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Nanbarry

Cadigal man who survived smallpox to become a child-servant in the early colony and later sailed on the Investigator with Matthew Flinders.

Milestone
Born
1780
Died
12 Aug 1821
Name
Alternate
Bolderry Brockenbau, Nanbarry
Alternate
Nanbaray
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Nanbaree
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Nan-bar-ray
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Nanbarrey
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Nanbarry
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Nanbree
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Nanbury
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White, Andrew Snape Hammond Douglas
Alternate
White, Andrew Sneap Hamond Douglass
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Nanbarry

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2010

A survivor of the smallpox of 1789, Nanbarry became an interpreter and intermediary between his people and the new arrivals, and later went to sea.