The NYE Family
ANDREW AND LILLIAN NYE.
2 SURFSIDE AVENUE MOSSY POINT.
Mr Andrew, Mrs Lilian, Fred, Billy, Young Andrew and Jeannie Nye, and Lilian's brother 'Captain Tim' Butler (see the entry at the A to Z page). A popular professional fishing family, cousin Joe Timbery threw a boomerang for The Queen during her visit in 1953. Timbery used to visit to get wood for boomerangs from trees on Broulee Island.
Nyes were Aborigines, but not the local Djurga tribe. Together with another of Lilian's brothers Tom Butler (see the entry at the A to Z page) they all moved from Ulladulla and Andrew Nye rented the old farm house (the only house at Connells Pt at the time) from 1932, and subsequently bought it, It was on the south-east corner of the river end junction of Surfside Ave and Annetts Parade (opposite where the boat outside Muffins is now). The Nyes lined it with redwood from the wreck of a vessell of about 50 foot length on the sandspit, perhaps The Bell or Alice Jane (see the entries under 'Shipwreck' at the A to Z page). The house burned down about 1950.
The family made shell necklaces to sell. When they were first made, they were strung up on a straight length outside the door of the house, whenever someone passed them they were obliged to give them a shake. That was how the last of the sand was cleared from them.
'Captain Tim' lived with the Nyes, Lillian's other brother Tom Butler had a hut on the Broulee side of the Creek.
From Mossy Point Progress Association Record c1980: “With some help from Council workers, Stan Stephens and 'Captain Tim' Nye built the public wharf.” [Captain TIm was actually a Butler, not a Nye].
See also the page for Shellgrit Bay.
2 SURFSIDE AVENUE MOSSY POINT.
Mr Andrew, Mrs Lilian, Fred, Billy, Young Andrew and Jeannie Nye, and Lilian's brother 'Captain Tim' Butler (see the entry at the A to Z page). A popular professional fishing family, cousin Joe Timbery threw a boomerang for The Queen during her visit in 1953. Timbery used to visit to get wood for boomerangs from trees on Broulee Island.
Nyes were Aborigines, but not the local Djurga tribe. Together with another of Lilian's brothers Tom Butler (see the entry at the A to Z page) they all moved from Ulladulla and Andrew Nye rented the old farm house (the only house at Connells Pt at the time) from 1932, and subsequently bought it, It was on the south-east corner of the river end junction of Surfside Ave and Annetts Parade (opposite where the boat outside Muffins is now). The Nyes lined it with redwood from the wreck of a vessell of about 50 foot length on the sandspit, perhaps The Bell or Alice Jane (see the entries under 'Shipwreck' at the A to Z page). The house burned down about 1950.
The family made shell necklaces to sell. When they were first made, they were strung up on a straight length outside the door of the house, whenever someone passed them they were obliged to give them a shake. That was how the last of the sand was cleared from them.
'Captain Tim' lived with the Nyes, Lillian's other brother Tom Butler had a hut on the Broulee side of the Creek.
From Mossy Point Progress Association Record c1980: “With some help from Council workers, Stan Stephens and 'Captain Tim' Nye built the public wharf.” [Captain TIm was actually a Butler, not a Nye].
See also the page for Shellgrit Bay.
