'Prehistory of the Sydney area; territory of the Darug, Gundungurra, Kuringgai, Darkinjung and Dharawal with a list of clans; daily hunting and gathering activities and spiritual life; contact, conflict and final dependency following European settlement; Darug women married convicts e.g. Maria married Robert Lock; list of descendents of Lock, Everingham, Barber, Randall families; Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury River, Botany, Plumpton, Liverpool, Parramatta Aboriginal families; dictionaries of Coastal Darug (Eora), Kuringgai, Gundugurra.' (Source: TROVE)
This work contains:
The First Australian War
Convicts and Kooris
The descendants of Robert and Maria Lock
Aboriginal descendants of Matthew Everingham
Descendants of John Luke Barber
Descendants of John Randall
Dictionary of the Coastal Darug (Eora) language
Dictionary of the Kuringgai language
Dictionary of the Gundungurra language.
'The Darug and Their Neighbours presents a general history of the Darug people and their immediate neighbours—the Dharawal and Gundungurra peoples of the greater Sydney region. Four families from this region are the focus of the book, in an effort to demonstrate that there are many Darug descendants still living in the Sydney area. The book has three clear parts: a general historical introduction (comprising 144 pages); descendant charts of four families (62 pages); and dictionaries of the Darug, Kuringgai and Gundungurra languages (54 pages).' (Introduction)
'The Darug and Their Neighbours presents a general history of the Darug people and their immediate neighbours—the Dharawal and Gundungurra peoples of the greater Sydney region. Four families from this region are the focus of the book, in an effort to demonstrate that there are many Darug descendants still living in the Sydney area. The book has three clear parts: a general historical introduction (comprising 144 pages); descendant charts of four families (62 pages); and dictionaries of the Darug, Kuringgai and Gundungurra languages (54 pages).' (Introduction)