AUSTRALIANA Biography Local History –

2nd. edition. (Previous ed.: 1976.)

• [Epping, N.S.W. : R.S. Arndell], 1984
• xvii, 334 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

• • Pioneers — New South Wales — Portland Head — Biography
  • Portland Head (N.S.W.) — History
  • Portland Head (N.S.W.) — Genealogy
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  • The locality of Portland Head was first settled by free immigrants, most of whom arrived per the ‘Coromandel’ on 13 June 1802. Initially they settled on the government farm at Toongabbie before they were each granted 100 acres in 1803 at Portland head on either bank of the Hawkesbury River.