Topics: Sites: North Coastal
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1853 - view
Farrell describes Bowen as “one of the finest darkies I ever met. I
looked upon Bowen almost as a brother … and was prepared to … have blood for
blood” for Bowen’s murderer. His body is taken to St Lawrence Presbyterian
Church cemetery but later his grave is moved to Pioneer Park
at Botany.
1860s - view
At
Christmas time Aboriginal people come in large numbers to camp at Cremorne
Reserve in Cameragal country. They receive the annual gift of a blanket each,
given by the government.
1862 - view
Her grave is in the Presbyterian section of
Botany Cemetery. “In memory of Gooseberry Queen of the Sydney Tribe of Aborigines”.
1868 - view
Corroborees held at Manly on the site
of several churches above Careening Cove.
1868 - view
Noraville, Brisbane Water
1870s - view
Manly carrier RJ Wild claims to have witnessed the last Aboriginal corroboree in Manly
held on vacant land near St Matthew’s Church on the Corso in the late 1870s.
1874 - view
Mrs
Janet Kennedy (nee Williams)
recalls “that the Manly district contained a number of Aboriginal
camps”.
1874 - view
Mrs
O’Shanessy, a daughter of ferry engineer Robert Grant recalls “Where the
Catholic Church now stands in Whistler Street there was an aboriginal camp that
was nearly always occupied by a tribe of the coastal blacks, then an everyday
feature of Manly’s life.”
1880s - view
Photo taken by Harry Wolstenholme of Aboriginal group of women, probably near Wiseman’s Ferry on the Hawkesbury River.
1880 - view
Turo became an employee of Captain Anderson. A great swimmer and
runner, he impresses those who see him when he dives from the rocks at Kilcare
Beach to emerge with a lobster.
1880 - view
He is buried at Kincumber Churchyard where a
stone bears tribute “respected by all”.
1889 - view
Aboriginal Reserve is established at Sackville in upper reaches of the
Hawkesbury River. Many Aboriginal families move there and worked on Dr Fiashi’s
vineyard at Tizzana. Many languages are spoken at the reserve, including Daruk, Guringai and Darkinyung
1890s - view
Members
of various Northern Shore clans are living at Quakers Hat Bay near Mosman.
Carvings can be still seen on the roof of a cave.
1897 - view
At a meeting of Manly
Council on 10 June 1899, reference made to the naming of what has become known
as Little Manly Point. Alderman Charles Tucker states that a letter from George
Thornton, Chairman of the Aborigines Protection Board, suggested that this
point of land should retain the original name by which it was known to the
local tribe. This tribe was the remnant of a former large tribe, and its
members regarded this point of land, on which were their “gibbah gunyahs”, as
their living area. They knew it as ‘Kihimatta’, which in their local dialect
meant a “sign of sleeping places”.
1900s - view
Aboriginal
people reported still living at Quakers Hat Bay near Beauty Point, Middle
Harbour.
1900s - view
Numbers
of Aboriginal people at Sackville Reserve are diminishing. By the 1930s only
one person remains. Many descendants now live around Blacktown.
1920s - view
About
a dozen girls from the Cootamundra Training Home for Aboriginal Girls are
placed in North side homes as domestic servants. They looked after small
children or worked in the kitchens and seldom had any contact with their
families or friends from Cootamunda.
1925 - view
Father Browne, a Jesuit priest, visits people whom he identifies as
‘Aborigines’ at Middle Harbour, Spit and publishes two photographs. The site is
probably Quakers Hat Bay, near the Spit.
1940s - view
In the 1950s Dennis
visits Narrabeen Lakes regularly with his uncles or his mother or grandmother,
who lives at Curl Curl, bringing provisions like a bag of flour or a cake.
1959 - view
The last community campsite on the northern Sydney coast, at Narrabeen, is destroyed to make way for the National Fitness camp.