Having researched this a little, some of the relationships formed between a white man and his aboriginal woman were quite special and genuinly loving. These woman were disguised to look like men on the droving trips; hence the term 'drover's boy'. They proved their worth on the drives as they could find water better than the white man. The couple often had to camp away from the main company for fear of being discovered. These relationships were unacceptable in those days and any babies born to the couple weren't recognised and hence went unregistered.A child of this union would surely have been treasured if the mother died. There is a song called 'The Drover's Boy' dedicated to these amazing women. DNA identification is expensive! Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne Kendall" <lynken16@dodo.com.au> To: <aus-vic-gippsland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 5:04 PM Subject: [AVG] Marjorie Dunn > Hi Dale and Fellow Listers > > I just had another thought about Grandma Dunn. It is possible her > biological mother died when she was very young so her father felt he had > to provide for her care. It is fairly unusual for the time for a man to > take responsibility for his indiscretions unless he was still in a > relationship with the mother....but who knows. > > I think the only way to absolutely solve this will be using DNA but I > don't know if this can identify ethnicity. Certainly there is some > project available where people are using DNA to prove family linkages for > family history purposes. > > Lynne > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >