16/09/2026
Back with the History and have found some very interesting negatives. These negatives are kept in a freezer in the State Library NSW in Sydney and take 3 days to defrost to look at. I was able to turn the negatives into photographs and bring back some more history of our twin towns of Rylstone and Kandos. And amazingly these negatives were collected & provided by our old pharmacist Mr Edwin Potter from a variety of sources.
Portrait residents of Rylstone, 1919 /J.
Information provided by NSW state library
1. Negative
2. A Ferguson - son of a council employee, who had married a member of the Taylor family.
3. Cecil Brown- member of a large family, the mother of which died from pneumonic flu in 1918: obtained a bursary to Mudgee High School, but, on account of the impoverished circumstances of the family, had to refuse it and take employment with the local butcher, William Black.
4.Ernest Taylor - member of a large local family which included Mrs Ferguson.
5: Ernest Taylor, Par Quinnel, Cecil Brown
6. Kearney - member of a family which included Mrs Babbage and Mrs McKenna (both nee Kearney).
7. Snowy Johnstone - son of a local farmer
8. Tom Foodey - lived with his two sisters, Dorrie and Mona, lived with a maternal uncle, Mr Staff; both parents dead; well-known locally as an athlete and footballer; employed at Kandos: married Alice Fuller of Rylstone.
9. Reid
10. Wally Gillan - worked at Kandos, but did not originally come from Rylstone: married a local girl.
11. Doreen, Constance and Ina McLean - children of James Tuttell, drapery manager at Hayward’s Store: the family belonged to Queanbeyan.
12. Turner - a relative of the Sampson family & Will Quinnell
13. Ina Maclean - eldest child of Hector and Amy Maclean: sister of Jack, Mona and “Boy”: her father’s sister married a Dawson from “Henbury” on the Kandos Road.
14.Barney Yarrington - Employed at Kandos: cousin to McKenna and Babbage families, Rylstone: later conducted a general store at Rylstone; married Hilda Cooper, died about 1958.
