Chapter One

The Jeffries Line

Saddlery, Gold & Civic Life

1820s – 1903 Pitt Town · Bathurst

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