However it got the name we should all be proud so many Sutherland named people are in the History Iain ----- Original Message ----- From: I McLean <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:43 AM Subject: [SUT] Re: Sutherland, NEW SOUTH WALES > 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 > > > > > > > > > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== > To check out previous messages > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ > > ============================== > 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 > >