A history of Hamilton, Ouse and Gretna [microform] / by K.R. von Stieglitz

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Von Stieglitz, K. R. (Karl Rawdon), 1893-1967
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mc N 2225 JAFp HIST 2950
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[Launceston, Tas. : s.n.], 1963
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History of Hamilton, Ouse and Gretna 1
History of HAMILTON, OUSE AND GRETNA 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7
HISTORY OF HAMILTON, OUSE AND GRETNA 9
ROBERT BROWN GOES BOTANISING UP THE DERWENT FROM RISDON IN 1804 9
RIVER CLYDE EXPLORED FROM 27th MARCH TO 5th APRIL, 1804 10
BEAMONT MOVES ON 12
EXPLORERS FIND CIDER GUMS IN THE HIGH COUNTRY 12
JOHN BEAMONT DISCOVERS THE GREAT LAKE 12
GOVERNOR SORELL GOES TO SEE THE COUNTRY FOR HIMSELF 14
MACQUARIE PLAINS 14
PROVOST MARSHAL JOHN BEAMONT MEETS BUSHRANGER BRADY IN 1825 15
EXPLORATION IN THE WEST 16
NEW COUNTRY 17
WEDGE AND BUSHRANGER BRADY 17
EDWARD LORD OF LAWRENNY 18
LAST OF THE WILD CATTLE 20
LORD-OWEN RELATIONSHIP, AND THE EARL OF MACCLESFIELD’S HOLDINGS IN EARLY TASMANIA 20
CRY FROM LAWRENNY IN 1821 23
NOTE ON EDWARD LORD BY GOVERNOR ARTHUR 23
FREE GRANTS OF LAND AND HOW THEY WERE GIVEN 24
CONTROVERSIAL DR. BROMLEY 26
CONVICT WORKING MEN 26
HAMILTON AS WIDOWSON SAW IT IN 1828 28
GRETNA 29
WOOLPACK INN 29
ST. MARY’S CHURCH AT GRETNA 30
BLACK LINE 31
HAMILTON’S PART IN THE BLACK LINE 32
STORY OF THE BLACK LINE 32
LAST OF HIS PEOPLE 33
TROUBLE WITH THE BLACKS AT HAMILTON 33
HOW THE ABORIGINES MADE THEIR STONE KNIVES 34
GEOLOGY OF THE HIGHLANDS 35
FABLED ROAD THAT FAILED TO REACH PORT DAVEY 36
HOTELS AND INNS 41
WHAT THE INNS WERE LIKE AND THE BEER THAT THE LOCAL BREWERIES MADE 41
QUAKERS WHO CAME IN 1832 42
RUINED HUT 42
GOVERNOR FRANKLIN AND HIS LADY PASS THROUGH THE DISTRICT ON THE WAY TO MACQUARIE HARBOUR 44
NOTORIOUS WRECKER AT THE PROBATION STATION 45
FRANKLINS SET OUT TO THE WEST 46
GREAT FROST OF 1837 46
WHY SIR JOHN FRANKLIN MADE THAT FAMOUS JOURNEY 48
SOME OF CALDER’S NOTES ON THE FRANKLIN JOURNEY 49
CALDER’S VERSION OF THE FRANKLINS’ TRIP. From the Tribune of 9/10/1875. 50
RAMBLING AND DISCONNECTED TOWN OF HAMILTON 50
LADY FRANKLIN’S CHARACTER 51
ABORIGINAL ART 52
JOHN CLARK, THE CONSTABLE OF MARLBOROUGH 53
SURVEYOR CALDER'S TRACK TO THE WEST 53
CALDER’S SUGGESTIONS FOR MAKING A ROAD FROM LAKE ST. CLAIR TO PORT DAVEY 54
HAMILTON, THE ROTHERWOOD ARMS INN AND JACK OLIVER’S HILL, IN 1859 55
MARLBOROUGH 56
OUSE BRIDGE CHAPEL 57
ST. PETER’S CHURCH OF ENGLAND AT HAMILTON 57
ELLENDALE 58
R.C. CHURCH IN THIS DISTRICT 58
BUSHRANGER MARTIN CASH AT DUNROBIN 59
CASH RAIDS THE TRIFFITT ESTATE 60
BRIEF NOTES AND ITEMS OF INTEREST 61
THOMAS WELLS, AUTHOR OF AUSTRALIA’S RAREST BOOK 64
ARUNDEL 66
PEOPLE AND PLACES 66
BROCK 67
BETHUNE 68
CAWOOD 69
MARZETTI 69
CLARENDON 70
ELLENGOWAN 77
GLENELG 79
GLEN DHU 80
GELLIBRAND 81
KENMORE 82
LEINTWARDINE 85
NORTON MANDEVILLE 85
PARSONS 87
ROTHERWOOD 88
RATHMORE 89
ROADKNIGHT AND THE CATTLE DUFFERS 90
SHARLAND 91
HAMILTON IN 1871 92
STREETS AND THEIR NAMES AT HAMILTON 93
JEW’S LANE 94

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