Yes, Ian - thanks! That collection looks like an avenue for further exploration. But the PDF is only an extract (pp. 124-154 plus Title Page) relating to the Great North Road. You still have to borrow the book if you want to read the rest! Bruce Fairhall Ian Jordan wrote: > Hi Michelle and List > this book - and many others - have been available for some time on the > Newcastle University Cultural Collections site. Access is FREE unlike > Ancestry - your Australian tax dollar at work. > > http://www.newcastle.edu.au/service/archives/chrp/1821-1840.html > > You can download a PDF in one hit. > Regards > Ian Jordan > > 2009/5/15 Michelle Watson <[email protected]>: >> Hi All, >> Apologies if this has been posted before. A new book has recently >> been put up on Ancestry.com.au website: >> The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1832 >> Of interest is the way in which it describes who owns/occupies what >> land, what the property is called and any other interesting info. It >> lists these things by following either roads or rivers and basically >> just describing where people are along these routes. >> It covers the whole of NSW that was inhabited by white settlers at >> the time, including the Newcastle, Port Stephens, Hunter Valley and >> Manning Valley areas. > Cheers, >> Michelle

True Bruce, but the rest of the book is off topic! 2009/5/15 Bruce Fairhall <[email protected]>:

Good morning Listers, I was lucky to find a copy of "The NSW Calendar and Gernald Post Office Directory 1832", Facsimilie Edition in a 2nd hand book shop in Newtown a couple of years ago. I find it a wonderful reference book when writing about the district the families I am researching where living in, e.g:- Great Northern Road: 137 1/2 Miles. Cross a chain of ponds. On the left is the track towards the Goulburn; it first passes through the farm of Weller, a village reserve, the farm of Powditch, and the Church grant of Vane. At about nine miles is Tooth's farm, here the track crosses the new line of North Road just above the township of Lemington; three miles further you come immediately opposite Jerry's plains, situated on the southern bank of the Hunter; here some arrangements have been lately made for the establishment of a Police station; there is also a track through Jerry's Plains, connecting downwards with the horse road along the valley of Wollombi; before alluded to and upwards, with the track now describing, which, following the course of the Hunter reaches Sadlier's farm, etc.etc. Regards, Janice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Jordan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [HV] New Book on Ancestry - The New South Wales Calendar andGeneral Post Office Directory, 1832 > True Bruce, but the rest of the book is off topic! > > 2009/5/15 Bruce Fairhall <[email protected]>: >