Place Names Register Extract
Hatches Creek
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Hatches Creek |
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| Type Designation | Stream |
| Place Id | 13468 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Recorded |
| Date Registered | |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -20° 57' S (Decimal degrees -20.95) | |
| Longitude: 135° 13' E (Decimal degrees 135.2167) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| Davenport | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Barkly Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | The creek, a tributary of the Frew River, was first mapped geologically by A A Davidson in his work on the Davenport and Murchison Ranges, south of Tennant Creek, in the 1898-1900 period and appeared firstly as HATCHES CREEK at that time. It is believed that Joshua Hatch (c. 1866-1930) was a stockman from Nuriootpa SA, who travelled up to the Territory in 1888, working for William Coulthard (1851-1922) stocking the Frew River. Later he was with William Coulthard (1873-1953) at the Arltunga Goldfield in 1903. It is believed Joshua was a member of the Anglo-Australian Prospecting Syndicate who prospected from Hermannsburg to Lake Amadeus and the west. Joshua married Mary Anne Farrel and a son Joseph Lorenz Hatch was baptised at the Hermannsburg Mission on 6 October, 1895. The Biographical Index of South Australia, Volume 2 gives some of these references. Joshua Hatch died in Nuriootpa on 23 April 1930. It is reputed he had a brother in the Frew River area in the 1890s. Danny Pedler is regarded as the prospector credited with the discovery of Wolfram at Hatches Creek in 1914 (although the name was recorded in Davidson's map of 1898) and also at the Wauchope in 1916 nearby. William Coulthard's manuscript papers (2029) are held at the National Library at Canberra. He pioneered Nuriootpa and his grandson travelled to Arltunga in 1903. Mr William Hatch, a miner of Charters Towers, could have some connection with the Joshua Hatch family, who first came to South Australia in 1849. Perhaps the Genealogical Society of Queensland could provide information on the Queensland births etc which might lead to the South Australian connection. A William Hatch, the son of Joshua and Mary, born in 1869 and dying in 1921 is also mentioned in the BISA volumes. An article "A History on Mining in the NT" by I A Mumme Part 11, covering the discovery of Hatches Creek, appears in the Australian Lapidary Magazine of January, 1976 but does not mention the Josh Hatch of the original creek name. |
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