----- Original Message ----- From: "G Dundon" <gdundon@bigpond.net.au> To: <AUS-NSW-CENTRAL-COAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:20 AM Subject: [ANCC] Old Gosford Times snippets: Kincumber to Lloyds Wharf > Marg, I found your old Gosford Times snippet very > interesting regarding work on the Kincumber to Lloyds > Wharf Road, tender from A. Davis. > > I wonder if "Lloyd's" was a misprint in the newspaper > for "Lyde's" as old maps show a road running south from > Kincumber called by this name. Morning Gwen Must be a mis print in the newspaper as I just rechecked and definitely says Lloyds ) ( phew !) Lyde's > Wharf on Cockle Creek opposite St Hubert's Island, was > on the Daniel Egan grant (Portion 98) a property better > known as Merritt's Wharf, now part of Empire Bay. The > owner James F. Merrett (this spelling shows in later > records) referred to his home there as being at "Old > Point". The road or track referred to above followed > more or less for some distance along what is now Empire > Bay Drive. > > Who was Lyde? I cant see any connection ? Not many LYDEs about Were 2 males in the NSW1903 electoral rolls . One a farmer up in Tamworth and the other was a warehouseman living in Beamish St Campsie ?????? bye MargM