History room

GENERAL

• Photographs from Port Macquarie and Surrounds
• Place names of the Hastings
• Name Index to Parish Maps
• Local Family Files – from Port Macquarie Library

BUILT HERITAGE

• Various documents on the built heritage and environment of the Hastings region

CEMETERIES

• Port Macquarie & Districts Cemeteries, Cremations & Memorials 1821 – 2010
• Kendall Cemetery Burial Records to 31st December 1996
• Kempsey Shire Council Cemetery Register
• Taree & District Burials: with all the towns and villages that make up the Manning Valley
• W.T. Howard’s Funeral Directors Taree

CONVICT RECORDS

• Convict Register of the Hastings 1821-1837
• Runaways, Robbers & Incorrigible Rogues: certificates of freedom records for Port Macquarie
• Port Macquarie index to the Colonial Secretary’s Papers 1796 – 1825
• Sydney Gaol records for Port Macquarie convicts April 1821 – 1826
• Index to Colonial Convict Movements 1827-1853
• Stephen Partridge, first Superintendent of Convicts 1821, original land grant document 30th May 1840
• A history of Old Port Macquarie Gaol to 1920
• The Convict Ships by Charles Bateson
• Women Transported– life in Australia’s female convict factories

Electoral Rolls/Directories

• Hastings Electoral Rolls 1869 – 1900
• 1935 Electoral Roll for Cowper
• Electoral Roll 1943: Electorate of Cowper; Subdivision of Port Macquarie 
• Port Macquarie-Hastings Electoral Roll 2007 
• 1948 North Coast District NSW Telephone Directory
• Occupiers of land  Macleay River 1885

HISTORIES

• A History of Port Macquarie and the Hastings River District [Part 1] by Malcolm Ramsay 
• A History of Port Macquarie and the Hastings River District [Part 2] by Malcolm Ramsay 
• Port Macquarie Growing Up by Charles Uptin [1996]
• Port Macquarie Profiles by Ian Symonds [1991]
• Birdies, bunkers and bamboos : celebrating 100 years of Port Macquarie Golf Club by Malcolm Andrews [2010]
• Bonny Hills: yesterday & today
• Diary of Thomas George Wilson, 1867, of  ‘Clifton’, Port Macquarie
• History of Byabarra
• Byabarra Public School Centenary 1895 – 1995
• Harvesting the Hastings: farming families 1821 – 2011
• The Royal Hotel Port Macquarie
• Raise Your Glass: a brief history of pubs in the Hastings [2011]
• Early Shops of Port Macquarie 1830-1960
• Horton Street Port Macquarie in the 1950s
• Manning Valley & Camden Haven Publication Index
• List of ships that sailed in local waters
• Wauchope: the First Hundred Years

Military Records

• Australian Military Contingents to the war in South Africa (Boer war)
• Hastings District Soldiers of the Boer War 1899-1902
• WWI –  names from the Port Macquarie War Memorial 
• WWII & the Hastings: names from the Port Macquarie War Memorial

Birth marriage & Death Records for the Australian States and Territories

• New South Wales
• Victoria
• Queensland
• South Australia (Genealogy SA) The South Australian Government Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry does not provide an online searchable index service. However, Genealogy SA does provide an equivalent service through their free Online Database Search
• Tasmania The Tasmanian Names Index on the Libraries Tasmania website provides indexes to BDM-related resources as well as divorces.
• Western Australia 
• Northern Territory For indexes from 1856 to 1863 see New South Wales. Between 1863-1870 see South Australian records. No free online indexes are available.
• ACT
• New Zealand

Biographical Database of Australia

Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885

• • Vol.1 A-E
  • Vol.2 F-K
  • Vol.3 L-R
  • Vol.4 S-Z
  • Supplementary Vol. A-L
  • Supplementary Vol. M-Z

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Birpai people, the traditional owners of the land in which we work and live, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We extend our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who choose to call the Port Macquarie Hastings home.

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• National Library of Australia – Indigenous family history service
• State Library of New South Wales – Aboriginal family history service
• New South Wales Aboriginal Affairs Family Records Service
• Aboriginal Resources. A guide to NSW State Archives. This site provides information on how to gain access to records created by the Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1883-1940) and the Aborigines Welfare Board (1940-1969).
• Finding Your Ancestors: researching Aboriginal family history in NSW (Royal Australian Historical Society)
• Who’s Your Mob – First nations Family History. Tracing your First Nations family history and don’t know where to start? Discover key resources for family history research. State Library of Queensland.
• Centre for Indigenous Family History Studies
• Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) – a series of short videos on researching Aboriginal family history.

Port Macquarie-Hastings

• Place names of the Hastings

Australia, States and Territories

• A Geographical Dictionary or Gazeteer of the Australian Colonies 1848
• Place Names Australia
• NSW Geographical Names Board
• Geographical Encyclopedia of New South wales 1892
• NSW Historical List of Place names 
• Queensland Place Names
• WA Geographic Names
• A Compendium of Place Names of South Australia
• South Australia Property & Planning
• NT Place Names Register
• Tasmania Place Names 

United Kingdom

• Gazetteer of British Place Names

Ireland

• Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837