Notes on the Origins and Locations of Place Names


Newcastle - Lake Macquarie - Hunter Valley



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Kahibah - Quick, active, eager (aboriginal meaning) [46]. See Dangar's map [29]

Kaiaraba - place of sea weeds

Kalburn Estate - Near Trevallyn on the Paterson River

Kalingo or Kaligo- near Ellalong (aboriginal meaning by the water)

Kalingo Colliery - established 1939 near Cessnock

Kallitoota - Denman district. Aboriginal meaning Evergreen [46]

Kalongba - Wollombi district - Aboriginal meaning - a faraway place [46]

Kalsina Flat - Mayfield East was originally known as Kalsina Flat because the original inhabitants worked at the Calcina Furnaces at the Port Waratah copper smelting works.

Kaluda - 560 acres part of the original Lochinvar estate granted to Leslie Duguid purchased by J.F. Doyle. John Doyle established a vineyard which was managed by P. Terrior. By 1933 the farm was a dairy and owned by the Gurr family

Kamilaroi tribe - from headwaters of the Hunter from the Talbragar to the Nunmurra waters

Kangaroo Hills - Lease of Henry Dangar in the New England

Kangra Creek - Co. Northumberland - a small tributary of the Mangrove Creek. [37]

Kangy Angy - a mountain situated in Co. Northumberland near Wyong Creek

Kankool - Murrurundi district. Aboriginal meaning - a wallaroo [46]

Kanwal - also Kauwal. Aboriginal meaning great, large - referring to the Tuggerah Lake [46]

Karakunba - a place of swamp oaks

Kareen - a river situated in district of Liverpool Plains; flows into the Gwyder

Karrabee - Denman district. Aboriginal meaning - a cockatoo [46]

Karraganbar - Wyong district - Aboriginal meaning - a place of swamp oak trees [46]

Karraganbal Point - Co. Northumberland. Tuggerah Beach Lakes. [37]

Karrak - Manning River aboriginal meaning Spittle

Kars Springs - Scone district

Karuah - A native plum tree (aboriginal meaning). Parish situated in Co. Gloucester bounded on the N. by A.A. Co Estate; on the S. by Tarean; E. by the Karuah river; and W. by Horton

Kawanggawa Brook - Flows into the Hunter River -Dangar's Map [29]

Kayuga - A plain (aboriginal meaning) [46]. Estate of Donald McIntyre - Upper Hunter. Kamilaroi aboriginal name Talgoobewaa

Kearsley - After William Kearsley the first member of Parliament for Cessnock

Keel-keelba - a place of grass tree

Keepit - district of Liverpool Plains on the Namoi river. William Sims Bell's station

Keepit - Co. of Parry, postal village 313 miles N. of Sydney. [37]

Keera - district of Liverpool Plains on Bundara Creek; A. McPherson's station

Keightly st. Newcastle - named after Stewart Keightly, Mayor of Newcastle [3]

Keinbah - Maitland district. Aboriginal meaning - Place of termites [46]

Kellabakh - Manning River aboriginal name for the Blue Gum Tree

Kelso Estate - Near Singleton. Alexander Munro established the Bebeah Vineyard on the estate

Kelso Place - Singleton

Kelvinside - estate near Aberdeen

Kemp St. Newcastle - named after Simon Kemp, Mayor of Newcastle [3]

Kendall Grange - Morisset Park

Kennington - Estate of William Peppercorn and then William Bowden. Near Tomago on the opposite bank to the Hexham Hotel ( 1878). Named after a suburb of London [46]

Kenrick Cottage - Lake Macquarie Road, Newcastle 1862

Kenrick St. Newcastle - named after Atwell Kenrick, wharf manager and coal salesman who succeeded William Croasdill [3]

Kerowahlahrn - Dangar's 1828 map - area between Lake Macquarie and Catherine Hill Bay

Keerrabee - Co. Durham. Postal village 35 miles from Muswellbrook. [37]

Khangat Mount - Co. of Gloucester. A lofty peak lying on the S. bank of the Manning River 16 miles W of Wingham. [37]

Khanterin - Aboriginal name for Shepherd's Hill, Newcastle

Khappingal Creek - Co. of Gloucester. A small southern tributary of the Kooraingal Creek. [37]

Kiambir - run at Liverpool Plains taken up by John Miller

Kickerbill (Gilcoobil)- station of A and J. Blaxland in district of Liverpool Plains

Kilaben Bay (Killibinbin)- Lake Macquarie. Aboriginal meaning shining, bright, glorious [46]

Kilbrawny - Butterwick - see Dangar's Map Kilcoy Estate - Raymond Terrace; also known as Timavus; a grant to W. McLean

Killabin - Shining (aboriginal meaning)

Killarney station - The Narrabri, or Nurrabri, better known as Killarney station was first taken up by Mr. Andrew Doyle

Killawarra - Manning River aboriginal meaning for a Scrub

Killingworth - coal mining town south of West Wallsend. Named after a place north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [46]

Killiton Grove - Dungog district

Kilwinning - Raymond Terrace district - named after a place in Ayreshire, Scotland [46]

Kimbriki - Manning River aboriginal meaning for where a kind of water weed grows. Co. of Gloucester

Kimdibakh - Co. of Gloucester. 211 miles N. of Sydney. [37]

Kimmergham Estate - Michael Henderson - Raymond Terrace

Kincumber - Belonging to an old man (aboriginal meaning) [46]. Situated Co. Northumberland, Brisbane Water

Kindur (native name for Gwydir)

Kingdon Ponds - Scone district. A stream situated in the Co. of Brisbane; rises on the Liverpool range and flows into Dartbrook

Kingdon Ponds - Co. Brisbane - a small agricultural village on the creek of the same name 6 miles N. of Scone. [37]

Kinghome - Also known as Torryburn. Grant to John McIntyre - Allyn River

King Junction - Singleton district

King's Creek. Flows into the Hunter River. Near James Arndell's estate (see Dixon's map)

King's Street, Newcastle - named after Governor Phillip Gidley King [3]

King's Town - Early name for Newcastle after Philip Gidley King

Kinross - first known as Warraburreen. Grant to George Thomas Graham. Later purchased by Archibald Windeyer. Near Raymond Terrace. Named after a place near Perth, Scotland [46]

Kintiirrabin / Kentiirabin - aboriginal name for a small extinct volcano on the sea coast near Red Head north east of Lake Macquarie {Threlkeld}

Kirkdale - early name for Arcadia Vale after Joseph Kirk early settler

Kirkton - Estate of William Kelman. Named after Kirktown, Scotland by John Busby

Kirin Rd - Wangi. Aboriginal meaning Queen - Israel's subdivision map c. 1923)

Kitchener - Cessnock district. Named after Kitchener of Khartoum [46]

Kiwarrie - Manning River aboriginal meaning - A lump on a tree, hollow at the top

Klundul - Manning River aboriginal name for where the Wild Carrot grows. Name for Cundletown.

Knockfinn Estate - (also Noch-fin; Knockfen) 8 miles from Maitland. Adjacent to the village of Lochinvar. Estate belonging to Vicars Jacob

Koikaligba - a place of brambles

Koiyog - the site of any native camp -Threlkeld [21].

Kolen Kolen - Mountain near Donny Brook - Dangar's Map[29]. Mount Elizabeth. Kolen = water (Aboriginal meaning)

Kollemungul (Kamilaroi)- Station on the Liverpool Plains on a lagoon of that name. Kolle means water, and mungul means mosquitoe. [40]

Komilla - Liverpool Plains [40]

Kona-konaba - Aboriginal name of the place where the stone called kona-kona is found. Name of a large mountain at the northern extremity of Lake Macquarie -Threlkeld [21]. Known as Murdering Gully.

Kooindah - Port Stephens district. Aboriginal meaning - the sun or day [46]

Koolbury - Muswellbrook district. Aboriginal name for Emu. Koolbury is the name of a closed railway station on the Main North railway line in the Hunter Region. The station opened in 1909 and has been removed, no trace now remains

Koolewong - Gosford district. Aboriginal name a native bear [46]

Koonawarra - Scone district. Duck's high place (Aboriginal meaning) [46]

Kooragang - Estate situated on Mosquitto island, Port Hunter. Estate of Rev. C. Pleydell N. Wilton, Chaplain of Christ Church Newcastle (1848 Well's Gazetteer). Aboriginal meaning Brolga

Kooraingel Creek - Co. of Gloucester - a small stream rising to the S. of Tinonee, flowing into the oceean at Halliday's Point. [37]

Koore Creek - Co. of Northumberland - a small tributary of the Mangrove Creek. [37]

Kooroora Bay - Bay on the lake side of the Fennell Bay bridge

Kopurrba - name of the place from which the aborigines obtained the kopurra a yellowish earth -Threlkeld [21]

Korribakle Creek - Co. of Gloucester - a small creek draining Larry's Flat, and flowing into Burril Creek. [37]

Kotara - A club (aboriginal meaning Kotirra - Threlkeld [21]. . Suburb of Newcastle.

Krambakh -Gloucester district. Manning River aboriginal meaning - a kind of gum tree the bark of which is used for torches [46]

Kuloo - Estate of the Bettington family at Merriwa

Kulubal - a creek situated in district of Liverpool Plains running through the A.A. Co's estate

Kummari - Wangi. Aboriginal meaning - north. (Israel's subdivision map c. 1923)

Kumbaddelo - Liverpool Plains [40]

Kundibakh - Manning River aboriginal name for The Apple Tree

Kundabakl Creek - Co. of Gloucester, a small tributary of Burril Creek, draining Larry's Flat. [37]

Kurraka - Awabakal for the entrance to Glenrock Lagoon

Kurrahboolya -Meaning fork, two gullies, two streams etc., aboriginal name for the junction of the Crawford and Myall Rivers. Bulahdelah.

Kurra-kurran - the name of a place in which there is almost a forest of petrifications of wood of various sizes. It is in a bay at the north western extremity of Lake Macquarie {Threlkled [21]}

Kurrundarra - homestead of Archibald Bell later known as Corinda. Situated across the Hunter River from Glendon - Dangar's Map[29]

Kurranulla Creek - Flows into Carrow Brook. Mt. Royal Ranges.

Kurri Kurri - The beginning, the very first (aboriginal meaning) [46]

Kuttai - the site of Sydney Light house or any peninsula

Kyle - Co. of Gloucester. A postal village 261 miles N of Sydney. [37]

Kyuga - also Kayuga. Muswellbrook district - aboriginal meaning - a plain [46]


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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