Chapter One
The Jeffries Line
Saddlery, Gold & Civic Life
A blind master saddler on George Street, a gold-rush town rising around him, and the origins of a family that would anchor the Central West.
In the writing
This chapter is still being gathered
Archibald Joseph Jeffries and Mary Jane Mills cross the Blue Mountains to build a saddlery and a name in booming Bathurst. As records are drawn together, its story will be told here in full.
Read the Robens chapter instead