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Sybella & Henry Baylis of "Goonigul", Wagga Wagga

Sybella Murray married Henry Baylis at Mount Lambie when he was Clerk of Petty Sessions at Hartley on 29 Jan 1857. The following January he took up a new appointment as Police Magistrate at Wagga Wagga, where he and Sybella raised their family of 9 children. It was during this time that he was held up and wounded by Dan Morgan and his accomplice, for which he received government compensation late in life. Besides portraits of Sybella and Henry, a view of historic Hartley and one of "Goonigul" the Baylis residence in Wagga Wagga, NSW are displayed in this montage. See Related Link for the story of Henry's encounter with Bushranger Dan Morgan. [Baylis children: James, Wilhelmina, Henry, Harold, Robert, Francis, Fred, Alfred & Arthur.]

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