C1860

Plan of the Parishes of Percy. Bruce. & Boyle, forming Portions of the Clergy & School Estates County of St Vincent N.S.W.

Mapmaker:

$A 750

Very rare c.19th parish map showing the ‘Church and School Estates‘ which comprised the three parishes of Percy, Bruce and Boyle surrounding the town of Braidwood, New South Wales. The counties covered an area of forty two thousand, four hundred … Read Full Description

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S/N: NSW-46760-PERCY–228771

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Full Title:

Plan of the Parishes of Percy. Bruce. & Boyle, forming Portions of the Clergy & School Estates County of St Vincent N.S.W.

Date:

C1860

Mapmaker:

James Larner (1808 - 1886)

Condition:

In good condition, with folds as issued.

Technique:

Hand coloured lithograph.

Image Size:

285mm

x 420mm

Paper Size:

450mm

x 490mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1860

Description:

Very rare c.19th parish map showing the ‘Church and School Estates‘ which comprised the three parishes of Percy, Bruce and Boyle surrounding the town of Braidwood, New South Wales. The counties covered an area of forty two thousand, four hundred and sixty acres. The map extends from Durran Durra Creek in the north, south to Jembaicumbene Creek and west to the Shoalhaven River. The area had an influx of prospectors after the discovery of gold in the 1850’s.

James Larner (1808 - 1886)

Larmer was an early surveyor working in New South Wales. He arrived in Sydney in 1829 on the Elizabeth, to take up the position of draftsman in the Surveyor General's department on an annual salary of £150, and an annual increment of £20 until £200 was attained. By 1835 he become assistant surveyor under Mitchell. Between 1830 and 1835, Larmer surveyed land grants, farms, allotments, reserves, roads, streets, coastlines, creeks, rivers, and ridges in what we know as greater Sydney, and in a wider area including Broke, Branxton in the Hunter, Brooklyn, Mangrove Creek, Broken Bay and Pittwater around the Hawkesbury River, and further afield, the Abercrombie, Campbell, Belubela, Bell, and Macquarie Rivers. In 1840 he was responsible for surveying the line of the road from Nerriga to Jervis Bay (Vincentia). The portion of the road in this area runs from the Princes Highway just north of Bewong, past Basin View to St Georges Basin, and on to Vincentia. In 1835 he was appointed on Major Thomas Mitchell, the Surveyor General, second expedition to prove that the Darling River flowed into the Murray.

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