Tom Dillon’s parents are not known. He appears at Sackville in the Hawkesbury Valley and at Broke in the Hunter Valley. He works at “Lilburndale” near Sackville Reach during 1883-84, and lives among Darkinung communities of the Hawkesbury and Hunter valleys. Tom Dillon is a fully initiated man, with a scarred chest and missing front tooth. He lives for sometime at Wollombi Brook. He is a fine horseman, a keen cricketer, and for a while, a black tracker based at Bulga. Tom Dillon dies from burns at Newcastle during 1923 while residing at Karuah (Port Stephens). (Barney, Historic Grave; Ford p284, 155).