Lake Macquarie History

Personal and geographical names mentioned in journal of Louis Beck

Page Personal Name Place Name Comment
i Mountainholme A chain is a unit of length that measures 66 feet or 22 yards.
i Heatonville 80 chains = one statute mile
i Awaba
i "Awaba Park"
i Teralba
i index page 3 of cover has not survived
1 Narara
2 Norman Chapman may be North's brother-in-law or nephew
2 Cook name or occupation?
2 Mr North Charles Frederick Napier North
2 Lacherstein Tomato Sauce
2 Penang Range
2 Old Sydney Rd
3 Old Sydney Rd
3 Ourimbah
3 Stanfield Road
6 North
Upton
8 Norman Chapman
9 Gosford
9 Erina Creek
9 East Gosford
9 Broadwater
9 Brisbane Water
9 Point Clare
9 Woy Woy Hotel
9 South Gosford
9 Mangrove Creek
9 Gosford Racecourse
10 Norman B.
12 Gosford
12 Narara
12 Old Show Ground
12 Gosford Station
12 State Nursery (Ornamental Trees)
14 Rugby with pocket knife game
15 Panto "Sinbad the Sailor"
15 Point Clare cemetery
15 hurt finger nail
16 burst blister under fingernail
18 Maiden's Brush
19 Sanitary Depot
19 State Nursery
19 Point Clare
20 heard bagpiper
21 cook grievances
21 Maiden's Brush
22 Newcastle
22 Stockton see map saved from Trove, Napier's name in centre
22 Teralba
22 Laman St Cooks Hill
22 Lodge meeting
23 Fassifern
23 Morisset Railway Hotel
24 Wyong waggonette bogged
25 Shingle Splitters Point
25 Morisset
25 Awaba
25 Mtn Holme
25 Ray.
26 Mandalong driving no lights
27 Mandalong
27 Morisset horse bolts
29 brush hook accident
30 Mandalong
30 James Harris
32 Harris
32 Tobin
33 Dowells probably Dowell
34 Boolaroo Road
35 Oslands
35 Wunderlich [metal ceiling?]
36 Dowell
36 Harris
37 Tobin
37 "sugar doodles"
38 Dooralong
39 Yambo Mountain
39 bogged
41 pole snapped
55 prickly vines tear hands
56 instrument damaged
56 diamond snake
57 diamond snake
62 fall into creek
64 burning log overnight
66 Wyong
67 Tom Curran Woodbury's Auction sale yards lost horses
67
68 Gosford
68 Union Hotel
69 Mangrove Mtn
69 Somersby Public School
70 unwell, walk 7 miles
71 cut knee open
71 Jas. Wilbow
72 Tom Clowlishaw
72 Wm Kelynack
72 Dubbo Gully Road
73 Mangrove Mtn
73 Kelynack horse cleared off
74 Raymond Cecil Venner
74 C. J. Robinson
75 Arthur Wm Burns
76 Alex. McAuley Popran Creek
77 the Old Peat's Ferry Road
78 Mangrove Creek
78 Upper Mangrove Creek
79 Rammar Khan's see http://paulbuddehistory.com/Bucketty/ At the end of the 19thcentury there were rumours of gold being found in Bucketty. It is unknown how well-founded these were but a man called Charles Ramon-Khan was making a living out of digging for gold in the paddocks.
80 R. Khan's
81 Mangrove Creek Wharf
82 Mangrove Mtn Union Church
82 Yarramolong Rd
82 Thos Cowlishaw
82 McFadyen
84 H. Carron
84 Woy Woy Tunnel
84 "Gordon pig & goat farm".

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