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

List of Aboriginal Reserves in New South Wales

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. 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. 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. 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. "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. 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)