In November 1903, several Marlee-Bobin residents reported contact with a supernatural being at Marlee Cemetery. The apparition was in leg-irons and they could hear the clatter of chains as the ghost crossed the road. The residents…
Charles Poole, did not fit the usual profile of a transported convict…
One of the convicts assigned to the Port Stephens estate of the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) was Matthew Hopwood. Matthew, a 21 year old, illiterate…
On 12 April 1856, an African man died in the vicinity of Tarree Estate. His name was Castor, a labourer aged 50 years, who died from heart disease. Witnesses to the burial were Henry Flett, William Wynter Jnr. and Thomas Dyball. His death certificate states he was born in Madagascar but this story begins in Mauritius…