Wednesday 16 January 2019

NNTT Djungan People #5 Native Title Claim

National Native Title Tribunal File QC2018/005 available here entered on the Register 9/11/2018.

The attachments are as follows :-
Register extract available here
Attachment B - Map showing Boundaries of the Area Covered by the Application here
Attachment C - Map of the Claim Area here

The claim area is roughly west of the Hann Tableland National Park.

The Djungan People native title claim group is comprised of the descendants (including through adoption or raising up in accordance with traditional laws and customs) of the following apical ancestors:

Tommy and Topsy Wason
John Wason
Dinah [Richards]
Jessie Wason
Jack O'Neil and his spouse, Flora Richards
Peter Ray Burns
Jimmy Kingsburra and Lizzie Kingsburra (including the descendants of Joe Sands)
Charles James Archer (Senior)
Lucy [Burns]
Pluto [Brumby]
Mollie and her spouse, Bert Gordon
Mick Richards

Some notes

Peter, of Yarrabah, Bachelor, born Cooktown, aged 18 years, parents Fred and Topsy and Jessie Wason, of Yarrabah, Spinster, born Mareeba, aged 16 years, parents Fred Wason and Dinah married 28. 4.1910 at St Alban's Church, Yarrabah by G W Morrison, C of E             
Children (some?) recorded at Yarrabah
Catharine Mona, parents Peter Underwood F/B and Jessie Wason H/C, born 30.12.1910
Eric Peter, parents Peter Underwood F/B and Jessie Wason (Black mixed (Chinese and Aborigine)) , born 8. 4.1913
Vincent Noland, parents Peter Underwood F/B and Jessie Wason H/C, born 3. 2.1915
Agnes Lorna, parents Peter and Jessie Wason , born 16. 8.1916
Ralph Emmanuel Peter, parents Peter Underwood F/B and Jessie Wason H/C, born 20. 4.1919
Maxwell Horace Alton, parents Peter Underwood and Jessie Wason, born 3. 3.1924

John Wason H/C of Yungaburra, born Kingsborough near Thornborough c1895 married
Lucy Cunningham H/C of Yungaburra, born Mulgrave River married 18.10.1916
Registered 2009/N/5074

Peter Ray H/C (Peter Burns), born about 1907, baptised 27. 3.1921 Yarrabah
Peter Burns aged 52 yrs, Clara Burns aged 44 yrs, Christina Margaret Burns aged 13 yrs and
Janet Elizabeth Burns aged 10 years Exempt 1956
Clara Ray, born c 1912 probably Cloncurry district, father Lee Fong

Lucy Burns appears on Tindale genealogical sheet Yarrabah 26. Also on this Sheet are
Jack Baker, Nellie Baker, Dorothy Lilian Bradley, Grace Bradley, Ailsa Camelia Burns,
Christella Burns, Christobel S Burns, Christopher D Burns, Daniel Peter Burns, Dorothy Burns, Dorothy Lilian Burns, Lucy Burns, Daniel Peter, Steve Yetman

Mick Richards, born c1895 Elizabeth Creek near Mungana, parents Bill and Maggie,
married to Eileen

Mollie Gordon appears on Tindale genealogical sheets Yarrabah 54 and 85

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