BEGIN Suburb infobox scroll down to edit main article text Infobox Australian Place type suburb name Enfield city Sydney state nsw image Enfield War Memorial.JPG caption War Memorial, Liverpool Road lga Burwood Council postcode 2136 pop 2,448 2001 census stategov Electoral district of Strathfield Strathfield fedgov Division of Watson Watson near nw Strathfield, New South Wales Strathfield near n Burwood, New South Wales Burwood near ne Burwood Heights, New South Wales Burwood Heights near w South Strathfield, New South Wales South Strathfield near e Croydon Park, New South Wales Croydon Park near sw Belfield, New South Wales Belfield near s Croydon Park, New South Wales Croydon Park near se Croydon Park, New South Wales Croydon Park dist1 13 location1 Sydney CBD END suburb infobox Enfield is a suburb , in the Inner West Sydney Inner West of Sydney , in the state of New South Wales , Australia . Enfield is located 13 kilometres south west of the Sydney central business district in the Local Government Areas in Australia local government area of Burwood Council . History The suburb is named after Enfield Town , an early market town of Middlesex , England . Aboriginal culture Prior to the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, the Enfield area belonged to the Wangal people, a clan of the Eora tribe, which covered most of Sydney. In the early years, the Eora people were badly affected by smallpox , which arrived with the British. Many of the clans became unsustainably small and the survivors formed new bands who lived where they could. While it would be wrong to say that the local indigenous population gave no resistance to British land claims Pemulwuy being a notable example , within thirty years or so of the colony s establishment, most of the land in the inner west had been conceded to British settlers. European settlement William Faithful was granted convert 100 acre km2 in 1810 covering what is now Enfield as well as much of Croydon Park and parts of Burwood and Croyd ... more details
refimprove date January 2011 History of Australia The history of Australia from 1788 1850 covers the early colonies period of Australia s history, from the arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney to establish the penal colony of New South Wales in 1788 to the European exploration of Australia European exploration of the continent and establishment of other colonies and the beginnings of autonomous democratic government. Colonisation and convictism see also Convicts in Australia Establishment of the first British Colony A proposal that Britain found a colony of banished convicts in the South Sea or in Terra Australis to enable the mother country to exploit the riches of those regions had been put forward in 1766 by John Callander in Terra Australia Cognita . Following the loss of the American Colonies after the American Revolutionary War 1775 1783, Great Britain needed to find alternative land for a new British colony. Australia was chosen for settlement, and colonisation began in 1788. Rather than resorting to the use of slavery to build the infrastructure for the new colony, convict labour was used as a cheap and economically viable alternative. It is commonly reported that the colonisation of Australia was driven by the need to address overcrowding in the British prison system however, it was simply not economically viable to transport prisoners half way around the world for this reason alone. ref Alan Frost, A Fit of Absence of Mind? The decision to colonise Botany Bay, 1779 1786 , Botany Bay Mirages Illusions of Australia s Convict Beginnings, Melbourne University Press, 1994, pp.98 109. ref Many convicts were either skilled tradesmen or farmers who had been convicted for trivial crimes and were sentenced to seven years, the time required to set up the infrastructure for the new colony. Convicts were often given pardons prior to or on completion of their sentences and were allocated parcels of land to farm. Sir Joseph Banks , the eminent scientist ... more details
Infobox Australian place type suburb name Castle Hill city Sydney state nsw image 1 Public School Castle Hill.jpg caption Public school 1879 lga The Hills Shire br Hornsby Shire postcode 2154 pop 35,386 2006 census area est 1802 stategov Electoral district of Baulkham Hills Baulkham Hills br Electoral district of Castle Hill Castle Hill br Electoral district of Hawkesbury Hawkesbury fedgov Division of Berowra Berowra br Division of Mitchell Mitchell near nw Kellyville, New South Wales Kellyville near n Glenhaven, New South Wales Glenhaven near ne Dural, New South Wales Dural near w Baulkham Hills, New South Wales Baulkham Hills near e Cherrybrook, New South Wales Cherrybrook near sw Baulkham Hills, New South Wales Baulkham Hills near s North Rocks, New South Wales North Rocks near se West Pennant Hills, New South Wales West Pennant Hills dist1 31 dir1 north west location1 Sydney CBD Castle Hill is a suburb in the north west of Sydney , in the state of New South Wales , Australia . Castle Hill is located 31 kilometres north west of the Sydney central business district , in the Hills District of the Greater Western Sydney region. ref Gregory s Sydney Street Directory 2002 Map 248 ref Castle Hill is the administrative centre of the Local Government Areas in Australia local government area of The Hills Shire and part of the suburb is located in the Local Government Areas in Australia local government area of Hornsby Shire . History Indigenous history The land that is now called Castle Hill was originally home to the Bidjigal people, who are believed to be a clan of the Darug people Dharuk people, who occupied all the land to the immediate west of Sydney . The best known Australian Aborigines Aboriginal person from that time is Pemulwuy , a Bidjigal leader who led the resistance movement against the British forces, including sacking farms in Castle Hill, before his eventual capture and execution by the British militia. The Bidjigal people are today commemorated by Bidjig ... more details
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For the South American Yag n people Yaghan Use British English date July 2011 Use dmy dates date July 2011 Image Yagan.jpg thumb Portrait of Yagan by George Cruikshank . br This portrait was painted from observations of Yagan s severed head, which had shrunk substantially during preservation by smoking. George Fletcher Moore said it bore little resemblance to the living Yagan, whose face was plump, with a burly headed look about it. IPA notice Yagan IPAc en icon j e n c. 1795 11 July 1833 was an Australian Australian Aborigines Aboriginal warrior from the Noongar people Noongar tribe who played a key part in early Indigenous Australians indigenous Australian resistance to British History of Australia 1788 1850 settlement and rule in the area of Perth, Western Australia . After he led a series of burglaries and robberies across the countryside, in which white settlers were killed, the government offered a bounty reward bounty for his capture, dead or alive. A young settler shot and killed him. Yagan s execution figured in Australian Aborigines Aboriginal folklore as a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers. Known throughout Australia, Yagan is considered a hero by the Noongar people. Settlers removed Yagan s head to claim the bounty. Later an official took it to London, England, where it was exhibited as an anthropology anthropological curiosity . A museum held the head in storage for more than a century before burying it with other remains in an unmarked grave in Liverpool in 1964. ref http www.liverpoolecho.co.uk liverpool news local news 2010 07 12 aboriginal warrior yagan is finally laid to rest after 170 years 100252 26834867 ref Over the years, the Noongar asked for repatriation of the head, both for religious reasons and because of Yagan s traditional stature in the culture. In 1993 the burial site was identified. Four years later officials exhumation of Yagan s head exhumed th ... more details
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