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Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld was a close friend of Rev. John Williams. Rev Williams was killed by cannibals at Erromango in November 1839. Select here to read more about Rev. Threlkeld in the 'Memoirs of the Life of Rev. John Williams' by Ebenezer Prout

An Australian Language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba, Lake Macquarie, being an account of their language, traditions and customs - Lancelot Threlkeld

Rev. Threlkeld's Journal - Read the original manuscript Journal belonging to Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld, missionary to the Aborigines in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie areas in the 1820s onward which has been digitised and uploaded to the University of Newcastle’s Virtual Sourcebook for Aboriginal Studies in the Hunter Region

Read about Rev. Threlkeld's Australian Grammar in the Saturday Magazine 1836

Obituary of Mrs. Threlkeld in 1825

Obituary of Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld - Sydney Morning Herald 13 October 1859

Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld first discovered coal on the Ebenezer estate while building a chimney. After the closure of his mission, he worked to establish a coal mine in the area. Read more about the Ebenezer Coal Mine here

Select here to find out more about early Eraring

Newport, Lake Macquarie 27 January 1842 Sydney Herald

The United States Exploring Expedition arrived in Port Jackson in November 1839. Two men from the expedition travelled by steamer to Newcastle and then overland to Lake Macquarie. Read of their fatiguing journey to the Lake HERE.

Rev. Threlkeld's report on the Aborigines 1836..............correspondence to William Broughton, Lord Bishop of Australia in The Calcutta Christian Observer including an interview with the man charged with the murder of Richard Cunningham (brother of Allan Cunningham)