Sackville Reach Aboriginal Reserve was located on the Hawkesbury River near Windsor in New South Wales, established in 1889 by the NSW Aborigines Protection Board. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The government of the colony of New South Wales gazetted and revoked land for this community in the Parish of Meehan, County of Cook gazetting AR 23,957 (25 March 1896 - 15 December 1900), [6] [7] [2] [8] AR 23,958 (25 March 1896 – 17 May 1946) [6] [7] [2] [9] and AR 28,546 (26 November 1898 – 17 May 1946). [6] [7] [9]
The reserve was operated under the Aborigines Protection Board (1889–1940) and the Aborigines Welfare Board from 1940-1946. [10] [6] [11] [12]
The two main families on the reserve were the Everinghams and Barbers. [4] Andrew Barber, the son of John Barber, a Dharug man, and his wife Ballandella, a Wiradjari woman, was the last resident at the Reserve. [4]
Several missionaries in charge supervised the reserve including Retta Dixon (1901–1903), [4] Maud Oldrey (1903- ), [4] [13] Annie Lock, [13] [14] Emily Buttsworth (1906-) [4] until the Protection Board ruled in 1910 that female missionaries could not live alone on reserves. [4]
An obelisk memorial at the site of the reserve was established by Percy Gledhill and is inscribed ‘To the Aborigines of the Hawkesbury for whom this area was originally reserved’. [4]
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