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Hi Lyn, we have come to the same crossroad as you but I can provide you with more information. I'm soon getting a copy of the documents from my mother. The boundary rider you talk of was a man by the name of john (johnny) Taylor also nick named white fellow. John Taylor was raised on a station by a man named mr Davis of ginninderra until the age of 13 when he went to tumut and worked the rest of his life for Edward George brown as a stockman and labourer. In the Sydney morning herald 9th dec 1862 the year Agnes May firth was born, there's an article about an aboriginal man and white lady from that station asking registeres all around Wagga Wagga to marry them but were denied the right. There is another clip in there though that mentions a similar event happening in 1867 where the couple were given the right but Frances died in 1864 I believe and that is when the girls were fostered to Sherry so I don't know how relevant that article is. Mum tells me we have proof of their relationship but what we can't find is his actual tribe or birth records. If he was born in gininderra he would most likely be from the ngunnawal tribe and if in tumut than wiradjuri, he died age 34 1875 so if his age documents are correct he was born 1840 or 1841, 1840-41 was when white people put the ngunnawal tribe to work so it's possible he was raised from a baby by the Davis family of ginninderra. http://www.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/180511/Brad-Montgomery-Final-Report.pdf page 14 and on has info on john Taylor and the mariage article. I also found an aboriginal archive record a man 34 john death 1875 but it says place mudgee. So I wonder if he may have been born around mudgee too. He's a hard man to track I'd but I'm told to search the archives of these towns. I'll keep in touch. Email me if you like. Shane.