People
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Sarah Claydon – midwife, nurse and friend to all
Sickness was the true scourge of the pioneers, with diphtheria, convulsions, scarlet fever and measles often causing the deaths of…
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Bernard Brown: Milton Ulladulla District’s first policeman
Bernard Brown, ancestor of a number of Milton Ulladulla residents, arrived in NSW as a free settler in November, 1848.…
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A Milton ‘institution’, Matron Gwenda Porter
Gwenda Porter arrived in Milton by bus in 1940 and was said to have told the bus driver that she…
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A ‘hobo’ life in Milton
I was born in 1945 at the Old Milton Hospital from where my parents Leila and Elwyn (‘Tiger’) Anderson took…
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Milton’s ‘Angel of Mercy’, Sister Kitty Porter
Australian nurses served with great distinction during World War 1. Although they were often initially not welcomed by officers who…
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The Drurys of Glencoe
By the 1840s, the fertile land closest to the sea had been taken up. It needed a hardy breed to…
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May Kiely: ostrich feather curler, singer, ladies’ companion
No Edwardian woman of taste and fashion was complete without an ostrich feather fan, boa, trimmed hat or edged cape.…
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John Spurgin – teacher and unrecognised pioneer
John Spurgin, born in Hatfield, Essex in 1815 was probably the first trained teacher to reside and work in the…
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Disaster, despair, rescue and revelry
If you love a good horror story, did you know that Milton-Ulladulla has one its very own? Here are your…
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Coomee Nulunga
Coomee Nulunga was a Murramarang woman, born on Yuin country on the South Coast of NSW in the late 1820s.