Author Topic: in search of Fishers Ghost: Campbelltown N.S.W  (Read 3779 times)

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Re: in search of Fishers Ghost: Campbelltown N.S.W
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2018, 01:05:08 PM »
Hello Simon

Today although largely forgotten by the next generation. The events from that ghostly encounter back in 1826 etched a deep mark in our early pioneering folklore. That is sadly being overlooked these days as political correctness makes these earlier colonial accounts become unfashionable to next generation falling over themselves to be politically correct. While its important to endorse aboriginal heritage it also important to endorse our colonial history also. Sadly we switch from one historical bias to another.

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Re: in search of Fishers Ghost: Campbelltown N.S.W
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2018, 11:33:21 AM »
Hello Simon

One further thought on the Fishers ghost story.

The role of John Farley has be speculated upon?

One that he never saw a ghost but was offered articles from Fishers farm by Worrell. In a fit of guilty he made up the story of seeing the ghost of Fischer?

I do not believe this Hypothesis because even though he knew both men as he passed their farms on regulars basis to tend a herd of cattle further south. Farley had his own farm of 150 acres. And was also appointed government herdsmen for all the government cattle divided between the south of Campbeltown and Windsor to the North. As chief herds man his job was to oversee the management of those cattle. So in effect his time consorting with Worrel or Fisher was rather limited.

Second: Some say the ghost story was invented by Samuel Marsden who was better known by the convicts as the flogging Parson. A invented sermon on dangers of greed and motivation to commit murder and the haunting of Fisher enacted divine retribution onto Worrel for his sins.

Marsden could of preached the story of Fareley seeing fishers ghost? Clearly the story was well know by Campbelltown residents even by the 1836 newspaper of the ghost sighted by Farley? But the problem was Marsden was not the magistrate for Campbelltown because he was residing in Parramatta. So the chances of him mentioning the story of fishrs ghost as a sermon is remote.

Thirdly: John Farley really did have a supernatural encounter on the night of Fred Fisher,s ghost was sighted resulting in the discovery of Fishers Body. And implication of Worell for his murder resulting in the execution of Worrell.

An incinvenient fact for some historians.

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