Try the "Dictionary of Sydney" Website. Regards Betty Candy -------------------------------------------------- From: "John Read" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:18 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [PJ] Description of Sydney > Hi! > > After an absence of several years we am back researching my convict - > William Jarvis. > > We seem to have most of the trail complete now from his birth through > his activities before, during and after being a convict and on to his > death in Victoria but we am looking for some details of what Sydney/Port > Jackson would have been like when he arrived in 1838. > > The things we am looking for are - were the streets paved? Were there > ferries/boats plying along the harbour? Where the streets lit at > night? Etc. > > Can anyone point in the direction where we can find this sort of > information? > > It maybe a bit of topic but similar info for Wollongong and the > Illawarra generally. > > Regards, John and Lyn Read Kurwongbah > > ---------------------- > To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message