Hillendiana Index

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

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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