These resources have been compiled for the use of students, family and local historians.

Larger lists are in searchable pdf format.

Thank you to our wonderful team of volunteers for their continuing efforts in making these resources available.

Population Overviews

• Population Growth in the Gosford region from 1833 - 2001
• Gosford City Community Profiles (current and historical from 1996 onwards)

Census and Commercial Directory listings

• Census of New South Wales 1841 - Brisbane Water District
• 1843 Brisbane Water list of Electors
• Greville's Official Post Office Directory NSW - 1872
• NSW Post Office Directory - 1911 (Gosford Region listings)
• Moore's Australian Almanac and New South Wales
  Country Directory and Tourist Guide for the year 1940 (Gosford Region listings)
• UBD Local Universal Guide for the Central Coast N.S.W., 1958.
  

Brisbane Water and Gosford area extracts from NRS 343, Register of Coroners inquests and magisterial inquiries, 1834-1942: Microfilm reels 2921-25, 2225, 2763-65, 2766-69 *ARK. 

Please be aware that this material reflects attitudes of the time in which it was written. This information is presented for historical research purposes, and should not be used to cause hurt or embarrassment to descendants.

• Section 1: June 1836-June 1880
• Section 2: July 1880-November 1899
• Section 3: January 1899-December 1929
• Section 4: February 1930-June 1942

R.H. Creighton Gosford funeral records index 1909-1951 (Microfilms held by Gosford City Library)

• Section 1: 1909-1919
• Section 2: 1920-1932
• Section 3: 1933
• Section 4: 1934-1937
• Section 5: 1938-1940
• Section 6: 1940-1942
• Section 7: 1943-1945
• Section 8: 1950-51

Gosford District Cemetery records from R.H. Creighton funeral parlour, Gosford (Held by Gosford City Library)

These resources are drawn from a number of original registers recovered from R.H. Creighton, Gosford, at the time of closure of their Mann Street funeral parlour. The records are possibly incomplete, and sometimes quite limited in the years that they cover, but they can quite useful in locating ancestors.

Point Clare Cemetery

• Point Clare Baptist burial c1950-1969
• Point Clare Catholic portion c1916-1967
• Point Clare Church of England burials c1917 - 1947
• Point Clare Church of England burials c 1916 - 1969
• Point Clare General cemetery c1931-1967
• Point Clare Methodist cemetery c1929-1967
• Point Clare Presbyterian cemetery c1927 - 1968
• Point Clare Seventh Day Adventist c1966-69

Wamberal Cemetery c1895-1967

• Wamberal Catholic portion - 1967
• Wamberal General Cemetery 1895-1967

Cemetery receipt books, R.H. Creighton 1942-1947

• RH Creighton receipt book 1942-1946
• RH Creighton receipt book 1945-1947

Point Clare Cemetery and Wamberal Cemetery

The following link provides information concerning both cemeteries; including the ability to search for individual grave sites, as well as cemetery maps and general information (concerning reservations, burials, etc.).

http://www.gosford.nsw.gov.au/council-cemeteries

Gems from our collection

• “Our School Paper”: original children’s work from Somersby and Ourimbah Creek half-time school, circa 1905.

Take a trip back to 1905, and marvel at the standard of work done by students at a tiny half-time school. Somersby and Ourimbah half-time school operated between 1893 and early 1906. Contains work and signatures  of children from the Pile; Jaques; Glashoff; Dodds; Frazer; Bridge; Tynan; Beck; Tollis; Gray and Edmunds families.