The original citizens of Marrickville were the Cadigal people, who are the clans of the Eora Nation. They spoke the traditional language which is similar to Darug language. Ordinarily, the Cadigal land, which they called ‘Cadi’, was located at South of Port Jackson and stretches from South Head to Petersham with part of the southern boundary lying on the Cooks River. The Indigenous inhabitants survived as skilled hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans scattered along the coast. According to many researches concentrating on the objects of Cardigal, they lived in coastal Sydney for approximately 65,000 years with other clans such as the Wangal, the Kameygal, the Bediagal. On their belief, their forebears were not gods, but creators
