Kissing point

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Kissing Point pier
Kissing Pont Ferry Wharf

Kissing Point is now the name of a section of the bank on the north bank of the Australian Parramatta River in the urban area of Sydney , Australia . The area includes Kissing Point Ferry Wharf, a public transport boat dock in Sydney, Kissing Point Park with a playground and a ramp that can be used to launch boats.

Kissing Point is about two kilometers south of Ryde and is now in Putney, a suburb of Sydney. Historically, the name referred to a much larger area. This is indicated, among other things, by a bronze plaque, which is located further north on Ryde Bridge and which states that a first settlement was established here by William Careless and James Weavers in 1792 after Governor Arthur Phillip made this area a farmland on the eastern border of the newly founded European settlement. The bronze plaque also states that the name Kissing Point was later adopted for this area.

Origin of name

There are several explanations for the origin of the name Kissing Point, which was used to denote this area from 1794. According to the most likely explanation, this was the point in the Parramatta River that heavily loaded ships could still reach before their keels "kissed" the river floor, meaning the river did not carry enough water to allow further navigation. A more romantic explanation ascribes the origin of the name to the fact that this place was very popular with the early European settlers as a picnic spot, Governor John Hunter fell asleep and was kissed awake at one. A third explanation also connects the name of the bank section with the later governor: Hunter set out on an exploration trip in 1788, on which his wife initially accompanied him. At Breakfast Point, they had breakfast together and then crossed over to the opposite bank, where Hunter said goodbye to his wife with a kiss.

colonization

An Aboriginal tribe lived here immediately before the region was settled by European settlers. In the 1790s, ten released convicts were given land here with the condition that they build farms and cultivate the land. These settlers included James Squire , who was able to expand his land holdings over the next few years, was the first to successfully grow hops, to set up the first brewery in Australia and to set up an inn at Kissing Point. Bennelong , an elder of the Eora Aboriginal tribe , who long mediated between the European settlers and the Aborigines, died at Squire's estate and was buried at Kissing Point. His presumed burial site is no longer on the area of ​​today's Kissing Point, but about 300 meters further away on the property known as Cleve Park.

Single receipts

  1. ^ Kissing Point Park
  2. ↑ Original text of the plaque: "This is he site of the first settlement on 10th January 1792 - by - William Careless and James Weavers in the Locality set up by Governor Phillip as Farms of the eastern boundary (later called Kissing Point).
  3. ^ History of Ryde
  4. ^ Website of New South Wales with explanations of names
  5. ^ Kissing Point, New South Wales
  6. ↑ Russell, Eric. Drummoyne: a western suburbs' history from 1794 . Drummoyne, NSW: Council of the Municipality of Drummoyne, Second Edition, 1982. ISBN 0-9599312-1-X .
  7. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald: RYDE BRIDGE . December 9, 1935. Retrieved August 1, 2016. 
  8. ↑ https://www.jamessquire.com.au/about/
  9. ^ Sydney Gazette, January 9, 1813, quoted from More Pig Bites Baby! Stories from Australia's First Newspaper , volume 2, ed. Michael Connor, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2004, ISBN 1-876631-91-0 ; online Sydney . In: Sydney Gazette . January 9, 1813, p. 2.

Coordinates: 33 ° 49 ′ 51 ″  S , 151 ° 6 ′ 6 ″  O