Hawkesbury People & Places - About

About the Hawkesbury Region

The Hawkesbury Region lies to the north-west of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It encompasses a large area following the Hawkesbury River from the foothills of the Blue Mountains to the Tasman Sea at Broken Bay.

The Hawkesbury River was named in 1789 by Governor Arthur Phillip, the first governor of the British colony of New South Wales in honour of Charles Jenkinson, first Earl of Liverpool, Baron Hawkesbury, who was at the time, the President of the Board of Trade and Plantations in England.

The region includes the Local Government Areas of Hawkesbury, Baulkham Hills, Gosford and Hornsby.

Map of the Hawkesbury Region




About the Project

Hawkesbury People and Places is an ongoing project which aims to collect, record and locate the places, built objects, geographical features, organisations and people associated with the history of the Hawkesbury Region.

The database is not designed to provide a comprehensive history of each entry but to document its existence and provide a starting point for local and family history researcher.

A wide variety of information is included, some purely anecdotal such as ….whilst other material has been drawn from ‘official sources’ such as Historic Records of Australia and census records.

Sources of information

Information for the database has been drawn from a wide variety of sources including:

· Maps
· Published books
· Unpublished manuscripts
· NSW Government records
· Local government records
· Church records
· Newspapers
· Photographs
· Oral histories

Each entry includes the source or multiple sources of information for that entry. Bibliographic information has been included for each source with notes on availability or holdings if available.

About us

What began as an interest in toponymy or the study of placenames has grown and developed into a purposeful and directed quest for information about the people and places of the wider Hawkesbury Region.

The website has been designed and created by Nicholas McHardy who works as a software programmer and developer in the corporate information technology industry.

Information for the site has been researched and entered by local historian, Cathy McHardy with assistance from family members, Geoff McHardy and Rebecca McHardy.

Contributors to this project include many local and family history researchers including Michelle Nichols, Marj Clarke, Robynne Winley, Trish Downes, Jill & Don Mills, Jan Barkley-Jack.

Contact us

Comments about the site, additional information or corrections and new entries to the database are very welcome. Please contact the authors by viewing the Contact Us page.

 

This page was created: Sunday 12th February 2006 at 3:03 pm AuEST by cathy
This page was last updated: Sunday 12th November 2006 at 3:11 am AuEST by cathy