Background Info on Tregear

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Tregear
"This surname is of early Cornish origin, and is a locational name from any of the various places named with the Cornish "tre", homestead, settlement, plus the definite article "an", and "ker", fort, farmhouse encircled by a hedge." This is the Tregear our suburb is named after. Do you have a home that is like a fort, surrounded by a hedge? You have a Tregear!

From a copy of the Blacktown & District Historical Society Journal that I looked at in Blacktown Library, Vol. 7, no. 2 (Winter 1986), p 8-10, A Memoir of Old Mt. Druitt by Mavis Athe: "A nice old home was on Tregear until a few years ago, when it was demolished by the Housing Commission". In the 70's? And a local taxi driver tells me the house was on the site of Tregear Primary School.

http://www.stmaryshistoricalsociety.org/petaproj/petap11.htm
A school assignment by Peta about Tregear with a picture of the original homestead and the Lethbridge family.

http://www.stmaryshistoricalsociety.org/tributesu2006.htm
St Marys & District Historical Society. Spotlight on John King Lethbridge, including information about his property 'Tregeare'.

Tregear Airfield during World War 2
I think this is actually outside the border of Tregear now, but back then Tregear wasn't a suburb as such anyway, and it was known as the Tregear Airfield. I just like the thought that there was an airfield so close to my home so it's going in here anyway. And when I can I will give it a citation. Can you work out where it is?

http://www.rogerprice.net/government/pages/right_main_chifley.htmOn the site for Roger Price is a little more background for Tregear: "Tregear. The suburb was originally based on the area of John Whalan's homestead (built in 1821). The Lethbridge family later purchased the house and named the grounds after the family home in Cornwall, England. Members of the Lethbridge family occupied the house up until 1942. It was taken over by the RAAF who eventually sold it in 1951."

http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?id=197
A little bit of history from the Penrith Council site: In 1889 J. King Lethbridge, grazier, freeholder of Tregear, signed a petition to have "Municipal District of St. Mary's" created.