• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH004239

Papers of Janet Cosh

  • Repository State Library of New South Wales
  • Reference MLMSS 9534/Boxes 145-151
  • Description

    Handwritten notes, press clippings, small local histories, reports and copies of journals (e.g. RAHS Journal) re Nepean area, Picton, Kangaroo Valley, Moss Vale, Goulburn, Illawarra and Liverpool. Folder regarding Janet Cosh and her family, including family photographs and copies of her obituary (boxes 145-148); Janet Cosh research material including: 15 issues and 1 folder of issues of the ‘Canberra Historical Journal’, 1960s-1970s. Handwritten diary, 28 May-20 September 1841, written by a clergyman called Furse who was a relation of Cosh’s step-grandfather’s mother. Given to Cosh who passed it on to Caroline Simpson because of interesting information it contains about Parramatta. Folder of typescript carbons, possibly chapters from a book, all relating to early European settlement in the Monaro, Illawara and the South Coast, Bowral-Canberra area. Exercise book containing copies Cosh made of Cosh family letters (boxes 149-151).

Related entries


  • Primary
    • Cosh, Janet Louise (1901 - 1989)