Nerida

My name is Nerridah. Nerrida means Blossom in an aboriginal story from the book BOORAN written by a famous Australian author in the 1950’s.
When I went on a tour of Israel from Australia I was told by by a priest in Jerusalem I met that my name being spelt Nerridah was the Spanish way of spelling it.

My name is Nerridah. I am part aboriginal. My mom is from Moree NSW area. My mother died when I was 17 and never told me about my aboriginal ancestors in her family. I read the book BOORAN in Scholarship 1959 Qld Australia about a Nerrida and the meaning of the name as blossom. There is an aboriginal story about her. There where 2 brothers and Nerrida loved one of them. Weeloo and Wandoo were the brothers. One brother spears his brother to death and they both turn to stone. Nerrida is left in sorrow calling the brother she loved Weeloo. She turns into a Curlew bird. You can hear Curlews calling Weeloo at night. I was too young to realize where my mother got my name from. I know she always called me blossom. My younger sister remembers her calling me by that name Blossom too.

The name Nerida is also GREEK. And it means Sea nymph or mermaid.

This Aboriginal name means 'blossom' in Queensland and 'red water lily' in New South Wales.