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1851 - South West - view
three children having strayed into the desert at the back of Appin
1851 - North West - view
We see no Blacks here between Freeman’s Reach and Portland Head
1851 - North West - view
Murphy, Tommy Potts, Martin and King John of the Maitland tribe, and Jemmy and Richard Wiseman of the Sugarloaf tribe are apprehended. The jury returns a verdict of wilful murder against some other Aboriginals unknown
1853 - North West - view
Wickety Wee and Morris travel to Maitland gaol to stand trial
1853 - North West - view
Morris is sentenced to three years hard labour on the roads
1853 - North Coastal - view
Bowen
is shot by four white bushrangers at Newport.
He is 56 years old. John Farrell relates that a bushranger Casey, who
frequented Bushranger’s Hill, had murdered Bowen as he sat by his fire at
night. Farrell describes Bowen as “one of the finest darkies I ever met. I
looked upon Bowen almost as a brother … and was prepared to … have blood for
blood” for Bowen’s murderer. His body is taken to St Lawrence Presbyterian
Church cemetery but later his grave is moved to Pioneer Park
at Botany.
1854 - North West - view
Death of Jackey Jackey
1855 - North West - view
Death of Aboriginal poet Wallati (or Wullati, English spelling “Wollaje”)
1857 - North West - view
King” of the Newcastle tribes dies and is buried close to the Aboriginal camp
1857 - South West - view
He demands recognition for long tenure of this land
1857 - South Coastal - view
writes a petition to the NSW government
1860 - North West - view
They escape on horse back with Fred Britten and become a bush ranging gang in the Stroud area. Mary Ann is supported by her Aboriginal relations. Frederick assumes the title of Captain Thunderbolt
1860 - North West - view
given a breastplate
1861 - North West - view
King Tom of Dunmore, Maitland is captured on film by an unknown studio photographer. He is sitting cross-legged, wearing a breast plate and holding a boomerang
1863 - North West - view
“Yellow Billy” is captured in 1867. At around twenty-five years of age, “Billy” is sentenced to twenty years imprisonment
1866 - North West - view
Mary Ann is charged with being an “an idle and disorderly person and a companion of reputed thieves
1867 - North West - view
Aboriginal protest in Upper Hunter Valley. Aboriginal people refuse to vacate their camp site on the village reserve in Gundy when settlers choose it as the spot on which to build St Matthews Church
1867 - North West - view
He visits and stays in NSW in 1862 to coach teams in Sydney. In April 1867 he joins an Aboriginal team, which he takes on the first cricket tour to England where they play 47 matches over six months
1867 - North West - view
Twopenny is the surprise bowling find of the tour. Playing against East Hampshire he secures 9 wickets for 9 runs by his eleventh over. Twopenny also plays against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s in London
1867 - North West - view
1867 the Maitland Mercury reports on a cricket match between a white Maitland representative team and the Koori cricket team from Victoria