Newcastle Family History Society Inc. N.S.W. Australia
Library Catalogue
Our Library Catalogue, Cemetery Index and Subject Index are updated on a regular basis. To view and search the catalogue or these indexes please download the appropriate PDF file and open it with Acrobat Reader. New Library acquisitions are recorded separately and are listed below until they can be incorporated into the catalogue. Please also refer to these lists.
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The Subject Index contains references to journal articles, microfiche, maps, some books (where the title is not descriptive of the subject) and chapters in books.
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The Society holds a large collection of cemetery records - both from the Hunter Valley and from around Australia.
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New acquisions are listed below as our most recent purchases may not appear in the catalogue so please investgate both locations.
Recent Acquisitions 2020 August to December
Bennett, Michael Pathfinders: a history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW [2020] AN7/06/03
Emm, Adele Tracing your female ancestors [2019] N2/10/08
Cook, Bob Fine strapping men: the history of strapping at Newcastle [2000] AH7/61/05
Smith, Clive Port Macquarie's last convicts [2019] AN7/14/03
Harrison, Jennifer Shackled: female convicts at Moreton Bay 1826-1839 [2016] A7/14/43
BHP Co Ltd Seventy-five years of development in industry [1960?] A7/61/02
Rees, Peter ANZAC Girls: the extraordinary story of our World War I nurses [2014] A7/81/25
Kopittke, Rosemary Treasures in the Australian Government Gazettes [2015] A2/10/22
Hicks, Shauna Discover your sporting ancestors [2015] A2/10/23
Reed, A. W. Aboriginal place names [1967] A5/28/01
Foley, Dennis & Read, Peter What the Colonists never knew: a history of Aboriginal Sydney [2020] AN7/06/04
Lysaght 1857 - 1957 [1957] A7/61/03
Dunn, Mark The convict valley [2020] AH7/01/73
Telecom Australia Newcastle 1972 telephone district directory: STD area code 049 [1972] AH5/83/06
Macfarlane, M. E. & A. D. The Scottish radicals: tried and transported to Australia for treason in 1820 [1975] A7/14/44
Schulha, Alek Beneath the shadows of Mount Molly Morgan: history & stories of Greta Camp 1939 - 1960 [2020] AH7/18/02
Saxon, Doug Eraring's history: farming, monkeys & electricity [2020] AH8.264/01/02
Hayman, Anne Joan Corlis nee Williams: 4 June 1917 - 15 March 2008 A4/COR/03
Farmer, Kerry Arrivals in Australia from 1788 [2015] A5/40/11
Larcombe, Frederick A. The development of local government In New South Wales [1961] AN7/79/02
Parker, David Guide to Baptist historical resources in Australia [2014] A2/10/24
Hicks, Shauna My ancestor was in an asylum: brief guide to asylum records in Australia and New Zealand [2014] A2/10/25
Scanlon, Mike Past Port: stories from articles on Port Stephens and beyond [2020] AH7/01/74
Hunter, Cynthia People property power: Plashett Jerry's Plains [2010] AH7.330/36/01
Spicer, Bill Over the bridge and through the gates: travelling north on the Great Northern Road [2009] AH7.333/50/01
McLeod, Ian Keith The Morris family of West Maitland: the story of the Morris and Browne families of the Hunter Valley 3rd Ed. [2020] A4/MOR/06
Tickle, Rob 1885 Land and stockholders in the Upper Hunter, NSW AH5/35/09
Ahearn, Lionel, ed Biographical register of Muswellbrook and District Vol 2 [2010] AH3/32/09b
Spicer, Bill The Market Reserve: including the Union [2009] AH7.333/10/01
Blackman, Cally 100 years of fashion [2012] L7/26/04
Snippers NMH 1933 Jul-Dec: court reports [2020] NLP/04/1933b
Snippers NMH Newcastle news Index Oct-Dec 1933 [2020] NLP/05/1993e
Simkus, Marie & Kevin, & O'Rourke, Julie Methodist Cemetery Oakhampton 1849-1894 [Reprint] [2020] AH5/15/05a
Snippers NMH Newcastle news Oct-Dec 1933 [2020] NLP/05/1933d
Snippers NMH 1933 Jul-Dec: miscellaneous news from Australia & overseas [2020] NLP/02/1933b
Snippers NMH 1933 Oct-Dec: domestic notices & accident reports [2020] NLP/03/1933d
Snippers NMH 1933 Jul-Dec: Industrial & Mining news [2020] NLP/07/1933b
Snippers Sports reports & results: Oct-Dec 1933 [2020] NLP/08/1933d
Keneally, Thomas Now and in time to be: Ireland and the Irish [1991] R7/01/06
Osborn, Vicki Black Hill Church cemetery: headstones & columbarium [2017] AH5/15/124
FitzGibbon, Constantine The Irish in Ireland [1983] R7/01/07
Yarwood, A. T. Growing up in Macquarie's Sydney [1985] AN7/40/01
Pender, Seamus A Census of Ireland circa 1659 [2002] R5/20/01
Hanna, Denis O'D The face of Ulster [1952] R7/95/02
Amos, Keith The Fenians in Australia: 1865-1880 [1988] R7/14/01
Mac Annaidh, Seamas Fermanagh and 1798 [2000] RUl7/01/05
Cowper, A. S & Ross, I. Caithness monumental inscriptions (pre-1855) Volume 2 [1992] PHi5/15/03
Reid Richard E. Farewell my children: Irish assisted emigration to Australia 1848-1870 [2011] A7/18/29
Kakoschke, Kevin R. Women of gold: the unsung heroines of the Goldfields [2011] A7/16/07
Ramsay Silver, Lynette The battle of Vinegar hill: Australia's Irish rebellion [2002] A7/14/45
Muller, Peter & Richards, Trevor eds. A pictorial history of Morpeth [1997] AH7.321/95/01
Gregory, Fred M. Selected source material on the early history of Newcastle and the Lower hunter area [1981] AH7/01/75
Campbell, Stephen J. The great Irish famine: words and images from the Famine Museum Strokestown Park, County Roscommon [1994] R7/21/02
Munro, Allan Angus Corkerbeg to Cuyahoga & Kiama [1991] A4/COO/06
Livingston, Peadar The Fermanagh story: a documented history of the County Fermanagh from the earliest times to the present day [1969] RUl7/01/06
Colo Shire Council Shire of Colo Street directory 2nd ed. [n.d.] AN9/16/06
Oppenheimer, Melanie Australian women and war [2008] A7/81/26
English, Helen J Music and world-building in the colonial city [2021] AH7/35/01
Fletcher, Jim Coming to the Wallamba: early Europeans in the Wallamba Valley …. [2020] AN7/17/02
Solling, Max Town & Country: a history of the Manning Valley [2014] AN7/01/19
Doust, John Past days around Wallis Lake, its rivers and villages [1999] AN8.428/01/02
Gogarty, Susan Tuncurry: tapestry of a town [2011] AN8.428/01/03
Doust, John Past days around the Manning River: its villages and early settlers [2004] AN8.430/01/02a
Sykes, Laura The hospital at Nabiac [n.d.] AN8.312/32/01
Pitkin, Alison Portraits of Paterson [2020] AH8.421/01/15
Knodler, Gregory J. E. The filming of Eureka Stockade Singleton 1947 - 1948 [2020] AH7/35/02
Hunter, Cynthia Essays on Seaham [2002] AH8.324/01/16
Borough, Chris Connecting Forster and Tuncurry: the unique Forster ferry service [2016] AN8.428/50/01
Hafey, Larry They made me! [2020] A4/HAF/01
Low, John Blue Mountains: pictorial memories [1991] AN7/01/20
Wright, June The history of Forster [1998] AN8.428/01/04
Keating, Julie & Wetherall, Lachlan Adamstown & Broadmeadow…the early days of settlement [2020] AH8.289/01/02
Whitelaw, Ella A history of Singleton [n.d] AH8.330/01/14
Bannister, Roland Saving Grace: an orphan girl in Graman, Howell, and Tingha, NSW 1898-1912 [2020] A4/MIT/03
The Hawkesbury Pioneer Families Bi-centennial Association Inc The Green hills: Hawkesbury Pioneer Families Bi-centennial Map [1988] AN3/60/02
Alderman, Helen The John Nichols Family Society: Newsletter No. 69 May 2018 [2018] A4/NIC/01g
Newcastle Flora and Fauna Society Protection Society Glenrock natural history: a proposal for the establishment of a coastal State Recreation Reserve …. [1983] AH8.290/10/01
Walker, Val Newcastle Herald: Jan-Jun 2020 domestic notices and index of deaths, funerals, in memoriam & probate notices only [2020] NLP/03/2020a
Spicer, Bill and Ahearn, Lionel Early Muswellbrook: through the lens [2020] AH8.333/01/06
Ahearn, Lionel, ed. Little bits of history: Volume 1 [2020] AH8.333/01/07
Library Acquisitions - November 2019 to March 2020
Cavalcade of History and Fashion Luxury & leisure [2015] A7/26/01
Cape Banks FHS Marouba and district memories: a collection of personal memories, recollections and photographs …. [2009] AN8.035/01/01
Chegwidden, Cathl Wallsend proud: then and now [2019] AH8.287/01/07
Grenham, John Tracing your Irish ancestors 5th Ed. [2019] R2/10/15
Merritt, John That voluminous squatter: W.E Abbott, Wingen [1999] A4/ABB/01
Entwisle, Audrey M Scone in the 1990s: public buildings [1992] AH8.337/36/01
Entwisle, Audrey Music makers in Scone [1995] AH8.337/35/01
Wright, Peter A. Memories of far off days: the memories of Charlotte May Wright 1855 - 1929 Rev. 2nd Ed. [1988] A4/WRI/02
Ashford, Heather Moving images and the theatre: the Shiralee…filming in the Upper Hunter…Scones's Civic Theatre AH8.337/35/02
Bain, Mace; Humphreys, Roger, & Blandford Hayes, Gillian The Inn, the dentists and the school: histories of: St Aubins Arms, the dentists of Scone, Scone Grammar School [1988] AH8.337/01/08
Muir, Gloria Bunnan: a history of a small town in the Scone Shire [2018] AH8.337/01/09
Waters, Colin Dictionary of old trades, titles and occupations [2002] L7/22/03
Hall, Annegret In for the long haul, the first fleet voyage and colonial Australia: the convicts' perspective [2019] A7/14/41
Ballina Shire Council A community at war [2014] AN8.478/80/01
Australian Society of Sports History Sporting Traditions A7/30/01
Eckford, Ian P & Huxley, Doug The Eckford family in Australa - the early years [1988] A4/ECK/01
Duggan, Paul The mining heritage of Wallsend and Elermore Vale [2015] AH7/65/30
Snippers NMH 1933 Jul-Sep: Newcastle news [2019] NLP/05/1933c
Snippers NMH Newcastle news Index Jul-Sep 1933 [2019] NLP/05/1933d
Walker, Val Newcastle Herald: Jan-Jun 2019 domestic notices and index of deaths, funerals, in memoriam & probate notices only [2019] NLP/03/2019a
Snippers NMH 1933 Jul-Sep: domestic notices & accident reports [2019] NLP/03/1933c
Snippers Sports reports & results: Apr-Jun 1933 [2019] NLP/08/1933b
Snippers Sports reports & results: Jul-Sep 1933 [2019] NLP/08/1933c
Snippers NMH 1933 Apr-Jun Suburban & Hunter News [2019] NLP/06/1933b
Pickett Lines: Index and Updates [2005] A4/PIC/01a
Wyndham, Alward & McInherny, Frances, eds. The diary of George Wyndham of Dalwood 1830-1840 [1987] A4/WYN/01
Wright-Burgess, M J The Wright story: an historical account of the Wright family of Nowendoc [2002] A4/WRI/03
Sharp, Jean & Wallace, Stephen Mayfield girl: a woman's search for a mother's love A4/SHA/01
Harris, Lea John Ashford and Rebecca Cheesman-Bell: their story and more [2019] A4/ASH/02
Wilson, Don Driven out: a paradise lost - a memoir of the lower Hunter River islands [2018] AH7/01/71
Ashford, Margaret, ed. Life in the upper Hunter: Mac Bridge remembers [2019] AH7/01/72
Hanson, William Geographical encyclopaedia of New South Wales [1892] [original] STACK
Snippers NMH Newcastle news Index Apr-Jun 1932 [2019] NLP/05/1932b
Tweddie, Penny Indigenous Australia standing strong [2001] A3/14/01
Tatz, Colin & Tatz, Paul Black gold: the Aboriginal and Islander sports hall of fame [2000] A3/14/02
Darbyshire, John & Sayers, C E Old gold and mining towns of Australia [1975] A7/16/06
Flower, Cedric The Antipodes observed: prints and printmakers of Australia A7/95/09
Rookwood Cemetery Unofficial WW1 memorials AN5/15/237
Preston, Diana Paradise in chains: The Bounty mutiny and the founding of Australia [2017] A7/01/43
Hill, David Convict colony [2019] A7/14/42
City of Greater Newcastle Original roll of electors of the west ward in 1938 [1938] AH5/25/29
Budge, Robin Battlers all: a history of Pacific Palms and its school AN8.428/01/01
NSW Government Printer Electoral roll 1937 Waratah NSW [1937] AH5/25/30
Lysaght venture: a survey of the activities in Australia of the John Lysaght … [1935] AH7/61/04
Grothen, John F The history in and about Glenrock Lagoon [1982] AH8.291/01/03
Edwards, Elisabeth In sickness and in health: how medicine helped shape Orange's history [2011] AN8.800/32/01
Baxter, Carol The madness of "Mac" surnames [2018] L2/10/54
Smith, Helen V Google the genealogist's friend [2016] L2/10/55
Levenick, Denise May How to archive family photos: a step-by-step guide to organise and share your photos digitally [2015] L2/24/09
Snippers NMH 1933 Jul-Sep Suburban & Hunter News [2020] NLP/06/1993c
Snippers NMH 1933 Jul-Sep Suburban & Hunter News [2020] NLP/06/1993d
Walker, Val Newcastle Herald: Jul-Dec 2019 domestic notices and index of deaths, funerals, in memoriam & probate notices only [2020] NLP/03/2019b