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From: "Graham Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] Penrith Library's Research Room
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:31:58 +1000
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Hi Lorraine

I'm interested in Andrew Hore and his family who lived on the Ravenswood
property out Greendale way in the early part of the 20th century, and at
some stage owned (or leased or managed?) the Winbourne guest house at
Mulgoa. I believe that was before they moved to Ravenswood. My mother, a
grand-daughter of Andrew Hore, could remember visiting Ravenswood from NZ
around 1920 - in fact she and her mother were stranded in Australia for a
time by a wharf strike.

I'd be interested to know whether you have files on that family and the two
properties mentioned, and would be happy to visit and study any such files.
I did call out there a month or so back but you had just moved out of your
old quarters so it was a long wasted trip! If Greendale and Mulgoa don't
fall within your local studies area, perhaps you could point me in the right
direction?

Cheers

Graham Lewis
Lindfield, Sydney



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, 28 July 2008 8:53 AM
To: AUS-NSW-PENRITH-L
Subject: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] Penrith Library's Research Room

Hi all



The Library's Research Room is open for business again. The Room has been
recarpeted, and the collections reorganised. Council's Open Day is on this
Saturday. The Research Room will be open all day from 10 - 5 pm. Please come
in and say hello as I will be there all day.



Also, if you have something to contribute to our History of Penrith Project,
which I am writing for the Council, this will be an opportunity to do so. I
am generally in the Research Room every Thursday.



Our latest cataloguing project is indexing and cataloguing our Biography
Files. A search of the Local Files will find them. Currently we are doing A
and B. Each catalogue entry details what is in each family/individual file.
If you would like to contribute to our Biography files we would be happy to
add them to our files. Catalogue address is
http://opac.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/ - go to Local Area Search. A list of
names in the file is on our website at
http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?id=617



Other indexing projects include:

*Council's building application applications - circa 1935 - to 1950 -
inhouse index



*Land records - deeds, leases, land titles etc - we have
approximately 300. We can now search these. We have quite a lot of leases
from the Woodriff estate. - inhouse index



*Nepean Times - currently indexing 1898 and 1914 - on the catalogue



*Penrith Council's land valuations 1871 - 1880 completed - inhouse
index





Hope this information helps with your research. For the inhouse indexes -
please contact the Research Room 47327899 (preferably 2 - 5 pm) or email




Regards



Lorraine Stacker

Research Services

Penrith City Library






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