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First of the ‘colonial’ blue
books published, detailing statistics of NSW..................
Newcastle
Samuel Dell - Master of Public School & Parish
clerk.
J. Allman - commandant
J. Croft - Gaoler appointed May 1822
G. Muir - chief Constable
Rev. Middleton - Holds a glebe of 400 acres. forage
allowance for one horse at the rate of 10/- per week or £26
per annum. Allowed a house
George Brooks in charge of hospital at Newcastle.
Allowed a house
Estimate of native population of Newcastle in 1826 - Men 265, Women - 235, Children - 260, Total 760
Baptisms at Christchurch - 25
Marriages at Christchurch 12
Burials at Christchurch 28
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January.......
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Robert Dawson's expedition north to Port Stephens and as far as the
Manning
Robert Dawson, company agent and
pastoralist, was born at Great Bentley, Essex in 1782, the youngest son of
Joseph Dawson. In December 1824 Dawson was prevailed upon by John Macarthur
junior, an old school friend by whom he was highly regarded, to accept from
the newly formed
Australian
Agricultural Co.
the post of chief agent in New South Wales in which capacity he was to
establish and administer a pastoral domain of 1,000,000 acres (404,609 ha)
subject to a committee resident there...........read more about Robert
Dawson at
Australian Dictionary of Biography
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Bank of Australia opened
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January
3......
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Arrival of
convict ship
Marquis of Hastings.
Master William Ostler. Surgeon
George S. Rutherford
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Marquis of Hastings
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January 3...... |
Arrival of
convict ship
Sir Godfrey Webster.
Master John Rennoldson. Surgeon William Evans
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the Sir Godfrey
Webster
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February...... |
Australian subscription library established |
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February 18...... |
Arrival of the
convict ship
Mangles
. Master John Coghill.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Mangles |
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March 17...... |
Bushranger Matthew
Brady captured by John Batman near Launceston
His Excellency and Mrs. Darling entertained the largest party
that had been seen at Government house for many years on Friday
evening 17 March 1826. Nearly the whole of the Civil and
Military Officers with their Ladies were present on this
occasion |
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March 21....... |
Arrival of
the convict ship
Sesostris.
Master. J.T. Drake.
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the Sesostris. |
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April......
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Vessel 'Gurnett'
seized by escaping convicts at Newcastle
Select here to read
about the escape
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April...... |
Vessel ' Mars'
wrecked near Port Stephens |
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May....... |
The
Monitor newspaper established |
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May 17....... |
Arrival of
the
Lady Rowena.
Master Bourn Russell
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Lady Rowena |
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June....... |
Lieutenant
Nathanial Lowe in
pursuit of natives who had killed shepherds in Hunter Valley |
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July....... |
John Smith completed
a brick built Store at Newcastle |
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July....... |
Settlement formed at Illawarra under command of Capt. Bishop of
40th regt., |
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July 8...... |
Arrival of the
John Barry bringing Lieutenant James Sweeney and other members of
NSW Veteran Corp |
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August....... |
Cutter 'Currency
Lass' built for
Thomas White
Melville Winder at Hunter River |
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August....... |
Australian
Agricultural Company
vessel Balberook wrecked off Port Stephens
Intelligence has reached us of the loss of
a vessel, a small sloop called the Balberook,
belonging to the
Australian
Agricultural Co. She sailed from Newcastle last week, with a
cargo of maize and sundries for the Company. When abreast of Point
Stephens, and at about 8 miles of the land, one of her planks became
started; the water poured in impetuously and the crew and passengers had
barely sufficient time to take to their boats before the sloop
foundered. All the crew and passengers we feel to add, have been saved.
A boat, loaded with necessaries for Mr. Dawson,
and which was intended to put in at Point Stephen, luckily, and more by
chance than design, happened to be towing astern; she assisted
materially in saving many, who might otherwise, probably from the
smallness of the sloop's jolly boat, have perished....The Australian
5 August 1826.
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August 5....... |
Arrival of the
convict ship
Regalia. Surgeon
James Rutherford
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Regalia |
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September....... |
Large portion of
Newcastle wharf washed away and the windmill damaged in a gale |
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September....... |
Boundaries of
authorised colonial settlement defined in an attempt to contain
squatting in NSW (Governor Darling) |
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September
13....... |
Arrival of
Marquis of Huntley. Master William Ascough
Surgeon William Rae.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Marquis of Huntley |
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September 13.......
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Arrival of the vessel
Orpheus
The
Orpheus
departed England 6th May and called at Rio de Janeiro 22nd June
with 213 men women and children of the NSW Veteran Corps. Officers Captain Robinson,
Lieut. Warner, Lieut.
North and Assistant surgeon Robertson of the 13th Light Infantry
Wright, Christine., The Men of the Royal Veteran Companies and
Royal Staff Corps
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society (November 1,
2009)
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September
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Arrival of
the convict ship
England
More about the convicts of the England 1826
In England the vessel was visited by phrenologist
Mr. Deville. He examined each of the 148 convicts and gave a
memorandum of the inferred character of each individual, and of
the manner in which the propensities were likely to manifest
themselves.
Select
here to read part of the journal of Surgeon Superintendent Mr.
Thompson
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October....... |
Duel
between Saxe Bannister and Dr. Wardell |
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October 19....... |
Explosion in
Storehouse in Newcastle. Two children, Mary Eckford, daughter of
the pilot
William Eckford, and an aboriginal boy later died from injuries
Read what happened
here
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October....... |
Patterson Plains
Government Cottage destroyed by fire |
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October....... |
St. Michael Storeship
moored in Newcastle harbour |
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October 13...... |
Appointment of William Henry Moore, solicitor, as
Acting Attorney-General of NSW |
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October 19....... |
Appointment of
Rev.
Charles Pleydell N. Wilton,
Senior Assistant-Chaplain of New South Wales |
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October 28...... |
Arrival of
convict ship
Boyne
from Ireland. Captain Pope. Surgeon Superintendent
Dr. H. Cochrane. R.N.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Boyne |
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November...... |
Rev.
Lancelot Threlkeld
to abandon the mission at Reid's Mistake |
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November 24....... |
Westernport settlement established |
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November 26...... |
Arrival of
Speke
convict ship. Surgeon Superintendent Alick Osborne
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Speke |
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December 2...... |
Arrival in Sydney of the Astrolabe,
Captain Jules Sebastian Dumont d'Urville.
»Online |
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December 21......
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Brig Wellington seized by convicts on the voyage
from Sydney to Norfolk Island. Convicts included John
Walton,
William Douglas, Charles Clay, John Edwards, James
O'Neil, James Smith, William Browne,
Edward Colthurst, Charles
Daly and William Ryan.
Pirates of the Wellington Brig by James
Cowan - New Zealand Electronic Text centre
R. v. Walton - Superior Courts of NSW |
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December 22...... |
Death of poet laureate/ convict Michael Massey
Robinson aged 82. »Obituary
Read his trial in 1796
Cases in Crown Law Determined by the Twelve Judges, by the Court of King's Bench, and by Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer
and General Gaol Delivery |
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December 25......
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Arrival of
Phoenix III convict ship.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Phoenix in 1826
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December 25...... |
Arrival of Edmund Lockyer
in King George Sound.
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