. Corcoran's ; he was riding a light bay or chestnut horse not half broken ; he had two glasses of gin at my place.

* 1877 - Thomas Allsopp purchases a flour mill at Murrumburrah.

* The Burrowa News, 23 February 1878. Thomas donates £1.1. towards construction of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Burrowa.

* The Burrowa News, 6 July & 9 August 1878. Notice of departure from Burrowa.


* New South Wales Government Gazette, 3 June 1879.

* The Burrowa News, 19 September 1879. Thomas Allsopp appointed a member of the Murrumburrah Cricket Club Committee.

* The Burrangong Argus, 17 December 1879. Thomas Allsopp speaks out against the construction of a railway station and refreshment rooms at North Murrumburrah (present-day Harden), away from town. He joins a committee to approach the Minister for Works.

* Australian Town and Country Journal, 21 February 1880. Thomas a member of a delegation to the Minister for Works for a tramway from Murrumburrah to Young.

* Cootamundra Herald, 17 April 1880. Thomas speaks at a meeting to improve facilities at Murrumburrah railway station.

* Town and Country Journal, 12 February 1881. Thomas serves as a steward and Clerk of the Scales at the Murrumburrah Turf Club Races.

* The Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate, 6 August 1881.

* The Burrangong Argus, 20 May 1885. Court report on case between Thomas and a farmer over the threshing of a wheat crop. Verdict in Thomas' favour.

* Australian Town and Country Journal, 7 November 1885. Inland Towns of New South Wales - Murrumburrah. Allsopp's Mill plus other prominent buildings.

* Cootamundra Herald, 13 January 1886. Account of the opening of the revitalised Murrumburrah mill under the name Commercial Roller Flour Mills, and description of new process; c.f. Town and Country Journal, 16 January 1886.

* The Burrangong Argus, 2 July 1890. Electric Light at Allsopp's Flour Mill.

* 1893 - Murrumburrah Council Chambers built. Thomas Allsopp mayor at the time.

Former Murrumburrah Council Chambers, with Thos. Allsopp / 1893 / Mayor insignia.

* Town & Country Journal, Sydney, 17 May 1905. Some Business Establishments of Murrumburrah-Harden.

Allsopp's Flour Mill.

The flour mill, known all over the State as "Allsopp's", has been in existence at Murrumburrah for the last 39 years, and has been in ..... suitable to the to the manufacture of a flour which is described as producing the "whitest and lightest" loaf possible; and, as a result of this careful selection of wheat, and the care and skill used in the manufacture, the "Silver Spray" flour is well, widely, and favourably known throughout the State. The business is under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Mr. Thos. Allsopp, who has been milling in Australia for forty years. His manager, Mr. S. L. Savage, has been connected with flour mills for a period of sixteen years, and the foreman miller, Mr. G. Killick, came from England twenty-two years ago to take up the position which he still holds. The volume of business is very large, and the mill easily takes first place among the industries of the town and district.

* 1915 - Hand painted illustrated testimonial from the employees of the Murrumburrah flour mill to Thomas and Mary Allsopp for their 50th wedding anniversary.

* Evening News, Sydney, 4 February 1919. Includes photograph.

Pioneer Flour Miller - Death of Mr. Thomas Allsopp

Murrumburrah Identity

The death occurred at his residence, 'Dalgety' Lennon-street, Mossman, after a brief illness, on Sunday, of Mr. Thomas Allsopp, one of the best known flour millers in New South Wales. He was born in England in 1844, and arrived in Australia by sailing ship 54 years ago. He was 21 when he secured his first billet here at the Burrowa flour mill. About four years later he went to Murrumburrah and purchased the mill there. It was subsequently re-built on up-to-date lines, and is now stated to be one of the best, if not the best, mill outside Sydney. Mr Allsopp was one of the first millers to install the roller plant, and he was always keen on securing any new ideas. He and Mrs Allsopp reared a family of five sons and three daughters, and they and his widow all survive him. The mill is at present managed by his two sons, Frederick and Harold. On May 27, 1915, Mr. and Mrs. Allsopp celebrated their golden wedding, the employees of the mill presenting them with an illuminated address. He leaves 22 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. One son is Major Allsopp, who was in charge of the German Concentration Camp at Holdsworthy for some time, and left for the front just before hostilities ceased. He is now in Egypt. Another son, Driver Oswald Allsopp left for the war in 1914, and returned home ill in November last. With him a grandson Driver Ernest Lucas, M.M. and Bar, also left in 1914, and recently returned home on furlough. Another grandson, Private Thomas Lucas, was killed in action. The funeral took place this afternoon at Gore Hill.

* Sydney Morning Herald, 7 May 1919. Probate of will of Thomas Allsopp (d. 2 February 1919).

Late Mr. T. Allsopp.

Probate has been granted of the will of the late Mr. Thomas Allsopp, of Mosman, flour miller, who died on February 2 last. The net value of his estate was £105,600, of which £31, 982 is represented by mortgages, £25,820 by war loan debentures, £13,755 by real estate, and £12,530 by cash in banks. The testator devised the whole of his estate to members of his family. The executors and trustees are Mr. Thomas Plimsoll Allsopp and Mr. Frederick Allsopp (sons), and Mr. John Arthur Campbell (brother-in-law).

* The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 October 1920.

* The Burrowa News, 8 January 1926.

Allsopp's Flour Mill

The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of Allsopps Silver Spray Flour Mills, was held at the Murrumburrah School of Arts on December 17th. Dr. R. D. Heggaton (Chairman) presided. The Directors' Report and Balance Sheet were presented to the meeting. A dividend was declared at the rate of 4 per cent., 6h the paid up capital, representing £2,020, leaving a balance of £230 to be carried forward. The following were appointed as Directors to fill three vacancies, namely:— Messrs. P. C. Julian, A. J. Newson, and Harold Allsopp. Mr. George Twohill, the retiring auditor was re-elected. The Chairman, and several others 3poke of the good work performed by the manager (Mr. G. P. Allsopp). It was through his capable business transactions and methods that such a handsome dividend- had been made, after the trying year passed through. The meeting unanimously voted to the Manager a bonus of £26 in appreciation of his valuable services.

* The Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate, 18 January 1932. Obituary of Mrs. Thomas Allsopp. Includes a photograph of five generations of the Allsopp family.

Mrs. Thomas Allsopp.

The death is announced of Mrs. Mary Ann Allsopp, of Kensington, which sad event took place on Monday last. The deceased lady was the widow of the late Mr. Thomas Allsopp, of Mosman and Murrumburrah, formerly proprietor of Allsopp's Flour Mills at Murrumburrah. The deceased lady had reached the advanced age of 87 years. The late Mrs. Allsopp is survived by a grown-up family. The sons are Messrs Thomas, Frederick, Oswald, and Harold Allsopp, of Sydney; the daughters being Mrs. Lucas, Mrs Broughton and Mrs. Howard. The deceased lady, who was of a very kind and charitable disposition was well-known and highly-respected at Murrumburrah by a large circle of friends, who will be sorry to learn of her death. The late Mrs Allsopp and her husband, went to Sydney to reside over 20 years ago. Prior to her marriage she was a Miss Biggs. The remains were interred in the Church of England Cemetery at Gore Hill on Tuesday afternoon. The late Mr T. Allsopp acquired the Mill property from the late Mr Miles Murphy in 1877, and met with great success. He died in 1919 and his estate was valued at £105,000. The Mill was subsequently carried on by his sons. We republish a block, showing five generations.

Back row: Mr. C. Kendall, Mr. Lucas, Mrs. Lucas.

Front row: Late Mr.s T. Allsopp, Late Mr. Biggs, Mrs. C. Kendall and baby, Late Mrs. Biggs, Late Mr. Thos. Allsopp.

* 1938 - Bob Foley and Hazel Foley in Salamaua, New Guinea, in 1938 before the war came.

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4. Images

Grandpa Harold Allsopp.

Grandma Laurel.

Grandma Laurel


Flour bag.

Laurel Bessie Allsopp nee Barnes, mother of Ken, Hazel and Jack.

Grandpa Harold Allsopp.

Laurel Bessie Allsopp (nee Barnes) with wicked sister Lillian.

Roger's father Bob with grandfather John Foley and grandmother Narnie.

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Last updated: 22 July 2024

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