Sackville Reach Aboriginal Reserve was located on the Hawkesbury River near Windsor in New South Wales, established in 1889 by the NSW Aborigines Protection Board.[1][2][3][4][5] The government of the colony of New South Wales gazetted and revoked land for this community in the Parish of Meehan, County of Cook gazetting AR 23,957 (25 March 1896 - 15 December 1900),[6][7][8][9] AR 23,958 (25 March 1896 – 17 May 1946)[6][7][8][10] and AR 28,546 (26 November 1898 – 17 May 1946).[6][7][11]
The two main families on the reserve were the Everinghams and Barbers.[4] Andrew Barber, the son of John Barber, a Dharug man, and his wife Ballandella, a Wiradjari woman, was the last resident at the Reserve.[4]
Several missionaries in charge supervised the Reserve including Retta Dixon (1901–1903),[4] Maud Oldrey (1903- ),[4][15] Annie Lock,[15][16] Emily Buttsworth (1906-)[4] until the Protection Board ruled in 1910 that female missionaries could not live alone on reserves.[4]
An obelisk memorial at the site of the reserve was established by Percy Gledhill and is inscribed ‘To the Aborigines of the Hawkesbury for whom this area was originally reserved’.[4]
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^ abcdThinee, Kristy; Bradford, Tracy; New South Wales. Department of Community Services (September 1998), Connecting kin : guide to records : a guide to help people separated from their families search for their records (1st ed.), New South Wales Dept. of Community Services, ISBN978-0-7310-4262-3
^ abcMcGuigan, A.; New South Wales. Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs (1983), Aboriginal reserves in N.S.W., a land rights research aid : a listing from archival material of former Aboriginal reserves together with information required to access them / prepared by A. McGuigan, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs
^REVOCATION OF RESERVES FROM SALE, LEASE, ETC". Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales(55). New South Wales, Australia. 17 May 1946. p. 1177. Retrieved 6 July 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^Doukakis, Anna (2006), The Aboriginal people, parliament and "protection" in New South Wales, 1856-1916, The Federation Press, ISBN978-1-86287-606-4
^"Sackville". Windsor and Richmond Gazette. Vol. 6, no. 279. New South Wales, Australia. 11 November 1893. p. 8. Retrieved 30 June 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^ abUnited Aborigines Mission. (1929), "56 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.", The United Aborigines messenger., Burnley, Vic: United Aborigines Mission, nla.obj-582966239, retrieved 30 June 2021 – via Trove