Free Settler or Felon
Convict and Colonial History




Colonial History Links

A New Song - A bawdy rollicking song from the earliest convict days

A. A. Company - Early days of the Company at Port Stephens and Newcastle

Aussie Inventions - A List of Australian inventions of recent times as well as some of the thousands of patented inventions made by prolific Aussie Inventors in earlier days

Australian Slang - Find Australian slang words, unique Australian phrases and memorable quotes

Battle of Castle Hill - An account of the famous battle that took place in 1804

Bells - Bells played an important part in the lives of our ancestors

Broughton, William Grant - Ship board diary kept on the voyage of convict ship John in 1829

Burn, David - Journal of a Voyage to Newcastle and Hunter River October 1844

Cabbage Tree Hats - A part of our ancestor's everyday lives

Caley, George - Botanist in the early years of the colony

Cockatoo Island - Penal settlement in Sydney harbour

Colonial Appointments 1788 - 1860

Colonial Events Index - 1788 - 1829

Colonial Military Officers  - in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley

Colonial vessel Francis - Launch of the vessel Francis in 1793

Commissioner's Enquiry - Excerpt from an enquiry by John Thomas Bigge in 1819

Cunningham, Allan - An account of the 1827 expedition of Allan Cunningham

Darcy, Frank - Boxer from Maitland. Died of the Spanish influenza in 1919

Dixon, Robert - Surveyor

Dungog Residents - a list of residents in 1830s and 1840s

Escapees at Port Stephens - 1795

First Night Watch 1789

Flash Language - Criminal slang

Frank the Poet - Francis McNamara arrived on the convict ship Eliza in 1832

Griffith, Rev. Edward - Two Chapters from Memorials of Rev. Edward Griffith written by his daughter Mary

Eipper, Rev. Christoph - Missionary to Aborigines in Queensland

Immigrant and Settler Ships - 1821 - 1856

Journal of Capt. Logan - Moreton Bay in 1830

Jeffrey, Lieut. Charles - Master of the vessel Kangaroo in 1814

King, Governor Phillip Gidley - Third Governor of New South Wales

Liverpool Ranges - Crossing the Liverpool Ranges

Lockyer, Edmund - Expedition of Edmund Lockyer

Log Book of the Minerva - Fever Ship in 1838

Maritime Explorers - Map and Links to Biographies of early Maritime Explorers

Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone - Map of Expedition in November 1831

Mounted Police - Horse patrols and the Mounted Police 1825 - 1826

Moreton Bay - 1824

Murrurundi History

Norah Head History

Norfolk Island - Convict ships to Norfolk Island

Parramatta Female Factory - A history of the Factory

Paterson Reminiscences - Paterson in 1840s

Phillip, Governor Arthur - First Governor of New South Wales

Port Stephens - A series of articles touching on the Early days in Port Stephens

Raymond Terrace - Early days and residents

Rob the Ranter - Traveller

Russell, Henry Stuart - An account of a journey through Maitland and the Hunter Valley

Scourgers - A list of scourgers in New South Wales

Ship Captain Index

St. John's Church - Stroud - Built by convicts in 1833

Surgery and Anaesthetics at Port Stephens - 1840s

Tamworth - Time line

The Blind Traveller - Lieut. John Holman

Towrang Stockade - Penal work station

Voyage of the Buffalo - Return to England in 1800

Wreck of the Mermaid - 1829