Lake Macquarie history

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Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld was a close friend of Rev. John Williams who 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 (use the Search facility on the top right)

Australian Grammar in the Saturday Magazine 1836

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

Obituary of Mrs. Threlkeld in 1825

Select here for information about early Eraring

Hundreds of vessels were lost along the coast between Sydney and Newcastle in the 1800s. Select HERE to read about the vessel Traveller, lost at the entrance to Lake Macquarie in 1841

27 January 1842 SH

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. 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

Miners from the coal fields took their Christmas holidays at the Lake for many years. Read of this annual tradition at Miners' Holidays at the Lake (1947)

Rev. Threlkeld's report on the Aborigines 1836..............Included in his correspondence was an interview with the man charged with the murder of Richard Cunningham (brother of Allan Cunningham)

Lake Macquarie 1825 - 1842....... Articles from various newspapers

Images of Lake Macquarie.........family photographs etc from Wangi, Toronto and Eraring.

Buka' from the Lake Macquarie Tribe

Chambers' Edinburgh Journal By Robert Chambers, William Chambers

Johnny McGill, Jemmy Jackass and Bob Barratt at Lake Macquarie

The Westminster Review

Coal Mines in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie 1862 (Sydney Morning Herald 22 August 1862

Fishing the Lake 1879 (A petition by 425 residents to the Legislative Council regarding using nets in Lake Macquarie - Sydney Morning Herald)

Recreation at Speer's Point 1884 (Sydney Morning Herald)

More about Wangi at National Library of Australia Trove