Wollondilly Heritage Centre & Museum
Description
The Wollondilly Heritage Centre and Museum is a repository for archives, records and objects relating to the early development of the villages in Wollondilly Shire. Exhibitions on display incorporate these objects and include the stories of the early pioneers and how they shaped life in the local area.
Included in the collection are extensive photographic records, family history and local history, specialised collections such as Burragorang, Yerranderie and Coal Mining and indigenous history of the Gundungurra people.
Resources include:
- Family History Correspondence – 1989 to date
- Individual Family Histories: (e.g. Bollard, Cranfield, Chiddy, Chalker, Dunn etc)
- Local History Files
- Aborigines – general, local, politics
- Transfer of graves from Burragorang Valley to Camden/The Oaks
- Marriages, St. Matthew’s, The Oaks 1857-1869
- Marriages, The Oaks, 1948-1962
- Restoration of St. Matthew’s, The Oaks
- Baptisms, St. John’s, Cox’s River
- Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, District of Camden, The Oaks, Picton, Burragorang Valley
- Cemetery Transcripts , St. Paulinus’, Cox’s River
- Roman Catholic Church Properties- Burragorang Valley
- Roman Catholic Priests, Burragorang Valley, 1834-1954
- Schedule- Properties Acquired by Water Board, 1954
For further details contact the Family Historian/Archivist – Sue Davis at sue@wollondillymuseum.org.au.
