Notes on the Origins and Locations of Place Names
Newcastle Lake Macquarie Hunter Valley
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Illalong / Illalung - Early name for Morpeth. Named by E.C. Close after the aboriginal name meaning swampy plains
Illalong Swamp - Co. Northumberland - a swamp lying to the E of Morpeth. [37]
Ingar - Street in Gwandalan, Lake Macquarie (Aboriginal meaning - Place of rest)
Ingar - or Inga. Singleton district. Aboriginal meaning - a place of rest [46]
Ingliston - Co. Northumberland - a township 120 N of Sydney. [37]
Invergordon - Gloucester district - named after a place in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland [46]
Invermein - Estate of Francis Little Situated Co. Brisbane on Dartbrook Invermere - Co. Roxburgh at Holdsworthy Downs -Dangar's Map [29] Named on 15 July 1823 by Francis and Archibald Little who came from Dumfries, Scotland. Gaelic word meaning the meeting of the waters [46]
Iona Estate - Paterson. Named after an island on the west coast of Scotland [46]
Irish Town - Early name for the area around Mill Brook estate
Iron Bark Creek - (aboriginal name Toohrnbing) - near Newcastle on Dangar's 1828 map. Small southern tributary of the Hunter River falling into it below Hexham. [37] Named because of the number of ironbark trees [46]
Iron Bark Creek - Name given by Lieut. John Laurio Platt to his estate
Iron Bark Farm - near Newcastle
Ironbark Creek - Run belonging to Messrs Spencer at Liverpool Plains
Iron Stone Knob - Yarramalong. In 1913 Robert Woolley could point out a stringy bark tree on or near a hillock locally known as the Iron stone Knob, with Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchells inscription still thereon.
Irrawang - Estate of James King. Aboriginal meaning where the water runs
Irrawang Cottage - Raymond Terrace. School in 1855
Isis River - Co. Brisbane - Stream rising in the Liverpool Range near Downey's Pass and flowing into the Page River near Gundy Gundy. [37] Named after the name of the upper waters of the River Thames, England [46]
Islington - Suburb of Newcastle. Named after a suburb of London [46]
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