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on 25 December, with twenty troops and twenty three convicts. This was the beginning of the first
European settlement in Western Australia. On 21 January 1827, as instructed by the
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On 18 November 1854, Lockyer married
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1856 First the Usher of the Black Rod in New South Wales. Australia's first smelter
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561:. Maitland, New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 20 May 1856. p. 3
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in deposits on the banks, becoming the first person to identify coal in
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Lockyer in uniform of Captain of the Sydney Volunteer Rifle Corps
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Arrived in NSW May 1825. 1825 Lockyer and the Ipswich area
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Albany Centenary Committee; W.F. Forster & Co (1927),
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to lead an expedition to explore the upper reaches of the
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser
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In 1852 Lockyer was appointed serjeant-at-arms to the
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Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland
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525:"Hoisted the Flag - Claim for Major Lockyer"
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