The Bishop comes to visit
Storyteller Tuesday Challenge: LOCAL LORE
Genealogy Matters Storyteller Tuesday Challenge: LOCAL LORE - Name a location for one of your 8 great-grandparents.
My Great-Grandmother, Susan Rose Payten, lived her early life at “Wingello Park”, near Marulan, NSW, a farming and grazing property owned by her father Edward Payten. Susan was born in 1859 and would have been a young girl dressed, in her Sunday best, when the following event occurred; the arrival of the Right Reverend Mesac Thomas, D.D., the first Anglican Bishop of Goulburn, NSW.
From The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle (NSW: 1864-1881), Saturday 9 April 1864, p. 2 (abridged).1
LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE BISHOP: ON THE BORDERS OF THE DIOCESE.
Thursday was one of the pleasantest days in our district that perhaps was ever spent in it by any of the numerous persons who shared in the enjoyment. At twelve o'clock, at noon, the clergymen, churchwardens, and many of the parishioners from all parts, met the Right Revds., the Metropolitan and the Bishop of Goulburn at Paddy's River, and escorted them to the boundary of the diocese to Goulburn, to a little temporary church erected at Wingello Park. By the time they reached there, the party was increased by other parishioners who joined on the road, and others awaited their arrival at the church. The Lord Bishop of Goulburn and the minister of the district robed and the service commenced, which consisted of the Litany, said by the latter…
Their Lordships then spent a pleasant half hour in inspecting the alpacas, which, by the kindness of Edward Payten, Esq., of Wingello Park, had been brought together in a paddock near the church for the purpose. Another pleasant half hour or so was spent in Wingello House taking light refreshment, when the whole party who had met their Lordships, and joined in prayer with them on the threshold of the diocese, accompanied them to Marulan, and would have gone to Shelley's Flats, where their Lordships were to stay the night, had not the Bishop of Goulburn kindly and considerately asked them to proceed no further, as they were already so far from their homes.
More about the alpacas when I write Edward’s story.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104609849?