Topics: Events: North West
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1841 - view
Threlkeld laments the closure of his mission,`the termination of the mission has arisen solely from the Aborigines becoming extinct in these districts ... The thousands of Aborigines ... decreased to hundreds and have lessened to tens and the tens will dwindle to units before a very few years they will have passed away'
1841 - view
Some “natives enquire most anxiously for their blankets” at Stroud. Dungog Magistrate, Thomas Cook , expresses fear that the large number of Aboriginal people in the district – who are without exception quiet and harmless – will get “discontented”
1841 - view
Members of the Maitland Tribe seek and are given asylum at Singleton from the “Paterson blacks” who are at war with them
1841 - view
Threlkeld later explains that the mission is closed “solely from the sad fact that the aborigines themselves had then become almost extinct…
1841 - view
Aboriginal population of the region never again resisted the white occupiers of their land in force
1842 - view
Some townsfolk were reportedly wounded during the “affray”. One was “transfixed by a spear”. When the police arrived, all Aboriginal men quickly “decamped”
1843 - view
The Aborigines Evidence Bill fails to receive sufficient support at the second reading in the NSW Legislative Council
1843 - view
The Maitland Mercury is especially outspoken in support of reform to Acts of “rank injustice” that hold “the blacks…liable to all the pains and penalties of British law, while the protection they derive from it is extremely partial and uncertain”
1845 - view
Like the Brisbane Water report, it observes that the local Aboriginal population is diminishing. This effects young and old, with many children seldom living through their first winter and elderly people dying during the last winter of cold and hunger
1846 - 1864 - view
Aborigines are regularly or occasionally working throughout the Hunter Valley as farmhands, stockmen, domestic servants, trackers, timber getters and other such roles on many larger properties
1846 - view
Death of Biraban
1846 - view
Aboriginal population of the Hunter region is reported as sharply diminishing
1846 - view
“from the want of sufficient Legal Evidence owing to the testimony of an aboriginal unconverted to Christianity, not being admissible in a criminal prosecution, I found that it would have been useless to have committed the assaulter Hauttey for trial
1847 - view
Johnny is arrested near Sackville on a charge of being of unsound mind. Johnny “vent[s] his spleen in rather a novel fashion…by flooding the ear of one of his captors with…saliva”. Johnny is sent to the Hospital for the Insane , Parramatta
1848 - view
Aboriginal man dives into a deep waterhole in the bed of Sugarloaf Creek (now South Creek) and finds the boy’s body
1848 - view
Jacky-Jacky returns south to a hero’s welcome, before returning to his people around Singleton
1848 - view
Jackey is honoured for his fortitude and loyalty to the explorer. Sir Charles Fitzroy , the governor of New South Wales, presents him with a silver breast-plate
1850 - view
The focus shifts from Wollombi to the Hunter River with the construction of the railway through Singleton and major flooding which causes severe hardship to people living in Wollombi region
1850 - view
Allowing for administrative anomalies, blanket lists record a diminishing number of Aborigines receiving blankets between the Hawkesbury River and Upper Hunter districts
1850 - view
M’Gill , tells the government official in the Lake Macquarie region that “they all cursed the Governor”. At the same time, several Aborigines in the Hunter region demand to know why “the governor does not give [us] blankets to wear in winter, when it is murry cold”