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. Friday 5 April 1844 - At Stroud, Port Stephens, the lady of Philip Gidley King, Esq., J.P., of a son. Tuesday 30 April 1844 - At Newcastle, on Thursday, the 25th instant, Mrs. Willoughby Bean, of a son. Patricia