Girambit
Girambit ‘Saltwater’ with its natural beauty and waterways has always been a sacred and spiritual place. It is the home of the Birrbay ‘Biripi’ people and it is a place of healing…
Miss Gertrude Richardson: Taree’s first female mayor
At a meeting on 15 December 1947, Miss Richardson was elected Mayor of Taree Municipal Council…
Rex Morris
Rex Morris was born at Purfleet in 1953 to Shirley and Rex. He was just four years old when welfare authorities came to Taree with the intention of forcibly removing children…
Shirley Morris – Biripi Activist
Biripi woman Shirley Mitchell was born in 1933 and grew up on Purfleet Aboriginal Reserve. When welfare authorities came to Purfleet to take Aboriginal children with fairer skin…
Charles Poole: a “gentleman” prisoner
Charles Poole, did not fit the usual profile of a transported convict…
Daralea Nursery and Florist
In 1931 Minnie Elizabeth Lee started a nursery, confectionary, florist and seed shop at 134 Victoria Street, Taree called “Lee’s Nursery”…
The Dun family of Hillside Dairy, Cape Hawke
In 1925 Thomas bought a dairy farm situated on Minor Road which is now called Cape Hawke Road, Forster…
Francis McNamara aka “Frank the Poet”
A poem entitled “A Convict’s Tour to Hell” was composed by Frank McNamara in 1839. It has been said that it draws inspiration from Dante’s “Purgatory”…
William Green’s disappearing act
Family stories say that the marriage between William and Laurell became unstable. One sad tale describes Laurell stripping naked…
William Johnson: a marked man
Many convicts transported to Australia in the nineteenth century bore tattoos. These marks were recorded along with other physical characteristics…