Notes on the Origins and Locations of Place Names
Newcastle - Lake Macquarie - Hunter Valley
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Jackass Falls - Seaham
Jack's Creek - Liverpool Plains
Jacob and Joseph - station of John Eales situated at Liverpool Plains
Jarvistone - near Nelson's Plains - Dangar's map [29]
Jenny's Creek - Co. Parry - a small auriferous tributary of the Peel River joining it at Bowling Alley Point Diggings. [37]
Jerry's Plains - Co. of Hunter on the South bank of the Hunter River. Old name Cumnaroy. The plain is surrounded by high ridges known as the Bulga Mountains.[37]
Jervis Farm - Farm belonging to Alexander Warren, Williams River
Jesmond - Suburb of Newcastle. Named after a suburb of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England [46]
Jewells (near Belmont) Should be Jules, as it was named after Jules Windeyer an old resident of Newcastle who used to go shooting there, or, named after Alec Jewell, the licencee of the Belmont Hotel 1923-25 [46]
Jewhurst's Farm - 900 acres originally granted to George Townshend, Paterson
Jew's Lagoon - on Namoi River
Jigadee Creek - early name for Sandy Creek a branch of Dora Creek
Jilliby - Wyong district - Aboriginal meaning - a valley or where two creeks meet [46]
Jilliby-Jilliby Creek - Co. Northumberland - a tributary of the Wyong Creek fed by the Nellering Creek.
Johnson's Hill - Paterson
Johnys Point - near Silverwater, Lake Macquarie.
Jonestown - Cardiff. Part of John Jones 1862 land grant
Jooloogan Estate - at Dartbrook
Judge Dowling - a range of mountains situated in the Co. of Northumberland, a part of the Carmarthen Mountains. Formerly named the Devil's Backbone. 65 miles from Sydney. From this spot may be seen ' Yengo,' a remarkable flat-topped mountain to N.W., Well's Gazeteer
Jump-up - Later known as Belford
Jump-up Creek - Patrick Plains. A small souther tributary of the Hunter River flowing through the township of Belford
Jump-up Hill - Mount Royal Ranges
Juri - Co. of Parry. A township on the northern railway to the S of Tamworth. [37]
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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