Topics: Events: North West
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1887 - view
Annie (“Grannie Barber) is one of the subjects for the portraits drawn by artist Herbert Beecroft at “The Aborigines camp at La Perouse”
1888 - view
8290 blankets are distributed throughout NSW to the Aborigines. Windsor Courthouse was distribution centre for Hawkesbury region
1888 - view
Many of mixed-descent at this time kept their Aboriginality a family secret
1889 - view
70 inferior government blankets are doled out at Windsor
1889 - view
The Hawkesbury camp becomes the Sackville Reserve
1889 - view
An Aboriginal Reserve is declared at Sackville Ridge (Portland Head)
1889 - view
Ab Res gazetted 23958
1889 - view
Reserve 23957 gazetted
1889 - view
A third part is added to the Sackville Reserve: No. 28546
1890 - view
78 people are listed as living at “Windsor”. 33 adults and 45 children (Ab Protn Board Rep 1889). “One pair of oars” is supplied at Sackville Reach
1890 - view
“ Weyera , Chief of the Hunter River ” poses for a studio portrait to be captured by well-known Sydney photographer, Charles Kerry
1892 - view
100 Aborigines trekked to Windsor for their annual gift of blankets
1892 - view
Some huts were erected for the “destitute Aborigines of the Hawkesbury
1893 - view
A darkies camp under the red cedar and willow trees by the river is a special feature of Hawkesbury life
1894 - view
“Scrammy Billy” dies at Paterson on 30 April 1894
1894 - view
During a threat to remove them from their land during 1871, Rev John Shaw protested in local news media against this injustice
1895 - view
25 May 1895 Reserves 23957 and 23958 at Sackville Reach are revoked. On the same day land at Wilberforce is set aside for Aborigines to live on
1897 - view
Death of Joseph Gooburra (Goubra, Goodbra) in hospital
1897 - view
When the Aborigines play for the champion Sackville cricket team, it is said “they had flash”
1898 - view
There is a constant movement of Aborigines departing the Windsor district