Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848?), Prussian born naturalist and explorer, visited Newcastle and the Hunter Region on his journey of explorations through Australia during the years 1842-1843. We have prepared this timeline below of his chronological movements throughout Newcastle and the Region to assist a German documentary team, planning to produce a documentary for German … More Ludwig Leichhardt in Newcastle
While researching references to the early settlement at Coal River (Newcastle) in a previous post, we were directed (thanks to Jen Willets) to a very interesting footnote in the Historical Records of Australia Vol III p. 772 – 773 which provided an interesting aside. There appears to be evidence that Newcastle had an initial settlement … More Stockton is Newcastle’s First Settlement?
For many years we’ve wondered about the early settlement of Newcastle in 1801 under the command of Corporal Wixstead. We first found out about him in Huntington’s serialised history of Newcastle published in the Newcastle Morning Herald of 1897: Corporal Wixstead arrived at Hunter’s River aboard the schooner Francis on the 23rd July 1801, accompanied … More Corporal Wixtead and the fate of Newcastle’s first settlement in 1801