Topics: Families and children

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West - view

he was removed at the age of 4 from Alice Springs and taken part way in a cattle truck along with other children

West - view

When she was 14 her adoptive mother died, relations with her father deteriorated, she was raped resulting in pregnancy

North West - view

Auntie Christine Lewis and Muffy Hedges discuss their Lewis and Shuttle ancestors

Central - view

Her mother died when she was young and her father was an alcoholic so she was sent to live with her aunty and uncle

West - view

a favoured church of Governor MacArthur, and the times Gordon and the other children spent there

West - view

as a teenager she ran away from her abusive husband in Cobar, taking her children with her and somehow making her way in Sydney and The Entrance. And the many times she went back to him, trying to make a go of life with him, but he remained abusive

West - view

At a memorial to the Gully, Uncle Colin Locke , perusing a map of who lived at the Gully , shares stories and information he recalls from the 1950s.

Central - view

At the age of four Robert Kitchener and his brothers were taken from their parents and then separated from each other

West - view

Uncle Gordon Briscoe revisits the old Mulgoa dormitory in which he and the other children slept during their time there in the 1940’s

South West - view

Auntie Dolly Brown moved from Queensland as a young girl, with her 15 brothers and sisters

South Coastal - view

Sisters Auntie Janny Ely and Auntie Judy Chester spent three years (from 1959) in the army barracks at Herne Bay (where those with nowhere to go ended up) waiting for a government house. Their mother was very ill and, despite help from family, they learned to cook early and Janny missed a lot of school looking after her.

Before Cook - North Coastal - view

Bennelong’s wife Barangaroo was a Cameragalleon ( leon indicating female) and was abducted from Manly Cove on Governor Phillip’s command.

1789 - Central - view

Coleby

1789 - Central - view

Nanbury

1789 - Central - view

Cammeraigal

1789 - Central - view

family

1789 - Central - view

family

1790 - Central - view

small children and babies

1790 - Central - view

foster father to the child Dilboong

1790 - West - view

Maugaron’s children