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77236
Surname: Newcastle Coal Mines (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 5 May 1805
Place: Newcastle
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: Account by John Platt of the coal mines on the sea side of Govt. House
78081
Surname: Newcastle Coal Mines (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 24 July 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Coal procured in 12 months that Captain Gillman commanded exceeded quantity procured in any preceding year. Another coal pit being sunk
78520
Surname: Newcastle Coal Mines (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 30 May 1828
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Coal Mine sunk in Colonel Morisset s time fallen in. Another mine opened producing 15 tons per day.
78811
Surname: Newcastle Coal mines (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 14 May 1832
Place: Newcastle
Source: Sydney Herald
Details: Strata of stone in the shaft where miners working. Question whether stone to be blasted or new shaft opened
111107
Surname: Newcastle Convict Barracks
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1831 21 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Superintendent of Public Works at Newcastle intending to convert the Prisoner's Barracks at Newcastle into a hospital. Tenders called
125498
Surname: Newcastle Convict Barracks
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1831 25 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Tender called for Alteration to the Prisoner's Barracks at Newcastle. To be converted into a Hospital
78471
Surname: Newcastle convict barracks
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1827 22 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: 60 prisoners confined; only half had a blanket. Building in disrepair with rain pouring through the roof during last storm
78488
Surname: Newcastle Convict Barracks
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1827 28 September
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Old convict barracks to be sold by auction
78493
Surname: Newcastle Convict Barracks
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1827 5 October
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Buildings used as a carpenter and wheelwright shop to be converted to convict barrack for prisoners at Newcastle. Upper room for sleeping, lower as a mess room. Prisoners removed from the old barrack previous Saturday
86907
Surname: Newcastle Copper Smelting Company
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 22 November
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Article re progress of Company
31960
Surname: Newcastle Copper Smelting Company (industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 6 September 1851
Place: Newcastle
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Correspondence regarding the Newcastle Copper Smelting Company at Burwood where a quantity of pure copper from ores imported from New Zealand and South Australia
78519
Surname: Newcastle Cottage (*probably near Cottage Creek)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1828 9 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Youngest son of Lieutenant Sweeney of Royal Veterans. Died after a lingering and painful illness occasioned by a residence in an unhealthy cottage near a swamp at Newcastle
203287
Surname: Newcastle Council Chambers
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: 55 Watt-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 12 December 1929
Details: Council meetings were first conducted in the old Court House building in Hunter Street. By 1874 the meetings and council administration were being held in an old building in Watt Street that had been built by convict labour in 1818. From 1818 to 1874 the old building had been used as military offices and residence in connection with the penal settlement and also as a post office. It was acquired by the borough council c. 1874, and used as a municipal chambers until the new council chambers, were erected in front of it a decade later. The old building was demolished in 1923. United Servies Club later occupied the building
203286
Surname: Newcastle Council Chambers; Soldier Barracks
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Watt-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 25 December 1908
Details: In 1908 the Newcastle Morning Herald reported - The oldest building in Watt street still stands, but it is hidden from view by the council chambers. It was built In 1818, and was occupied by the officer in charge of the Commissariat (Major Russell). Afterwards it did duty as a post-office, and in the early 1870s was handed over to the borough council, being used as a council chambers until the new chambers were erected in front of it.
63775
Surname: Newcastle Court House
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1840 3 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: Commercial Journal and Advertiser
Details: Built by Richardson and Hudson
82154
Surname: Newcastle Court House
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1836 25 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Tenders called for building a new Court House
84784
Surname: Newcastle Court House
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 6 August
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Meeting of electors of Newcastle for the purpose of meeting Charles Kemp who had been requested to become a candidate for representing the NE Boroughs
88169
Surname: Newcastle Court House
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1840 3 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: CJ
Details: Almost finished. Designed by colonial architect Mortimer Lewis. Slate for the roof from Sydney
88431
Surname: Newcastle Court House
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1841 12 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: FP
Details: New Court house an ornament to the town
112952
Surname: Newcastle Court House
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1841 25 May
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Tenders called to Carpenters, Joiners etc to fit up the new Court House at Newcastle