Jeremy Steele
Threlkeld working in the wilderness
Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, born in 1788, is, or was, exactly 150 years older than your modern-day amateur student of Awabakal, the Lake...
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Jeremy Steele
- May 20, 2018
- 4 min
Translating a verse in St Mark’s Gospel
Picture the lonely austere missionary the Rev. Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, deep in Aboriginal country sometime between 1834 and 1837 in...
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Jeremy Steele
- May 13, 2018
- 2 min
AWABAKAL conjoined pronouns
The Lake Macquarie missionary the Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld produced a grammar of the language where his mission was established. This...
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Jeremy Steele
- Nov 21, 2017
- 24 min
Threlkeld Annual Report 1838
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES, LAKE MACQUARIE, FOR MDCCCXXXVIII Ebenezer, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, December...
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Jeremy Steele
- May 15, 2016
- 2 min
Old Mans Valley
Just to the west of Hornsby, a northern suburb of Sydney, is Old Mans Valley. One might reasonably assume that the name was inspired by...
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Jeremy Steele
- Apr 15, 2013
- 2 min
Muogamarra
The following was included in a notice about a future public visit to Muogamarra, dated 15 April 2013: Muogamarra Nature Reserve is a...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 31, 2012
- 2 min
Mooney Mooney
Mooney Mooney is on the Hawkesbury River. There is a club there where lunch may be had, with a balcony offering a view over the water;...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jan 24, 2011
- 2 min
AWABAKAL Words
THOSE WERE THE DAYS A generation after the upheaval of 1788 and the arrival of the First Fleet, and around 150 km north of Sydney,...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 31, 2010
- 3 min
NSW Words: tracing the Bokhara and other NSW rivers
Bokhara In a press report in the Sydney Morning Herald for the last day of 2010, there was the following entry: Moderate to major...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 14, 2010
- 1 min
NYUNGAR Words: barang: effective auxiliary
barang crops up a lot. It seems to mean ‘carry’, ‘bring’ and the like. But is is also used in combinations, where it seems to have the...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 28, 2010
- 2 min
NYUNGAR Words: gur / garu: ‘again’, ‘more’
A large number of Nyungar words end in -gur but no common thread jumps out to suggest a meaning. gur also occurs on its own, as does the...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 7, 2010
- 1 min
'Bad' across the country
There are several words to express ‘bad’, but it is interesting to note one similarity between the Nyungar language of south-west Western...
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