Parish of Thalaba One-Place Study

The Parish of Thalaba, County of Gloucester developed into an agricultural district in the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. British settlers arrived there from the 1830s. They were from disparate places, whether it was their country of origin or the areas within that country, such as city, rural, coastal; from differing occupations, ranging from gentry to criminals, agriculture, trade, and manufacture; from different levels of society, religions, and levels of literacy. Nevertheless, varying degrees of interaction was necessary between these settlers in the isolation of their new home to effectively function as a community: how did they manage this, what were the changes over time, and what were the outcomes by the 1920s?