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The Barham's  Jaspers Brush Rd Jaspers Brush
Season 2 · Episode 3

The Barham's Jaspers Brush Rd Jaspers Brush

Season 1 & 2: The Dairy Lane Project · therese sweeney

October 9, 20251h 4m

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Show Notes

Great, Great Grandfather James Barham migrated to the Shoalhaven region in 1829 from Suffolk England. He was a labourer, farmer and timber cutter. Settling in Tomerong with his wife Charlotte Watson. They married in 1843 in a Church of England, Phillip St. Sydney. He bought his first land parcel in Tomerong 1855.

A further two generations were to be born and raised in Tomerong until James,Jenny's grandfather moved to land, purchased at Jaspers Brush. He married Ivy Knapp, from a great cattle breeding family Bolong.

This interview features Jenny Pastor (nee: Barham) daughter of Donald and Una Barham (nee: Ison), the 5th generation Barham twho gre and farmed land in the region. Today, Jenny lives in her grandfathers cottage known as Northcote on 9 acres of the original 80 acres purchased many years ago from the Oke brothers.

# Some of the local indigenous children that attended Jaspers Brush Primary School from time to time were:

The Cruse & Mundy children..

Website: theresesweeney.com.au

Season 2 : Sponsored by Ian Zandstra from Pyree. A leader in dairying in the Shoalhaven.