Carol Margaret Larritt (nee Stewart) was born in Moruya in 1940. Her mother was Violet May Carriage, born in Batemans…

Violet Parsons’ elders told her the mythical Dreamtime story relating to Gulaga, Najanuka and Baranguba. See above [Violet Parsons 6.4.2006]….

Gulaga [Mount Dromedary], Najanuka [Little Dromedary Mountain], in the Tilba area and Baranguba [Montague Island] to the north off the…

“…………Corunna Lake is one of our traditional prawning places. Nan Stewart told me that Christy Stewart and Emily Walker said…

‘……Glasshouse Rocks is another significant, traditional fishing area. We can’t get in there now because the main access is privately…

Like the Clyde and Moruya Rivers, Wagonga Inlet continues to be a focal point for Aboriginal people’s connection to the…

As noted above the area encompassing Brou Lake and Mummuga Lake is often referred to as ‘Brou’. Mummuga Lake is…

The area encompassing Brou Lake and Mummuga Lake is often referred to as ‘Brou’. Mummuga Lake is also referred to…

The Nerrigundah Sawmill was located on the southern side of the township, and close by was the sawmill housing, for…

King Henry granted land to Richard Bolloway, south of the Tuross River, from Potato Point to Dalmeny and west to…

The Bodalla Township and surrounding area have played a major role in the lives of the present day generation of…

Coopers Island was one of a number of primary places Aboriginal families worked in the seasonal farm industry. The first…

The Bergalia, Coila, Turlinjah and Tuross Head areas hold a variety of cultural heritage values for Aboriginal people, both past…

An interesting area combining places valued in the pre to early contact period; a burial site, a Dreaming track and…

Camping, travelling, ‘feeding off the sea’, teaching and meeting family are the dominant cultural heritage values to emerge in the…

Cultural heritage values attributed to the Moruya South Heads area relate to resource collection, education and living / camping. As…

The Moruya – Deua River has a rich combination of value themes associated with the spiritual and economic importance the…

Like the Bodalla and Nerrigundah areas, Moruya had a widespread seasonal farm industry. The picture emerging from the oral recollections…

Cultural heritage values attributed to the North Moruya Heads and Garland Town area combine pre-contact values such as burial sites…

The Bengello Creek and Bengello Beach area is interconnected with the areas of social-ecological value to the north and south….

The Broulee Beach and Broulee Island area has a similar complex of cultural heritage values to Barlings Beach immediately to…

The Tomakin area contains a number of important places for Aboriginal people; Barlings Beach, Barlings Island, Burri [Bevian] Swamp, Tomaga…

The Nye family owned a house on the Princess Highway, Mogo, the house on the southern side of the service…

Tom and his family walked from ‘the corner’, Barlings Beach, Tomakin through ‘little paddock’, over the Burrewarra Point headland, Guerilla…

This area contains a number of interlinked places of cultural heritage value primarily related to camping and resource collection sites,…

The Catalina area contains of a complex of highly significant Aboriginal Heritage places. These places are, in the main, meeting,…

The township of Batemans Bay has a combination of places of Aboriginal cultural heritage. It is a place full of…

This study is not the first to find that Cullendulla Creek is a highly significant cultural area to the Aboriginal…

The area to the north of the Clyde River contains a number of culturally significant places. A high proportion of…

Most of the contemporary connections Aboriginal people have to the Nelligen area relate to the sawmill industry. The area also…

As a kid Les Simon recalls visiting the Monga area to camp and fish [Les Simon 15.12.2005]. Violet Parsons recalls…

One of many sawmills throughout the region where Aboriginal people worked. Many Aboriginal people undertook many tasks within the sawmill…

The Durras, Murramarang area contains places that were highly utilised during holiday periods throughout the mid to late 1900s. The…

Vivienne Mason’s grandmother was Muriel Coolie. Muriel Coolie was from Nelligen and she married ‘Ted’ Edward Stewart who was born…

Violet Parsons was born at the old Batemans Bay Hospital in 1952. Her father, Robert Parsons was also born in…

Valerie Andy was born in Orbost, Victoria, in 1933. Valerie’s father was Syd Solomon from Orbost and her mother was…

Tom Davis was raised by William and Gwendolyn Thomas as his mother died when he was young. Tom’s maternal grandmother…

Terry ‘Nipper’ Parsons was born in the old Batemans Bay hospital. Terry’s father was Cyril Parsons. Cyril’s father was George…

Cymbelene Rose Carriage was born at the old Batemans Bay Hospital in 1930. When she was registering the birth of…

Shirley Foster was born in a tent in Bega in 1934. Shirley’s mother, Agnes Harrison was from Victoria and her…

Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Mason Senior was born in Orbost, Victoria in 1945. At the time his parents, Leo Ritchie and Trixie…

Pam was born in 1944. Her mother was Joyce Carter and father Arthur Thomas. Joyce Carter’s father was Charlie Carter…

Mervyn Charles Penrith was born in Berry in 1941. He would have been born in Nowra, but his mother, being…

Maxine Kelly was born in Bega and attended Wallaga Lake School. Her maternal grandfather was Freddy Carter from Wallaga Lake….

Mary Kathleen Duroux (nee Hookwin) was born in Bega in 1934. Mary’s mother died when Mary was 4 years old….

Margaret Kathleen Mary Harris (nee Stewart) was born in Berry in 1951. Her father was Albert George ‘Linky’ Stewart (named…

Lionel Mongta was born in Orbost, Victoria, in 1936. Lionel would have been born at Tilba Tilba, but his mother,…

Linda May Cruse was born in Nowra in 1936. Her father was Benjamin Cruse and her mother Lillian Sarah Pepper…

Linda Colburn (nee Mason) was born in Orbost, Victoria in 1934. Her mother was Trixie (nee Thomas) Mason and father…

Leslie Keith Simon was born in Sydney in 1956. Les’s mother was Rosina Chapman, born in Batemans Bay, and his…

Leonard Nye, Symalene Nye’s son, grew up in the Mogo / Barlings Beach area. The family camped on the beach…

Keith Stewart was born in Nowra, in 1929. His father was Edward ‘Teddy’ Stewart, from Wallaga Lake, and mother Muriel…

John was born in Sydney in 1949. He grew up in La Perouse and throughout his life has camped, fished…

John Mumbler was born in Singleton, NSW in 1939. His father was Eric ‘Nugget’ Mumbler and his mother, Helen Maude…

John Brierley was born in Moruya. He is the son of Ernie Brierley and Beryl [nee Andy] Brierley and grew…

Harriett Walker was born at Wallaga Lake in 1935 and has lived in the Wallaga Lake community her entire life….

Georgina Parsons was born in the ‘Batemans Bay bush hospital’ in 1939. Georgina presumes she was born in the ‘bush’…

Ronnie Mason, Vivienne Mason, Vanessa Mason and members of the Stewart / Ella families including Roslyn Ella Field, Karen Ella…

Doris Moore (nee Davis) was born at Kalama Private Hospital, in Moruya in 1938. Doris’s father was Walter Davis (Wally…

Dave Tout was born in 1946 and frequented the Moruya area during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and returned to…

Alex Walker was born in Berry in 1938. His father Reginald Walker, and paternal grandfather were both from Wallaga Lake….

Albert Solomon was born in Orbost, Victoria, in 1945. His mother was Edna Parsons from Wallaga Lake, and his father…

Alan Mongta was born in Nowra in 1938. Alan’s mother and maternal grandfather were from Delegate, NSW. Alan’s father and…

“The Dreaming” or “Dreamtime”, as it is called in English refers to the creative era when the landscape was given…

A large camp had existed in the Wallaga Lake area, on Merrimans Island, before the creation of the Station. A…

The Eurobodalla area is generally accepted as lying within Yuin country. The Yuin cultural area is generally stated to extend…