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02. Mary Ann West (1830-1909)
Elias and William Astill were in the Western district, so they set out to join them. Susannah had a baby whom she named after Mary. They were fortunate enough to hire the services of a team- ster with a three-horse dray. The first day’s journey brought them to Parra- matta. At length they reached the small town of Bathurst. From Bathurst they travelled to Guyong, where they were met by Elias Astill with a dray drawn by four bullocks. In the gully to the eastern side of the present showground, they erected a slab hut that was 10 feet by 12 feet and roofed with bark.
John West and Mary Astill were married at Carcoar with the consent of friends on 14 November 1848. They
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must have begun their married life in Molong, where Jane was born in 1850 and William in 1851. Jane married Johan Solling. William married Winifred Jane Brennan on 23 January 1882, in Holy Trinity Church in Orange. They had 15 children altogether. Edwin and a twin were born in 1867. Edwin went on to become a schoolmaster and scoutmaster.
William was the first licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel in Orange in 1885, and Willie Edwin was born there. William was later licensee of the Great Western Hotel and the Club Hotel (now Hotel Canobolas). From there he moved to Balmoral at Canobolas and later to Caernarvon.
Willie was born on 24 March 1886, and Harold John Arthur ( Jack) on 24 March 1892. Bertha was the oldest, born in 1882, and she married Kevin O’Fla- herty. Ada (1884) married Edward Charles Sexton, and Amy (1888) married Hector Korff. Coffs Harbour was named after Hector – it was originally called Korff ’s Harbour. Gertie was born in 1898, and Eloise May in 1893, and they
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