Topics: Families and children
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West - view
Uncle Dennis Foley remembers his cousins, four girls who were taken away when he was six
North Coastal - view
Agnes and Bob’s great grandmother and great uncles
Central - view
Uncle Chicka Madden spent some of his time in Uralla, with his Aunty, and some being educated at Redfern Public School. At the age of 14 he got an exemption from school so he could start working and help support the family after his father had joined the army: “You were scratching for a feed.”
West - view
Dennis himself was later taken to Minda home when his father became ill and his mother fell behind on the rent. The police came to his school to get him - a regular occurrence for Aboriginal children in Chester Hill North
South Coastal - view
moved to Caroline St, Redfern as children because of their mother’s ill health
South Coastal - view
life at Yarra Bay with her parents and grandparents in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
South Coastal - view
His family is diverse with many connections by marriage between the North and South coasts. His Timbery cousins – descendants of Pemulwuy – were taken away as stolen generation s children
West - view
Born in 1813 in Parramatta, Margaret Reed was taken from her family at the age of 7 and put in the Native Institu te where she was trained to be a servant.
South Coastal - view
Burnum (meaning “Great warrior”) was put in Kinchela boys home
West - view
he and his brother were fostered to a non-Aboriginal family shortly after he was placed in a home at the age of four
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
Bennelong’s wife Barangaroo was a Cameragalleon ( leon indicating female) and was abducted from Manly Cove on Governor Phillip’s command.