Topics: Families and children

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1845 - North Coastal - view

According to correspondence from Howard, Maria and Bowen have a son and two daughters all baptised at St Mary’s Church Sydney.

1845 - South Coastal - view

When he was a kid

1846 - North West - view

“I have found a family of half-castes, the children of John Lewis or Ferdinand

1846 - North Coastal - 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 - North Coastal - view

There are many reported cases of white men living with Aboriginal women and having children.

1847 - North West - view

an extensive community

1847 - North West - view

Clark(e) family

1847 - North West - view

Sackville family

1848 - North Coastal - 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”.