Colonial History Links
Historical Records of Colonial Australia
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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 and Military Sites in Colonial Australia - Find military locations, biographies, settlements, female factories, gaols, barracks, and related colonial places across Australia
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
Parry, Sir William Edward - A. A. Company Commissioner
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 lineThe 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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