While gathering information to be indexed into www.ryersonindex.org I found the following births relating to the Hawkesbury List area in the Sydney Morning Herald. Monday 4 November 1844 - At Maitland Stockade, on the 31st October, the lady of Captain Day, 99th Regiment, J.P., of a daughter. Thursday 7 November 1844 - On the 24th of October, at Hatchard Grove, near Richmond, the wife of Mr. M. W. Gibbons, of a son. Wednesday 27 November 1844 - At Newport, Lake Macquarie, on Thursday, 21st November, Mrs. Alfred Holden, of a daughter. Patricia