The Orange Lodges were fervently pro-Empire and anti-Catholic and Kiama was the home of the start of Freemasonry and the Orange movement in NSW, with Dr Tarrant of Kiama as the first Grand Master of the NSW Freemasons, and Robert Barr, who worked as a printer at the Kiama Independent, starting the first Orange Lodge in NSW.โ โ source See also Kiama and the Orange Lodges and Fraternal Societies.
https://kiamalocalhistory.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/kiama-and-the-orange-lodges-and-fraternal-societies/
BRENTON WAS FROM NSW