Description
Joseph (Josh) Parker (1831-1918) emigrated to Australia with his family in 1838. His father, Edward Stone Parker was one of four men who had been appointed Assistant Protectors to work with Chief Protector George Augustus Robinson in the newly-established Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate. Edward Parker was assigned the Loddon District and eventually established a Protectorate station at Larnebarramul, near present-day Daylesford. Joseph Parker worked with his father at the Loddon station and remained in the Daylesford district until his appointment to the office of Town Clerk in the Borough of Guildford in 1869. In 1877 he was appointed a Crown Lands Bailiff in the Lands Department, and saw service at Kerang, Echuca, Talangatta, and finally Castlemaine. After his retirement he was appointed overseer of the Glenlyon Village Settlement, a Christian-socialist ‘back to the land’ experiment that aimed at improving the poor of Melbourne.
This publication collates his published reminiscences of his experiences in colonial Victoria, including a very important essay on the Djadjawurrung Aboriginal people.
ISBN: 979-8481669618
Paperback, 98pp, 2021
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