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203135
Surname: Co-operative Colliery Plattsburg
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 18 November 1929
Place: Plattsburg
Source: NMH
Details: Brief history of the beginning of Wallsend Co-operative mine in NMH in 1929: Mr. William Adam, of Throsby-street; Wickham, who. is now over 80 years of age, and was one of those engaged in the transportation of the first coal won, to Newcastle, via Iron Bark Creek. Mr. Adam wrote: My memory tells me that it was during a strike in 1862 that a party of miners first struck the coal. I well remember leaving Bullock Island in a rowing boat with a party, the other members of which were the late John Howden, James Macara, P. Clark, and my father, Thomas Adam. We went right to the head of the creek, and going up to where the coal was struck, saw the miners throwing it over their shoulders on to the bank. It was my father who had the contract to take the coal to Newcastle, and after it was brought down the creek on small punts, it was placed on board a lighter moored below the bridge (the lighter was named The Islander, and was built on Bullock Island). When the first. cargo was loaded, it took us a fortnight to get down to North Harbour, and I have reason never to forget the experience. IRON BARK CREEK. Besides being used for coal transportation, Iron Bark Creek was availed of for the conveyance of goods from Newcastle to Wallsend s first storekeepers, before the construction of Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company s branch railway. To-day, beyond serving the purpose of Wallsend river men, keen fishermen, who have boats housed on the banks of the creek, the waterway merely is Wallsend s drainage outlet. Probably no colliery in the Northern district has had such an eventful career as the Co-operative mine. Most of the surface plant is still in use to-day in connection with operations in Wallsend-Borehole mine, a non-associated pit, which employs upwards of 60 hands, and, of course, is working regularly. As its name indicated, Co-operative was originally in the hands of a party of miners, and although the co-operative venture failed, the early struggles of the men to amass fortunes are well worthy of a fore-most place in the history of coalmining in this State. On November 25, 1861, James Fletcher, Alan Wilde, Hugh Walker, Samuel Fletcher, William Wonders, George Curtiss, Thomas Alnwick, Robert Forrester, Richard Peeks, William Davis, Duncan Cherry, William Bower, James Richardson, Matthew MacLaren, and James Nelson, all practical miners, engaged in other pits, entered into an agreement, the document setting forth that the parties had leased from Messrs. Kenrick, Kenrick. Brooks. and Company, a parcel of land containing, 1280 acres, with the right to mine the coal underlying it at a royalty of 6d per ton . TUNNEL DRIVEN. In 1862 a tunnel was driven into the outcrop of the seam, adjacent to the screens being used by Wallsend-Borehole to-day. John King and James Goldie turned the first sods, and the first manager was Alan Wilde, with Thomas Hepplewhite as under-manager. For many years the mineral was hauled out of this tunnel. The first won was carted to the head of Iron Bark Creek and loaded on to barges, for transportation to Newcastle. Then, in 1863, when Newcastle-Wallsend Coal, Company completed its branch railway, screens were erected near the junction of what is still known as the Co-operative line, and over a trestle bridge from the tunnel to the screens the loaded skips were hauled on a tram line by horses. Among those engaged as drivers were John Horn, William Hepplewhite, William Duncanson, William Richmond. John King, James Goldie, Walter Beveridge, Thomas Hepplewhite, James Adamson, George Hutchison, and George Stone.
100253
Surname: Coal River
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Wood., W. Allan., 'Dawn in the Valley', the Story of Settlement in the Hunter River Valley., Wentworth books, Sydney, 1972
Details: pp., 1, 60, 160, 246, 267
54379
Surname: Coar
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1840
Place: Dungog
Source: Dungog Bench Books. Copies of letters sent. Reel No 2679
Details: Assigned servant Thomas Buckingham awaiting trial for receiving stolen goods
54380
Surname: Coar
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1840
Place: Dungog
Source: Dungog Bench Books. Copies of Letters sent. Reel 2679
Details: Farm not prosperous and said to be improperly run
59245
Surname: Coar
First Name: J
Ship: -
Date: 1840 19 December
Place: Wallaringa
Source: CSIL 40/13033
Details: House taken over on Sunday 29th November by armed bushrangers who stayed until 7am the next morning
124630
Surname: Coar
First Name: J
Ship: -
Date: 1838 23 April
Place: Maitland
Source: SH
Details: Marriage of J. Coar and Miss H.S.M. Silk of Maitland on 10th April by Special License. Minister Rev. John Gregor
124631
Surname: Coar
First Name: J
Ship: -
Date: 1838 23 April
Place: Maitland
Source: SH
Details: Marriage of J. Coar and Miss H.S.M. Silk of Maitland on 10th April by Special License. Minister Rev. John Gregor
67525
Surname: Coar
First Name: J.J
Ship: -
Date: 1838 26 September
Place: Williams River
Source: GG
Details: Assigned 3 convict labourers, 1 tailor
7965
Surname: Coar
First Name: J.J.
Ship: -
Date: 1843 20 May
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Member of committee to support Mr. Foster for election to the Legislative Council
52906
Surname: Coar
First Name: James J
Ship: -
Date: 1840 10 December
Place: Wallaringa
Source: SH/ An Organised Banditti, p.70
Details: Property leased or recently purchased from H.I. Pilcher raided by bushrangers
174950
Surname: Coar
First Name: Jeremiah
Ship: -
Date: 21 June 1836
Place: Maitland
Source: James Backhouse
Details: We dined with Jeremiah Coar, who is temporarily living in a rude hut of split timber, nearly two miles from the inn where we lodged. He accompanied us a few miles on our way; on which we were met by William Dumaresq who put us upon the new line of road to the upper district of the Hunter River... Extract from the letters of James Backhouse: whilst engaged in a Religious Visit to Van Diemens Land, New South Wales & South Africa accompanied by George Washington Walker, London 1842, Volume 1,.
189769
Surname: Coar
First Name: Jeremiah
Ship: -
Date: 13 January 1852
Place: Woolloomooloo
Source: Empire
Details: Charged with robbery. Represented by Parry Long. Case dismissed and Jeremiah Coar discharged from custody without the slightest stain on his character
189770
Surname: Coar
First Name: Jeremiah
Ship: -
Date: 8 November 1864
Place: Palmer Street, Woolloomooloo
Source: SMH
Details: Death, at the residence of his parents, after a lingering illness, Herbert Tennant Ives Coar, third son of Mr. Jeremiah Coar, aged 8 years
189768
Surname: Coar
First Name: Jeremiah
Ship: Lotus 1835
Date: 3 November 1835
Place: Sydney
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: Jeremiah Coar passenger on the Lotus from London
189767
Surname: Coar
First Name: Jeremiah and Harriet
Ship: -
Date: 31 March 1847
Place: Abode Sydney
Source: Maitland Baptism Register p. 162
Details: Rice Ives Coar, son of Jeremiah and Harriet Ives, born 8 January 1847. Baptised 8 January 1847. Occupation of Jeremiah Coar - clerk
119907
Surname: Coar
First Name: Jeremiah Ives
Ship: -
Date: 1849 29 September
Place: Elizabeth St. Sydney
Source: MM
Details: Writing clerk. Insolvency proceedings
189771
Surname: Coar
First Name: Jeremiah Ives
Ship: -
Date: 6 January 1885
Place: -
Source: SMH
Details: Death - at his residence, Mount Vernon Street, Forest Lodge, Jeremiah Ives Coar, aged 74
189766
Surname: Coar
First Name: Rice Ives
Ship: -
Date: 31 March 1847
Place: Abode Sydney
Source: Maitland Baptism Registr p. 162
Details: Rice Ives Coar, son of Jeremiah and Harriet Ives, born 8 January 1847. Baptised 8 January 1847. Occupation of Jeremiah Coar - clerk
47024
Surname: Coastal Trader 'Alice'
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1831 30 August
Place: Bungaree Norah
Source: SG
Details: Captain Clavell
47020
Surname: Coastal Trader 'Ellen'
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1831 30 August
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Captain Reeves