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From: "Marlene Davidson" <>
Subject: Re: Hely/Kay
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:49:19 +1000

Thanks for the history of this place Gwen. On our bus trip Rosemary asked
me about Wyoming. Will pass on your notes, if you dont mind.
Cheers
Marlene
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From: Gwen Dundon <>
To:
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Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:56 AM
Subject: Hely/Kay


>This is not so much a question about family trees as a request for
>information about an early grave in the Gosford area.
>
>At the corner of the Pacific Highway and Renwick Street, Wyoming, is the
>grave of Frederick Augustus Hely. This gentleman died suddenly in Sydney in
>1836 while serving as Chief Superintendent of Convicts and his body was
>brought to Brisbane Water by boat for interment at his property "Wyoming".
>In recent years the grave has been restored and a railing erected on the
>sandstone surrounds.
>
>"Wyoming" farm took its name from the poem "Gertrude of Wyoming".
>
>Modern progress and development, in overtaking both the privately owned
>Wyoming Cottage nearby and the grave setting, changed a number of features
>of the old farm. The Pacific Highway was put through very close to the
>house in 1930, and after World War Two some subdivision took place on the
>eastern side of the Hely land. A huge Norfolk Island pine at the corner of
>the present Glencoe Ave was removed - this had been known locally as "the
>whipping" or "flogging tree" in the belief that convicts had been punished
>against the trunk. A stone building often called "the convict cells" but
>believed now to have been a garden house - although it did have what were
>probably cellars underneath it (near the start of today's Glencoe Ave) -
>was demolished in 1916 by the then owner of the property. Some of the
stone
>was used for additions to Wyoming Cottage. Major roadworks in hand at
>present have continued to change the face of the historic area.
>
>Now I have burbled on about all that, I come to the question:
>
>In the Children's Page of The Gosford Times issue of 21 Feb, 1935, a
>9-year-old boy from Maiden's Brush Road, a member of the pioneering Kay
>family, wrote a potted history of Gosford. In it he said "there was once a
>big vault built over in the bush where they put old Heley [sic] when he
>died, but they had to remove him to where he now lies....."
>
>Does anyone have an elderly relative who can throw any light on this
>possible relocation of the Hely grave to its present position please?
>Possibly a move had to be made during the construction of the Pacific
>Highway.
>
>The widow of F.A. Hely moved to Brisbane to live with relatives. She died
>in 1866 at the home of her son-in-law W.L.G. Drew in her 71st year.
>
>"Wyoming" farm took its name from the poem "Gertrude of Wyoming".
>
>Best wishes to all Listers,
>from Gwen
>
>
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