Maitland was once the principal town of the ... the Lower Hunter up in the years 1818 to 1821. Eleven emancipated convicts were granted small plots of land as a reward for good behaviour and ...

He also noted smoke from Aboriginal campfires, presumably belonging to the Worimi tribe who occupied the land from Port Stephens north to Wallis Lake and inland to the Maitland area. The first ...

In fact, it’s the last surviving ship that took convicts to Australia. In 1858, the ship was contracted to take prisoners from England to Australia. Among the convicts were William Tester and ...