Topics: People: North Coastal

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1821 - view

Bungaree is living near Newcastle and his clan put on a “Kauraberie” for Macquarie during his farewell tour of the colony.

1821 - view

The Governor persuades Bungaree and his family group to move back to Georges Head.

1822 - view

Bungaree’s clan is sometimes known as the “Pittwater clan”.

1823 - view

Bowen (Bungaree’s son), at Moreton Bay with John Oxley, may be the first Aboriginal person to make a drawing on paper.

1823 - view

Webb is notorious among a branch of Bungaree’s descendants now living on the Central coast, as the man who sexually assaulted Sophie.

1823 - view

Birth of Charlotte Ashby, daughter of Sophie Bungaree and James Webb.

1825 - view

At the Supreme Criminal Court Sydney, Devil Devil alias Bumblefoot, an Aboriginal native is indicted for a violent assault on Jeremiah Bulley near Newcastle. ( Sydney Gazette , 3 June 1825)

1828 - view

At Dooralong near Wyong, three Koori men are taken to the lock-up at Brisbane Waters. Two of the men, Jago and Nimbo, had been handcuffed together but they make a surprise attack on a constable while Jack Jones attacked from the floor and the Koori men escape.

1828 - view

The census in 1828 lists Lewis Ferdinand (Biddy’s Lewis’ husband) as living at Lower Portland Headland (Broken Bay). Lewis is listed as a labourer to John Grace, and Sarah (Biddy) as Lewis’s housekeeper.

1828 - view

Bungaree and his Broken Bay clan cross from the North Shore to settle in the Governor’s Domain (the present Sydney Domain).

1829 - view

Births recorded under ‘Aboriginal’ in the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages NSW. Name: Terrence Bungaree; Father: Joe Bungaree; Mother: Rose. Name: Teresa Bungaree; father Joe Bungaree.

1829 - view

Bungaree gives boomerang throwing display in the Domain, Sydney. Now probably in his late fifties, his health is deteriorating.

1830s - view

Bungaree’s clan is still living from time to time at Georges Head.

1830 - view

Bungaree dies among his people and is buried at Rose Bay.

1830 - view

Birth of Theda Bungaree, father: Bowen Toura Bungaree, Mother: Maria.

1831 - view

Thomas Lewis born on Marramarra Creek, where his family live by fishing and orcharding.

1832 - view

Birth recorded of Mark Bungaree, son of Naney or Maria.

1834 - view

Rickety Dick of the Broken Bay tribe has his portrait painted.

1835 - view

Central Coast Aborigines including Jack Jones, Jago and Nimbo attack a settler’s hut near Wyong. Jack Jones escapes, while three men are taken to Sydney goal. “At Duralong (Wyong), Constable Moses Carroll [and his men] … were concealed in Adam Riley’s hut … for the purpose of apprehending some of the black natives concerned in the late robberies … they entered the hut … the blacks being so resolute and seizing hold of their firearms … they (Constables) were obliged in self defence to fire at Jack Jones who is a very powerful man, and wounded him in the neck. … During the scuffle, three made their escape.” Nimbo and Jago seized a constable at the lock-up and Jack Jones escaped.

1835 - view

Sydney Criminal Court, Criminal Sessions – the following prisoners placed at the bar to receive sentences. Long Dick, Jack Jones, Abraham and Gibber Paddy, Aboriginal natives, convicted of robbery and outrages on the estate of Mr. AH Jacques at Brisbane Waters.