Notes on the Origins and Locations of Place Names
Newcastle - Lake Macquarie - Hunter Valley
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Oakfield - Co. Northumberland on the Hunter River 7 miles from Newcastle; estate of John Smith
Oakenville Creek - Hanging Rock. Also known as Ogunbil Creek, Oakey Creek, Hookavil Creek and Hanging Rock Creek
Oakhampton - Named by Robert Lethbridge, an early settler after a town in the heart of Dartmoor, England where it is spelled Okehampton [46]
Oaklands - Estate of George Pearce Bowman near Singleton
Oaklands - Owned by Richard Windeyer. Adjoined Tomago
Oakleigh - Residence of Richard Alcorn (2nd) in 1879. Singleton
Oak Range - Jerry's Plains near Arrowfield- Ellis family in 1872
Oak Park - Estate of Edward Drake at Patrick Plains
Oakvale - Co. of Northumberland - an Agricultural district lying on the road from Maitland to Mount Vincent. [37]
Oakvale - Dungog district - Rapson family
Obanvale - Singleton district
Ogunbil Creek - Co. of Parry - an eastern auriferous tributary of the Peel River
Old Banks - Name given to the site of an early cedar cutter's camp and military barracks on the Paterson River located in the area of Mindaribba near Tocal Road Onall Creek - flows into Port Stephens - Dangar's Map[29]
Olinga - Denman district - Aboriginal meaning - to lie down, to go to sleep [46]
Omadale Creek - Co. of Gloucester, an eastern tributary of the head of the Hunter River flowing past the S side of Omadale Hill
Onebygamba - also known as Corrumbah, Chapman Island, Bullock Island and Carrington. Place of mud mounds or large island (aboriginal meaning)
Orana - Street in Gwandalan, Lake Macquarie. (Aboriginal meaning - welcome)
Orangegrove - A grant of 100 acres to John Powell. Adjoined Duninald on the banks of the Paterson River
Ordnance Street Newcastle - adjoined old ordinance land and military quarters. Ordnance stores were on the southern side [3]
Orianbah - about 16 miles from Maitland (Aust. Town and Country Journal 29 April 1871)
Orindinna - Vineyard of Thomas Patch - Upper Paterson River
Orpheline Cottage - Presbyterian Glebe West Maitland
Orrabar - Station of Joseph Fleming in the New England district. Bushranger Gentleman Dick captured here
Orungal Point - Port Stephens - Dangar's Map [29]
Osborne Estate - Arcadia Vale
Osterley - near Hinton - Estate belonging to Edwin Hickey 1830s
Oswald Estate - Harper's Hill - Grant to William Harper 8 miles from Maitland
Oswald - Co. of Northumberland - hamlet about 1 mile from Lochinvar
Ourimbah - The ring or circle on the Bora ground where youths are made men (aboriginal meaning) [46]. Co. of Northumberland. village 67 miles N. of Sydney. [37]
Ourimba Creek - stream with two branches one flowing into the Tuggerah Beach Lake and the other into Brisbane Water. [37]
Overton - Grant to Francis Allman. Co. Brisbane near Muswellbrook. Kamilaroi aboriginal name Gola
Ovingham - Parish in Co. Northumberland bounded on the N. by the parish of Belford and Whittingham; W by Vere; and E. by Rothbury
Owen's Gap - Scone district - named after Samuel Owens, an early settler in the district [46]
Owl Pen Farm - near Maitland. Farm of Robert Hungerford
Oyster Bank - A patch of rock jutting into the sea where the northern breakwater was later built. Newcastle Harbour
Oyster Beach - Port Stephens (see Barrallier's 1801 map)
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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