Free Settler or Felon

An on-going project gathering details of the lives of people who resided in the Hunter Valley, Newcastle and Central Coast in the early days of settlement

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Access information about Convicts, Settlers, Soldiers, Clerics and Townspeople of Newcastle and surrounding districts

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Find out more about Convict Ships, Medical Practitioners, Convict Ship Surgeons, Inns and Hotels, Bushrangers, Priests and Pastors, Hunter Valley Place Names, Australian Slang and more.....

BOTANY BAY FLEET

First Fleet to Australia in 1788

CONVICT SHIP INDEX

Convicts Ships to Australia 1788 - 1862

CONVICT SHIP SURGEONS

Surgeons employed on convict ships to Australia

CONVICT HISTORY

Convict Names, Coal-miners, Pirates & Penal Settlements

FEMALE CONVICTS

Female Factories, Female Convict Ships

CONVICT SHIPS TO VDL

A List of Convict Ships and Surgeons

IMMIGRANT & SETTLER SHIPS

Ships bringing Free Settlers & Immigrants to NSW

HUNTER VALLEY SETTLERS

Settlers who took up land in the early days of the colony

HUNTER VALLEY HISTORY

Links to people and places in the Hunter Valley

BUSHRANGERS INDEX

Index to Early Bushrangers in the Hunter Valley

INNS & HOTELS INDEX

Index to Inns & Hotels in the Hunter Valley

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS

Index to Medical Practitioners in the Hunter Valley

NEWCASTLE HISTORY

Find out more about Newcastle in the early days

HERITAGE LOCATIONS

Heritage Buildings & Places of Interest - Newcastle

HUNTER VALLEY PLACE NAMES

Notes on the Origins and Locations of Place Names in the Hunter Valley

MAITLAND HISTORY

Links to People and Places at Maitland

HUNTER VALLEY LAW & ORDER

The Police Force in the Hunter Valley prior to 1862

MILITARY OFFICERS

A List of Officers in the Hunter Valley in the 19th Century

PASTORS & PRIESTS

Men of the cloth who ministered to early inhabitants in Newcastle & Hunter Valley

NSW SCOURGERS

1809 - 1836

AUSSIE SLANG

Australian Slang - Local Lingo, Unique Phrases, Memorable Quotes

COLONIAL HISTORY LINKS

New South Wales

AUSTRALIAN INVENTIONS

A list of Australian Inventions

CABBAGE TREE HATS

A Relic of Days Gone By