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Sackville Reach Aboriginal Reserve

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

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List of Aboriginal Reserves in New South Wales

References

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  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. ^ a b c d e f g h 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. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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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