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Source: New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900) Wed 16 Jul 1834 [Issue No.124]
1834 - 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.
1839___________________
1839 - On 27 April 1839, Arthur Joseph Liddington purchased 440 acres at 5/ an acre on the left bank of Cooyal Creek, opposite the present site of Home Rule. The area became known as "Old Gulgong" after the township of Gulgong sprung up in reaction to the discovery of payable gold in 1870.
The original "Gulgong", a property owned by Liddington.
Source: Parish Maps
Source: Parish Maps
Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 6th August, 1839.
THE undermentioned Deeds have been transmitted from this Office to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, to be by him forwarded through the Surveyor-General to the Colonial Treasurer, by whom notification of their receipt at his Office will be made to the Grantees by letter, after which they will be delivered on application, viz:—
PORTIONS OF LAND
Advertisement of 30th January, 1839.
Deeds dated 27th April, 1339.
173. Arthur Joseph Liddington, 640 ditto, Phillip, lot 129.
Source: New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900) Wed 14 Aug 1839 [Issue No.441] Page 904
1839 - [CONVICTS ASSIGNED]Principal Superintendent of Convicts' Office 2nd July, 1839.
LIST of Assignment of Male Convicts from the 16th May to the 13th June, 1839
- Liddington A. J., Mudgee, 6 laborers and 1 blacksmith
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
