I keep thinking of the Central Coast as being "the Coast" and not the inland areas of Mangrove...Wollombi etc....that is why I didn't make an earlier post re these family members of mine. But Marg assures me "The parish of Brisbane Water cover by the Rev Glennie in the 1850s was a huge area from north bank of the Hawkesbury to Dora Creek on Lake Macquarie. Thats a good hours drive on the F3 today" So who am I to argue ??..... and be tagged a fencesitter !!!! My earliest ancestors into the Central Coast "Region" are ; Ggggrandfather Richard WOODBURY SNR (convict per "Fortune" 1806) and his wife Sarah EVERINGHAM ( d/o Mathew EVERINGHAM convict per "Scarborough" 1788) who had a grant at Mangrove Creek in 1825 but didn't live on it, moving there about 1830.......his son and my ggguncle Richard WOODBURY JNR and wife Jane (NEAL....my ggghalf aunt from another line) moved onto it (and called it "Cherry Hill") in 1828/9, about the same time as did gggrandfather Richard ELLEM convict per "Isabella" 1818 who settled there 1829/30 with his wife Charlotte (NEAL nee HUXLEY ....mother of Jane Woodbury and d/o Ann FORBES convict per "Prince of Wales" 1788 and Thomas JONES/HUXLEY convict per "Salamander" 1791) Also some of ggggrandmother Sarah Woodbury nee Everingham's brothers George & James EVERINGHAM were there or selected by 1825/26 along with ggggrandfather Joseph CRAFT convict per "Albermarle" 1791 and his wife Sarah PEAULET (nee ROBINSON) convict per "Earl Corwallis" 1801, the parents of William CRAFT who married Rebecca WOODBURY (d/o above mentioned Richard Woodbury SNR). William & Rebecca's daughter Agnes CRAFT married Samuel Henry ELLEM (youngest s/o above mentioned Richard and Charlotte ELLEM and half brother to the above mentioned Jane NEAL wife of Richard WOODBURY JNR) ........... and moved north to settle on the Orara River (Clarence River Region) Cheers Lynne Visit our Website http://lynneandgrayeme.kinpendium.com/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/266 - Release Date: 21/02/2006