Richard Calga Poldevin Sheridan papers mainly historical notes on the Orange District, ca. 1850s-1880

MLMSS 2610 (Y 4944-Y 4945)
MLMSS 2610/Boxes 3X-4X

fonds

ca. 1850s-1880

Textual Records, Paper money

845756

2 cartons, 2 outsize boxes

After a long career as an Officer of the Justice Dept., Mr R.C. Sheridan arrived in Orange as Clerk of Petty Sessions in 1936. He was born at Baradine in 1895, the son of Richard and Agnes L. Sheridan, and spent his boyhood at Wee Waa. He joined the Justice Dept. in 1912 and by 1915 he was working at Taree. He was Assistant C.P.S. at Lismore and Albury, and C.P.S. at Ardlethan, Junee, Balranald and Moree before going to Orange. He was the first Orange C.P.S. to be Coroner and Guardian of Minors. He retired in 1956.
As a boy he travelled on Cobb & Co. coaches and later made several trips on paddle steamers on western rivers. In 1928 he was the first Petty Sessions Officer to travel by air at government expense. He has contributed to the press in every town in which he has been stationed.
In 1934 Sheridan married Esther R. Baker in Sydney.
Amazingly Sheridan photographed Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed in Darwin just before it left on the fatal trip to Lae 2 July 1937. He was on a Pioneer coach trip Melbourne-Darwin, via Adelaide and Alice Springs.
Mr Sheridan was also a Director of the National trust of Australia.
Mr Sheridan was instrumental in the formation of the Orange & District Historical Society and was its foundation President for three years and then Treasurer for the next three years. In 1954 he was elected Patron and in 1958 Senior Patron, a position he held at least until 1971.

Reference:
Early Orange / R.C. Sheridan, 1971

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