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Item: 183291
Surname: Grove (Groves)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 28 April 1953
Place: Waratah, Newcastle
Source: The Newcastle Sun
Details: 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)


 
Item: 16383
Surname: Groves
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1839
Place: Newcastle
Source: PR
Details: Settler. Daughter Annabella born


 
Item: 24243
Surname: Groves
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1846 26 September
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Subscriber for the Irish Relief Fund


 
Item: 33754
Surname: Groves
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1847 18 August
Place: East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Unclaimed letter held in the Sydney Post Office in the month of July


 
Item: 135281
Surname: Groves
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1854 4 February
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Signed address to Dr. Bowker on the occasion of Bowker's return to England


 
Item: 174357
Surname: Groves
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1855
Place: Freehold. Address Broadmeadow
Source: NMH
Details: 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


 
Item: 203821
Surname: Groves
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 4 July 1863
Place: Waratah
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: 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


 
Item: 4469
Surname: Groves
First Name: Thomas (?)
Ship: -
Date: 1842 12 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: HRG
Details: Commercial Inn, Innkeeper.


 
Item: 38511
Surname: Groves
First Name: Thomas (?)
Ship: -
Date: 1842 8 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: HRG
Details: Recommended by the Coroner that Groves Public House licence should not be renewed



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