Sackville Reach Aboriginal Reserve

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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] [8] [9] AR 23,958 (25 March 1896 – 17 May 1946) [6] [7] [8] [10] and AR 28,546 (26 November 1898 – 17 May 1946). [6] [7] [11]

The reserve was operated under the Aborigines Protection Board (1889–1940) and the Aborigines Welfare Board from 1940-1946. [12] [6] [13] [14]

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] [15] Annie Lock, [15] [16] 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]

See also

List of Aboriginal Reserves in New South Wales

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References

  1. ↑ Brook, Jack (1994), Shut out from the world : the Sackville Reach Aborigines Reserve and Mission 1889-1946, J. Brook, ISBN   978-0-646-18744-0
  2. ↑ "RESERVES FROM SALE FOR THE USE OF ABORIGINES". New South Wales Government Gazette . No. 240. New South Wales, Australia. 25 March 1896. p. 2205. Retrieved 21 June 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "HAWKESBURY ABORIGINES". Windsor and Richmond Gazette . Vol. 40, no. 2105. New South Wales, Australia. 11 May 1928. p. 12. Retrieved 21 June 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Amos, Keith (June 2020). "Percy Gledhill's memorial to Aboriginal people". Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. 106 (1): 93–104. ISSN   0035-8762.
  5. ↑ Karskens, Grace (2020). People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Thinee, Kristy; Bradford, Tracy; New South Wales. Department of Community Services (September 1998), Connecting kin : guide to records : a guide to help people separated from their families search for their records (1st ed.), New South Wales Dept. of Community Services, ISBN   978-0-7310-4262-3
  7. 1 2 3 McGuigan, A.; New South Wales. Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs (1983), Aboriginal reserves in N.S.W., a land rights research aid : a listing from archival material of former Aboriginal reserves together with information required to access them / prepared by A. McGuigan, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs
  8. 1 2 "RESERVES FROM SALE FOR THE USE OF ABORIGINES". New South Wales Government Gazette . No. 240. New South Wales, Australia. 25 March 1896. p. 2205. Retrieved 13 June 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "REVOCATION OF TEMPORARY RESERVES". New South Wales Government Gazette . No. 1154. New South Wales, Australia. 15 December 1900. p. 9750. Retrieved 6 July 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ REVOCATION OF RESERVES FROM SALE, LEASE, ETC". Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales (55). New South Wales, Australia. 17 May 1946. p. 1177. Retrieved 6 July 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "REVOCATION OF RESERVES FROM SALE, LEASE, ETC". Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales . No. 55. New South Wales, Australia. 17 May 1946. p. 1177. Retrieved 6 July 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "Aboriginal Reserves and Stations – Glossary Term – Find & Connect – New South Wales". Find & Connect. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  13. ↑ Doukakis, Anna (2006), The Aboriginal people, parliament and "protection" in New South Wales, 1856-1916, The Federation Press, ISBN   978-1-86287-606-4
  14. ↑ "Sackville". Windsor and Richmond Gazette . Vol. 6, no. 279. New South Wales, Australia. 11 November 1893. p. 8. Retrieved 30 June 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  15. 1 2 United Aborigines Mission. (1929), "56 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.", The United Aborigines messenger., Burnley, Vic: United Aborigines Mission, nla.obj-582966239, retrieved 30 June 2021– via Trove
  16. ↑ Evangelists of empire? : missionaries in colonial history. Amanda Barry, University of Melbourne. School of Historical Studies. Melbourne: EScholarship Research Centre in collaboration with the School of Historical Studies. 2008. ISBN   978-0-7340-3968-2. OCLC   271862801.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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