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town of his birth, and the Voss family have been buried in 

 the Nicholaston Ohurch Yard, Gower, ten miles from 

 Swansea, since before 1600 A.D. He studied for a Oivil 

 Engineer under Nasmyth the celebrated mechanical 

 engineer of Manchester, and after qualifying, sailed for 

 Melbourne in 1852. The gold rush was in full swing at the 

 time, and after paying a visit to the diggings, merely as a 

 pleasure trip, he returned to Melbourne and went on to 

 Sydney. Soon after his arrival in New South Wales, he was 

 employed by the Government to superintend some bridge 

 building near Camden, where he first met his old friend 

 Mr. Jas. K. Ohisholm. He practised architecture in and 

 around Goulburn for a while, and it is stated that the last 

 build ing he designed was the Goulburn Convent. He 

 married Miss Emma Ooghill, daughter of Captain Coghill, 

 of Braidwood, early in the sixties. He was for some time 

 Acting Water Police Magistrate in Sydney, and in that 

 capacity, was present with the Duke of Edinburgh at 

 Clontarf, when he was shot at by O'Farrell, who was after- 

 wards brought before him. In later years he was Acting 

 Police Magistrate at Goulburn, and in 1878 was appointed 

 on the Royal Commission in connection with the Berrima 

 gaol trouble. In 1870 he sailed for England, returning in 

 1872. Fond of travel, he went to and from England seven 

 or eight times. Mrs. Voss died in Sydney in December 

 1907, and he was buried at Picton in the Antill vault with 

 his wife and two children. 



I am indebted to his nephew, Mr. Harold D. Voss, for these 

 and other notes of the career of this fine old citizen. 



Norman Selfe, m. inst. c.b., was born 9th December, 1839 

 at Kingston-on-Thames, England, and died in Sydney 9th 

 October, 1911. He arrived in Sydney in January 1855. He 

 was specially interested in the Engineering Section, but 

 he was a fairly regular attendant at the ordinary meetings 

 of the Society until quite recently. He was articled to the 



