kendall_family_nsw - Person Sheet
kendall_family_nsw - Person Sheet
NameKitty (Black Kitty) Colebee 1328
Birthabt 1807, Prospect, New South Wales, Australia1328
Death17 Mar 1867, Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Spouses
Birth1 Aug 1811, England
Death30 Nov 1892, Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage22 Jun 1832, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
ChildrenCatherine (1832-1906)
 Joseph (1833-1863)
 John (1843-)
 Mary (1849-1878)
 Sarah (-1886)
Birthabt 1783, Richmond, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
DeathMar 1831, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationNative Constable1328
Marriage1822, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia1328
ChildrenSamuel (1822-1863)
 Norbetus (1827-)
Notes for Kitty (Black Kitty) Colebee
About Aboriginal, (Black) Kitty.

Kitty was born about 1807 into the Warmuli Clan which was centered around what is now the suburb of Prospect, N.S.W. Australia. The Warmuli Clan was part of the Darug Nation who were traditional custodians of much of what is modern day Sydney. The Nation stretched from Broken Bay in the north to Botany Bay in the south and west to the Blue Mountains.
In July 1813, at about the age of 6, Kitty was placed in a missionary`s private home at Parramatta along with 4 other young children from various Darug clans. Eighteen months later on the 28th December 1814 these five children were the first to be admitted to Governor Macquaries Native Institution in Parramatta. The institution was established by Macquarie to "civilise, educate and foster habits of industry and decency in the Aborigines".

While attending the institution Kitty became friends with Maria. Maria was also one of the first five children to be admitted to the institution and was around the same age as Kitty. Ten years later on the 12th June 1822 Kitty, age 15, married Maria`s brother Colebee, age 39. Both Maria and Colebee were the children of Yarramundi the Chief of the Boorooberongal Clan of the Darug Nation. The Boorooberongal Clan was centered around what is now the town of Richmond, N.S.W. Australia.

After their marriage Kitty and Colebee lived on his 30 acre block of land on the Richmond road. The land had been granted to Colebee three years earlier by Governor Lachlan Macquarie for services rendered. Macquarie had stated on the 31st August 1819 that Aboriginals should be granted land, very few received it, Colebee was one of the lucky ones. The 30 acres was located at what would soon become known as Blacktown, N.S.W. Australia. It was here that Kitty gave birth to her and Colebee`s first and possibly only child, Samuel Colebee, in 1827. Four years later in 1831 her husband Colebee died.

The following year in 1832 Kitty married Joseph Budsworth. Joseph was a convict who had arrived in the colony just over two years earlier. He was transported from England and arrived in Sydney on the 6th December 1829 aboard "Claudine". Shortly after their marriage Kitty and Joseph headed north to the Liverpool Plains on the Peel River. John Oxley had passed through the area in 1818 but the first sheep and cattle stations were only established in 1831, one year before Kitty and Joseph arrived.

It was here at Liverpool Plains on the banks of the Peel River that Kitty and Joseph began their family. Firstly with the birth of Joseph in 1833 and followed with the birth of James in 1840 and John in 1843. Over this time, during the 1830`s, a town began to develop on the Peel`s southwest bank. However it was not until 1850 that a public town was gazetted on the opposite side of the river from the existing settlement. This town would become known as Tamworth and in 1851 the white population was only 254.


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Kitty Colebee is a student at the Parramatta Native Institution, of the Cannemegal (Warmuli) group. She marriesColebee in 1822. (Macquarie ‘s memorandanda list of natives at Native Institution 28/12/1819 ml a772 p 151) Kitty is admitted to Native Institution in 1814 at 5 yrs. After marrying Colebee the couple settle in Blacktown on a small farm of their own. They have a son Samuel, baptised RC at Richmond 1827. Both parents are said to be of the Prospect tribe. Kitty is named on the Blanket lists. Her other son is James Bowen Budsworth whose father is Englandlishman, Joseph Budsworth. James’ daughter is Cicely Lucy Budsworth marries Ephraim Joseph Rose, great grandson of Thomas and Jane Rose, first free settlers to arrive in Australia in 1793. Kitty and her children live around the Tamworth, Coonabarabran area. Cicely Lucy was born at Blackville near Quirindi.1328
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