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May Yarrowick
May Yarrowick or May Yarrowyck (February 1876 - 17 April 1949) was an Australian midwife and registered nurse from the New England area of New South Wales. She is the earliest known Aboriginal woman to be a registered nurse. Early life Yarrowick was an Anēwan woman born on her mother's country at the Stoney Creek Station near Bundarra. Her mother was Peg, whose Yarrowyck mother had given birth to her when her people had been staying near Stoney Creek. A local white woman, Catherine Kelly, had assisted with the birth. When Peg was 16 she gave birth to May, whose father was a member of the Kelly family. Peg died shortly after the birth. The child was adopted and raised by a relative, Honoria Kelly. She was given the last name Yarrowick after her mother's people, and raised with her cousins from the Kelly family. Career Yarrowick was privately tutored with her cousins, and did very well at school. She was accepted to study obstetrics at the Crown Street Hospital, howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tingha, New South Wales
Tingha is a small town on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia in Inverell Shire. Formerly part of Armidale Region, on 1 July 2019, responsibility for Tingha was transferred from Armidale Regional Council to Inverell Shire Council. The town is south of Inverell and north-north-east of Sydney. Tingha is an Aboriginal word for "flat or level". History Before non-indigenous settlement the area now known as Tingha was mainly lived upon by people from the Nucoorilma clan of the Gamilaroi Nation, which is an associated group of the Murri Aboriginal people. Many of their descendants still live in the surrounding area. Tingha was first settled in 1841 by Sydney Hudson Darby and became a mining town after tin was discovered there in the 1870s. Within a year Australia's first commercial tin mines were operating at a private settlement known as Armidale Crossing. Around 5,000 people arrived and about 1000 of the miners were Chinese. The Wing Hing Long Museum is a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England (New South Wales)
New England is a geographical region in the north of the state of New South Wales, Australia, about inland from the Tasman Sea. The area includes the Northern Tablelands (or New England Tablelands) and the North West Slopes regions. As of 2021, New England had a population of 185,560, with over a quarter of the people living in the area of Tamworth Regional Council. History The region has been occupied by Indigenous Australians for tens of thousands of years, in the west by the Kamilaroi people. In the highlands, the original languages (which are now extinct) included Anaiwan to the south of Guyra and Ngarbal to the north of Guyra. The population of the tablelands has been estimated to be 1,100 to 1,200 at the time of colonisation – quite low in comparison to the Liverpool Plains and Gwyder River region, estimated to be 4,500 to 5,500. Conflict, disease and environmental damage caused the tablelands population to be reduced to 400 by the 1890s. The first European to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anēwan
The Anēwan, also written Anaiwan and Anaywan, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional territory spans the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales. Language The Anēwan language, also known as Nganyaywana, has been classified by Robert M. W. Dixon as belonging to the Djan-gadi/Nganjaywana subgroup of Central New South Wales, and was one of three varieties of the group, the other dialects being Himberrong and Inuwon. For a long time Anēwan was regarded, like Mbabaram, as a linguistic isolate, ostensibly failing to fit into the known Australian patterns of language, since the material in word-lists taken down of its vocabulary appeared to lack cognates in contiguous languages such as Gamilaraay. The status of its seeming irregularity was solved in 1976 by Terry Crowley who showed that the differences were caused by initial consonant loss which, once accounted for, yielded up over 100 cognate terms between Anēwan and other languages and dialects of the region. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundarra, New South Wales
Bundarra is a small town on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located on Thunderbolts Way and on the banks of the Gwydir River, in the Uralla Shire Local government in Australia, local government area, from the state capital, Sydney. The name Bundarra is also applied to the surrounding rural area for postal and statistical purposes. At the , Bundarra had a population of 394 and the surrounding area had 676 persons. History Bundarra is named for the Kamilaroi word for the eastern grey kangaroo, grey kangaroo. Kamilaroi and Anaiwan people were the earliest inhabitants of the Bundarra area. A local hill nearby Bundarra called "Rumbling Mountain" is the subject of an Aboriginal myth that attempts to explain its periodic rumbling and shaking. Bundarra Station (Australian agriculture), Station was founded in 1836 by Edward G. Clerk and a hotel and store were established on the future townsite. A church was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
