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

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

1889 - view

70 inferior government blankets are doled out at Windsor

1889 - view

The Hawkesbury camp becomes the Sackville Reserve

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

Police report the death of “the oldest [A]boriginal in the district”, Tommy Cox at the age of 75 (born 1822)