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Yet, strangely, amongst the very few diaries and memoirs there was one which included passages relative to Hill End in this period - see Mark John Hammond diaries and transcripts, Bibliography.
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Holtermann Papers, Mitchell Library, Mss 968.
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Bernhardt (angl. Bernard) Otto Holtermanm son of John Henry (angl.) Holtermnnn and Anna Nachtigall. The father was a wholesale fish merchant.
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The brother already in Australia was Francois Auguste Holtermann. He is mentioned several times in the holograph and also officially as being at Root Hog-or-Die (a settlement on the Macquarie River, a little upstream from its junction with the Turon) as early as 1865 and at Hill End in May 1872, but there seem to be no later references.
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Muller's Homburg Hotel, then at 108 King Street E. He catered for German patronage by advertising : 'Deutsche Gasthaus, Deutsche Kinche.'
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Fairfield, on the Clarence River near Drake, was better known as the 'Timbarra Rush'.
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Ludwig Hugo Louis Beyers, 184? — 1910 born in Posen, Poland. After education at a denominational school, he come as a youth to Sydney. Here, after a short period at the drapery counter, he was 'stricken with gold fever' and leaving 'the yard stick and the counter' joined in several contemporary rushes. He appears to have been recruiting his health at the Hamburg during the summer of 1858-9. He located the reef which was to bear his nome in 1860-61 . It could have been his faith in this reef that led him to leave Hill End for extended periods prospecting other fields in order to maintain the claim; one of these absences was unfortunately during October 1872 when the great specimen was photographed, for his place beside the mass of gold was occupied by Alfred Bullock (the underground mine manager) who was his representative. On 22 February 1865, he married Mary Emmett, of White Rock, Bathurst. There were six children: Sylvia Helena (1868), Gertrude Harriett (1878), Oswald Arthur (1872),Letitia Mary (1874), Clara Victoria (1876), and Billvenah Clarinda (1881), all of whom were born at Hill End, where Beyers's cottage is still standing. His tastes were simple and all he asked of life was to live quietly amongst his friends. However this was not to be, for he was induced to enter politics, becoming M.L.A. for the Western Goldselds (1877-80) and for Mudgee (1880-82). About twelve or fifteen years later, he joined in the W.A. gold rush, but met with little success dying at Mt Morgan on 28 May 1910. The most reliable short biography will be found in The Hill End Story, Book 1. There is an entry in Australian Men of Mark, vol. II, ser. 2, Sydney 1889, but this contains a variety of inaccuracies.
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The settlement was originally reported on 3 June 1859 by John A. H. Price, as an unsurveyed area of about thirty acres containing thirty or forty houses, known locally as Bald Hills. It did not optimally become Hill End (sometimes Hillend) until 28 March 1862. The name Tambaroora was often applied to the whole area.
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Harold Walpole Archives.
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Holtermann Papers.
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The Marriage Registry entry shows that Mary Emmett was under age. Harriett was born 16 February 1846, died 7 July 1903.
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Mark John Hammond was born 15 November 1844, died 4 February 1908 ; Alderman and later Mayor of the Borough of Ashfeld, afterwards Member for Canterbury in the Legislative Assembly 1884-7.
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Krohmann's was one of the richest claims on Hawkins Hill. When floated into a company,
it returned the entire capital within nine months. Holtermann had early purchased a small share (believed to be one-eighth) and benefited when some. of the rich strikes were made.
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In The Hill End Story (Book 1), there is a calculation to the effect that, during the years 1871-3, companies were floated with capital totalling £3,510,000. The gold actually won from the ground in these years would be worth little more than one-fifth of this sum. The vast majority of claims were utterly without prospects, while, as for the promising ones, it was soon found that the richer veins were those closest to the surface and from these in many instances the worthwhile gold had already been extracted.
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The Hill End and Tambaroora Times: was established 5 April 1871 and ceased publication during October 1875. Only six copies now survive. Its proprietors were Richard Lee and Michael Sheppard.
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The two best are the photographs of Jenkyns's forge in Clarke Street, and Bray's Pharmacy in Tnmbaroora Street near Short Street (plates 58/53). The pharmacy was situated in a block of shops which Holtermann had built during the winter.
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The Hill End Observer and Tambaroora Herald was established on 17 April 1872 and ceased publication on 3 October 1874.
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Its proprietor was Edward C. Wilton and the first editor Frederick Humphries.The public hospital, after substantial restoration, is now the Hill End Visitor Centre and Historical Museum of the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
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Hill End Observer and Tambaroora Herald. Only a few clippings have survived.
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His Excellency kept a careful record of his speeches and eventually published a selection in a volume entitled Speeches by H. E., etc., Sydney 1879 (F 14999).
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Sydney Morning Herald, 24 March 1873.
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Australian Fool and Country Journal, 6 December 1873.
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Privately held.
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This camera was used by Bayliss in April 1874 to record Holtermarm's purchase of the Post Office Hotel and in August 1875 at the time of the funeral of Captain J. G. Goodenough, Commodore Commanding Australian Station, and for the Melbourne coverage.
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Although the structure was a temporary one it must have been of exceedingly massive construction, strong enough to inhibit the slightest vibration. Images obtained by telephotography are particularly susceptible to lens or camera movement, but the giant plates show no sign of such a weakness. The room measured 10' by I2' and its mere installation was a major undertaking. The southern wall had to provide for a variety of firm positions for the lens. It is likely that the massive sandstone pinnacles were planned to serve as anchorages.
- When dry plates, i.e. those of gelatin emulsion type, became manufactured commercially, the glass was 'subbed', or coated with a substratum to ensure emulsion adherence.
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My good friend and historian, the late H. J. Rumsey, told me that he well recalled playing football with Burlington. He also remembered seeing the great lens, which he said was about five inches in diameter. I am indebted to him for much information about the period; Amongst numerous other matters it was he who identified Bayliss's photograph of the landing of Commodore Goodenough's funeral cortège at Milson's Point.
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For further details of Holtermann's Ulcerous agencies see Bulletin, 22 May 1880, p. 3.
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The awards list in the official catalogue records 'B. 0. Holtermnnn, Large photograph of Sydney, well printed and joined, Commended, and Charles Bayliss, The Large View of Sydney is fairly executed, Commended.'
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Now in the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney.
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The tower-house was rented in turn by tenants Saddington and Chisholm. On Holtermann's death, the property and its eight acres of grounds were purchased by Sir Thomas Dibbs, who later (in 1888)sold the building and some of the ground to the trustees of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School. Over the years there has been a considerable amount of rebuilding and alteration; some of the renovations, by coincidence, were designed by my brother-in-law, architect J. K. Shirley. In 1934 the tower's earlier-style ornamentation was removed and the whole refaced with modern brickwork, while the window apertures were bricked over to conform with the general scheme. The stained-glass window was removed to safe keeping in the school library.
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Holtermann's death was registered by a brother, Herman Adolfe Holtermann, a dealer in butchers'
supplies.
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Holtermann's children at the time of his death were Franzesca Sophia (I4 years), born at Hill End,
Harriett Esther (12), born at Susanne Street, St Leonards, Burlington (9), Sydney (5) and Leonard (2). The first-born son (Bernard H. J.) died at three weeks on 4 February 1875.
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Personal communication.
The original GOLD AND SILVER plates were taken from the Holtermann negatives, Mitchell Library Sydney.