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Reverend John McGarvie’s sketch of a gunya he saw Darug people building near his house at Mekoorabon (Percy Place) in August 1826

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John McGarvie
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ML MSS A 1613. p232 Friday 24 and Saturday 25 August 1826]

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McGarvie, John

Second Presbyterian minister in colonial Sydney, the first incumbent at Pitt Town and Ebenezer, and of St Andrews Scots Church. While living in the area, he recorded the names of places along the Hawkesbury River, or Dyarubbin, that local Aboriginal people shared with him. His papers are held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW.

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McGarvie’s list and Aboriginal Dyarubbin

This essay follows on from Introducing the Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales

Aboriginal

Housing

Diaries

Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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McGarvie, John

Second Presbyterian minister in colonial Sydney, the first incumbent at Pitt Town and Ebenezer, and of St Andrews Scots Church. While living in the area, he recorded the names of places along the Hawkesbury River, or Dyarubbin, that local Aboriginal people shared with him. His papers are held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW.

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Percy Place (Mekoorabon)

Homestead and estate on the Hawkesbury River just outside Pitt Town that was established by early settler George Hall.

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