Port Curtis Coral Coast Claim Group

The Courier Mail of 22-23 June 2013 has an advertisement for a proposed Indigenous Land Use Agreement with the Port Curtis Coral Coast Claim Group. Further investigation of this group provided the following Native Title Claim Registration Test report.

Native Title Claim Registration Test - Port Curtis Coral Coast
NNTT file no. QC01/29
Federal Court of Australia file no. QUD6026/01
Date application made 17 August 2001
Date application last amended Leave to amend granted 26 April 2012, application as amended filed 1 May 2012
Date of Decision 31 May 2012

Applicants - Kerry Blackman, Dean Sarra, Lurleen Blackman, Richard Johnson, Nat Minniecon, Matthew Cooke, Neville Johnson

The native title claimant group comprises all the descendants of:

Dina
Jessie
Johnson Matemate and George Swain
Sandy and Fanny
Dulhu/Doolan
Buller Tolsen (Norman Buller)
Alice Murray
Jane
Betsy
Rosie
Elsie Myers
Maggie Little
Rosie Blackman
Emma Jones
Mary Anne
John Hill ("Pig Pig")
Elizabeth Tan Watt / Daniels

Extra information in the report as follows

[Anthropologist 2 – name deleted] refers to documentation that exists from this era in relation
to the Indigenous inhabitants of the area and in respect of the apical ancestors of the members
of the native title claim group (page 4): For example

1 Emma Jones born 1870, resided on Paddy’s Island, Bundaberg, and whose descendents have remained in the area continuously;
2 Descendants of Dinah can establish residential continuity in the Gladstone area;
3 Jane whose traditional country is around Berajonda Station;
4 Maggie Little is recorded as being born in Miriam Vale in 1864;
5 Rosie Blackman is recorded as being born at Warro Station;
6 Betsy, whose daughter was born at Mount Perry in about 1860

The names of three anthropologists who provided reports are withheld in the report.

For interest I have added some references I have found to Rosie Blackman

St Vincents Orphanage 31. 7.1901 Aboriginal Children
Victor Blackman admitted 8. 2.1900, born 2. 6.1891 at Bundaberg
Louis Blackman admitted 8. 2.1900, born February 1893 at Bundaberg
(Parents of both Fred Blackman and Rosie Blackman)

Queensland State Archives Item ID 17983 00/16461 M'film Z1613, Microfilm frame nos. 139-141.
Letter from Mrs Meston to the Home Secretary dated October 9, 1900 in relation to Rosie Blackman travelling from Durundur to the Brisbane hospital and the Orphanage to see her children. On arriving in Brisbane Rosie was denied entry into the Girl's Home by Mrs Whipham to see her children.

Yuwibara People Native Title Meeting

Yuwibara People Native Title Meeting

Area roughly centered on Mackay and surrounding districts  (Midgeton, Sarina, Yarrawonga Point and Eungella) in Central Queensland.

Apical ancestors of this tribe are listed as

Peter Nolan
Jane Morris, mother of Peter Smith and Frank Morris
Molly, mother of Bill Bargo (aka Bill Tonga) and Annie Bargo (aka Annie Tonga)
Johanna Hazeldean
Mungo, King of Hamilton, father of Spoonbill
Jerry McDonald and Janie (McDonald)

Appeared in the Courier Mail of June 15-16, 2013

Sources are Important

Following is an example of different sources giving different information.

The first is from the National Archives of Australia web site and the second from a figure from a presentation in 2005.

National Archives of Australia
Darwin Office
CRS F315/0
Item 1949/393A Part 2 (Digital Copy)

Napperby Station
There were no half-caste children on Napperby at the time of our
visit. However, the two who were located there last year are still
camping away from the station, their mother having apparently got
wind of our intentions to move them. It will require a special
patrol to apprehend them but, in view of the fact that the school
year is now half-way through and that St Mary's Hostel is close
to saturation point with the existing staff, I recommend that it be
left until next January to send out and pick them up. There are
two of them - one boy, Texas, aged approximately 7 years .......
..........., and one girl, Lily, aged approximately 5 years and ..
....................of Coniston station. Their mother originally
came from Gordon Downs.
(............... = text removed.)

IUSSP XXVth International Population Conference
Session 1009 Demography, Human Rights and Ethics
Tours, France 20 July 2005
Blankets, Brass Tags and Bungalows: The Role of Population Data Systems in
Historical Aboriginal Affairs in Northern Territory, Australia (Draft)
Ellen Percy Kraly, Department of Geography, Colgate University
Figure 14 (cont) Further examples
(NAA F315 Item 49/393A)

Napperby Station
Half-castes There were no half-caste children on Napperby
at the time of our visit. However, the two who were located there
last year are still camping away from the station, their mother
having apparently got wind of our intentions to move them. It
will require a special patrol to apprehend then but, in view of
the fact that the school year is now half-way through and that
St Mary's Hostel is close to saturation point with the existing
staff, I recommend that it be left until next January to send
out and pick them up. There are two of them - one boy, Texas,
aged approximately 7 years and whose father is alleged to be a
Mr Dixon, and one girl, Lily, aged approximately 5 years and
whose father is alleged to be Mick Kelly of Coniston Station.
Their mother originally came from Gordon Downs.

It pays to keep looking.

Wakka Wakka People Native Title Authorisation Meeting

Wakka Wakka People Native Title Authorisation Meeting

Area covered roughly bounded by Mt Perry, Monto, Chinchilla, Cooyer, Nanango, Murgon and including Eidsvold, Mundubbera and Gayndah Queensland.

Apical ancestors are listed as

Jenny and David Carlo (parents of Princey Carlo);
Minnie Bly (mother of Thomas Simpson), Ethel and Bill Button;
Maggie Hart (mother of Crabbie Chapman);
Mother of William Pickering, Lucky Law;
King Billy and Maria of Boondooma (parents of Tommy Dood of Taabinga), Maggie West;
Kitty of Boonara;
Mimi;
Kitty mother of Jack Bulong;
John Bond;
Kitty (mother of Jenny Lind),
Jenny Lind and Mick Buck;
Boubijan Cobbo;
Stockman Bligh and Aggie Bligh;
Tommy (aka Boondoon) and Maggie (parents of Willie Bone); and
Billy McKenzie (father of Chlorine McKenzie), Chlorine McKenzie.

Appeared in the Courier Mail dated 1-2 June,