Newcastle Family History Society Podcasts

Society member, Sandra Boyd,  looks into the early lives of her ancestors, the Baker family and the world they stepped into as new arrivals in the colony of NSW.

Stephen Ticehurst explores the lives of two men named Wallis who lived in Newcastle in the early nineteenth century, revealing the contrasting human faces of the British Empire’s colonial project in the region.

In this final episode of Bushrangers in the Hunter Valley. we follow the story of the notorious Jewboy Gang and their enigmatic leader, Edward Davis, turning then to the enduring legend of Frederick Ward, aka Captain Thunderbolt and his partner, the remarkable Worimi bushranger, Mary Ann Bugg.

In this sixth and final podcast Jane Ison looks at the little-known Wesleyan Methodist Burial Ground once situated in Newcastle West.

In this episode of Notable Novocastrians, Mel Woodford explores the life of the actress, Essie Jenyns, who captured the public imagination and became an important part of Newcastle’s social history.

Join Society member Narelle Austen as she uncovers the context surrounding the events at Castle Forbes near Singleton and drawing on historical records and creative reconstruction, describes, in Part One, the beginnings of the trial of those involved in the revolt. 

Narelle Austen continues the story of those on trial for the Castle Forbes Revolt. Mr Roger Therry puts the case for the defence and two of the condemned men make a final plea for their suffering to be acknowledged.

Jane Ison looks at the first Newcastle Roman Catholic Burial Ground once situated beside Cottage Creek in Newcastle West.