Dr Roland Bannister lived his early life in Waratah. After training as a carpenter, Roland because a music teacher and studied at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. Moving further inland in NSW for many years, Roland taught at Glen Innes High School and for 32 years as a music academic at Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga Campus. 

Roland's book, 'Hunter Valley Ancestors - An Incomplete Chronicle of the families Burns, Puxty, Hewitt, Longworth, Poile, Pascoe, Kenny, and Hancock' is out now and available by emailing [email protected]