An account of early customs pertaining to Hawkesbury district

An account of early customs pertaining to Hawkesbury district: Sam Boughton in Hawkesbury Herald in 1903 recollects that during the “early forties” there was a “blackfellows corroboree held in a paddock opposite a cottage then owned by Mrs Onus at Richmond” He remembered witnessing a fight there with “boomerangs and waddies flying, cracked skulls and blood flowing” and was told it was “a way they had” of showing a friendly feeling “towards each other”. Some of the principle people were Stevy, Emery, Cocky, Whoolaboy, George Merican, Billy Green and Bumba. George Merican and Billy Green were both known as “Kings”. Bumba was the last of the Belmont, North Richmond Tribe. (Brook, 1st edit, 20).