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Source: New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900) Wed 16 Jul 1834 [Issue No.124]
Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, July 16, 1834. YEARLY LEASES OF LAND.
5. Phillip, 1,280 Twelve hundred and eighty acres, at Gulgong, where Hayes has a sheep station; bounded on the north by the section line north of Hayes' hut; on the east by the Wialdrar Creek and the first section line east of the said hut; on the south by the section line; and on the west by a line north to include the quantity: applied for by William Hayes.
6. Phillip, 1,280, Twelve hundred and eighty acres, at Cumbandry, where Hayes has a sheep station; bounded on the north by the section line north of Hayes' hut; on the east by the Wialdrar Creek; on the south by the section line; and on the west by a line north to include the quantity: applied for by William Hayes.
7. Phillip, 640, Six hundred and forty acres, at the Western Springs, lying south-west from Gulgong about 3 miles; bounded on the south by the section line about a mile and a half north of Mrs. Beddek's northern boundary; on the east by the section line; and on the west by the section line: applied for by William Hayes.
Colony of New South Wales, 1837
Detail: Road to Guntawang
Detail: Road to Guntawang
Source: SLNSW
This map of the Colony of New South Wales exhibiting the situation and extent of the appropriated lands including the counties, towns, village reserves etc. [cartographic material] : compiled from authentic surveys &c. is respectfully dedicated to Sir John Barrow Bart President of the Royal Geographical Society &c. &c. &c. by his obliged humble servant / Robert Dixon ; engraved by J. & C. Walker.
Aboriginal Place Names GULGONG DISTRICT
GULGONG means a big waterhole, according to a list of Aboriginal names and their meanings printed in a booklet edited by the late Mr W. W. Thorpe, ethnologist, and published by the Australian Museum.
However, when the list was printed in the 'Mudgee Guardian' recently a writer from Turill stated that some of the meanings in the book were incorrect. In his corrections, he says: —
Gulgong (abo. Goolgong) means crooked water, and the name belongs to a horseshoe bend in the creek about a mile or mile and a half south-west from the village of Home Rule and known in the early days as the shallow rush, and nearly opposite to where Mr T. Rowbotham now lives; that crooked turn in the creek is Gulgong proper. From where Mr Rowbotham lives to Mr Roth's at Gullamarra was known as Gulgong in the early days.
Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Thu 19 Jan 1939 Page 13
Possible "horseshoe bend" on Reedy Creek near "Old Gulgong"
Source: HLRV
Wiradjuri Advice
Lots of our words have been Anglicised, and many of our words have multiple meanings, so when people are looking at a word that is thought to be Aboriginal, they really need to understand the language, how it's structured and how that might relate to a physical place… or not, also the context of which the information was given.
In the Wiradjuri dictionary Galagang is an edible root of a wild onion (Gulgong), while Water in Wiradjuri is “galing or “guuhu”, a running stream is “gungan”, a well for water is “galgu”, Deep waterhole is “ galing-gura”, a little stream such as traces of small water-courses is “gun. ngang” then there is “gul-gang-ga-nha which means go down (in well or hole). Therefore “deep water hole” or something similar may be the most likely meaning of Gulgong.
Source: Sharon Hodgetts, Gulgong History
Wiradjuri Dictionary App
nguluman - waterhole, a large waterhole, a watercourse downhill
Source: A New Wiradjuri Dictionary Published 2010 by Restoration House
Source: A New Wiradjuri Dictionary Published 2010 by Restoration House
