Free Settler or Felon?

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Search the Database from the Search Box on the right to find your Newcastle/Hunter Valley ancestor. There are now approximately 130,000 references to Convicts, Settlers, Townsfolk, Bushrangers, Innkeepers, Soldiers and Land owners

Areas covered include Newcastle, Maitland, Paterson, Muswellbrook, Singleton, Raymond Terrace, Dungog, Morpeth, Wollombi, Central Coast, Murrurundi and Scone and more.

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Hunter Valley Settlers

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Index Settlers & Estates

Convict Ships

A List of convicts ships to use when searching the database with links to Surgeon's Journals and lists of convicts

General Hewitt 1814

York 1831

Lucy Davidson 1829

Convicts Ships to New South Wales 1835

Convict Ship Neptune 1818 journal of Surgeon Thomas Reid

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Nobbys - An Historical Island

Picture of the wrong man on Newcastle Commemorative Stamp

Lake Macquarie 1897

Convicts

Early convict coal miners

Irish rebel Thomas Brady

For a List of Convicts of the First Fleet Select HERE

Frank The Poet

Report on Convict Discipline and Management by Alexander Maconochie

Read about 28 convict women sent to Newcastle penal settlement after a riot at the FEMALE FACTORY AT PARRAMATTA in 1831

Was your ancestor Tried at the Old Bailey? The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online now has a wiki allowing users to contribute information on people mentioned in the Proceedings

Bushranger Index

Martin Cash Jacob's Mob

Bold Jack Donohoe

George Boxall's History of Bushrangers

Oppossum Jack

Inns & Hotels Index

Introduction

Publican's Index

Newcastle - Maitland - Muswellbrook - Singleton - Dungog - Murrurundi - Paterson - Raymond Terrace

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Colonial History

19th Century Medical terms - Military - Journals - Norah Head - Australian Agricultural Company - Captain Logan's Journal - Journal of Rev. Christopher Eipper George Bass......

Medical Practitioners

Medical Practitioners prior to 1850

Select here for Introduction

John Waugh Drysdale Henry Turner Harrington Michael McCartney

Medical Practitioners Index

Sir Edward Parry was Commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company from December 1829 to May 1834.

Select here to read his evidence given before the Molesworth Committee in the Report from the Select Committee on Transportation

Newcastle

Thomas Brady - Irish Rebel - Early convict coal Miners in Newcastle - Commandants at Newcastle - Lieutenant Purcell and Coal River Penal Settlement in 1810 - NEWCASTLE IN 1822

Botany Bay Hero - AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY. coal miners in Newcastle 1830s 1840s - Newcastle Gaol Sea Grave Yard - NEWCASTLE IN 1851 - Report on the SANDHILLS at Newcastle 1852 - COAL MINERS IN NEWCASTLE 1858 - Removal of the Signal Staff at Newcastle In 1858 - Newcastle in 1863 - ADAMSTOWN Australia's Strongest Sports Centre

Hunter Valley Steamers

Clarence, Ceres, Cornubia, Experiment, Eagle, Huntress, Karuah, Maitland, Phoenix, Victoria, James Watt, Shamrock, Sophia Jane, Tamar, William the Fourth, Thistle, Sovereign, The Rose