Topics: Families and children
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1836 - North West - view
He has one wife but no children
1836 - North West - view
He has a wife, but no children
1836 - North West - view
wife and two sons. One of the boys dies
1836 - North Coastal - view
Bowen
(Toura Bungaree) and his wife Maria, and daughters Jonza, Nan, Theda (Jane),
and son Mark, move to Pittwater, near Barrenjoey. Bowen has perhaps decided to
lead his clan away from the destruction and poverty of Sydney life back to a
semi traditional existence.
1837 - North Coastal - view
Birth of Maria Nanberri.
1837 - North Coastal - view
The ( Sydney Gazette , 2 Feb 1837) reported that Bridget Riley
an Aboriginal native arrayed in a robe
of spotless white, which contrasted strongly with her skin, was charged with
having suffered from the influence of ‘bool’: she stated that she sat down
[lived] at Broken Bay, to which place she was ordered to betake herself with
all speed, and not be again seen drunk in the streets of Sydney.
1838 - North West - view
removal of Goori children from their families, the exclusion of Goori children from the public school system, exclusion of Gooris from the public welfare system, the exclusion of Gooris from award wage entitlements and the denial of Goori rights to land and cultural pursuits
1839 - North West - view
forcible detention of Goori women in the squatting districts
1839 - North West - view
Eliza takes a great interest in the welfare and culture of Aborigines
1839 - North West - view
The women are dressed in “loose ragged gowns” and the men in a “strip of blanket wrapped round the middle, or a pair of tattered pantaloons”
1839 - North West - view
One woman is “good-looking, with large black eyes, white teeth and small features”. She is well dressed and has a “pretty half-caste” clinging to her skirts
1840s - North Coastal - view
Birth
of Mary Jane Fonseca, daughter of Esther Aiken, a descendant of Kitty. She dies
in 1924.
1840 - North West - view
Two “lads” track and pursue with the “horse police”
1840 - North West - view
Aboriginal families and tribes
1840 - North West - view
he and his unnamed wife had one son
1842 - North West - view
Bubbya and his wife had a child, a son
1842 - South West - view
Lock family
1842 - South Coastal - view
eleven children
1843 - North West - view
Betty and Johnny Cox have seven children
1845 - North West - view
There are four “half-castes” in the district, two are adult females and are married to white men, and two children who are living after the manner of the Aborigines