Topics: Families and children
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West - view
a favoured church of Governor MacArthur, and the times Gordon and the other children spent there
West - view
as a teenager she ran away from her abusive husband in Cobar, taking her children with her and somehow making her way in Sydney and The Entrance. And the many times she went back to him, trying to make a go of life with him, but he remained abusive
West - view
At a memorial to the Gully, Uncle Colin Locke , perusing a map of who lived at the Gully , shares stories and information he recalls from the 1950s.
Central - view
At the age of four Robert Kitchener and his brothers were taken from their parents and then separated from each other
West - view
Uncle Gordon Briscoe revisits the old Mulgoa dormitory in which he and the other children slept during their time there in the 1940’s
South West - view
Auntie Dolly Brown moved from Queensland as a young girl, with her 15 brothers and sisters
South Coastal - view
Sisters Auntie Janny Ely and Auntie Judy Chester spent three years (from 1959) in the army barracks at Herne Bay (where those with nowhere to go ended up) waiting for a government house. Their mother was very ill and, despite help from family, they learned to cook early and Janny missed a lot of school looking after her.
Central - view
As an 18 yr old Robert was struggling to materially care for his children, with no help from the state
South West - view
Auntie Glenda Chalker recalls some of her family history and the connections being rekindled between local families
West - view
“Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise” says Sooty (Kevin) Welsh of the fact that he has no memories of Marella Boys Home where he was taken at the age of 4.
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.