Lennox
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William and Eleanor Clement – A love story.
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave William Clement, a 23-year-old carpenter, met his future wife aboard the vessel Sir Edward Paget on their voyage to Australia in 1842. Eleanor Ewing was a 21-year-old domestic servant and the couple married just six-months after arrival in Sydney. In 1846, accompanied by two young children, they travelled…
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William Henry Coleman (1854 – 1935).
By Dianne Wiggins and Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave In the early 1860s, aged just nine, William Coleman arrived in the northern rivers with his parents, John and Catherine Coleman. He had spent his childhood near Gosford helping his father and older brothers, who were timber-cutters. John, an emancipated convict, worked for Charles Jarrett…
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The Eyles Family
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave The Eyles family epitomise the way the earliest settlers arrived, adapted to changing opportunities and opened up the region to white settlement. The first of the family to move here were Joseph (b. 1812) and John Eyles (b. 1814), sons of ex-convicts Joseph Eyles and Elizabeth Smith. Both…
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The Cedar-Cutters of North Creek
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave. Acknowledging information contained in Men and A River by Louise Daley. The first non-Indigenous people to enter the Lennox region were the cedar-cutters. A passion for the ‘red gold’—as this magnificent statuesque timber was called—led the first cutters, Joe Maguire and Steve King, to this sawyer’s paradise in…
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Steve King and Joe Maguire – the district’s first cedar cutters.
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave The two men recognised as being the driving force behind opening the district to white settlement were Steven King and Joe Maguire. Neither lived in the Lennox area but both had descendants who did. Steve King, described as brave, reckless and the best all-round timberman, arrived in 1829…
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Richard Hughes 1818-1894
by Narissa Phelps for the Lennox Wave Rivers were the highways of the cedar industry and played a huge role in opening up the North Creek (Lennox Head) region in its earlies days. Richard Hughes, who was born in Ireland about 1818 and arrived in Australia about 1830, was a boatman but also a timber…
Colonial Australia's Early History 