Topics: Families and children: North Coastal
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1832 - view
Birth
recorded of Mark Bungaree, son of Naney or Maria.
1833 - view
Mrs Felton Mathew, on a
visit to Marramarra Creek with her surveyor husband on 3 rd August
writes “then appeared a miserable hut of rough logs covered with bark, from
whence issued a number of dogs barking … and then the inhabitants; two old men
and a woman with child in her arms … These dreary solitudes might serve for the
abode of a misanthrope so utterly are they secluded from all approach and so
entirely destitute of all comfort”
1835 - 1861 - view
The
Oliver family on a farm in Elvina Bay (then Lovett Bay) recall “blackfellows
who stole (or as they called it ‘bandicooted’) a whole paddock of potatoes”.
Mrs Oliver would place an old musket at the open door to warn the Koori people
away.
1836 - view
Bowen
(Toura Bungaree) and his wife Maria, and daughters Jonza, Nan, Theda (Jane),
and son Mark, move to Pittwater, near Barrenjoey. Bowen has perhaps decided to
lead his clan away from the destruction and poverty of Sydney life back to a
semi traditional existence.
1837 - view
Birth of Maria Nanberri.
1837 - view
The ( Sydney Gazette , 2 Feb 1837) reported that Bridget Riley
an Aboriginal native arrayed in a robe
of spotless white, which contrasted strongly with her skin, was charged with
having suffered from the influence of ‘bool’: she stated that she sat down
[lived] at Broken Bay, to which place she was ordered to betake herself with
all speed, and not be again seen drunk in the streets of Sydney.
1840s - view
Birth
of Mary Jane Fonseca, daughter of Esther Aiken, a descendant of Kitty. She dies
in 1924.
1845 - view
According
to correspondence from Howard, Maria and Bowen have a son and two daughters all
baptised at St Mary’s Church Sydney.
1846 - view
The mother is Biddy, the sister of the
blackfellow Bowen, of Pitt Water and the daughter of an aboriginal woman by an
English seaman. There are seven children by this connexion, from nineteen to
two years of age, living in their father’s house after the manner of the
settlers of the Creek … The two lads are employed in the boat with their
father, four of the younger children are yet at home, and the eldest girl is
living with a man of the name of Rose, a fisherman at Marramarra Creek.
1846 - view
There are
many reported cases of white men living with Aboriginal women and having
children.
1848 - view
European
settlement severely impacts on environment. NSW Surveyor-General Major Mitchell
writes “the omission of the annual periodical burning by natives, of grass and
young saplings, has already produced in the open forest lands nearest Sydney,
thick forests of young trees, where formerly a man might gallop without
impediment and see miles before him”.
1860s - view
Birth of Hannah Matilda Ashby, daughter of James Ashby.
1863 - view
Clara
Duggan, born 4 November 1863 at Wattle Flat, NSW. Esther’s daughter (William’s
mother), descendants of Bowen.
1880s - view
Marriage of Hannah Matilda Ashby to Henry Stanford Boyd. These descendants of Bungaree have many children including Jean Boyd and Matilda Ellen Boyd.
1880s - view
Mrs Benns (and husband Joseph Benns) are still living on Pittwater. She acts as midwife to all the families along the Hawkesbury River.
1881 - view
William
Henry Allsopp is born 25 th October at Sallys Flat, NSW. He is a
direct descendant of Kitty. Other family members include Madge Gweneth Allsopp
who has a son Ronald William Fletcher.
1881 - view
“went
to North Shore – gave rations for children – meat, flour, tea and sugar. In evening
called at black’s camp – glad to see me, conducted by ’fire sticks‘ [led by
Koori guides] blacks drunk – back to Sydney in ferry – saw Jane half caste
street walking at night”.
1899 - view
Birth of Clarise Malinda
Morris (Nana Watson, grandmother of Dennis Foley).
1900s - view
Birth of Marie Robinson, daughter of Matilda Ellen, descendants of Bungaree and
Matora.
1920s - view
About
a dozen girls from the Cootamundra Training Home for Aboriginal Girls are
placed in North side homes as domestic servants. They looked after small
children or worked in the kitchens and seldom had any contact with their
families or friends from Cootamunda.