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A New Song - A bawdy rollicking song from the earliest convict days

A. A. Company - Early days of the Company at Port Stephens and Newcastle

First A.A. Company mine at Newcastle 1831

Account of the Voyage of the Buffalo 1800 -returning to England with former Governor John Hunter in 1800

Ahern, Owen - Reminiscences of Newcastle 1860s

Allman, Captain Francis - Military Officer and Settler

A Ride in an Omnibus - Newcastle 1880s

Armstrong, Garret - Bushranger at Newcastle

A Trip to Maitland in 1826

A Visit to my Daughter and a Trip to the last days races - Dr. Thomas Parmeter 1835 of de Quirosville

Aussie Inventions - A List of Australian inventions of recent times as well as some of the thousands of patented inventions made by prolific Aussie Inventors in earlier days

Australian Slang - Find Australian slang words, unique Australian phrases and memorable quotes

A Vocabularly of the Flash Language compiled by James Hardy Vaux - A forerunner of today s Australia Slang


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Balmain, William - Convict Ship Surgeon

Barrington, George - Celebrated pickpocket arrived on the Active in 1791

Battle of Castle Hill - An account of the famous battle that took place in 1804

Beacher, Richard - Newcastle Pilot

Bells - Bells played an important part in the lives of our ancestors

Biddulph, Commander Edward - brought the first steam boat to Australia in 1831

Bold Jack Donohue - Australia s famous bushranger

Boodle, Rev. George

Botany Bay Fleet - The First Fleet 1788

Boydell, Charles - Settler at Paterson

Brooks, George - Surgeon and Settler

Broughton, William Grant - Ship board diary kept on the voyage of convict ship John in 1829

Browning, Colin Arrott - Convict Ship Surgeon

Bryant, William and Mary - Escaped from the colony 1791

Bruin, Patrick - Bushranger near Maitland in 1843

Buffalo Convict Ship bringing French-Canadian Patriots in 1840

Bundock, Ellen - Memoirs

Burn, David - Journal of a Voyage to Newcastle and Hunter River October 1844

Bushrangers Index

Bynoe, Benjamin - Convict Ship Surgeon


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Cabbage Tree Hats - A part of our ancestor's everyday lives

Caley, George - Botanist in the early years of the colony

Canton Convict Ship. Extracts from Notes of an Exile in 1840

Captain Patrick Logan s Journal - Captain Logan was Commandant at Moreton Bay in 1826

Captain James Wallis - Commandant at Newcastle 1816 - 1818

Castle Forbes Uprising

Cedar Getters at the Hunter River

Christie, Colin - Reminiscences of Colin Christie of Newcastle 1850s

Coal Fired Navigation Beacon

Coal Mines at Newcastle in 1858

Cockatoo Island - Penal settlement in Sydney harbour

Colonial Appointments 1788 - 1860

Colonial Events Index - 1788 - 1829

Colonial Military Officers - in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley

Colonial vessel Francis - Launch of the vessel Francis in 1793

Commissioner's Enquiry - Excerpt from an enquiry by John Thomas Bigge in 1819

Convict Assignment and Punishment 1813

Convict Pirates

Convict Ships Index - Links to Convict Ships arriving in New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen s Land 1788 - 1850

Convict Ships and Surgeons to Van Diemen's Land 1812 - 1853

Convict Ship Surgeons - Index

Coombes, John James - Convict Ship Captain

County Electors - Newcastle 1855

Court-house at Newcastle 1841 - 1900

Craig, William Harrison - Artist

Crossing the Liverpool Ranges in 1850 - John Henderson

Crummer, James Henry - Police Magistrate at Newcastle

Cumberland at Newcastle 1830s

Cunningham, Allan - An account of the 1827 expedition of Allan Cunningham


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Darby, George Elde - Surveyor and Headmaster at Newcastle

Darcy, Frank - Boxer from Maitland. Died of the Spanish influenza in 1919

Dawson, Robert - Travels North from Port Stephens in 1826

Day, Edward Denny - Police Magistrate at Maitland

Discovery of Hunter River 1797

Dixon, Robert - Surveyor

Drysdale, John Waugh - Medical Practitioner

Dungog Residents - a list of residents in 1830s and 1840s


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Early Days at Port Stephens

Early Maritime Explorers

Eipper, Rev. Christoph - Missionary to Aborigines in Queensland

Escapees at Port Stephens - 1795

Expedition to the Hunter River 1801

Expedition of Edmund Lockyer


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Female Factory at Parramatta

Female Factory at Newcastle

First Night Watch 1789

Flash Language - Criminal slang

Francis - Launch of Colonial vessel Francis in 1793

Francis Forbes, Chief Justice

Frank the Poet - Francis McNamara arrived on the convict ship Eliza in 1832


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Gammack, Alexander - Medical Practitioner

German Vine-dressers in the Hunter Valley 1850s

Gilmour, Hugh - Reminiscences of Newcastle

Government Orders - Newcastle 1807

Griffith, Rev. Edward - Two Chapters from Memorials of Rev. Edward Griffith written by his daughter Mary


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Harbour Lights - Newcastle

Harrington, Henry Turner - Medical Practitioner

Harris, May - Newcastle's first female medical practitioner

Harris, Standish Lawrence - Architect

Hayes, Sir Henry Browne - at Newcastle

Henry Stuart Russells journey north through the Hunter in 1840

Hicks, Lieutenant William - Settler

Hoddle, Robert - Surveyor and Settler

Holman, Lieutenant James - The Blind Traveller

Horse Patrols

Hunter Valley Settlers

Hunter River Steamers


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Immigrant and Settler Ships - 1821 - 1856

Inquiry into the State of the Colony of New South Wales - Report of the Commissioner John Thomas Bigge 1822


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Jacob s Irish Brigade - Bushrangers

Jeffrey, Lieutentant Charles - Commander of H.M. Brig Kangaroo

Journal of Capt. Logan - Moreton Bay in 1830

Journey to the Hunter River by steamer in 1831


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Jeffrey, Lieut. Charles - Master of the vessel Kangaroo in 1814

King, Governor Phillip Gidley - Third Governor of New South Wales

King William Steamer - wreck of in 1839


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Land Settlement 1792

Lang, Rev. John Dunmore in 1862 - A journey to the Hunter Valley in 1862

Law and Order - Police Force in the Hunter Valley prior to 1862

Leading Lights at Newcastle 1865

Limeburners Gang near Newcastle

Liverpool Ranges - Crossing the Liverpool Ranges

Lockyer, Edmund - Expedition of Edmund Lockyer

Log Book of the Minerva - Fever Ship in 1838

Lycett, Joseph - Convict Artist


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Maritime Explorers - Map and Links to Biographies of early Maritime Explorers

Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone - Map of Expedition in November 1831

Molly Morgan and the Angel Inn

Mounted Police - Horse patrols and the Mounted Police 1825 - 1826

Moreton Bay - 1824

Morgan, Cosby William - Honorary Medical Officer Newcastle Hospital

Murrurundi History


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Norah Head History

Norfolk Island - Convict ships to Norfolk Island


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Old Court-house at Newcastle 1841 - 1900

Owen, Lieutenant Thomas - 3rd regt., Engineer at Newcastle in 1824


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Parramatta Female Factory - A history of the Factory

Pastors and Priests in the Hunter Valley and beyond

Paterson Reminiscences - Paterson in 1840s

Pattison, Robert Lorn - Steamer Captain

Phillip, Governor Arthur - First Governor of New South Wales

Platt, Jane and Lieutenant Scheberras

Port Stephens - A series of articles touching on the Early days in Port Stephens

Preston, Walter - Convict Engraver

Probable Usefulness

Purcell, Lieutenant John - 73rd regt., Coal River Settlement in 1810


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Raymond Terrace - Early days and residents

Rob the Ranter - Traveller

Russell, Henry Stuart - An account of a journey through Maitland and the Hunter Valley

Rutherford, George Shaw - Surgeon and Settler


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Scheberras, Lieutenant Rinaldo - 80th regt., Assistant Engineer at Maitland and
Towrang Stockade

Scourgers - A list of scourgers in New South Wales

Sea Grave Yard

Settler and Immigrant Ships 1821 - 1842

Ship Captain Index

Standfield, John - Tolpuddle Martyr

St. John's Church - Stroud - Built by convicts in 1833

Surgery and Anaesthetics at Port Stephens - 1840s

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Tamworth - Time line

The Blind Traveller - Lieut. John Holman

Towrang Stockade - Penal work station

Transport - A Ride in an Omnibus - Newcastle 1880s


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United States Exploring Expedition


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Vallack, Adoniah - Medical Practitioner

Voyage of the Buffalo - Return to England in 1800


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Wrensford, Henry - Schoolmaster

Wreck of the Mermaid - 1829

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