Yirrganydji Peole Native Title Meeting
The Claim area is land and waters in the coastal and McAllister Range foothills area and an area of offshore waters between Port Douglas and Cairns.
The apical ancestors are listed as
(King) Billy Jagar and sister Ginny (Jinny / Njunjingai)
Jerry Bardon
Janie Brown (nee Clark)
Billy Boyle
Ernest Bounghi
Biddy Tangir Coleman
Joshua Barron
Henry of Barron River
Niji Wu of Double Island
Old man Manga / Mange
Robert Clarke
The meeting is to be held in Cairns on June 7, 2014.
Appeared in the Koori Mail of May 21, 2014
Some notes
(1) William Clarke of Yarrabah aged 21 years married Jane Brown (born Blackwater Queensland, mother Maggie) of Yarrabah aged 22 years on 4.12.1907 at St Alban's Church, Yarrabah.
(2) Billy Jagar (King of the Barron) died at the Aboriginal camp, Cairns on 6 March 1930.
(3) There was a Billy Boyle aged about 50 years at Coen in October 1933.
(4) A Billy Boyle, born around 1887, married Grace Baker, born around 1896, on 19.11.1939 at Yarrabah.
(5) In "Living with the Munpitch: The history of Mitchell River Mission, 1905 - 1967" Ernest Bounghi is mentioned on page 239 as coming to the Mission from Yarrabah with Ernest Gribble.
(6) "Reaching back : Queensland Aboriginal people recall early days at Yarrabah Mission" edited by Judy Thomson, Canberra, ACT, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1989, on page 101 states Janey Brown who came from Mareeba was the wife of Willie Clark, mother of Steve
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4.12.1907 Janie Brown and Willie Clarke married at St Albans Church.
N.B. Many readers will know Janie as Jinny Forbes and Willie Clarke
as Willie Doctor.
Janie Clark aka Brown aka Forbes was given to the Paitcence family by a Tom Vallely and then she was given to the Forbes family. She was around 13 when she was sent to Yarrabah. This information is found at
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Maggie listed as Jane Browns mother was brought to Blackwater or Kambul Station in between Bilwon and Koah by the Vallely’s in 1880’s to 1890’s from Vallely’s place near Kuranda (at the bottom of the Barron Falls 5 miles from the falls) to give birth to Frank Fallon Jane Brown’s brother.
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The Barron Falls.
Cairns Post (Qld. : 1884 - 1893), Thursday 10 February 1887, page 4