Topics: Families and children: North Coastal
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At the age of 3, Susan Moylan-Coombs was removed from her family
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put together unknown pieces of Biddy ’s children’s story
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Agnes and Bob’s great grandmother and great uncles
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pain and suffering many endured, particularly through fallout from the stolen generations
Before Cook - view
Bennelong’s wife Barangaroo was a Cameragalleon ( leon indicating female) and was abducted from Manly Cove on Governor Phillip’s command.
1793 - view
A young woman Goo-ree-dee-a-na teaches Watkin Tench some of her language. Tench writes that she “belonged to the tribe of Cameragal”.
1799 - view
Bungaree
is recruited by Lieutenant Grant in the ship Lady Nelson . He helps guide the exploration of the Hunter River.
1800 - 1803 - view
Birth of Biddy (Sarah Wallace) in Broken Bay.
1800 - 1803 - view
Her mother is ‘Queen’ Matora, a wife of Bungaree.
1800 - 1803 - view
Biddy is known as Sarah Wallace, belongs to the Broken Bay clan of Bungaree, and is sister to Bowen and Toby.
1815 - view
Governor
Macquarie sets up the Native Institution at Parramatta, It is a dormitory
school where Aboriginal children can be educated in English ways without the
influence of their families and clans. At first some parents leave their
children at the school voluntarily, later they realise that they will not be
allowed to leave.
1815 - view
Biddy
Lewis later to settle at Marramarra Creek on Broken Bay, also lives from time
to time at Bungaree’s Georges Head farm.
1820 - view
Pavel Mikhailov (the Russian expeditioner and artist) draws
Bungaree and many of his clan, including Diana Boongaree daughter of Matora.
Other family members who are named and drawn by Mikhailov include Matora
herself (first wife of Bungaree).
1820 - view
The artist draws or records other names of the people in Bungaree’s clan. Boin (Bowen) is Bungaree’s son. His mother is Toura. Bowen’s wife is Maria or Mary,
her father is Jonza and her mother is Nan or Naney. Bowen’s daughters are
Theda, Theela Bowen and his son Mark.
1820 - view
Since the men in Bungaree’s group were often absent from Kirribili, Mikhailov
concentrated in his painting on the women and children. Volendens,Gulanba Duby,
Gouroungan, Ga-ouen-ren, Matora.
1823 - view
Webb is notorious among a branch of Bungaree’s descendants now living on the Central coast, as the man who sexually assaulted Sophie.
1823 - view
Birth of Charlotte Ashby, daughter of Sophie Bungaree and James Webb.
1826 - view
Aboriginal
women are often abducted and sometimes raped, while their men retaliate to
defend the women.
1830 - view
Birth
of Theda Bungaree, father: Bowen Toura Bungaree, Mother: Maria.
1831 - view
Anonymous
letter to the Sydney Gazette “…People
should be employed to take a circuit about ten or fifteen miles around the
establishment erected for the Aborigines; to conciliate themselves with the
natives, particularly to find out which of those have children and to induce
them to come to the establishment to convene with the missionary.”