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Shareholder in Hunter River New Steam Navigation Co., Candidate for the appointment of Director
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Advertising to employ carriers to proceed to the Warialda, Bingera and Mudgee gold diggings
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Purchased the river steamer 'Native' and repaired and fitted her with new machinery
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Charged George Reid under the Masters and Servants Act with absconding from employment
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Advertising to employ a man to work a 5 ton boat on the Rivers Hunter, William and Paterson and two men to make themselves useful on a small steam boat
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Windmill Farm,Phoenix Park
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Selling crop of grapes of about 5 acres + the windmill on the farm (to beremoved by purchaser). Mill contained a pair of 4ft 4in best French Burr Mill Stones, Dressing machine and complete set of new sails
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James Fitzgerald per 'Heber' assigned servant
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James Foley per 'Heber' assigned servant
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Situated between Morpeth and Hinton on the Phoenix Park side
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To let the 'Windmill Farm'. 23 acres lucerne, vineyard, orangery. etc
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Morpeth Burial Ground
Source:
Maitland Burial Records
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William Miller per Nithsdale assigned servant
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St. Marys Church, West Maitland
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Marriage of Henry Dumaresq, fifth son of the late Mr. John Portus, of Morpeth to Hannah, fourth daughter of Mr. Spencer Butler of West Maitland on16 October 1862. Minister Rev. Robert Chapman
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John Portus was proprietor of the Morpeth Mills in 1845, and he had the cutter Ellen plying between Morpeth, Clarencetown, Paterson, Raymond Terrace and Newcastle carrying flour grain and mill offal
Source:
Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions Letter Book
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William Ball per Bengal Merchant having obtained employment for three months in the service of John Portus of Morpeth, a request that his pass may be extended for that time to complete his engagement
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The Maitland Daily Mercury
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Pasted on the back of some music that belonged to the family of John Inches was a piece of news published in 1840. An advertisement for the sale of an eight horse power steam (flour) mill, erected at Raymond Terrace. The information is supplied that the depth of water at the wharf at any time is sufficient to allow the steamer James Watt to lay alongside, and that the mill and machinery had been erected by that able and experienced engineer, Mr. George Coke The virtues of the flour mill and site are described at length with an assurance from the auctioneer, Mr. Samuel Lyons that in a few years there would be for the purchaser on certainty of realising a handsome competency if not an independent fortune. This was in the days when this locality was looked upon as the wheat growing district of N.S.W. There are no records available as to whether the well known Portus family actually purchased the mill in 1840 but for many years till 1867, it was worked by them day and night, so great was the business done. In that year, however rust in the wheat caused the mill to close down, and the property came into the possession of the late John Eales of Duckenfield, from whom it was purchased in 1874 by Thomas Adam and converted into a sawmill and worked it as such for several years. Mr. Adam, after whom the suburb Adamstown is called, as the father Mr. A.L. Adam and it was at this old mill that the latter, at the age of 13 ½ years first commenced work.
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Came Free. Aged 29 in 1828. Millwright employed by T.P. MacQueen
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John and Elizabeth
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle. Baptisms p19
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Occupation: Millwright. Baptism of daughter Helen
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John and Elizabeth
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Maitland Baptism Register
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John, son of John and Elizabeth Portus born 28 March 1829. Baptised 28 January 1831. Occupation of John Portus, Engineer on the Estate of Thomas Potter Macqueen
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Marriage of John Oxley Portus of Raymond Terrace to Anne Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late James Hannah on 1st March. Officiating clergy Rev. R. Blain
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Newcastle Chronicle
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The friends of Mr. John Oxley Portus presented a well deserved testimonial, expressive of their respect for him and their admiration of his many excellent qualities during his time as a resident at Raymond Terrace. He was about to proceed to Rockhampton to start a business there
