Hi Family!
 The Tyson History aims at tracing our family to see where we have been- to have a  Forum so we and future generations may know our predecessors- what they did- where  and how they lived- medical history- and generally who our relos were and are. It contains the families of the following (and others);-
           Tyson
           Myers
           Lamborn (Lambourn, Lambourne, Lamborne) Different spellings.           Tagg
           Watt
           and others.
 These are families interwoven through marriages over many generations.

PLEASE NOTE;- THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE ADVISED OF ERRORS,  ADDITIONS OR AMENDMENTS WHICH NEED TO BE MADE TO MAKE THIS A CORRECT VERSION OF OUR  HISTORY AND SO TO MAKE IT MORE COMPLETE.

Yours,
       Bill Tyson  (W.P.4) Webmaster





ABOUT SYDNEY TOWN HALL
 The Old Burial Ground (now occupied by the Sydney Town Hall) was used between Sept 1792 & 1820, when it officially closed. Its replacement was the Sandhills Cemetery (Devonshire St Cemetery), which later became the site of Central Railway Station. By the 1840s there were concerns about overcrowding & over the next twenty years a number of alternative locations were considered. In 1862 the government purchased 200 acres of land 'near Homebush on the Railway Line?' ? what was to become the Rookwood Necropolis ? for use as a general cemetery. The first registered burial took place at the Rookwood Necropolis in 1867. Sydney Burial Ground 1819-1901 (Elizabeth & Devonshire Streets) & History of Sydney's Early Cemeteries from 1788. The oldest surviving church building in Sydney IS St James King Street next to Hyde Park which  was consecrated in 1824.

About MAITLAND 
 MAITLAND has long been an industrious area since the 1820s.
  Its riverside location, stores & warehouses gave the settlers many a task to undertake within the frontier town. Maitland was home to a wide range of business, including flourmills, breweries, a bacon & tobacco factory, soap, candle making & salt store. Iron workers, blacksmiths & saddlers also thrived at this time. During the  1850s a series of riverside merchants traded, Interspersed within the retail area of  central Maitland were a selection of services and outlets such as tailors,  hairdressers, wig makers,confectioners, photographers & dressmakers who added to the  sense of vitality & diversity within the area.



About GRAFTON NSW
 The area was occupied by the Gumbaingirr Aborigines at the time of European colonisation. It is thought that the first whites in the area were convict escapees from Moreton Bay who passed through the area in the late 1820s & early 1830s. One of their number, Richard Craig, reported a big river & a plenitude of valuable timber when he arrived at Port Macquarie in 1832. He was later employed by a Thomas Small of Sydney who, inspired by Craig's reports, sent off his brother & two dozen sawyers on board the schooner, the Susan, to the 'Big River'. It was the first European vessel to enter the river. Other cedar-cutters followed in their wake. Small took up a large parcel of land on Woodford Island, opening the way for other pastoralists along the river that Governor Gipps named the Clarence in 1839.
 A store & shipyard were established, on what is now South Grafton in 1839 & shipbuilding would remain a major local industry until the end of the century when the railways began to dominate internal trade.
 A wharf, store & inn adorned the northern bank by the early 1840s . Until 1861, when a punt service commenced, the only interaction between the two settlements was by row-boat. This area was known collectively & imaginatively as 'The Settlement'. Twenty establishments were listed on the Clarence River in 1841. The district was surveyed in 1843 & a police magistrate appointed in 1846, at which time the population was recorded as 120. A township was laid out in 1849 & named after the Duke of Grafton who was the grandfather of Governor Fitzroy. The first land sale took place in the early 1850s, a school opened in 1852 & the first Anglican church in 1854. The population, by 1856, had grown to 1069.
 Wharves were established in the 1850s & Grafton benefited both from its location on the main coastal road to the north & from gold discoveries on the upper Clarence River. It soon became the major town on the Clarence & was declared a municipality in 1859. That same year, Grafton became home to both the Clarence & Richmond River Examiner & the first National School north of the Hunter River. Sugar-growing commenced in the 1860s but dairying ultimately proved more successful. Development was further stimulated by the commencement of selection in the 1860s. A steam-driven vehicular ferry was established at this time
 Grafton was declared a city in the mid-1880s, by which time its population had surpassed 4000. The arrival of the railway at Glen Innes in 1883 & the completion of the Casino to North Grafton line in 1905, contributed to a slow decline in Grafton's importance as a regional port although the river trade chugged along until the 1950s.