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From: Jackie <>
Subject: [AVNE] TWIST > McCULLOCH > GOLDSWORTHY
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:08:07 +1000

MARY GOLDWORTHY formerly McCULLOCH nee TWIST (1845 - 1924)

Mary McCulloch was a widow. She had five children and one stepchild by a
previous marriage. Her husband, Joseph McCulloch (1832 - 1979), had died
nearly six years previously and is buried in the Yackandandah cemetery. He
had caught a chill while digging a cellar in their home. She lived at Round
Hill, immediately opposite Richard Goldsworthy's farm. She was born Mary
Twist on 30th April 1845 on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, with the
aid of Aboriginal midwives. Her father, Jesse Twist, was a shepherd on
Billabong Station, north of present day Holbrook.

Mary's parents, Jesse Twist (1802 - 1861) and Hannah, nee Rothwell (1811 -
1859) had arrived in Australia in 1841. They were natives of Lancashire. In
late 1852, Jesse left his wife, then pregnant, and the family in the care
of his brother in law, Richard Rothwell, and set off for the Spring Creek
diggings. Within eighteen months, he was running a successful canvas store
and the family joined him. He then followed the gold to the Turon and other
places. When gold was discovered on Whisky Flat, about late 1854, Jesse
followed the creek and bought the first bullock dray load of grog into the
Yackandandah area. Then followed an illegal whisky still and in early 1855,
Jesse built an inn out of logs and called it "The Bridge Inn". It was
located on the junction of Clear and Twist Creeks, the latter named after him.

Mary's mother died when she was fourteen of heart disease and her father,
two years later, of Typhus. Mary married for the first time as a seventeen
year old, to Joseph McCulloch, a widower, with one child. Joseph's first
wife, Isobella Edmondson (1844 - 1862). had died in childbirth on the
Bendigo gold diggings, Unable to cope with an infant, the child was sent to
Joseph's parents-in-law, George and Mary Edmondson of Wooragee. Joseph
followed and it was here that he met Mary, a part time baby sitter for his son.

Mary married Richard GOLDSWORTHY 6 years after the death of her husband
Joseph McCULLOCH.


It is interesting to note that her son from her 1st marriage is the only
one mentioned on the plaque where she is buried at Kiewa Cemetery.

Mary Goldsworthy
Loving Mother of
Joseph S. McCulloch
Died 13.7.1924

Jackie
QLD

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