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Retiring from business. Butcher's shop to let
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At the back of the East Maitland and Morpeth road
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Granted slaughtering licence for 1850
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Witness in court when three boys Thomas and John Carney and Thomas Rutter were charged with malicious injury
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Arnold Fisk appointed Landing Waiter and Pilot in room of Messrs John Rush Moore and William Eckford, resigned
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Late Pilot at Newcastle. Pension £4/13/9-
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Thomas Meehan received into the Maitland Hospital on the recommendation of Eckford
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Attended public meeting at the Plough Inn on behalf of the Irish Exiles
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History of the Colonies, Robert Martin
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Late Pilot at Newcastle. Received pension of 13 pounds per year
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Brought before the bench charged by Thomas Lamb with taking a handkerchief from his neck. Case dismissed
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Correspondence addressed to the Governor re the site of Maitland township
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Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Marriages p9
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Witness at the marriage of John Eckford and Eliza Duff
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Glebe Burial Grounds
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Maitland Burial Records
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Husband of Elizabeth (nee Clift). Died 29th July 1891 aged 82
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Maitland Quarter Sessions
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William Eckford found not guilty of stealing 2 bottles and 2 quarts of ale belonging to Edward Warland at Tamworth
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Hunter River Township no 19
Source:
AO NSW Fiche No. 3264.
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Improvements to this land included a wattle barn; a wattle and plaster cottage; huts, garden and pig yard
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Northumberland Co. Parish of Maitland at Wallis Plains
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Land Grant . 40 acres promised by Sir Ralph Darling on 26th September 1829, and possession authorised 4th March 1830 as a small grant
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William Williams per 'Countess of Harcourt' assigned servant
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Marriage of Albert, only son of John Apps of Morpeth to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Quinn of Morpeth and granddaughter of William Eckford of East Maitland on 13th August 1879. Minister Rev. J. W. Upjohn
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Sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for stealing a horse belonging to Mary Eckford (his grandmother). Witness Peter Eckford
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Church of England, Newcastle
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Church of England Marriage Register Book 1818 - 1825. University of Newcastle
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No. 35. Marriage of Frederick Dixon to Jane Eckford, both of Newcastle. Witnesses William Eckford and Ann Binder. Minister Rev. G.A. Middleton
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Evidence before J.T. Bigge
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EVIDENCE OF WILLIAM ECKFORD, PILOT 21 JANUARY, 1820 1. How long have you been pilot? Two years and a half. 2. By whom were you appointed? By the Governor on the recommendation of Captain Wallis. 3. What is your pay and emolument? A ration and a half daily, a house to live in and for piloting private vessels only, five shillings for those not exceeding fifty tons and all above, twenty shillings. 4. How long have you been a prisoner in the [this] country? I was tried about six years ago before Judge Bent. 5. Is every vessel bound to take a pilot? I do not know whether they are obliged to take one, but they all do if not for the pilotage for the sake of the boat [i.e., to obtain the assistance of the pilot's boat, especially in tacking] as they are all weakly manned themselves. 6. Is the harbour difficult to enter? It is and a very dangerous harbour, on account of the shifting of the sands and the variety of currents caused by the passage between the main[land] and the island called Nobbys. 7. What draught of water is there at low and high tide? Four fathom at high water and two and a half at low. 170 in some places it is more; but at low water without a leading wind a vessel could not enter, the channel is so narrow. 8. What is the greatest tonnage which vessels ought to be that come to load at this port? Not exceeding one hundred though at spring tides larger may come. They must however wait for a fair wind and the springs to go out. 9. Have many vessels been lost since you have been pilot? Only one and she drove from her anchors in the harbour 2 on shore and was entirely lost, 10. Have you heard of many being lost here? A great many, 11. Were these losses occasioned by being blown off in attempting to enter the harbour? Chiefly by want of skill in the persons commanding and 3 ol those vessels bound to the Hawkesbury. 12. Are the colonial private vessels badly fitted out which come here? Yes, they are. 13. Is the anchorage in the harbour here good? The holding ground is but there is a want of room.http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/116030/Oral_evidence_from_William_Eckford.pdf
