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From: Tony Moore <>
Subject: Re: CORINDA (Place) Near Kirkton
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 22:30:41 +1100

Dear Sheila, (with some help from Patricia May too)

I think this page answers your question:
http://www.walkabout.fairfax.com.au/smh/locations/NSWBranxton.shtml

It says:
Corinda is about one kilometre west of Kirkton Public School. This
property, one of the earliest in the district, was granted in 1824 to
Archibald Bell Jr, the son of a soldier and magistrate of some note in the
colony's early history. In 1823 Bell Jr, at the age of nineteen, had forged
an alternative route over the Blue Mountains from Richmond into the Hunter
Valley. A road was constructed in his wake. He was awarded the property
after a subsequent expedition into the valley. One of the first settlers in
the area Bell was also one of the first to introduce cattle and horse
teams. A horse breeder of some renown he built a two-storey house of
locally-quarried sandstone and explored the tributaries of the Hunter. His
homestead was later demolished and the stone was used to erect The Church
of the Good Shepherd at Belford.

Kind regards,

Tony Moore
(in Mentone, Vic)

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At 03:57 1/12/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Dear List
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>Can anybody tell me where CORINDA is, I have Walter & Esther MINNS
>recorded as living there in the Hunter Valley Directory of 1841.
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>Happy researching
>
>Sheila
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