NEWCASTLE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC
New South Wales, Australia
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Pre 1961 Register of Deceased Newcastle Residents

Early Lambton
    
Midwives

    Coalmining Related Deaths 

School Photo Project  & More

                     Pre 1961 Register of Deceased Newcastle Residents
     We invite contributions to a Register of Newcastle Residents who lived and died in the district from the earliest settlement  up to and including 31 December 1960.  Please download the .pdf form giving detail
           of the requirements for your contribution.       Download Form Here.

We look forward to your contribution in memory of those people.
Closing date for submissions is Monday, 1 December 2008.


Early Lambton

Do you know of
·    early Lambton families
·    early Lambton businesses
·    early Lambton sporting people
·    early Lambton social events
·    early Lambton stories of any kind?

Then members of the Newcastle Family History Society would like to talk with you. We will be publishing a book about Lambton, and we need your help with photographs, maps, and of course, memories.

Members of our Society are present at the Lambton Mechanics Institute building in Elder Street every Thursday 1pm to 3.30pm, or Saturday 10am to 3.30pm.
Please call in,  e-mail to nfhsinc@gmail.com or write to
The Secretary
NFHS Inc
PO Box 233
LAMBTON  NSW  2299
AUSTRALIA

 
Midwives
NFHS is collecting information on 
  • Midwives
  • Maternity Homes
  • Private Hospitals
    • operating in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley area from 1900 to 1950's. 
    We are seeking details of names and addresses of private hospitals, Midwife nurse in charge, others who worked with the midwife, midwives (nurses) who travelled within the district to deliver babies and background information and stories.  If you have a midwife story in your family, or a Hunter Valley birth certificate in your collection mentioning a midwife, maternity home or private hospital please email details to nfhsinc@gmail.com, or post to
    The Secretary
    NFHS Inc
    PO Box 233
    LAMBTON  NSW  2299
    AUSTRALIA

    Coalmining Related Deaths Hunter Valley, NSW, 1926-1950

    This new work will continue, and conclude, the work on such fatalities which occurred in the Hunter Valley from the beginning of the 19th century.  As before, the principal researcher is Mr Frank Maxwell, whose massive collection of material is being co-ordinated and processed by the Society for publication during the latter part of 2008.
     

    School Photo Project
    The year 2002 saw the commencement of our School Photo Project. Anyone who browses through this collection is amazed at the number of images and names already collected. People are asked to
    contribute, with as many names as possible, either through the mail, (photocopies, please don't post originals) or scans to us directly by e-mail any school photos they might have, along with those of their children, and any other relations or friends, to the Society. Personal visitors to our library can lend originals and a photocopy will be made and the photo returned as soon as possible. 
    A file containing copies of class photos, groups, buildings and activities and information for each school will go towards the formation of this great resource. All schools will be covered:- public and private, pre-schools, infants, primary and secondary, special schools (e.g. hospital schools); and those now non-existent as well as those where the name has been changed. 
    Thank you to all who have been able to contribute so far to this project.  In 2003 the scope was widened to include photos sourced from the whole of Australia and from pre-school to tertiary level. So please keep hunting out the old school photos, as well as the new. 
    Email to Ken and Maree Shilling  or post to
    The Secretary
    NFHS Inc
    PO Box 233
    LAMBTON  NSW  2299
    AUSTRALIA

    & More
    Members are also busy on
    • Christ Church Newcastle Cemetery Memorial Inscriptions and Burials with permission of the Dean. 
    • New Wallsend Cemetery (Sandgate Road) Memorial Inscriptions and Burials. Research has begun on this cemetery, where the first interment took place in 1896 when the "old" Wallsend cemetery was closed, and where burials continue to the present.  The Society has already published a comprehensive book on Old Wallsend and the two works will represent an important continuation of family burials for the district. Information on all aspects of burials in this cemetery would be much appreciated, especially where no headstone marks the site. 
    Biographical information sent to NFHS to help in the compiling of these projects will also be most appreciated. Please e-mail details nfhsinc@gmail.com or post to
    The Secretary
    NFHS Inc
    PO Box 233
    LAMBTON  NSW  2299
    AUSTRALIA
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