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Author Title   Abbreviation  
  Historic Australian Newspapers (NLA Beta)      
Swancott, C Blue Gum Flat to Budgewoi, ( 1963)      
Swancott, C The Brisbane Water Story, Part 3, Enchanted Waters. 1961   Enchanted Waters  
  Burial Register , Newcastle

Burial Register, Glebe Cemetery, East Maitland (St. Peter's)

  BR  
Backhouse, James
A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies
  Backhouse  
  Butterworths Court Records See Superior Courts of NSW      
  Index to the Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788 - 1825   CSI  
  Convict Indents   CI  
  General Return of Convicts NSW 1837   GRC  
  Government Gazette   GG  
  Hunter River Gazette   HRG  
  Maitland Mercury   MM  
Maitland Sesquicentenary Committee Maitland - A Town to be Laid Out, 1829 - 1979      
von Hugel, Baron Charles

Dymphna Clark (trans. and ed.), Baron Charles von Hugel, New Holland Journal November 1833-October 1834, Miegunyah Press, 1994

 

  NHJ  
Simpson, I.M., Pioneers of a Great Valley, 1972      
  Raymond Terrace 150th anniversary celebrations September 1951   RT 150th Anniversary  
Raymond Terrace Historical Society 1992 Raymond Terrace Pioneer Cemetery   RTC  
Clouten, Keith H., Reid's mistake; the story of Lake Macquarie from its discovery until 1890. Boolaroo NSW; Lake Macquarie Shire Council, 1967   RM  
  Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales 1788 - 1899   sc  
  Sydney Gazette   SG  
  Sydney Morning Herald   SMH  
  Census of New South Wales. 1828   1828 Census  
  1841 Census Index    
Milliss, Roger Waterloo Creek : the Australia Day massacre of 1838, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne.   WC  
Silva, Lynette The battle of Vinegar Hill 1804 : Australia's Irish rebellion. Sydney, Doubleday, 1989   BVH  
  Returns of the Colony - Colonial Secretary      
  Principal Superintendent of Convicts Assignment Register   AR  
  Magistrates Bench Books, 13 May 1833 - 13 May 1835 (AONSW Reel 2721, Volume SZ80),  9 Jun 1835-11 Mar 1836, AONSW Reel 2722

13 December 1836 - December 1838 AONSW Reel 2722
 

  BB  
  Newcastle Gaol Description Books - 1832 - 1848
(AONSW Reels 758-9)
  GDB  
  Early Days of Port Stephens - Extracts from Sir Edward Parry's Diary. Dungog Chronicle   Early Days of Port Stephens  
Windross & Ralston Historical Records of Newcastle 1797 - 1897   HRN  
  Sydney Monitor   SM  
  The Atlas      
Pemberton, P.A  Pure merinos and others: the "shipping lists" of the Australian Agricultural Company, Canberra: Australian National University, Archives of Business and Labour, 1986

 

  Pure Merinos  
Macqueen, Andy Blue Mountains to Bridgetown, The Life and journeys of Barrallier 1773 - 1853   Barrallier  
Turner, J.W Manufacturing in Newcastle, 1801 - 1900. Newcastle History Monographs No 8. Newcastle Public Library 1980   Manufacturing in Newcastle  
  The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London      
  Commercial Journal and Advertiser   CJ  
Parkes W.S Landholders of Greater Cessnock 1821 - 1856   Cessnock Landholders  
  'The Australian'      
Brabazon, H.L Brabazon's New South Wales Directory 1843, Sydney 1843   Brabazon  
  Parish Registers, Newcastle Diocese   PR  
Dangar, Elisabeth Mary William Dangar of Turanville, Scone & Upper Hunter Historical Society 1968      
Baker, D.W.A. The Civilised Surveyor, Thomas Mitchell and the Australian Aborigines   The Civilised Surveyor  
Society of Australian Genealogists, Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record, Sydney 1992   ABGR  
Muswellbrook Shire Council The History of Muswellbrook      
  Colonial Secretary's Out Letters re Convicts 1832 -1833. A.O. 10   46   6/6007   CSOL  
Swancott, Charles Gosford and The Kendall Country Published 1953 Second Edition 1966
 
  Gosford and The Kendall Country  
Flynn, Michael The Second Fleet: Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1993   The Second Fleet  
  The Weekly Register      
  True Sun and New South Wales Independent Press      
  The Dispatch      
  Free Press and Commercial Journal   FP  
  The Examiner      
Robson, L.L The Convict Settlers of Australia. Melbourne University Press, Carlton vic., 1970   Convict Settlers  
Roderick, Colin John Knatchbull, From Quarterdeck to Gallows, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1963   John Knatchbull  
  Glory Be; Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Opening of the First Wesleyan Chapel in Newcastle, 1945   Wesleyan Chapel  
  Government Gazette   GG  
Turner, John Newcastle as a Convict Settlement: The Evidence before J. T. Bigge in 1819 - 1821   Convict Settlement  
Hall, Barbara Of Infamous Character, Barbara Hall, Sydney,2004   Boddington  
Smee, Dr. C.J Fourth Fleet Families of Australia   Fourth Fleet  
Mackanass A New Song made in New South Wales for the Rebellion   New Song  
Gunson, Niel Australian Reminiscences & Papers of L.E. Threlkeld, Missionary to the Aborigines, 1824 - 1859., vol 2,   Threlkeld  
  Colonial Observer   CO  
  Registers of convicts' applications to marry, 20 Dec 1825-26 Feb 1851. Microfiche copy SR Fiche 780-802   Application to Marry  
  National Archives of Ireland   NAI  
Sharp, Ian The Wolston Story, National Trust of Queensland 1998 p22   Wolston  
  Historical Records of New South Wales   HR NSW  
  Historical Records of Australia   HRA  
  D. Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its First Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, London, 1802, Vol. 1   Collins  
  History of the British Colonies By Robert Montgomery Martin   Robert Martin  
  The Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux   Vaux  
Gray, Nancy St. Lukes Church Scone. A Walk Round the Church Yard, Published by Scone & Upper Hunter Historical Society, Scone, 1985   A Walk Round the Church Yard  
Dawson, Robert The Present state of Australia: A Description of the Country, Its Advantages and Prospects with reference to Emigration; and a particular account of the manners, customs and condition of its aboriginal inhabitants   The Present State of Australia  
  Archives Office of NSW, Convict Death Register Fiche No. 749   CDR  
  Archive Office of NSW, Reel 2722 1836- 1838. Newcastle Gaol Entrance Books   NGE  
Google Books Gentlemen's Magazine 1839   GM  
  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine      
  Every Day Book of History      
  1837 - 1838 Baptisms, Marriages and Burials Register Book of Christ Church [Cathedral], Newcastle      
  Register Book of Christ Church [Cathedral] Newcastle Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1826 to May 1837      
  Marriages Register Book of Christchurch Cathedral, Newcastle 1856 - 1868      
  Marriages Register Book of Christchurch Cathedral, Newcastle 1869 - 1885      
  1820 to 1890 Family Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.      
 

1839 - 1861 Baptisms, Marriages and Burials Register Book of Christ Church

[Cathedral] Newcastle Baptisms, 1839 - 1861 Marriages, 1839 - Feb 1855 and Burials 1839 - 1854

     
  Church of England Marriage Register Book 1818 - 1825 University of Newcastle      
  Church of England Burials Register Book 1821 - 1825 - University of Newcastle      
  Australian Almanac 1863      
Robert Montgomery Martin History of the British Colonies      
  Australian Almanac & Directory 1835 (O'Shaunessy)      
Morpeth Progress Association 1971 The Morpeth Story      
  The Monthly Magazine      
  Colonial Secretary Electoral Rolls   ER  
  Moreton Bay Courier      
  The Courier (Hobart)      
  Brisbane Courier      
Wood, W. Allan Dawn in the Valley, The Early History of the Hunter Valley Settlement      
Kent, David; Townsend, Norma The Convicts of the Eleanor; Protest in Rural England, New Lives in Australia, 2002 ISBN 1-86403-172-7   Convicts of the Eleanor  
Edited by Maitland Family History Circle 2001 Maitland Family History Circle's Pre 1900 Pioneer Register      
  The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Advertiser      
Fulton, Pamela Jeanne., Ed., The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price. A Voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney NSW 1798 - 1800   The Minerva Journal  
  Index to Colonial Secretary Letters to Sheriff 5 July 1828 - 31 December 1850      
William Brown, Adam Clarke The History of Missions      
James Carmichael Smyth A Description of Jail distemper as it appeared among Spanish prisoners      
  Memorials of the Rev. Edward Griffith by his daughter, Brisbane, 1892      
  United Services Magazine      
Wood, W. Allan The Contribution of the Hunter Valley to the Development of New England, Armidale and District Historical Society., Journal and Proceedings No. 18 January 1975   Development of New England  
  In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural company: volume 1, December 1829 - June 1832      
  In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural company: volume 2, June 1832 - March 1834      
Henry Buckler Central Criminal Court - Minutes of Evidence      
Church Missionary Society Missionary Register      
  The Law Journal for the year 1832 - 1949      
  Parliamentary Papers Great Britain. Extracts of a despatch from Major-General Burke addressed to Mr. Secretary Stanley 15 January 1834   Secondary Punishment  
  Parliamentary Papers Great Britain. Volume 26   Parliamentary papers by Great British Parliament  
  National Archives, Kew      
  The Nile Register      
  The Naval Chronicle. Portsmouth Report      
  Return of Corporal Punishment, Parramatta 1833   Parliamentary Papers  
  29th Report of British and Foreign Bible Society 1833      
Maitland City Council Maitland Burial Records      
  Dodsley's Annual Register      
State Library of Victoria Government Gazettes 1836 - 1839   GG  
  Maitland Quarter Sessions February 1830 - August 1832      
State Records of NSW Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists), 1838-96 ; Persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-51  and Germans on bounty ships, 1849-52.      
  The Asiatic Journal and monthly Register      
AO NSW Colonial Secretary: Misc records re convicts, criminal & legal matters. List of assigned convicts who are not mechanics 1822 - 25 4/4570D pp1-88    List of assigned convicts who are not mechanics 1822 - 25 4/4570D pp1-88  
AO NSW Colonial Secretary: Special Bungle: Hunter River - Return of land cleared and other improvements made by emancipated and free settlers 1823 (4/77029E)   AO NSW Fiche 3264  
  The Gentleman's Magazine Volume 96 part 2      
  Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the colony of New South Wales - Morisset      
  A List of Officers in the Army British War Office 1837      
  A List of Officers in the Army British War Office 1821      
  A List of Officers in the Army British War Office 1824      
  British and Foreign State Papers      
  Pastfinders      
  Picture Australia      
Cultural Collections University of Newcastle The Diary of Charles George Gray      
  Historical Notices of several rebellions and disturbances   Historical Notices  
  Parliamentary Papers volume 266      
G. Paterson The History of New South Wales      
  National Gallery of Australia      
Cultural Collections University of Newcastle 1871 Parish of St. John's Newcastle Census      
  New South Wales Post Office Directory      
  Bedford Gaol Register      
  The Scottish Jurist      
  The proceedings of the court-martial of Captain Watkins      
  Royal Military Chronicle      
  United Service Magazine Volume 50      
  The Peerage.com      
Family History Society, Singleton 1989 Singleton District Pioneer Register - Contains Genealogical Details of Pioneer Families in the Singleton District pre 1900   Singleton Pioneer Register  
 

The Annual Register Volume 63 by Edmund Burke

     
  The Annual Register 1830      
Penny Russell This errant lady: Jane Franklin's overland journey to Port Philip and Sydney - Lady Jane Griffith Franklin   This errant lady  
Compiled by Dr. C.J. Smee & Mrs. Selkirk Provis The Bicentenary Pioneer Register, Second Edition, Volume 111      
George Farwell Squatter's Castle. The Story of A Pastoral Dynasty. Life and times of Edward David Stewart Ogilvie 1814 - 96, Lansdowne Press Pty Ltd., 1973   Squatter's Castle  
  World Corporation Punishment Research   UK Naval Flogging 1813  
  The United Service Journal Part 3      
  First Families 2001      
  Baillier's Post Office Directory 1867      
 

Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Diemen's Land ...By William Henry Breton

     
Gwendoline Griffin and Ronald Howell Port MacQuarie Historical Society Inc. 1996 Uptin Print 16-20 Milton Circuit Port MacQuarie N.S.W 2444 Port Macquarie The Windingsheet      

B C Jones  &  A C Eyers

Ourimbah, History of a New South Wales Timber Town to 1930

     
  Online microfilm of shipping Lists. State Library of NSW      
  Centenary History of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales      
James Backhouse

The life and labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania

     
  Glennridding Uniting Church Cemetery      
  Jerry's Plains Old Anglican Cemetery      
  Bandon Grove Cemetery      
  Bishops Bridge Anglican Cemetery      
  Branxton Catholic Cemetery      
  Branxton General Cemetery at Australian Cemeteries Index      
  Honeysuckle Cemetery      
  Newcastle Anglican Cathedral Cemetery      
  Clarencetown General Cemetery      
  East Maitland Anglican Cemetery      
  Five Months at Anzac by John Lieversley Beeston      
  Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828      
  Directory: Dublin Apothecaries 1791 1829      
  1788 1820 Association's Pioneer Register. Volume 1. Containing Genealogical Details of 500 Pioneers. Compiled by Dr. C.J. Smee, Mrs. J. Selkirk Provis      
Compiled by Dr. C.J. Smee & Mrs. J. Selkirk Provis The Bicentenary Pioneer Register, Second Edition, Volume 111, 1988      
  Surgeons at Sea - The National Archives      
  Responsible Government in NSW 1856 - 2006      
  State Records of NSW - Online Microfilm of Shipping Lists      
  Greville's Postal Directory 1872 - Newcastle      
  Source: alphabetical list of burials Newcastle: Newcastle City Council, 1967.      
  Convict Records Index      
  Index to Convict Pardons      
  Bench of Magistrate Cases 1788 - 1820      
  Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Archive Online      
W.H. Shaw The Newcastle Directory 1880/ 1881.      
  The History of Windeymere House      
Walker, R.B., University of New England Old New England: A History of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales 1818 - 1900, Sydney University Press, 1966   Old New England  
  Australian Autobiographical Narrative to 1850      
  Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Times      
  Cemetery Inscriptions in Sydney Branch Genealogical Library 1800 - 1960 (FamilySearch Historical Records)

     
  Australian Births and Baptisms - FamilySearch Historical Records      
  Australian Marriages 1810 - 1980 - FamilySearch Historical Records      
  Australian Deaths 1816 - 1980 - FamilySearch Historical Records      
  Welcome to Tabulam      
  Lancaster Castle Convict database      
William Henry Wells A Geographical Dictionary or Gazeteer of the Australian Colonies      
  November Marriages - Cornwall 1838 - Online      
State Records of NSW Registry of Flash Men      
  Australian History Catalogue online      
  Lincolnshire Convict Database      
  Old Christ Church Cemetery - King Street, Newcastle. Grave Inscriptions      
  Foxearth and District Local History Society      
  Raymond Terrace and District Historical Society Bulletin, Volume 5, No. 1, October 1981.      
  Cumberland & Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions      
  National Archives of Ireland Transportation database      
  Irish Family Memorial Site      
 

[Inscriptions from] Muswellbrook General Cemetery and Camberwell, St. Clements C. of E. transcribed by H. Ashford, S. Barwick and A.J. Gray

     
  General muster list of New South Wales 1823, 1824, 1825 / edited by Carol J. Baxter. Sydney, 1999      
  A Complete Parochial History of the County of Conrwall. edited by Joseph Poluse - St. Neots      
  Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons - Lower Hunter      
Denis Darmanin Memorial  and Biography of Lieutenant Scheberras      
  Memoirs of hydrography:  including brief biographies of the principal officers who have served in H.M. Naval Surveying Service between the years 1750 and 1885 (Google eBook   Memoirs of hydrography  
Babette Smith A Cargo of Women - Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal   A Cargo of Women  
  Bedfordshire Gaol Register      
Muswellbrook & Upper Hunter Historical Society 1988 Biographical Register of Muswellbrook & District, Vol 1      
Smee Dr. C.J Convict Families That Made Australia., Volume 1, 1999  ISBN 0 949 345 31 8   Convict Families That Made Australia - Smee  
  Travels in NSW - Alexander Marjoribanks      
 

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