Topics: Families and children: North West
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Auntie Christine Lewis and Muffy Hedges discuss their Lewis and Shuttle ancestors
1804 - view
a “King”
1805 - view
The decreasing number of women and girls in these camps are frequently employed as domestic servants by white townspeople
1808 - view
Governor Bligh receives instructions to educate and settle surviving Aboriginal girls
1814 - view
Hawkesbury Darkinjung children are among the founding students at the Institution. At least three are children of ‘Branch natives’
1817 - view
Walter Lawry meets the chief of “a tribe of blacks”, but the woman take their children and run off. Lawry writes: “I inquired why the childen were carried off; they replied that many of them had been taken away by men in black clothes, and put to school at Parramatta
1818 - view
An “old woman, daubed with pipe clay, performs the part of leader
1821 - view
These men often interfere with Koori women and take punitive action against men when they object
1824 - view
imbalance of males to females led to a demand for Gooris on its property
1824 - view
family history
1825 - view
Awabakal women also turn to Threlkeld at times of need. One young woman runs to Threlkeld and asks if he will go and see her bury Dismal’s deceased sister
1825 - view
Violence towards Aboriginal women is also increasing
1825 - view
settlers abducting Aboriginal wives or female children
1828 - view
19 men, 11 women and nine children
1829 - view
a native and his gin and two boys
1832 - view
Darug child
1833 - view
a “traditional Aboriginal woman
1836 - view
He has one wife but no children
1836 - view
He has a wife, but no children
1836 - view
wife and two sons. One of the boys dies