A collection of Hillendiana: Comprising vast numbers of fact & a considerable amount of fiction concerning the goldfield of Hillend and environs, with the result of many years of intensive and arduous historical research
By Donald Friend
Ure Smith, Sydney 1956
Indexed by Ruth Wilson
Description |
Page |
Ackland (an undertaker) | 39, 40 |
Adams (accidental discovery of gold on Hawkin’s Hill) | 15 |
All Nations Hotel | 61 |
Alpha Station | 15, 36 |
Anderson family | 71 |
Bailiss, Merlin’s assistant | 42 |
Bald Hill (original name of Hill End) | 1, 9 |
Ballads | 62–64 |
Barkly, Bishop | 12 |
Barley Mow Hotel | 61 |
Bathurst diggings | 4 |
Beard, Mrs. | 22, 64, 75 |
Benyon, Mrs. | 54, 55 |
Beyers and Holtermann | 16, 20, 22, 64 |
Beyers, Louis | 16, 20, 22, 39–45, 65, 75, 76 |
Blackberry Tommy (a strip of land behind Bald Hill) | 34 |
Black Nat | 45, 46 |
Black Ned Morsley | 59 |
Bobby Pistol (Chinaman) | 68 |
Boldrewood, Rolf, (Mining Magistrate) | 58, 59 |
Boldrewood, Rolf, “Miners’ Right” | 59 |
Boldrewood, Rolf, “Robbery under Arms” | 58 |
Boogong Creek | 16 |
Boyd, author of “Old Colonials” | 16, 17 |
Bowman, Mrs. | 74 |
Brown, James, see Northumberland Jimmie | 16, 21, 31, 40, 45, 46 |
Bull’s Pound | 13 |
Burke, Keast, Mr. of Kodaks | 42 |
Bushrangers | 12, 17, 57 |
Camp Hill, Tambaroora | 8 |
Canton – near Fisher’s Hill, a big Chinese camp | 34 |
Carroll and Beard | 22 |
Carter’s Grave | 33 |
Chambers’ Creek | 73 |
Chappel’s Battery at Bald Hill | 16, 26 |
Charlton, Mrs. | 69, 70, 71 |
Chinaman’s Bend | 35, 36 |
Chinese | 1, 12, 13, 14, 15,72 |
Chinese diggers | 12–15, 72 |
Chinese graveyard | 34 |
“Christopher Cockle’s Australian Experiences” | 5 |
Clements, Ned, (an aborigine of the Bullen tribe) | 33 |
Clements’ Waterhole | 33 |
Clinch, J. W. (telegraphist) | 23 |
Clune, Frank | 51 |
Cobb & Co. | 16, 17, 62 |
Cobb, Freeman | 16 |
Collison, digger | 31 |
Contemporary Photographs by G. Russell Drysdale | between 68 and 69 |
– “A View of the Town” | “ |
– “Erosion on the Diggings” | “ |
– “Street Scene” | “ |
– “The Town from the Golden Mile” | “ |
Coyle’s Mail Coaches of Hill End | 17 |
Coyle’s Club House Hotel | 17 |
Creighton and Beard | 20 |
Cricketers Arms Hotel | 61 |
Cullen, Jimmie | 13 |
Cummin’s Station | 12 |
“Daddy” Nichols ( A Cornishman) | 15 |
Dirt Holes Creek | 8 |
Dixon, storekeeper | 67 |
Dwyer | 16 |
Ellis family | 64, 71 |
Ellis, Jack | 64 |
Ellis, Tom | 64 |
Eyre, Hal, author of “Hilarities” | 36, 62 |
Fawcett, Dr. | 61 |
Fisher’s Hill | 46, 68 |
Fighting Gully | 61 |
Furt Strap | 31 |
Gardiner, Frank, bushranger | 49–52, 57 |
Gilbert, Johnny, bushranger | 49, 50, 51 |
Gill, Mr. M. W. | 61 |
Gold escort | 17, 18, 19 |
Goodwin, Enoch | 32 |
Gray Wong | 32, 33 |
“Great Western Undaunted” Mining Co. | 22 |
Griffiths, George, epitaph | 71 |
Hall, Ben (bushranger) | 49, 57 |
Hargreaves (perhaps the first discovery of gold) | 3, 7 |
Hawkin’s Hill | 15, 16, 21, 22, 39–45, 64 |
Hawkin’s Hill Hotel | 61 |
Hermann | 20 |
Hill End and Tambaroora Times (newspaper) | 35, 41, 43, 60 |
Hill End Observer (newspaper) | 16, 41, 60 |
Hill End, as seen by Contemporary painters — | between 68 and 69 |
– Lister, M – “Bringing in the Beyers-Holtermann Nugget” | “ |
– Russell Drysdale, G – “The Fossickers in an Eroded Gully” | “ |
– Friend, Donald – “St. Patrick’s Night Ball, Sally’s Flat” | “ |
– Bellette, Jean – “Hill End Landscape” | “ |
-Haefliger, Paul – “The Pub and The Shop” | “ |
– Olley, Margaret – “Hill End Cottages” | “ |
Hodge family | 71 |
Holman | 16 |
Holtermann, Bernard | 16, 20, 22, 39–43 |
Hotels | 60, 61 |
Howard, Bert | |
Hurley | 16, 20 |
Isaac’s Criterion Hotel (the Best Billiard Table) | 61 |
Jacky Bullfrog (aboriginal murderer) | 56 |
Jimmie Gun (Chinaman) | 68 |
Johnson’s Hole | 31 |
Kitty (of Kitty’s Falls) | 30 |
Krohmann, John | 16, 20 ,21, 27, 60 |
Lambing Flat | 13, 67 |
Lawson, Henry (poet) | 63, 64 |
Lewis Ponds | 3 |
Lister (perhaps the first discovery of gold) | 3, 7 |
Le Messurier, town clerk | 45, 68 |
Louisa Creek (Hargraves) Diggings | 8 |
Lucky Sam | 5, 11 |
Lusada, Dolores, alias Lola Montez | 59 |
Lyle, Bill | 74 |
Lynch, Peter, digger | 30, 31 |
Lynch’s Gully and Lynch’s Flat | 30 |
MacKenzie, Rev. D., author of “The Gold-Digger” | 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 18, 19 |
Maggoty Gully | 34 |
Maitland Camp | 37 |
Malgrade, Algernon | 59 |
Maloney, Bill, driver for Cobb & Co. | 17 |
Maloney’s Tambaroora Coaches | 17 |
Marshall family | 31, 45, 46 |
McQuiggan, Paddy, driver for Cobb & Co. | 57, 62 |
Merlin, Beaufoy, photographer | 25, 42 |
Merlin’s photographs – Panorama, Hill End, 1872 | between 36 and 37 |
” ” – Clarke Street, 1872 | “ |
” ” – The Gold Reef Hotel | “ |
” ” – The Digger’s Arms (one of the earliest pubs) | “ |
” ” – A Hawkin’s Hill Claim | “ |
” ” – Welcome, Sir Hercules! | “ |
” ” – The Mining Agents Family (Simmons) | “ |
” ” – A Miner’s Hut | “ |
Millar’s pub | 67 |
Miss Bain | 61 |
Miss Mayes Educational Establishment | 61 |
Monkey Hill | 17, 23, 57 |
Moonlight, (a Chinese gardener) | 34 |
Moore, digger | 20 |
Mossman, Samuel, author of “Gold Regions of Australia’ | 3, 4,11 |
Mrs Doyle’s Ladies Academy | 61 |
“Northumberland Jimmie”, see James Brown | 16, 21, 40, 45 |
Nuggety Gully | 16 |
Oakey Creek | 7, 37, 45, 61 |
O’Connell, Dr. | 61 |
Old Company’s battery (Sargent’s company) | 15 |
Ophir | 7 |
Paxton, Joseph | 16, 21, 47 |
Peterson’s Battery in Nuggety Gully | 16 |
Piesley family | 49 |
Piesley, Ben | 51 |
Piesley, John (bushranger) | 49 — 56 |
Piesley Island | 33, 34, 49 |
Police trooper shot | 57, 68 |
Policeman | 8 |
Post Office Flat | 16 |
Presbyterian Church | 47 |
Pullen’s Battery | 16 |
Purser, M. E., author of “The Golden Years” | 7 |
Purser, M. E., author of “Hawkin’s Hill and Eldorado” | 19 |
“Rampant Lion” Mining Company” | 22 |
Randwick mine | 32 |
Reefers Arms | 61 |
Robinson, Sir Hercules | 24, 25, 74 |
Ross, Alec | 57 |
Royal Hotel | 24, 42, 62 |
Sally’s Flat | 36 |
Sam Poo, (Chinese bushranger) | 13, 14 |
Sargent’s Battery | 10 |
Sargent’s Hill | 15, 31 |
“Sarnia”, Le Messurier’s farm | 33,45, 68 |
Shaw, Richard Cox, (Bank of New South Wales) | 50, 51 |
Starlight (bushranger) | 58 |
“Star of Hope” Goldmining Company | 41 |
Swallow’s Nest Hotel | 37 |
Sons of Temperance | 25 ,41, 61 |
Tivoli theatre | 67 |
The Granites | 37 |
The Great Varieties Theatre | 61 |
The Fighting Grounds | 36 |
The Root Hog | 31, 39 |
Tom (perhaps the first discovery of gold) | 3 |
Trust and Try Company | 21 |
Turon Crossing | 37 |
Turon Digger | 8 |
Turon Field | 7 |
Turon Junction | 30 |
Vickery’s Battery at Boogong Creek | 16 |
Walker, J. W. | 15 |
Walking-stick Hill | 34 |
Walpole family | 71 |
Warry family | 71 |
Weir’s Hotel | 61 |
Wentworth, William Charles (poetic optimism) | 2 |
Whistling Creek | 34 |
Wilson, James | 54 |
Woollard family | 37 |
Wyagdon Mountain | 57 |
Wythes, Joseph | 15 |