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Waratah, Newcastle
Source:
The Newcastle Sun
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Thomas Grove made money in a Newcastle hotel and invested in lands at Waratah and Broadmeadow. The 60 acres at Waratah he bought for 220 pounds from Simon Kemp. Grove built his home at the corner of Bridge and Hill Sts. He lived in splendid isolation and the next settlers were railway workers who built a shantytown near the Mater Hospital site. In 1859 Grove tunnelled for coal on the hillside and the Waratah Coal co. came into being and became a huge concern. The pit at Raspberry Gully (Charlestown) was also opened by this company in 1876. In 1863 Grove subdivided his Waratah land and soon there was a business centre there which Grove called Hanbury after his birthplace in England. But the railway authorities called the station nearby Waratah. Hanbury St. remains to perpetuate the name. (from the records of W. Gould)
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Settler. Daughter Annabella born
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Subscriber for the Irish Relief Fund
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Unclaimed letter held in the Sydney Post Office in the month of July
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Signed address to Dr. Bowker on the occasion of Bowker's return to England
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Freehold. Address Broadmeadow
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On a list of electors in the police district of Newcastle who had the right to vote for elections in the county of Northumberland in 1855. Printed in the Newcastle Morning Herald 11 October 1911
Source:
Newcastle Chronicle
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George and Ann Lewis charged with keeping a disorderly house at Waratah. Mr. Thomas Groves deposed that for the last seven years the defendants had built and inhabited a hut on his property at Waratah for which they were to pay 2s 6d., per week and burn a quantity of timber off the land; they had never complied with either condition; their hut adjoined his property. He testified that as he was passing by he often heard them quarrelling and also a woman known as Black Charlotte and Jimmy Hyde. Thomas Newton, a gardener at Waratah stated that where he lived adjoined the defendants and he heard them continually fighting and quarrelling as well also as John Douglas, Jimmy Hyde, David Johnson, and David Brightmore, Charlotte Preston were also in the house. David Watson who resided nearby heard the quarrelling and the voice of Lewis threatening to kill someone. John Tipping who lived at Waratah gave evidence also. Both prisoners were committed for trial to Maitland gaol
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Commercial Inn, Innkeeper.
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Recommended by the Coroner that Groves Public House licence should not be renewed