Topics: Families and children: South Coastal
Topic tags allow you to gather information from different pages on a particular topic. The first page, which appears when you click on the topic tag, shows relevant information from all place pages. The list of places will also appear on the right-hand side menu. You can display topic tags related to the particular place by clicking on the place name.
view
moved to Caroline St, Redfern as children because of their mother’s ill health
view
Sisters Auntie Janny Ely and Auntie Judy Chester spent three years (from 1959) in the army barracks at Herne Bay (where those with nowhere to go ended up) waiting for a government house. Their mother was very ill and, despite help from family, they learned to cook early and Janny missed a lot of school looking after her.
view
life at Yarra Bay with her parents and grandparents in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
view
His family is diverse with many connections by marriage between the North and South coasts. His Timbery cousins – descendants of Pemulwuy – were taken away as stolen generation s children
view
Burnum (meaning “Great warrior”) was put in Kinchela boys home
view
Taken from her mother as a baby and sent to live with a foster family, Auntie Pamela Young grew up told she should be ashamed of her Aboriginality
view
another stolen generations man
view
Pamela Young and her two sisters were taken from their mother
view
Donna Daley recounts how her mother went back to Matraville High as an Aboriginal Education Assistant the year after she left school
view
Judy tells the story of her mother voting for the first time
view
Janny had to leave school because of her mother’s illness
1831 - view
Madden families
1842 - view
eleven children
1845 - view
When he was a kid
1849 - view
two children
1852 - view
family
1852 - view
Koori children
1855 - view
children
1855 - view
grandchildren
1857 - view
grandson