HASSALL FAMILY HISTORY ASSOCIATION
Friday Overview - Day 1: 5 May
Friday activities include a self-drive tour of historic sites. Travel to Cobbitty, Camden and Narallen to see Denbigh, St Pauls, Hassall Cottage, and Camden Museum.
Attend the welcome reception at Phive early evening.
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Schedule
The first day includes a self-drive tour of historic sites. Travel to Cobbitty, Camden and Narallen to see Denbigh, St Pauls, Hassall Cottage, and Camden Museum.
Late Friday afternoon a welcome reception takes place at Phive, in Parramatta Square, with a Welcome to Country with Uncle Bruce Gale, and members of Parramatta City Council the evening at the Phive Reception.
10 am meet at entrance to Denbigh 531 Cobbity Road, Cobbity.
11.30 am depart for
St Paul’s Anglican Church (330 Cobbitty Rd, Cobbitty);
Hassall Cottage (101 Macquarie Grove Road Cobbity -Camden airport);
Organise your own lunch
Camden Museum (40 John Street Camden);
Old St Thomas Chapel (1A Wilson Crescent Narellan).
6 pm Welcome reception - Phive, in Parramatta Square
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“Denbigh”
The original homestead “Denbigh”, at Cobbitty, was built in 1818 by Charles Hook and purchased by Thomas Hassall in 1827. It evolved into a small village with its own school master, blacksmith, carpenter, brickmaker, producing wheat, sheep, vineyards, and orchards, and continues to operate as a working farm under Ian and Susan McIntosh, whose family purchased the property after Thomas Hassall’s death in 1868. Come on a self-guided tour of the garden and a guided tour of select rooms in the house, then through the pottery and stables to the hayshed for a Devonshire morning tea/coffee as guests of the McIntoshes.
Denbigh links:
St Paul's Anglican Church, Heber Chapel, and Cemetery
Friday afternoon includes a brief visit to St Paul’s Anglican Church and cemetery, resting place of Samuel Otoo Hassall, and other family members.
St Pauls links:
Camden
Museum (40 John St, Camden) Camden Museum, run by the Camden Historical Society, includes displays and historical information about the Cowpastures region where Rowland Hassall and his sons Jonathan, Thomas, Samuel, and James lived and farmed. Museum staff will be on hand to answer your questions.
Camden and Narellan
Other sites to be observed on this afternoon are “Hassall Cottage” at Macquarie Grove (Camden Airport), and Old St Thomas Chapel, built by Thomas Hassall at Narellan in 1839 (1A Wilson Cres, Narellan).