CONVICTS, FREE SETTLERS, CURRENCY LADS & LASSES

The hamlet of Kurrajong Heights is located on the edge of the Great Dividing Range, overlooking the vast expanse of the Cumberland Plain and further east the Pacific Ocean in the distance.
It has rich soils and a temperate climate which attracted early settlers looking for good farming land.
The original settlers were convicts, men and women transported to the colony of New South Wales for misdemeanours committed in England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales.
The first to arrive was JOSEPH DOUGLASS and the area now known as Kurrajong Heights was originally named after him as Douglass's Hill.
He was soon joined by other convicts like JOB WILSON, JOHN MATTHEW PITMAN, JAMES MOSTYN (alias BUTLER), ROBERT FORRESTER, ALFRED BROWN, JOHN BERWICK, JOHN SHERWOOD and ANN LANE, SAMUEL HURST and JOHN SHEPHERD.
All raised large families in the Kurrajong district.
Only a couple of these original convict settlers are buried in St David's cemetery, but some of their descendants are.
The children of overseas-born convicts, who were born in Australia, were known as 'currency lads and lasses'. There are several of them buried at St David's too.