From Australia’s Jewish Past: Nathan Cohen – continuing the story of the Cohen Family in Tamworth Nathan, Henry and George’s youngest brother, was born in 1842 in Port Macquarie and educated in Goulburn together with his brothers. He then went to Sydney to study business. On Friday 27 August 1858, aged sixteen, Nathan travelled to Tamworth via Newcastle in a two-wheeled cart drawn by two sweating horses who jolted over the stony Peel River, up the north bank and then lumbered eastward down Peel Street – Tamworth’s main street. This was considered to be a most important day for the...