Topics: Families and children
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1825 - North West - 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 - North West - view
Violence towards Aboriginal women is also increasing
1825 - North West - view
settlers abducting Aboriginal wives or female children
1826 - North Coastal - view
Aboriginal
women are often abducted and sometimes raped, while their men retaliate to
defend the women.
1827 - South West - view
Cox family
1828 - North West - view
19 men, 11 women and nine children
1829 - North West - view
a native and his gin and two boys
1830 - North Coastal - view
Birth
of Theda Bungaree, father: Bowen Toura Bungaree, Mother: Maria.
1831 - South Coastal - view
Madden families
1831 - North Coastal - 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.”
1832 - North West - view
Darug child
1832 - North Coastal - view
Birth
recorded of Mark Bungaree, son of Naney or Maria.
1833 - North West - view
a “traditional Aboriginal woman
1833 - North Coastal - 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 - North Coastal - 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.