Notes on the Origins and Locations of Place Names
Newcastle - Lake Macquarie - Hunter Valley
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Nabiac - Manning River aboriginal name meaning The long narrow leaved fig tree
Nalawa - Cassilis district. Aboriginal meaning - to sit down, to camp [46]
Namoi/ Namoy - named the Peel by John Oxley in honour of the Right Honorable Robert Peel; joins the river Darling at Pockataroo.
Nandowra - near Scone. Estate of Matthew Henry Hall, son of George Hall
Napoleon Cottage - adjoining the upper gate entrance to the Race course, West Maitland
Narara - Gosford district - Aboriginal meaning - a black snake [46]
Nardoo or Nardu - Werris Creek area - Aboriginal meaning - a grass with a seed from which the aborigines make flour [46]
Narone Creek - Cessnock district
Narrably - district of Liverpool Plains near Tamworth. Station of A.B. an F.M. Doyle
Narrabri (aboriginal Nurra-bur-i - meaning forks) The Narrabri, or Nurrabri, better known as Killarney station was first taken up by Andrew Doyle
Narrara - Creek situated in Co. Northumberland. Flows into the Brisbane Water adjoining the town of Gosford.
Narrowgut - Corruption of aboriginal Narragan - a narrow waste of land between rivers. Also known as Phoenix Park; and Trafalgar
Narrows, The - Narrowest section of the Wangi Peninsula.
Narara - A black snake
Naughton's Gap - Cassilis district - named after a local resident [46]
Nea - Werris Creek area. Aboriginal meaning - the breasts [46]>
Neath - After a coalmining town in Wales
Nectarbank (Nalalban) - over the other side of the Page River to the north of the village, which became the ‘Elmswood’ property.
Needle Island - Island in Hunter River (see Barrallier's 1801 map for location)
Negoa - Estate of William Cox. Kamilaroi aboriginal name Boorewalla
Neible - Werris Creek area - Aboriginal meaning - a footprint [46]
Nekinda - Creek. Also known as Dora Creek
Nelson's Bay. in Co. of Gloucester. An anchorage of Port Stephens. Named after H.M.S. Lady Nelson [46]
Nelson's Plains - After H.M.S. Lady Nelson which in 1801 was sent to Newcastle to survey the Hunter River and district. Situated at the confluence of the Hunter and Williams Rivers near Raymond Terrace.
Nemingha - Co. of Parry. Postal town. [37]
Neotsfield - Grant to Henry Dangar - Co. Northumberland on the Hunter River. 3 miles from Singleton. Named after St. Neots his birthplace in Cornwall
Ness House - George St. Singleton (c. 1880)
Nettering Creek - Co. of Northumberland, a small watercourse falling into the Jillaby-Jillaby Creek on its W. Bank. [37]
Newcastle - Seaport town at the mouth of the Hunter River. Once known as King's Town and Coal River
Newcastle House, Newcastle - Former residence of A.W. Scott. 8 room mansion with servants quarters, coachhous. Front garden surrounded by brick parapet wall with carriage entrance. Used at one time as customs house.
Newcomen Street Newcastle. Named after Thomas Newcomen an English mechanic one of the inventors of the steam engine [3]
New Freugh - Co. of Durham - a village reserve 7 miles from Singleton. [37]
Newland - District of Dungog 1841
New Park - Co. of Durham, postal town 150 miles N of Sydney. [37]
Newport - village in Co. Northumberland on Dora Creek. Eraring
Ngoroinbah - Henry Dangar's map. Early name for Point Wolstonecroft
Nikkinba - Aboriginal for a place of coals - Threlkeld [21]. Also House at Hamilton
Nimbecourigina - Run at Liverpool Plains taken up by James Morris junior
Nineways - Junction of Brunker Road, Belford Street Chatham Road and Denison Streets Broadmeadows
Ningan - run at Liverpool Plains taken up by John Mackay
Niritba - The home of the mutton bird (Aboriginal) - the name of the island off the entrance to Lake Macquarie -Threlkeld [21]
Noamunga - Street at Gwandalan, Lake Macquarie (Aboriginal meaning good fishing)
Nobbys Island - (Aboriginal name Whibayganba). Named Hacking Point by Lieutenant Shortland in 1797. Situated at the entrance to the Hunter River at Newcastle
Noch-fin (also Knock Fin) - near Luskintyre - Dangar's Map [29]
Nogram Creek - Co. Gloucester. Flows into Gloucester River
No-Grass Valley - Also Snodgrass Valley - Great North Road
Nolan Creek - Co. Gloucester, a small eastern tributary of the Williams River
Nookooeddy - Aboriginal - West Point, Narrowgut, Morpeth 1860s
Nooroo - night, dark (aboriginal meaning) [46] Situated northwest of Stroud
Norah Head /Noraville - Headland on the Central Coast of NSW- near Cabbage Tree Bay
Nord's Wharf - Lake Macquarie - named after William James Nord who donated the land for the approach to the wharf and also the land for the local public school [46]
Norman' River - Flows into Carrington River -See Dangar's map[29]
North Rothbury - 19km from Cessnock
Northumberland - County of NSW
Northumberland Cottage - Morpeth
Norwood - Near Gresford. Opposite Trevallyn Estate. Estate of Francis Blower Gibbes
Nowendoc - A very cold place (aboriginal meaning)
Nowerby - district of Liverpool Plains. Station of G. Cox
Nulkaba - Place of iron stone (aboriginal meaning) [46]. Originally the village of Pokolbin. Cessnock district
Nundah - Wood (aboriginal meaning) [46]. Singleton district
Nundawar Range - Liverpool Plains, a branch of the New England Range
Nundle - Co. of Parry, Situated on the confluence of the Nundle Creek and the Peel River.
Nuneham Cottage - Newcastle - Built by Martin Richardson after his home village in Oxford. Demolished 1937
Nurruby - district of Liverpool Plains Station of Cyrus Matthew Doyle
Notes on the Origins and Locations of the Hunter Region has been derived from the following sources
[1] Trove - National Library of Australia
[2] Newcastle Morning Herald 11 December 1954
[3] The Newcastle Sun 2 May 1918
[4] The Newcastle Sun 26 January 1931
[5] The Many names of Newcastle Mulumbinba
[6] The Muswellbrook Chronicle 8 November 1899 ( native names of place from black tracker Jimmy of Muswellbrook)
[7] Lake Macquarie History of Places
[8] Cadell, F.A., Survey of Newcastle, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1936
[9] Davies, Noel, Convict Nobbys : the story of the convict construction of Macquarie's Pier and the reconstruction of Nobbys Island
[10] Historical Roads of New South Wales
[11] Keith H. Clouten, Reid's mistake : the story of Lake Macquarie from its discovery until 1890
[12] County Electors in Newcastle 1855
[13] Hunter Estates Comparative Heritage Study
[14] The Dungog Chronicle 6 July 1949
[15] The Scone Advocate 24 July 1894 (Muswellbrook names)
[16] Wingham Chronicle 13 November 1931 (Manning River places)
[17] King Tom's Aboriginal Geography in Memorandum of E.C. Close, in Australian Town and Country Journal, 12 January 1878, p. 8.
[18] Aboriginal names, Australian Town and Country Journal 11 January 1879p. 17
[19] Henry Thomas Ebsworth papers, June 1825-February 1827; with illustration and maps
[20] Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy Front Cover Keith Robert Binney
[21] An Australian Language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba, Lake Macquarie, being an account of their language, traditions and customs - Lancelot Threlkeld (many of the aboriginal terms above have come from this source which is probably the language of the lower Hunter tribes)(many of the aboriginal terms above have come from this source which is probably the language of the lower Hunter tribes)
[22] Hunter Living Histories - Ludwig Leichhardt in Newcastle
[23] A geographical dictionary or gazetteer of the Australian colonies ... By William Henry Wells
[24] Placenames as a guide to language distribution in the Upper Hunter - Jim Wafer
[25] Lake Macquarie : past and present
[26] Wangi Wangi Street Names by Clive Read
[27] Forgotten place names of Lake Macquarie - Lake Macquarie Library online
[28] Lake Macquarie: Parish of Awaba, County of Northumberland, Shire of Lake Macquarie. Parish map in 4 sheets and reference sheet: South East Sheet
[29] Map of the Hunter River and its branches by Henry Dangar 1828
[30] Robert Dixon's 1837 Map - Trove
[31] Ensign Francis Barrallier's Map 1801 - Hunter Living Histories
[32] Australian Town and Country Journal 22 November 1873
[33] Procter's Sketch 1841 - Hunter Living Histories
[34] Tegg's Pocket Almanac
[35] Map of Young Wallsend (Edgeworth) showing Salty Creek Recreation Area, c.1920. Scanned from: Road and tourists' map of Lake Macquarie and environs, H. E. C. Robinson Limited, Sydney.
[36] Salty Creek Recreation Area
[37] Geographical Encyclopaedia of New South Wales
[38] Atlas of the settled counties of New South Wales - State Library NSW
[39] Maitland Weekly Mercury 4 July 1896
[40] Empire 3 Dec 1853 Lecture on the Kamilaroi Blacks (Rev. William Ridley)
[41) Israel's subdivision map of Wangi c. 1923. State Library of NSW
[42] Hunter 2000, National Trust of Australia (NSW), 1973
[43] Lauchland, E. S., Homes we Visited - Dumore. Newcastle & Hunter District Historical Society Journal, 1947 p. 39
[44] Boyle's Lower Hunter index, 1801-1883 (Harry Boyle)
[45] Hunter Valley Place Names and their Meanings, Newcastle Library, Archived 14 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
[46] Toponomy: Place Names of New South Wales: Their Origin, Meaning and Locality, compiled by J. Carlos W. Stretch
[47] Rediscovering the Coquun: towards an environmental history of the Hunter River. Address given at the River Forum 2000 at Wyndham Estate, Hunter River; by Glenn Albrecht PhD, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies, The University of Newcastle
[48] How Many Inventors? Russell Rigby, Hunter Living Histories, 10 October 2017