Refer Extract from 'Along the Windsor Richmond Road Book 3' - The Early Days of the Ezzy Family - A Story of an Early Pioneer Family, Researched and written by present-day members of the Family, themselves, which can be read online at Taylor & Ashdown Family Genealogy - Richard Skuthorp (13 Aug 1791 - 2 Jun 1880) and from which the following is extracted from page 72 :
...'On file at the Archives Office of N.S.W. is a letter which was forwarded from the Commandant of the Newcastle Gaol to the Governor in Sydney, advising him that on the 5th May 1816 a school had been formed for the poor children of that Settlement who were under his direction and that there were now seventeen children at the said school. Two of the pupils whom he named in the letter where William Irwin aged 7 and Catherine Irwin aged 4, so Ormsby had taken his children with him'......
Catherine Irwin |
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