Topics: Families and children
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1805 - North West - view
The decreasing number of women and girls in these camps are frequently employed as domestic servants by white townspeople
1808 - North West - view
Governor Bligh receives instructions to educate and settle surviving Aboriginal girls
1809 - South West - view
settler families
1814 - South West - view
children of James Daley
1814 - North West - view
Hawkesbury Darkinjung children are among the founding students at the Institution. At least three are children of ‘Branch natives’
1815 - North Coastal - view
Governor
Macquarie sets up the Native Institution at Parramatta, It is a dormitory
school where Aboriginal children can be educated in English ways without the
influence of their families and clans. At first some parents leave their
children at the school voluntarily, later they realise that they will not be
allowed to leave.
1815 - North Coastal - view
Biddy
Lewis later to settle at Marramarra Creek on Broken Bay, also lives from time
to time at Bungaree’s Georges Head farm.
1817 - West - view
I enquired why the children were carried off; they replied that many of them had been taken away by men in black clothes
1817 - North West - view
Walter Lawry meets the chief of “a tribe of blacks”, but the woman take their children and run off. Lawry writes: “I inquired why the childen were carried off; they replied that many of them had been taken away by men in black clothes, and put to school at Parramatta
1818 - North West - view
An “old woman, daubed with pipe clay, performs the part of leader