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| Year | Links |
|---|---|
| Hunter Valley Place Names Notes on the origins and locations of Hunter Valley place names including many aboriginal place names. | |
| Hunter Valley Indigenous People | |
| 1795 | Charles Grimes - Account of the Natives of Port Stephens From An Account of the English Colony of New South Wales. |
| 1796 | David Collins records in his narrative An Account of the English Colony of New South Wales - That in June 1796 a group in a fishing boat returned from a bay near Port Stephens and brought with them several large pieces of coal which they found some little distance from the beach, lying in considerable quantity on the surface of the ground. Collins remarked that the fishermen had conducted themselves improperly while on shore, two of them were severely wounded by the natives, one of whom died soon after he reached the hospital. (p.328) |
| 1800 | Discovery of Lake Macquarie - The Master of the Martha was conducted by some natives to a spot at a small distance from the mouth, where he found an abundance of coal |
| 1808 | Murder at Newcastle |
| 1816 - 1818 | Corrobborree, or Dance of the Natives of New South Wales - Engraver Walter Preston. Artist Joseph Lycett. Depicted second from left in this image is Burigon, a leader of the Awakabal people of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie district - National Portrait Gallery |
| 1817 | Death of Private Peter Connachton At the hands of natives near Newcastle |
| 1818 | A Description of Newcastle Aboriginal people By traveller W.B. Cramp written in 1818 |
| 1819 | John Howe's Expedition |
| 1821 | John Bingle's excursion to Lake Macquarie |
| 1823 | Trial of Hatherly and Jackie |
| 1825 | An account of Missionary Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld First few months in Newcastle in 1825 in which he provides descriptions of the native tribe and their customs |
| 1825 | Ellen Bundock's Memoirs - Ellen Bundock's description of King Jerry of the Merton tribe |
| 1826 | Robert Dawson Arrival in Australia and Travels North from Port Stephens 1826 |
| 1830 | Announcement from the Sydney Gazette Rev. Threlkeld's Translation of the Awabakal Language |
| 1831 | Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell's description Of the remnants of the aboriginal tribe of Brisbane Water in 1831 |
| 1836 | Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell and John Waugh Drysdale Encounters with the Goulburn River tribe |
| 1836 | Boardman Plate in A series of twelve profile portraits of Aborigines of New South Wales, published by J. G. Austin, Sydney, 1836 William Fernyhough |
| 1839 | United States Exploring Expedition To Lake Macquarie in 1839 with mention of indigenous guides. |
| 1830s | Reminiscences of Aboriginal Customs Hunter and Paterson Rivers |
| 1800 - 1840 | Biraban and John Mander Gill |
| 1848 | Memoirs of Rev. Richard George Boodle Describing the remnants of the Muswellbrook tribe |
| 1832-1853 | James Larmer Notebook of Australian Aboriginal vocabularies State Library NSW - Brisbane Water and Hunter River |
Aboriginal Native Population in NSW 1848
Brisbane Water, 47 - Bench of Magistrates
Gosford, 50 - Rev. E. Rogers
Morpeth, 23 - Rev. G.A. Middleton
Newcastle, 29 - Rev. C.P.N. Wilton
Wollombi and McDonald River, 73 - David Dunlop
Lower Hawkesbury River, 27 - Rev. W.W. Simpson
Dungog, 63 - Bench of Magistrates
Paterson, 150 - Rev. W. Ross
Singleton, 70 - Rev. F. Cameron
Port Macquarie, 370 - Rev. Gray; Woodward
Scone, 75 - Bench of Magistrates
Raymond Terrace, 53 - Bench of Magistrates
District of Moreton Bay, 4000 - Wickham
Darling Downs, 500 - Rolleston
New England, 550 - Macdonald
