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.