David Cormie arrived in the Pilliga region in the early 1860s to manage a property for the Dangar family. His wife, Charlotte Cussen, came from a family that had settled there in the 1840s. After their marriage, David and Charlotte had seven children; their eldest, William (Bill), who made this bell, was born in 1866. […]
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