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39th Regiment (Dorsetshires)
stationed in Maitland between 1827 and 1832
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Gold
Ceres medal presented to Gregory Blaxland for the production
from his vineyard
Transactions of
the Society Instituted at London for
the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures, and Commerce By Royal
Society of Arts (Great Britain) |
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January...... |
Signal flags in Newcastle Harbour worn out. Vessels in danger
entering the harbour......Read
more |
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January...... |
Detachments of the
Buffs
depart for Calcutta on ships Woodford and Speke |
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January
1...... |
Captain Francis Allman
appointed Police Magistrate at Newcastle |
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January 1....... |
Appointment of Mr.
Duncan Forbes Mackay to position of
Superintendent of Prisoners and public works at Newcastle |
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January 5...... |
First Regatta on
the Derwent River, Tasmania |
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January 10....... |
Arrival in Sydney from Newcastle, the vessel Governor
Macquarie with a detachment of 3rd regt (Buffs) under Captain Foley |
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January 21....... |
Appointment of John Mackaness as Sheriff of NSW |
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January 23......... |
Arrival of convict ship
Grenada
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Grenada |
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January 27......
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'With a view to the
convenience of the inhabitants of the more remote districts, His
Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the Court of Requests
shall be held in future at Campbelltown instead of Liverpool and at
Wallis Plains, Hunter River instead of Newcastle. ' |
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February 4....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Brothers . Master Charles Motley
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Brothers
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February
14...... |
Arrival of the convict
ship
Albion,
Captain Ralph
Select
HERE to
find out more about the voyage of the Albion
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February 15.......
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Arrival of the convict ship
Midas,
Captain Baigarie
Select
HERE to find
out more about the voyage of the Midas
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Feb/March....... |
12 natives killed by assigned
servants of Mr. Cory at Paterson |
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March 3...... |
Thomas Stanley found guilty of
the murder of a native boy 'Tommy' at Port Stephens. |
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March....... |
Edward Charles Close retired from the Bench of Magistrates Hunter's River |
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March...... |
Resignation of
Captain Francis Allman
as Police Magistrate at
Newcastle |
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March 9...... |
Appointment of Samuel Wright to the position of Police Magistrate at
Newcastle. |
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March...... |
Newcastle wharf completed by Alexander Busby under the direction
of his father |
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March 30......
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Australian Museum founded in Sydney
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April...... |
Refusal by Chief Justice Forbes to certify legislation to impose
tax of 4d a copy intended to stifle criticism in newspapers |
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April
2...... |
Appointment of James Busby as collector of Internal Revenue and
Member of Land board |
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April 5...... |
Appointment of John Thomas Campbell as Acting collector of
customs N.S.W |
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April
7...... |
Arrival of the vessel
Elizabeth Captain Collins. A.A.
Company employee
Simon Kemp,
wife, son
Charles and 3 daughters
came passengers |
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April 28...... |
Regatta held in Sydney Harbour |
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April
30......
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Departure of explorer
Allan Cunningham from
Segenhoe Station in the
Hunter Valley. After leaving Segenhoe the party reached the formidable
Liverpool Ranges where they were forced to carry their baggage
to the crest as the packhorses were unable to manage the load.
(Wood, Allan., Dawn in the Valley, p218)
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May...... |
Heavy rain at Newcastle |
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May 1...... |
Grand Jury Presentment -
Call for Quarter Sessions to be held in Wallis Plains instead of Newcastle. |
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May 7...... |
Appointment of John Dalhunty as Principal Superintendent of Police N. S.
W. |
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May...... |
Lieutenant
Nathaniel Lowe
charged and later acquitted for the murder of an Aboriginal man in custody. |
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May...... |
Allan Cunningham explored
north of the Hunter river, crossing the Gwydir, Macintyre and Dumaresq rivers |
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May 17....... |
Rev. Frederick Wilkinson
nominated
to the chaplaincy at Newcastle |
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May...... |
Distribution of blankets and clothing to 150 natives at Newcastle in
honour of the King's birthday |
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May 23...... |
Arrival of the convict ship
Mariner
from Cork
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the
Mariner |
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June 2....... |
Appointment of William Lithgow to position of
Private Secretary to the Governor |
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June 7....... |
Captain
Patrick Logan set out on an expedition from Moreton Bay |
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June 8....... |
Severe gales and heavy rain at Newcastle |
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June....... |
Governor Darling and Archdeacon Scott visit northern settlements
(not Newcastle) |
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June
17....... |
Captain James Stirling arrived at Raffles Bay with convict labour and
supplies to establish settlement in Northern Australia |
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June
19....... |
David Roberts appointed constable at Reid's Mistake. |
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June....... |
Convict barracks
at Newcastle in dilapidated state with rain pouring through the
roof |
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June........ |
Departure of
Captain Henry Gillman, wife and family for London on the ship
Australia |
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June....... |
Discovery of coal at Lake Macquarie |
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June....... |
First
Specimens of coal discovered at Lake Macquarie sent to Sydney per
Lord Liverpool |
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June 28.......
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Arrival of convict transport
Countess of Harcourt
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Countess of Harcourt in
1827
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July 7.......
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Death of surgeon D'arcy
Wentworth at Homebush
The Gentleman's Magazine
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July 25......
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Arrival of the
Convict ship
Guildford,
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Guildford
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July 31.......
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Arrival of the convict ship
Marquis of Hastings, Capt. Drake.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Marquis of
Hastings.
Alexander
Macduff Baxter arrived as a passenger on the Marquis of
Hastings.
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August 1....... |
Alexander Macduff Baxter appointed Attorney General of N.S.W. |
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August 6....... |
Arrival of
the convict ship
Princess Charlotte
Captain Stephenson, Surgeon
Dr. Cameron.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Princess Charlotte |
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August 11.......
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Arrival of the
Convict transport
Manlius
. Capt. W. Johnstone. Surgeon Dr. Conway
Select HERE to find out more about the voyage of the
Manlius. |
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September........ |
Vessel Charlotte lying wrecked on a beach near Newcastle after
foundering at sea on 7th Sept.
The wreck of
the Charlotte sloop, beyond Reid's Mistake, on her passage
from Newcastle to Sydney has plunged the family of Mr. E.
Lamb, of Underwood's Buildings George St. Sydney in to deep
affliction. Mr. L's second son Robert, a fine youth about
fifteen years of age, who lived at Hunter River, was
subpoenaed as a witness in an action before the Supreme Court
and had taken his passage in the Charlotte. The little bark
encountered a tremendous gale shortly after leaving port, in
which she upset and was drifted on shore. Every soul
consisting of four person is supposed to have perished.
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September 8...... |
Appointment of Henry Grattan Douglass to position
of Commissioner of Courts of Requests |
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September
14.......
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Thomas Livingstone Mitchell appointed Deputy Surveyor General N.
S. W.
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September 14....... |
Ambrose Hallen appointed Assistant surveyor to Government of N.S.W. |
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September
17....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Cambridge
with 198 male prisoners.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Cambridge |
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September
17....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Harmony
with female prisoners
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Harmony |
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September 27....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Prince Regent
with male prisoners
Passengers
included
Sir
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell and family
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Prince Regent |
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September 27.......
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Work commenced on 'Busby's Bore' |
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September....... |
Robert Wardell is tried for
seditious libel for referring to Gov. Darling in the Australian as 'ignorant
and obstinate'.
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September....... |
Absconder Michael
Reilley shot dead near Newcastle.
Read the Coroner's Inquest in the Australian |
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September....... |
39th Regiment
leave Newcastle for Sydney. Replaced by detachment of Royal
Veterans |
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September.......
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Convicts in Newcastle
moved from the old barracks
A very great nuisance,
which has long existed here, I am happy to inform you has upon the
representation of the Grand Jury of the last Sessions, and the complaint
of several private individuals to the Authorities at head quarters, been
promptly remedied, we mean that of allowing prisoners to the number of
13 or 14, to sleep out of barracks in settlement. The reason was, on
account of the very incommodious state of the old
barracks, which would not admit of above 60 or 70 to sleep in.
According to instructions however, received about a week ago, from
Government, a new barrack, one of the …. Buildings on the settlement,
has been constructed with considerable neatness and despatch, under the
direction of Mr. Mackie, Superintendent of
works adjoining the lumber yard, where the whole of the prisoners will
be comfortably accommodated. SG 28 September 1827
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October........ |
Cutter Amelia seized at Newcastle.
The light little cutter the
Amelia, was seized at Newcastle on Monday
week, having arrived there from Sydney that day with a full cargo,
consisting of spirituous liquors and various other articles. She had
neither port clearance, permits, nor any document whatever, except a
memorandum from the Master Attendant at Sydney, stating that she was
bound to Newcastle for a cargo of coals on account of Government. |
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October....... |
Pilot boat crew-man died while attempting to rescue the cutter Lord Liverpool
at Newcastle |
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October...... |
Vessel Australian Lad wrecked at Newcastle. Crew perished |
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October 6...... |
Captain
James Thomas Morisset
appointed Magistrate |
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October 15......
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Arrival of the vessel
Waterloo, Capt. Thomas Carter.
Australian Agricultural Company
employees
Henry & William Croasdill and Master John Croasdill came
passengers. Steerage 10 men, 6 women, 10 boys and 4 girls. |
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October 17....... |
Arrival of the convict
ship
Champion, Captain Henry Lock.
Surgeon.
Francis Logan R.N.
Select
HERE to find
out more about the voyage of the Champion |
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October 19....... |
Lieutenant-colonel Morisset appointed Principal
Superintendent of N.S.W. Police. |
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October....... |
Detachment of 39th regiment from the guard of the Champion
marched through George Street to their quarters in the Military Barrack
preceded by the regimental bugles, fifes and drums. |
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November........ |
Departure of the 3rd regt., (Buffs) for India. Dinner at Government house
for Colonel Stewart and the Officers of the Buss previous to departure. |
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November 5....... |
Arrival
of the
Marquis of Anglesea
with 284 French merino sheep and 10 Welsh ponies imported for
Australian Agricultural Company.
Passengers J Graham, G. Graham, William Hervey, Thomas Ebsworth, George
Oliver 14 in steerage including William & Eliz. Street; Joseph Gorton and
James Fletcher |
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November 8....... |
Arrival of the convict ship
Eliza.
Master Daniel Leary. Surgeon George Shaw Rutherford
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Eliza |
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November
23....... |
Arrival of ship
Frederick,
Capt.
William Leggs. A. A. Company accountant William Barton and clerk J. E.
Ebsworth passengers |
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November
25.......
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Arrival of the
convict ship John from England.
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the John |
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December 3...... |
Arrival of the
convict ship Louisa
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Louisa |
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December....... |
John Donohoe
(Bold
Jack Donohoe) began robbing carts on the Sydney Windsor road |
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December 1....... |
Australian Subscription
Library opened in Sydney |
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December 15.......
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Piracy - Brig Phoebe, belonging to Alexander
Berry and Edward Wollstonecraft, seized by 15 convicts while at anchor at
Crookhaven on south coast of NSW
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December...... |
News reached Sydney that Captain Dillon of the Research had found evidence
of the expedition of La Perouse...... LA PEYROUSE. By the schooner
Herald, arrived yesterday afternoon, from New Zealand, we have been favoured
with the following extract of a letter, received from Captain Dillon, of the
H. E. Indian Company's ship Research I take this opportunity of informing
you of my safe arrival here, on the 5th instant, from the Solomon Islands,
where I have been successful in procuring some of the alter and mess plate
belonging to the expedition under the command of Count DE LA PEYROUSE.I have
also procured the ship's bell, a brass mortar, five brass guns, several
copper kitchen utensils, the greater part of which are marked with the arms
of France ; namely, three fleur-de-lis. I have got the rudder irons," the
brass shieves of the frigate's topmast, and many" other things too tedious
to mention. The Monitor 6 December 1827 |
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