John Thomas, arrived in the colony about the year 1820, and some years after his arrival entered on farming pursuits, and acquired a grazing and farming property on the swamps near Wallsend, afterwards known as Glendor Farm. This property, or the greater part, was purchased from Dr. Scott, who was the former owner of the Stockton Estate.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, 9 May 1902.
John Thomas died in 1838, and was buried in the cemetery at Christ Church Cathedral in Newcastle. The 1902 article above refers to “134 acres at Glendor” being left to John’s sons, Henry and Denis. An 1890 map however, shows the “Glendor” property being only 50 acres in size.
Overlaying the 1890 map into Google Earth shows that the Glendor property was where the northern tip of Maryland is today.
Presumably the nearby Glendore Public School is named after the “Glendor” property.
This page is part of the collection of Newcastle’s Obsolete Place Names.