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Item: 173900

Surname: (Indigenous) Corroboree

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 28 April 1902

Place: Newcastle

Source: NMH

Details: On more than one occasion the blacks held a corroboree on the site of the premises now occupied by Messrs Hope Bros. It was there one day that James Buxton, son of Thomas Buxton, with some other young fellows was watching the aboriginals when a spear came hurling through the air and pierced his leg. (Hope Bros was located at 119 Hunter Street Newcastle (NMH 9 September 1897)

 

Item: 174522

Surname: (Indigenous) Corroborees

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 7 June 1909

Place: Newcastle

Source: NMH

Details: Reminiscences by Mr. L.S. Holt, son of Chief Constable Holt, of Newcastle in the 1850s - The public pound stood on the site of the school of arts at the corner of Hunter and Wolfe streets. The blacks camped at the rear of the pound, and numerous corroborees and faction fights took place

 

Item: 175145

Surname: Corroboree

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 15 August 1884

Place: Hamilton, Newcastle

Source: NMH

Details: .....Some land, about thirty acres, is now required, near Newcastle for railway purposes. The land itself is unimproved and is today in the same state as when the blackfellows held their corroborees on it, and hunted the game that had their hiding places among the scrub. It was land for which the company, according to our account, practically paid nothing but for which it has demanded 118,000 pounds

 

Item: 183478

Surname: Corroboree (Indigenous)

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: c. 1842

Place: Dungog

Source: Dungog Chronicle 27 January 1899

Details: I remember in particular there was a big gum that grew at the corner of Brown and Dowling Streets, which stood long after all the other trees had been cut down. Close to that big gum one day I saw two blackfellows fighting, Crandin Joe and Jerry were struggling to decide which had the better right to claim Maria, a black gin. Maria was seated at the foot of the tree awaiting the issue of the contest. While the blacks were fighting Ruggy Joe rode up on his old stock horse Bally, and dismounting, sat down to watch the melee. Instantly the gin took charge of the horse, mounted him and started off at a good pace up the road towards Cairnsmore. Ruggy followed her ou foot, while the two blacks stood amazed. I suppose there are few if any blacks left in Dungog now. A good many years ago there was a cobon cor roboree on Burnt Gully Creek, when there were assembled blacks from Gloucester, the Allyn, the Paterson, and the Upper Hunter.    

 

Item: 183640

Surname: Corroboree (Indigenous)

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 29 June 1869

Place: Maitland

Source: Maitland Mercury

Details: The committee of Maitland Hospital organising an Aboriginal Corroboree to take place on the racecourse to raise money for the Hospital. The troupe of performers comprised aboriginals of the Port Stephens, Raymond Terrace, Newcastle nad other tribes and among them were two of the black cricketers who visited Europe

 

Item: 133244

Surname: Napier (corroboree)

First Name: George

Ship: -

Date: 1838 3 August

Place: Newcastle

Source: Newcastle Bench Books. AONSW Reel 2722

Details: Natives held a corroboree near George Napier s house (possibly allotment 135 in Hunter Street - see Henry Dangar s map)

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