Galong cemetery. Established by Ned Ryan in 1838. His headstone and that of his wife. Behind some of the Rusconi carved marble headstones of Ned's ancestors. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Galong cemetery. Established by Ned Ryan in 1838. His headstone and that of his wife. Behind some of the Rusconi carved marble headstones of Ned's ancestors. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Galong. The amazing story of Galong begins with Ned (Edward) Ryan one of the 14 convicted Irishmen transported to Sydney for attacking the infirmary in Clonoulty Tipperary in 1815. Ryan was assigned to an Irish ex-convict James Meehan who had been emancipated in 1805 and who had become a land owner himself. Ryan spent most of his time from 1816 to 1825 assigned to Meehan who had land near Goulburn. Ned received his ticket-of-leave (like parole) in 1825 as he was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. He stayed on as a property manager for James Meehan’s son near Goulburn. Ned received his certificate of freedom in 1830 and it is displayed in the Redemptorist monastery. Ned immediately applied for a free land grant which was refused despite his good record. At that time he was “officially” squatting on 50 acres of Crown land with 50 head of cattle but the reality was Ned Ryan had begun squatting on land at Galong in 1825 when he received his ticket-of-leave. He was an industrious and ambitious man. To work his Galong property Ned Ryan asked for 15 assigned convicts in 1832 and was granted seven. He received a further six assigned convicts in 1833 from the convict station at Goulburn. In 1835 Ryan squatted on more land between Galong and Cootamundra and towards Temora totalling 100,000 acres. In January 1837 Ned Ryan became one of the first squatters to pay the fee to have an occupation licence. By 1840 when transportation to NSW and the usage of assigned convicts finished some 62 people were resident on Ryan’s Galong property. He had given up his Wallendbeen and Cootamundra runs but he still had an extensive leasehold. In 1844 a run was determined by the government according to the number of sheep and cattle it could depasture so Ned Ryan then had four runs. Ned later had 14 year leases on five runs near Galong. Boorowa and Wallendbeen and on his Galong run he built a solid stone homestead. Ryan established one of the first Catholic cemeteries in NSW in 1838 near his homestead at Galong. In the 1840s and 1850s Galong House, later Galong Castle was renowned for its hospitality, especially to swaggies. They were provided bedding for the night and they left with generous supples of meat, flour, sugar and tea. Ryan’s son John Nagle and daughter Anastasia in Ireland moved to Galong in 1848 and their mother sometime after that. It is said that Ned had a “de facto” wife in NSW who was despatched from the property when his Irish wife arrived. Ellen Ryan died in 1856. In that year Ryan purchased 640 acres around his homestead as freehold and in 1860 he added another section to his original stone house which had walls up to two feet thick. Ryan’s Galong station comprised 41,000 acres in 1866 but he gradually transferred most of his lands to his son John Nagle Ryan and some to John Donnelly. Edward Ryan died at Galong in 1871. His son John Nagle Ryan died at Boorowa in 1888. In his will he left Galong Castle to his sister Anastasia during her lifetime. She lived with some of her Ryan cousins at Galong. It was she who had the chapel built with a priest’s room at Galong Castle in 1889. After Anastasia’s death in 1900 the Galong property of 800 acres was left to the Cistercians in Ireland or if they declined to accept to the Redemptorists in NSW. The Cistercians refused the offer of Galong Castle but the Redemptorists eventually accepted it. Anastasia’s cousin Anastasia Barry Ryan continued to reside in Galong Castle. After she died in 1914 the Redemptorists were more interested in the property. The foundation stone of the new Redemptorist monastery and boys college was laid in 1917 with its opening in 1918. The college and monastery closed in 1975 but it still operates today as a retreat and conference centre. Galong cemetery contains many early Catholic pastoral families and the headstones of the Ryan family are especially impressive. The children of Ned Ryan had statues carved in marble by noted Italian sculpture Rusconi of Gundagai. (He built the base of the Dog on the Tucker Box and built a 21,000 piece marble masterpiece in Gundagai.) Each headstone cost around £1,000. The cemetery contains the grave of Roger Corcoran, a first cousin of Ned Ryan, who was transported with him to Sydney in 1816. Corcoran settled nearer Boorowa. Corcoran is regarded as the first settler of Galong followed by Ryan whom he invited to settle there. Rusconi headstones were erected over the graves of Anastasia Barry Ryan and her brother Michael Lawrence Ryan the last of the family to live in Galong Castle. In the village of Galong the Catholics established a church, a convent and St Lawrence’s Nursing Home in the 1920s. It is now vacant and deserted with ideas of a drug rehabilitation centre to be established there. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-01-04 11:34:38 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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