While gathering information to be indexed into www.ryersonindex.org I found the following death relating to the Hawkesbury List area in the Sydney Morning Herald. 15 November 1842 - At the residence of his son-in-law, New York Hotel, on Friday, the 10th instant, Mr. Joseph Harpur, aged seventy-three years, he was for many years Head School Master of the Government School at Windsor, and for five years Principal Superintendent of the late - McArthur, Esq., during that gentleman's absence from the colony, at the time of Governor Bligh's arrest, the onerous duties of which he discharged with credit to himself, and satisfaction to his employer ; he was loved and respected by all who knew him, and has left a large family to deplore the loss of a kind friend and affectionate father. Patricia