Currently the Claim Group is described as any of the biological descendants of:
(i) the full-blood Aboriginal parents of Charlotte;
(ii) Maggie and Tommy:
(iii) Polly of Coopers Creek;
(iv) Charlie Nockatunga;
(v) any other ancestor who is determined by Wongkumara People to have been
Wongkumara in accordance with traditional law and custom who identifies as
Wongkumara and is accepted as Wongkumara by the Wongkumara People in
accordance with traditional law and custom.
It is proposed to amend the description to provide that the persons who may exercise
the Native Title rights and interests, subject to and in accordance with the traditional
laws acknowledged and traditional customs observed by them, are the Wongkumara
People and that the Wongkumara People are the descendants of one or more of the
following people:
a) Charlotte (mother of Jack, Queenie and May Hines, Rosie Jones and Willy Dutton;b) Siblings Polly (mother of Albert Ebsworth Sam and Tommy Burgamar) and Charlie Nockatunga;
c) Maggie and Tommy (parents of Nellie Flash and Angelina);
d) Kutji (mother of George Dutton);
e) Tarella and her children Elizabeth and Harry (Fred) Hartnett;
f) Norman Harding;
g) Siblings Nellie (mother of Lucy Harding) and Judy (mother of Donald David Gillis);
h) Jenny (mother of Alf Barlow); andi) Neddie and Nancy (grandparents of Jimmy Sedeek);
j) And such other person or persons who might from time to time be recognised
by the Wongkumara People as a Wongkumara ancestor.
Appeared in the Koori Mail of February 24, 2016.
Some Notes
Sarah Martin's paper 'Corner Talk' Mentions a lot of these people. This paper was at one stage on the web but no longer is. Following are some of these references.
A Table titled 'Some Families Associated with Tibooburra in the 1901-1938 Period' giving the following information
Family Jones / Hines / Dutton / Clayton
Father
Mother Charlotte
Children Rosie Jones, Jack Hines, Queenie Hines, May Hines, Willy Dutton
Group Wangkumara / Paakantyi (Willy Dutton)
Family
Father
Mother Polly
Children Albert Ebsworth, Sam Burgamar, Tommy Burgamar (Bugmy)
Group Wangkumara
Family Dutton
Father George
Mother Alice Bates
Children Jim, Evelyn, Lorraine, George, Norma, Charlie
Group Paakantyi and Malyangapa
Family Harding
Father Norman
Mother Lucy
Children ?
Group Wangkumara
Family Barlow
Father Jimmy
Mother Jennie
Children Alf
Group Malyangapa and Wangkumara
Family Hartnett
Father Thomas
Mother Tarella
Children Elizabeth, Fred
Group White and Paakantyi
Family Hartnett
Father Fred
Mother Una Ebsworth
Children Rita, Cyril, Cliff, John, Shirley, Agatha
Group ? Wangkumara
"Two Aboriginal women are buried at Yalpungah cemetery just outside the Olive Downs boundary, both these women are the matriarchs of large families still closely connected to the Tibooburra area and who worked and lived at Olive Downs over a long period. Tarella or Trella died at Yalpungah on the 14th of May 1907.
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The other woman who died at Yalpungah around the same time as Tarella was Judy Quayle (Quail), the mother of the three Quayle brothers from Momba Station near White Cliffs, John, William and James."
This paper contains a vast amount of information about people mentioned above.
