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. Wednesday 1 May 1844 - At Newcastle, on Thursday, the 25th April, Mrs. Willoughby Bean, of a son. Thursday 2 May 1844 - At Walmer, Bathurst, on the 27th ultimo, the lady of Thomas J. Hawkins, Esq., of a daughter. Tuesday 7 May 1844 - At Raworth Cottage, Morpeth, on Friday evening, the 3rd May, Mrs. Andrew Doyle, of a son. Wednesday 22 May 1844 - On Wednesday, the 1st May, at Luskintyre, Hunter River, Mrs. Todhunter, of a daughter. Thursday 23 May 1844 - On the 15th instant, at Animbah, near Maitland, Mrs. Pringle, of Carrington Park, of a daughter. Patricia

Hello Listers. I am forwarding this from the NSW Colonial History List, which contains the original posting, and my response to it on that list. Hopefully some of the content will be of interest to members of this list; more especially as the Hawkesbury & Hills districts have such very close connections with Governor Macquarie. Happy 2010. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray" <ray15@optusnet.com.au> ...Thank you Diane. > > I have been waiting for this Macquarie bi-centenary of his arrival for a > long time. Hopefully there will be LOTS of events conducted during the > next12 months to commemorate his governorship and its achievements. > > Here is a link to an NSW state government site for the commemoration: > http://www.macquarie2010.nsw.gov.au/ > > And here is a link to the Lachlan Macquarie Room within the library at > Macquarie University in Sydney: > http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/lmr/ > >>From there, there is a link to this site also: the Lachlan and Elizabeth >>Macquarie Archives: > http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/index.html > > This page gives access to documents which have been digitised in some way, > to provide online access. If I am not mistaken, many (like the various > Macquarie diaries) were transcribed by Macquarie University's curator of > the Lachlan Macquarie Room: Mr Robin WALSH. > http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/documents.html > > Finally, coming back to Diane's posting, this page gives the Sydney > Gazette's entries for the arrival of Macquarie and his wife with his own > 73rd regiment etc. in the Dromedary and the Hindoostan. Those on board > who travelled from England included the new Deputy Judge-Advocate: Ellis > BENT and his wife and son. Also on board was Macquarie's > soon-to-be-announced Secretary: John Thomas CAMPBELL, who had been > recommended to Macquarie by Lord Caledon, then Governor at the Cape of > Good Hope, whilst Macquarie's ships were victualling there en-route. > http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/1809/ > > Happy Macquarie bi-centenary year to all! > Ray. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Diane" <dianep@optusnet.com.au> > > ... Gov. Macquarie to Col. Paterson >> HMS Dromedary, Port Jackson >> 28th December 1809 >> [HRNSW Vol.7] >> > "Governor Macquarie presents compliments to Colonel Paterson, and has the > pleasure to inform him of his safe arrival here about half an hour ago > from England with the 73rd Regt. on board His Majesty's ships Hindostan > and Dromedary to take charge of the government of this territory. The > ships have been obliged to take anchor here for the present, owing to > contrary winds; but Governor Macquarie hopes they will be able to get up > to Sydney tomorrow, when he will have the pleasure of seeing Colonel > Paterson" >> >> ------------------------------------- >> Gov. Macquarie to Col. Paterson >> HMS Dromedary, Sydney Cove >> 30th December 1809 >> [HRNSW Vol.7] "Governor Macquarie has the pleasure to inform Lt. Gov. Paterson that the two ships have at length anchored here, and that he intends to land tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at Sydney, and requests Col. Paterson will be so good as to direct the 102nd Regt. to parade under arms at that hour to receive him, and line the street from the wharf to the Government House, where Governor Macquarie hopes to meet the Lieut. Governor." ----------------------------------- [M.H. Ellis; Lachlan Macquarie, His Life, Adventures and Times, 1958] "So soon as the Governor left the gangway the harbour echoed to salutes of fifteen guns fired from the ships, on which all the yards were manned. The men gave three cheers. Colonel Paterson and Lt. Colonel Foveaux were at the Pier Head with the 102nd Regiment, attended by the chaplain and the gentlemen of the settlement. The 73rd Regiment and the ruddy ancients of the New South Wales Corps under arms, formed a guard all the way to the adjacent newly painted Government House. Inhabitants bowed as the party passed. Presently they drove with Foveaux in his carriage through the park-like lands within the tiny township. Night fell. Bonfires blazed. Rockets rose from the ships. There was a general air of rejoicing. In New Holland, the Macquarie Era, which was to leave so strong a mark upon the history of the continent, had begun ...... " ...