Updates & New Pages

Newcastle Region Public Library
A list of all resources, local, interstate and international, available in the Hunter, what they are, and where they are.

Journals of the Rev Alfred Glennie, published here with the permission of Malcolm & Ann Holmes
More information re this file

A list of FHS's & Organisations in the Hunter with contact details

A series of informative articles published in the Newcastle Morning Herald 1889 about some of the twenty seven collieries being worked at that time

War Memorials of Newcastle & the Hunter Region, photographs and lists of all the names on the memorials

Lists published in the Maitland Mercury of early Hunter Valley settlers who subscribed to the
various church building funds in their area (Church Subscriber Lists) as well as other lists published or provided by others for the website (Other Lists)

The discovery of the Hunter River, its exploration and settlement of Newcastle & Maitland

The Hunter Valley is on the east coast of the State of New South Wales, Australia.
Click here for a map showing the location of all the towns in the area

In 1822 the first of the reports of J.T. Bigge into the State of the Colony of New South Wales were published. Click here for the report on the Convict Settlement at Coal River.

A series of articles from the Newcastle Morning Herald which give valuable insight into the times and lives of those who lived in this area at the time of settlement

A selection of Chapters from Father Harold Campbell's out of print publication 'The Diocese of Maitland 1866-1966'

Websites of the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, & the Presbyterian Church which provide Australia wide contact details for church & clergy