No, I am not looking for information but a real live today person who actually lives in or near Sutherland, New South Wales. There is a large Celtic gathering there next summer which would be an ideal place for POSH to be launched on to the local scene but would be better if we had a person. Having said all that it would be interesting to know the background to the place - do you have that? Christine Northamptonshire, England www.highlandhearts.com www.sutherlandheritage.com -----Original Message----- From: L Sutherland [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 24 November 2002 14:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SUT] NEW SOUTH WALES Hello all, Christine, are you looking for information on the origin of Sutherland, New South Wales? Donald Lee Sutherland, Hamilton, ONtario _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== Our Member's Interest's site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~suthlist/index.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 13/11/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 13/11/2002

History of Sutherland, NSW, Australia and how (we think) it got it's name. Donald Sutherland's recollection of his family visit to Sutherland in 1993 (his Email of 25 Nov) and about the plaque to Forby (Forbie) Sutherland is quite correct, however local historians can't agree on whether the area was named after this sailor. Captain James Cook entered Botany Bay on the afternoon of April 29, 1770 and Forby Sutherland died from tuberculosis shortly after and was buried on May 1, 1770 on the beach at Kurnell, just above highwater mark. Cook named the southern headland of the Bay "Sutherland Point" after him. However in 1828 when Thomas Mitchell, another Scot by the way , was NSW Surveyor-General he named the area "Parish of Southerland". While that name appeared on maps until the 1880s, when the Governor's proclamation of the Parish of Southerland came into law in 1835, the letter "o" was omitted (an error perhaps?) and it became Sutherland. When the colony was originally surveyed areas were divided into the Old English land measurements of "Hundreds" (I am sure only to confuse family historians) and the name Southerland can be found in these old records. To further complicate things, some years later a local member of Parliament who was Minister for Works had championed the extension of the railway line into the area and his name was........ John Sutherland. According to the Information Bureau, Department of Railways, NSW, a railway station was named after the Hon.John Sutherland, the man responsible for the extension of the railway in 1885 and the station still bears his name today. So which of these men provided his name to our Shire probably doesn't matter, I think both deserve the recognition. Ian McLean