Notes on the Origins and Locations of Place Names


Newcastle - Lake Macquarie - Hunter Valley



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Failford - Co. Gloucester 219 miles N of Sydney. [37]

Fairfield Farm - Near Newcastle 1850s

Fairley - Holmesville

Fairylawn - Residence of J. Enright. Formerly the site of the iron gang stockade at Maitland

Falbrook - a stream of water in Co. Durham. Flows through Camberwell and into the Hunter River. Fed by the Carron and Goorangoola Creeks and the Foybrook. [37]Named after the River Fal in Cornwall, England [46]

Falbrook Estate - 4000 acres belonging to Alexander Brodie Sparke. Hunter Valley

False Bay - early name for Fingal Bay because mariners mistook it for Port Stephens

Fame Point - Port Stephens - named after the vessel Fame

Farley - Co. Northumberland. Named by Captain Emmanuel Hungerford, a settler of 1828, after his home town Farleigh near Bath, England

Farmborough - The original name of Branxton was Farmborough. Later it was known as Black Creek. Farmborough was part of William Bowen's estate

Fassifern - Suburb of Lake Macquarie. Co. Northumberland. Named after place in Loch Eil, Scotland [46]

Fennells Bay - named after Richard Fennell who settled in the district in 1847 [46]

Fenninghams Island and Mud Point - Located at the mouth of Tilligerry Creek, Port Stephens. Approx 1100 acres

Fenwick's Hill - near Gresford

Fermoy Cottage - Devonshire St. West. Maitland. Jeremiah Ledsam

Fernance - St. Albans district. Named after John and Charles Fernance, pioneers of the district

Fern Gully - Singleton district

Fern Hill - Singleton district

Ferodale - Raymond Terrace district [46]

Figtree Point - Point of land on the southern side of Fennell Bay bridge

Finch Mount - Co. Northumberland. A peak in the Hunter range about 6 miles SE of Wollombi. [37]

Fingal Bay - A bay situated in the county of Gloucester, near Port Stephens harbour. Early name False Bay

Firefly Creek - Co. Gloucester. A tributary of the head of the Burril Creek. [37]

Fishery Creek - located between Hexham and Sandgate - drained into Hexham Wetlands

Fitzroy - a parish in Co. of Gloucester bounded on the N. by Crosbie; S by Verulam, and E. by the Australian Agricultural Company's estate

Five Islands - Boolaroo; Teralba district

Flaggy Creek - located at Glenrock Lagoon

Flaggy Creek Reserve - East of Kahibah. Approx 300 acres

Flagstaff Hill - Newcastle (aboriginal name Tahlbihn Point). Early name for Fort Scratchley

Flowerbank Hill - Singleton

Fly Road - Co. Gloucester. Beteen Stephens Point and Toomeree Heads. [37]

Foley's Folly - Co. Parry. Quartz mining village situated 3 miles from Hanging Rock township. [37]

Forbestown - private subdivision at South Muswellbrook.

Fordwich - Wollombi Brook - Arthur Blaxland. Singleton district

Fordwick - Situated at Gammon Plains, Co. Brisbane

Forster - After William Forster, Premier of NSW 1859. Co. Gloucester. 227 miles N of Sydney. Called by the Manning River aboriginal Wooboomba meaning That Kangaroo

Fort Fiddlesticks - Convict name for Fort Scratchley

Fort Scratchley - former fortifications perched atop a large knoll that lies immediately behind, and overlooking, Nobbys Beach, the headland and the river mouth. Named for architect Col. Peter Scratchley Named Braithwaite's Head by Lieut. Shortland in 1797

Fosterton - small settlement near Chichester River. 10 miles N of Dungog

Four Mile Creek - Earlier name Bagman Creek. Tributary of the Hunter River flowing through Millers Forest

Foybrook - A stream of water in Co. Durham. Empties into the Hunter River near Camberwell

Frederick Point - Co. Northumberland - a tongue of land jutting out into Brisbane Water Harbour and forming part of the township of Gosford. [37]

Freeman's Waterhole - a settlement south of The Gap once known as Heatonville

Frenchmans Rock - Swansea - Named for the French ship Henri which foundered in 1852

Freshwater Bay - Shown on Barrallier's 1801 map of Newcastle Near Stockton [31]

Freshwater Creek - Teralba; also known as the Gravel Pits.

Friendship Point - early name for Soldiers Point, Port Stephens

Frog Hollow - Dudley.

Frying Pan Point - Lake Macquarie. South of Point Wolstoncroft

Fullerton Cove - After William Fullerton traveller and soldier 1754- 1808.[46] Situated Co. Gloucester. Extensive Cove of Port Hunter. A large lagoon on the N shore of the Hunter River opposite Newcastle. A large sandy island called Wallis' Island lies on its western side and a small sandbank at its entrance. [37]

Furrucabad Creek - Co. Gough - a small tributary of the Rocky Ponds Creek flowing near the township of Glen Innes


Notes on the Origins and Locations of the Hunter Region has been derived from the following sources

[1] Trove - National Library of Australia

[2] Newcastle Morning Herald 11 December 1954

[3] The Newcastle Sun 2 May 1918

[4] The Newcastle Sun 26 January 1931

[5] The Many names of Newcastle Mulumbinba

[6] The Muswellbrook Chronicle 8 November 1899 ( native names of place from black tracker Jimmy of Muswellbrook)

[7] Lake Macquarie History of Places

[8] Cadell, F.A., Survey of Newcastle, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1936

[9] Davies, Noel, Convict Nobbys : the story of the convict construction of Macquarie's Pier and the reconstruction of Nobbys Island

[10] Historical Roads of New South Wales

[11] Keith H. Clouten, Reid's mistake : the story of Lake Macquarie from its discovery until 1890

[12] County Electors in Newcastle 1855

[13] Hunter Estates Comparative Heritage Study

[14] The Dungog Chronicle 6 July 1949

[15] The Scone Advocate 24 July 1894 (Muswellbrook names)

[16] Wingham Chronicle 13 November 1931 (Manning River places)

[17] King Tom's Aboriginal Geography in Memorandum of E.C. Close, in Australian Town and Country Journal, 12 January 1878, p. 8.

[18] Aboriginal names, Australian Town and Country Journal 11 January 1879p. 17

[19] Henry Thomas Ebsworth papers, June 1825-February 1827; with illustration and maps

[20] Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy Front Cover Keith Robert Binney

[21] 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 (many of the aboriginal terms above have come from this source which is probably the language of the lower Hunter tribes)(many of the aboriginal terms above have come from this source which is probably the language of the lower Hunter tribes)

[22] Hunter Living Histories - Ludwig Leichhardt in Newcastle

[23] A geographical dictionary or gazetteer of the Australian colonies ... By William Henry Wells

[24] Placenames as a guide to language distribution in the Upper Hunter - Jim Wafer

[25] Lake Macquarie : past and present

[26] Wangi Wangi Street Names by Clive Read

[27] Forgotten place names of Lake Macquarie - Lake Macquarie Library online

[28] Lake Macquarie: Parish of Awaba, County of Northumberland, Shire of Lake Macquarie. Parish map in 4 sheets and reference sheet: South East Sheet

[29] Map of the Hunter River and its branches by Henry Dangar 1828

[30] Robert Dixon's 1837 Map - Trove

[31] Ensign Francis Barrallier's Map 1801 - Hunter Living Histories

[32] Australian Town and Country Journal 22 November 1873

[33] Procter's Sketch 1841 - Hunter Living Histories

[34] Tegg's Pocket Almanac

[35] Map of Young Wallsend (Edgeworth) showing Salty Creek Recreation Area, c.1920. Scanned from: Road and tourists' map of Lake Macquarie and environs, H. E. C. Robinson Limited, Sydney.

[36] Salty Creek Recreation Area

[37] Geographical Encyclopaedia of New South Wales

[38] Atlas of the settled counties of New South Wales - State Library NSW

[39] Maitland Weekly Mercury 4 July 1896

[40] Empire 3 Dec 1853 Lecture on the Kamilaroi Blacks (Rev. William Ridley)

[41) Israel's subdivision map of Wangi c. 1923. State Library of NSW

[42] Hunter 2000, National Trust of Australia (NSW), 1973

[43] Lauchland, E. S., Homes we Visited - Dumore. Newcastle & Hunter District Historical Society Journal, 1947 p. 39

[44] Boyle's Lower Hunter index, 1801-1883 (Harry Boyle)

[45] Hunter Valley Place Names and their Meanings, Newcastle Library, Archived 14 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[46] Toponomy: Place Names of New South Wales: Their Origin, Meaning and Locality, compiled by J. Carlos W. Stretch

[47] Rediscovering the Coquun: towards an environmental history of the Hunter River. Address given at the River Forum 2000 at Wyndham Estate, Hunter River; by Glenn Albrecht PhD, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies, The University of Newcastle

[48] How Many Inventors? Russell Rigby, Hunter Living Histories, 10 October 2017

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