Hunter Valley Settlers Map 9


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Hunter River - Segenhoe - Belltrees - Pages River - Gunda (Gundy) St. Aubins

Invermein - Puen Buen - Dartbrook - Kingdon Ponds - Waybong River

Hunter Valley Settlers on this Map

Archibald Bell junior John Bingle (Puen Buen) William Bell Carlyle (Satur) Stephen Coxen Joseph Docker (Thornwaite) John Dow ( Arden Hall) Mary Ann Fennell George Hall Archibald Little (Cressfield) Francis Little (Invermein) Alexander Livingstone ( near Mt. Wingen) Donald McIntyre (Kayuga) Peter McIntyre Hamilton Collins Sempill James White ( Broomfield)

John Dow

'Arden Hall'

John Dow arrived on the Warrior in 1830 with his sisters Agnes and Mrs. Susannah Sempill wife of H. C. Sempill.(?Allan) Agnes married James Busby, British resident in New Zealand in November 1832 and in December they were reported as proceeding to New Zealand. John Dow was superintendent at Belltrees in 1838 . He was described as a grazier of Arden Hall in 1844. Arden Hall was acquired by Dow's brother in law H.C. Sempill in the 1830's however Sempill was in financial difficulty by the 1840's and returned to Scotland with his family on board the 'Eweretta' in 1842.

Hamilton Collins Sempill

'Belltrees'

This was a grant of 2560 acres to Hamilton Collins Sempill in 1831. Sempill arrived in 1830 as Manager of Potter Macqueen's estate Segenhoe and soon after arrival began acquiring properties in his own name. He moved to Belltrees in 1834 however due to financial difficulties he returned to Scotland. Belltrees then passed into the hands of William Charles Wentworth. Wentworth did not reside at Belltrees and in the late forties the estate was leased by James White Junior and later acquired by the White family.

Find out more about the White family of Belltrees and Glenalvon, in 'Daisy in Exile, the story of an Australian schoolgirl in France 1887 - 1889 by Marc Serge Riviere (preview)

Peter McIntyre

This land was a grant to John Stewart who arrived on the Courier in 1824. He was employed as Superintendent by Peter McIntyre but died in March 1830. His two grants amounting to 600 acres were later purchased by Peter McIntyre.

Joseph Docker

Surgeon, landowner and polititian. Estate known as Thornwaite. For more information select HERE

James White

'Broomfield'

Archibald Little

'Cressfield'

Alexander Livingstone

Alexander Livingstone was granted 1560 acres near Mount Wingen by Governor Darling on the 4th June 1830. Possession was authorised on 15th October 1831. Situated about 4 miles north of Archibald Little's grant on Kingdon Ponds

George Hall

George Smith Hall arrived on the Coromandel in 1802. He purchased this 3000 acres in 1825.

Donald McIntyre

Donald was a brother of Peter McIntyre. He arrived in Australia in 1827 on the City of Edinburgh. Land had been reserved for him and this was converted to a grant which was named Kayuga. An additional grant of 1440 acres on Dart Brook was promised in 1838.

Donald McIntyre kept meteorological record at Kayuga from his time of arrival. In 1829 he reported that there had not been 48 hours of rainfall on his farm for more than 2 years.

Francis Little

Invermein

Francis Little was a nephew of William Bell Carlyle. He was in occupation of this land by 1825 but probably held a deed of grant dated earlier than this. He requested a town allotment in Newcastle in 1825 and in 1831 married Mary Ann Fennell nee Bell, (the sister of Archibald Bell) at Windsor 33

William Bell Carlyle

'Satur'

William Bell Carlyle was surgeon superintendent on several convict ships in the 1830's. This was a grant of 2000 acres by authority of Sir Thomas Brisbane dated 30 April 1823 32 He sold an allotment of land in Newcastle (30 perches) in 1838.

John Bingle

Puen Buen

John Bingle arrived in Australia in 1821 on the Minerva. He acquired this 1800 acres 'Puen Buen' in the 1820's and sold when he moved to Newcastle where he died in 1882.

Archibald Bell

Grant of 500 acres to Archibald Bell in September 1827 32

Sources

30. White, Judy, The White Family of Belltrees,The Seven Press, Sydney 1981.,p17

32 Wood, W. Allan, Dawn in the Valley, Wentworth Books, 1972.

33 Sydney Morning Herald 1831 15 August