Beth, How are you? Travel between Aboriginal groups was common, including over expansive areas for ceremonial and trade etc. You'll find that occasionally from this trade marriage into outside areas may have occurred as did happen with my grandfather, George Dutton who is from Wanjiwalku people of western NSW, now known as the township of Tibooburra. He married in to a family from the Lake Eyre region, known as the Arabuna people. Obviously, however, later on, especially in NSW the Aborigines Welfare Board and previously, Aborigines Protection Boards forced Aboriginal people from their homelands and made them live on Aboriginal reserves that were set up. They would then after several years occupation have to move them out for whatever reason to other missions and reserves. That meant that some family would stay put, whilst others moved onto the new locations. That then split the families into various locations ie North and South Coasts or far West, north West and Sydney, as is the case with my family history. Regards Paul > craddy <craddy@bigpond.com.au> wrote: > > Was it usual for family connections to stretch up and down the coast > (Sth to Nth NSW) or is this a result of white interference? > Beth > > > ==== AUS-KOORI Mailing List ==== > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, User Research Database > and Aboriginal links at: > http://www.stardate.bc.ca/ivan/sub_pages/aus-koori.htm >

This too was the case for Ulladulla and other areas in the Yuin region. There were camps at Ulladulla, Batemans Bay & Wallaga Lake. At 16:26 24/01/2002 +1100, you wrote: >Aborigines Protection Boards forced Aboriginal people from >their homelands and made them live on Aboriginal reserves that were set up. >They would then after several years occupation have to move them out for >whatever reason to other missions and reserves. Cathy Dunn