Bigambul People Native Title Authorisation Meeting

 

Bigambul Native Title Claim Queensland

Bigambul Native Title Claim Queensland

This Bigambul people are the descendants of the following persons:-

Nellie Yumbeina

Queen Susan of Welltown

Jack Noble

Sally Murray

Appeared in the Courier Mail dated December 4, 2021

Odds and Ends

Blanket Distribution at Goondiwindi, 1867
(Colonial Secretary, COL /A92, 1867 / 1703)

Wallaby and gin
Barney
Policeman Jimmy
Tommy
Cranny
Sally
New Maria
Doody and three children
Billy Bow
Jimmy and Billy
Billy and Jimmy
Charley, in town
Sandy, Pickaninny
Jemmy Hippi
Sally No. 2
Donegan,
California
Old Mammy, Goodar
Billy Goat, Goodar
Polly Wombat
Nelly
Conrad
Para, Goodar
Davy, Goodar
Eliza, Goodar
Callandoan Jimmy
Tommy, Welltown
Wallaby, Baranga
Old Billy, Winton
Hippi Jack and gin
Master Sam, Goondiwindi Station
Dick, Goondiwindi Station
Maggie
Tommy
Goodar Tommy
Welltown Tommy
Jack Welltown
Ogle Eyed Tommy
Sally, gin of Jack
Mary, of Goodar Tommy
Kitty, of Ogle Eyed Tommy
Jerry King
Johnny
Tommy Bobby, Goodar
Barney, Goodar
Old Combo, Goodar
Mister Billy, his gin and his girl
Biddy
Mary Ann
Jimmy

 Blanket Distribution at Goondiwindi, 1868
(Colonial Secretary, COL /A110, 1868 / 2570)

Moka, from Umbercollie
Sullivan, from Welltown
Jack, from Welltown
Jimmy, from Callandoan
Sally, from Callandoan
Jessie, from Callandoan
Lucy, from Callandoan
Granny, from Billa Billa
Darby, from Billa Billa
Maria, from Goondiwindi
Katie, from Callandoan
Davey, from Billa Billa
Barney, from Billa Billa
Jimmy, from Billa Billa
Sandy, from Umbercollie
Maria No. 2, from Goondiwindi
Nelly, from Goondiwindi
Mary Ann, from Goondiwindi
Old Billy Bo, from Goondiwindi
Jack, from Goondiwindi
Molly, from Goondiwindi
Sam Marshall, from Goondiwindi
Dick, from Goondiwindi
Tommy, from Goondiwindi
Billy Barlow, from Winton
Fanny       
Willie
Bungledoon? Jacky, from Callandoan
Billy, from Winton
Jacky, from Winton
Jimmy, from Callandoan
Croppy, from Welltown
Jimmy Bundoon, from Bengalla
Jimmy Bundoon, from Bengalla

 List of Aborigines who were issued with blankets at Inglewood dated May 17, 1881
(Queensland State Archives Item ID 847044 81/2206)

Men

Sam Murray
Paddy Go Mad
Connors
Wombat
Neddy
Greenhide Charley
Parramatta Jack
Charley
Boby
Sandy
Billy [Fitys?]
Bulldown

Women

Maryanne
Maria
Mrs Connor
Ellen
Neddy's wife
Susan
Dianah
Sally
Julia
Alice

Children

Annie
George
Ellen
Harry
Maria
Freddy
Edward
Charley
Alfred
Willie
Joseph

There is an article on a Queen Susan in Our Aim, Volume 29, Number 12, 1935 available here .

McKellar on behalf of the Wongkumara People v State of Queensland [2020] FCA 1394

 

McKellar on behalf of the Wongkumara People v State of Queensland [2020] FCA 1394 (here)

This case contains a lot of genealogical information including a pedigree chart titled Genealogy related to Coral King. Coral Ann King is seeking an order to be joined as a respondent to this proceeding pursuant to s 84(5) of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) (the NTA).

It is worth reading the whole report.

Kuuku Ya’u determination [2021] FCA 1464

Ross on behalf of the Cape York United #1 Claim Group v State of Queensland (No 2) (Kuuku Ya’u determination) [2021] FCA 1464 ( here )

(1)    The Native Title Holders are the Kuuku Ya’u People. The Kuuku Ya’u People are those Aboriginal persons who are descended by birth, or by adoption in accordance with the traditional laws acknowledged and the traditional customs observed by the Kuuku Ya’u group, from one or more of the following apical ancestors:

(a)    Johnny Doctor and Nancy (Tawamulu);

(b)    Charlie Kanora;

(c)    Charlie James (Flathead) Pascoe;

(d)    Billy Yatuma;

(e)    Hughie Temple;

(f)    Annie Anderson;

(g)    Topsy (wife of John George Hollingsworth);

(h)    Charlie Claudie Snr;

(i)    Mother of Billy Wenlock (Ukunchal);

(j)    Barney Claudie;

(k)    Annie Butcher;

(l)    Bob Pascoe and Dick Turku (aka Dick Yennan) (siblings);

(m)    Puunchukuupi (Frank Anderson);

(n)    William Clark Snr (aka Willie Doctor); or

(o)    Ma’a Chingal (Charlie Bamboo).

The area of land and waters is described as:

Commencing at the intersection of the southern boundary of the Wuthathi, Kuuku Y'au & Northern Kaanju People determination (QUD6023/2002), Hann Creek and the northern boundary of Lot 1 on CP907817, a point at Longitude 142.990404° East, and extending generally south-easterly along the centreline of that creek to the intersection with the centreline of the Pascoe River at Longitude 143.086482° East; then generally south-southwesterly along the centreline of that river to the intersection with an unnamed road (Kennedy Road/Frenchmans Road) at Latitude 12.699618° South; then generally south-easterly along the centreline of that road until the intersection with the centreline of Portland Roads Road at Longitude 143.089114° East; then easterly along the centreline of that road to the intersection with Brown Creek at Longitude 143.105466° East; then generally south easterly along the centreline of that creek until a point at Latitude 12.819886° South; then easterly to a point at Longitude 143.200592° East, Latitude 12.819711° South; then south-easterly to the northern-most point of Table Range at Latitude 12.872772° South; then generally southerly along the centreline of Table Range to its southern-most point at Latitude 12.976257° South; then south-easterly to a point on the centreline of an unnamed creek (Wachi Creek) at Longitude 143.325933° East, Latitude 13.002818° South passing through the following coordinate points:

Then generally north-easterly, then south-easterly along that creek to the intersection with an unnamed creek at Longitude 143.360605° East, Latitude 13.008177° South, passing through the following coordinate point:

Then generally easterly along the centreline of that creek to the intersection with the Lockhart River at Longitude 143.394058° East; then generally northerly along the centreline of that River until the intersection with Lloyd Bay, a point at Longitude 143.372991° East, Latitude 12.873265° South; then south-westerly to the western bank of the Lockhart River; then south-westerly then generally northerly along the high water mark passing across the mouths of any creeks and rivers to the southern bank of the Pascoe River at Latitude 12.497211° South; then northerly crossing the mouth of the Pascoe River to a point on its northern bank at Latitude 12.493660° South; then generally south-westerly along the northern bank of the Pascoe River until the intersection with the eastern most point of Lot 1 on CP907817; then northerly, then westerly along the eastern and northern boundaries of that lot back to the commencement point, (being the southern boundary of Wuthathi, Kuuku Y'au & Northern Kaanju People determination (QUD6023/2002)).

 

Uutaalnganu (Night Island) determination [2021] FCA 1465

Ross on behalf of the Cape York United #1 Claim Group v State of Queensland (No 3) (Uutaalnganu (Night Island) determination) [2021] FCA 1465 ( here )

The Native Title Holders are the Uutaalnganu (Night Island) People. The Uutaalnganu (Night Island) People are those Aboriginal persons who are descended by birth, or by adoption in accordance with the traditional laws acknowledged and the traditional customs observed by the Uutaalnganu (Night Island) group, from one or more of the following apical ancestors:

(a)    Sandy Pascoe;

(b)    Simon Ropeyarn;

(c)    Ku’aka Yalimuku;

(d)    King Fred (husband of Taltaninyu);

(e)    Taltaninyu (wife of King Fred);

(f)    Harry Mathers;

(g)    Old Short;

(h)    Maria (wife of Johnny Ilnkay Butcher);

(i)    Johnny Kulwilma;

(j)    Barney Marrott Senior;

(k)    Old Yeila Palwu’u;

(l)    Peter Underwood;

(m)    Nancy (mother of Peter Night Island);

(n)    Lizzie (wife of Charlie King, mother’s mother of Douglas Ropeyarn);

(o)    Ada (wife of Charlie King);

(p)    Rosie (mother of Alick Niger (Naiga));

(q)    Mother of Billy Chungo;

(r)    Utyaamu (Uchamu aka Osam aka Isagubi)

(s)    Mother of Charlie Bezai; or

(t)    Charlie Lockhart Senior.

The claim area of land and waters is described as :

Commencing at the intersection of the eastern bank of the Lockhart River and Lloyd Bay, a point at Longitude 143.377116° East, Latitude 12.869645° South and extending south-westerly across the mouth of the Lockhart River until its centre point; then generally southerly along the centreline of that river to the intersection with an unnamed creek (Wachi Creek) at Latitude 12.997983° South; then generally westerly along the centreline of that creek to the intersection with an unnamed creek at Longitude 143.360605° East; then generally north-westerly, then south-westerly along the centreline of that unnamed creek to a point at Longitude 143.325933° East, passing through the following coordinate point:

Then due south to a point on the centreline of the Great Dividing Range at Latitude 13.210972° South; then generally southerly along the centreline of the Great Dividing Range until the intersection with the southern boundary of an unnamed road at Latitude 13.362296° South (Stoney Creek Road), further described as:

Then generally southerly along the centreline of the Great Dividing Range until a point at Latitude 13.246570° South; then south to the northernmost northeast corner of Lot 450 on SP104554; then southerly along the eastern boundary of that lot until the intersection with the northern boundary of an unnamed road at Latitude 13.361150° South; then south-west along the eastern boundary of that road to a point on its southern boundary at Latitude 13.362296° South;

then generally easterly, then south-easterly bisecting the headwaters of the Nesbit River, to a point on the centreline of the Macrossan Range at Latitude 13.373304° South, also being a point on the western boundary of Lot 17 on SP104551, passing through the following coordinate points:

Then generally south-easterly along the western boundary of Lot 17 on SP104551, also the centreline of the Macrossan Range, intersecting Cone Peak at approximate Longitude 143.491676 East, and onwards until a point at Longitude 143.492882 East, until the intersection with Cone Peak at approx. Longitude 143.491676° East; then easterly to a point on the eastern boundary of Lot 16 on SP104551 at Longitude 143.567011° East, Latitude 13.370487° South (Kaapakachingunuma) passing through the following coordinate points:

then north-westerly along eastern boundary of Lot 16 on SP104551 to the eastern-most point of Lot 17 on SP104551; then northerly along the eastern boundary of that lot to again Lot 16 on SP104551; then generally northerly then westerly along the eastern and northern boundaries of that lot, passing across the mouths of any creeks and rivers, back to the commencement point.

 

Button on behalf of the Koa People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 1190

The Koa People are the biological and adopted descendants of one or more of the following people:

(a)    Mary Ann Watson (mother of (at least) Zoe Button nee Watson, Topsy Mitchell, Nancy Chambers nee Watson, George Mitchell, and Valentine Mingo);
(b)    Maria Watson (mother of Tommy Watson, George Watson, and Jack Watson);
(c)    Jack Chermside (father of Jacob Chermside and Charlie Riley);
(d)    Lois Tye/Tie/Tighe;
(e)    Lucy Creed (mother of Maria Miller nee Creed aka Maria Jeffries, Timothy Creed, William ‘Trantum’ Creed, Rosie Creed, and Jack Creed); or
(f)    Minnie Winton.

Some Notes from blogpost of 24 October 2019.

Lucy Creed buried 23. 7.1900 at Winton aged 35 years, born Hughenden
Bernard Smith Creed aged about 10 years, son of an unknown white man and Maria, was baptised at Yarrabah on 12. 2.1905
Mavis Amethyst Creed, daughter of Bernard Smith Creed and May Burnett was born at Yarrabah on 21. 5.1921
Bernard Euston Creed, daughter of Bernard Smith Creed and May Burnett was born at Yarrabah on 13. 2.1924
William John Needham Creed, son of Timothy Creed and Eulie was born at Yarrabah on 10. 7.1925

Valentine Mingo aged 18 years from Kynuna was exempt in 1908

Jacob Chermside, aged 32 years, parents Long Charlie and Maggie Churnside (Chermside) married Mary Jaro at Barambah in 1924
Jacob Chermside and wife Mary and children Sheila, Rachel, Maisey and Charlie were removed from Hawkwood to Cherbourg in 1933
Jacob Chermside, aged 32 years, parents Long Charlie and Maggie Churnside (Chermside) married Mary Jaro at Barambah in 1924
Jacob Chermside and wife Mary and children Sheila, Rachel, Maisey and Charlie were removed from Hawkwood to Cherbourg in 1933
Jack Chermside died 28. 1.1943 aged 87 years at Woorabinda

Lois Tighe was the mother of Mary Solomon who was born at Winton around 1879

Nancy Chambers aged 85 years was buried on 19. 7.1968 at Cherbourg
Livingstone Charles Chambers, son of Charles and Nancy Chambers  was baptised at Yarrabah   on 9. 2.1908

Zoe Button died 10. 4.1948 at Fantome Island aged 66 years, parents Billy and Mary Ann Watson
Zoe Button, aged 55 years, married with six children, Domestic, Residence Cherbourg Settlement, parents Billy Watson and Mary Ann transferred to Fantome Island Lazaret 8. 1.1940 from Peel Island
Zoe Button is mentioned in the The Caroline Tennant-Kelly Ethnographic Collection. Described as an Zoe Button an old woman, intelligent, sternly practises her rule today.

Rockland on behalf of the Waanyi People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 1139

Rockland on behalf of the Waanyi People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 1139

The Native Title Holders are the Waanyi People.

A person is a Waanyi person if and only if:
(a)    the other Waanyi people recognise that he or she is descended (which may include by adoption) from a person who they recognise as having been Waanyi; and

(b)    the person identifies himself or herself as a Waanyi person.
It is accepted that adoption may take place and that where adoption has occurred it confers upon the adoptee the right to identify as being a Waanyi person.

The following deceased persons are recognised as having been Waanyi people from whom living Waanyi people may be descended:
(a)    King George (Gundawarinya), Mary Starr (Namura), Marrandu
(b)    Johnny Rockland (Guyanda)
(c)    Wuragaga (including his sons Toby Daly and Charlie Walden)
(d)    Wirduga (including her sons King Pedro and Fred Mangala), Yurumburinya, Gudurju, Jagijagi (including her children Left-hand Dick, King Darby, Violet Darby), Lagayi, and Brenda Munara (including her children Duncan Hogan, Julie Darby, Dan Darby, Clara Darby, Frank Hogan, Arthur Peterson)
(e)    Jack Riversleigh (including his children Doris Aplin and Vera Johnny, Annie King and Elaine Cairns)
(f)    Diana (Dina) Jackson
(g)    Fred Mangala (including his children Jimmy Doolan, Tommy Doolan, Oscar Gregory and Queenie Bell) and King Pedro (including his children Dinny, Jock and Cubby Pedro)
(h)    Janggali (including his son Yarribija's children: Duncan Hogan, Julie Darby, Dan Darby, Clara Darby, Frank Hogan, Arthur Peterson; and his daughter Muranji's daughters: Jamuyu and Lidi Wayawarrinya)
(i)    King Darby, Left Hand Dick and Violet Darby
(j)    Ruby Lilwayi (including her daughter Elsie Foster), Polly Nganduyu (including her children: Nancy Carlton, Ned George, Sally O'Keefe, Bubi Dick, Netty Malbow and Nuts Logan), May Black Nijirijbina (including her children Nancy Wilson, Nora Black, Dora Doolan nee Black and Archie Black), Ruby Gijaya (including her children Mavis Carlton, Junie Clay, Maurice Carlton, Marina Dick, Mick Miller, Murray Donaldson), and Mailman Dick Gungayamaji (including his child Ivy George Ngayaya)
(k)    Smiler Diamond (including his children: Mick Diamond Nguyjbirri and Jack Diamond Bandangala and Sydney Punjaub and Ruby)
(l)    Mailman Jack Libaninji (including his son Fred Carlton Gajangga, daughter Rosie and her daughter Betty Lloyd Jayinbalina, and son Ned Ngaragulanji and his children Bessie Holt and Colin Holt)
(m)    Rosie (including her daughter Lena Saville)
(n)    June Jacob
(o)    Opal
(p)    Minnie (Myboogundji)

The determination area is set out in the proposed determination. It commences approximately 19 kilometres northwest of Doomadgee in the vicinities of Nicholson River and Cliffdale Creek. The western-most boundary adjoins the Queensland – Northern Territory border. The eastern and south-eastern boundaries adjoin an area of land and waters where the Court recognised the native title of the Waanyi People in a determination made on 9 December 2010: Aplin on behalf of the Waanyi Peoples v State of Queensland (No 3) [2010] FCA 1515 (Dowsett J) (first Waanyi determination).

Kunja People Native Title Authorisation Processes

The claim area is in the region of Cunnamulla, Queensland.

The Kunja People are currently described as the descendants of-

1. Killamunda (including her children Margaret Turner (Granny McKellar), Annie/Nannie Widgell and Jack Brennan)

2. Flora Maranoa

3. Maria Major (including her children Jack Oliffe, Ron Wyman, Walter Wyman and Lila Lynett)

4. Jimmy Nyngan

in accordance with Kunja traditional laws and customs.

One purpose for the meeting is to change Flora Maranoa to Unnamed Mother of Flora Maranoa.

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated September 8, 2021 

Some items of interest -

Correspondence dated 16.11.1940 About removal of Aboriginal Camp from Tinnenburra to Wooroorooka. Mentions at the Tinnenburra Aboriginal Camp -

Jimmy Triple F/B, about 70 years old

Willie Widgell, wife and 5 children

Kelly Been, and wife

Annie Widgell, widow

Manager of Tinnenburra Stn is going to make Willie Widgell King of Tinnenburra. The previous two Kings are dead.

Donald Widgeon died on 2.10.1937 at Cunnamulla Hospital. Aged 19 yrs. Resident of Tinenburra. Parents are Willie Widgell and Annie Widgell

Neddie died 14. 8.1934 at the black's camp, Bollon. Buried Bollon. Aged 80 years. Parents are Major and Jinny. Daughter is Mrs Annie Widgell, wife of Willie Widgell. They have a large family at Tinnenburra.

Clerk of Petty Sessions, Quilpie, Permits for the Employment of Aborigines mentions Jimmy Nyngan, 58 yrs, origin Warrego

Clerk of Petty Sessions, Quilpie Register of Aboriginal Employees mentions Jimmy Nyngan 1921 - 1923, Supposed died Tinnenburra Stn

Jack Oliffe H/C, born c1898 Wyanora or c1894 Claverton Stn or 1896 Claverton, parents Jack Oliffe (white man) and Maria F/B, married Daisy Oliffe H/C

Jack Oliffe, Daisy Oliffe, his wife and children from Cunnamulla removed to Barambah 1928

List of civilised aboriginals between the ages of 18 and 45 years for War Census purposes in Cunnamulla District (c1915-1916) includes Jack Oliffe abode Claverton near Wyandra, occupation General Station Hand

James Lynett and Leila Smith married 4. 3.1922 Cunnamulla Registered 1922/C/208)

See also

Matya Mundu

A History of the Aboriginal people of South-East Queensland

H. McKellar, 1984

Public Notice of Mitakoodi People #5 Native Title Authorisation Meeting

Who may attend the Authorisation Meeting - The Authorisation Meeting is open to all persons in the current Mitakoodi # 5 native title claim group, who:

(1) principally identify as Mitakoodi People and as belonging to the traditional country of their Mitakoodi forebears;

(2) are recognised by other Mitakoodi People as the biological descendants of deceased Mitakoodi People;

(3) are the descendants of the following deceased aboriginal people - 

Minnie

Thomas ‘Tiger’ Mitchell

Dinah

Topsy and 

Sophie 

in accordance with Mitakoodi traditional laws and customs (current Mitakoodi People # 5 claim group).

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated September 8, 2021 

Some items of interest -

Tiger Mitchell F/B, born c1870 Tullawanta Stn, mother Kitty (born c1855-1865 Lorraine Station), wife Polly Mitchell F/B (born c1875-1885 Nebo, Qld), married Palm Island, removed to Palm Island in 1928 from Cloncurry

(NB Tindale - Aged 60 yrs in 1938)

Polly Mitchell F/B, born c1870 Croydon, died 11.10.1941, parents Mungi Mungi F/B and Nellie F/B, removed to Palm Island 1924, husband Tiger Mitchell F/B, married Palm Island

NB Dates vary in different records

Eastern Kuku Yalanji National Parks Land Transfer Indigenous Land Use Agreement

The ILUA Area is located generally between Mossman in the south and Black Mountain in the north, bordered by the Great Dividing Range to the west. Also included are East Hope, West Hope, Snapper and Struck Islands.

Who should attend the ILUA Authorisation Meeting?

• All those who hold or may hold Native Title in the CYU #1 Claim Part;

• All those who hold or may hold Native Title in the Non-Claimed/Determined Part; and

• Eastern Kuku Yalanji People, being the determined Native Title

Holders for the EKY Determination Part as described in the

Federal Court of Australia decision of Walker on behalf of the

Eastern Kuku Yalanji People v State of Queensland (QC2007/002,

QUD6008/1998), being the descendants of:

1. Siblings Wawuyilkinga, Lily Kajakaja, Ulurban, Kurlur, Juwalkji, Jinabaji

2. Kilkil (Gilgil) and Yougie (Emera)

3. Ngamubaralba

4. Jimmy Johnson Snr and his brothers Toby King and Peter King

5. Brothers Billy King, Willie King 1 and Willie King 2

6. Siblings Nambaji, Bijun (Dangara) and Jimmy (Mandilba) Rossville

7. Old Man Jimmy and Sarah

8. Kurukuna and Nellie

9. Bluja King Kunarra and his three wives Ngingkibaji #1 and Ngingkibaji #2, and Baral-Baral

10. Dimbanga and Mara Baril Baril

11. Sisters Mujala and Rosie

12. Brothers Dickie Springvale and Mundy Nunn

13. Jilngarr

14. Burradi and Wawu Dimbi

15. Siblings Jimmy, Polly (Jukura), Nellie (Wuynkul-baka ), Charlie (Junjurr or Munjurr), 

Lily (Jabi or Chubby) Blanket

16. Rosie Gurrmurragudgee

17. Brothers George Doughboy, Toby Bloomfield and Peter Bloomfield (Kalka Jurungu)

18. Brothers Charlie Ball (Dirrakari) and Billy Collins and Davey Douglas and Sandy Peterson

19. Isabella Henderson (Wawu-kuwa)

20. Ginny Bamboo

21. Siblings Archibald (Bauly) Mossman, Jessie Mossman (Bawanya) and Billy Mossman

22. Siblings Jessie Buchanan (Babi Milbija or Narrijinya) and King Charlie Diamond

23. Henry Bloomfield

24. Yangki and Buji

25. Willy Ngamu-Darrba and his two wives Molly Kalumba and Yimaday

26. Kalkamanangu and Duraja

27. Kalkaymba

28. Rosie Maund Jankarji and her husbands Tommy Jinjarrba Lefthand, 

Tommy Ngangkun Johnson (Buchanan), Barney Lunn (Lund), Billie Lunn (Lund) and 

Tommy Jindalman Hide

29. Big Friday Ngamu-Ngulmbay and Ruby

30. Leslie Yerry

31. Brothers King Toby and Old Man Toby (Jinjirrba)

32. Maggie Queen

33. Siblings Miliji, Kalkabinda, Kuruwuja, Peter Smith (Marray-Marray or Murranbi or Jinakulu)

34. Kitty Wulbar (Maymi)

35. Rosie Rosie

36. Brothers Old Man Juwalba (Willie Cross-eye) and Wunbu Cross-eye

37. Jimmy Mossman

38. Wabaji

39. Old Kokoe

40. Charlie Ogilvie and Maggie

41. Old Man Yorkey and Rosie

42. George Mero

43. Old Man Kooka and Maudie

44. Jerry Wotton and Frances Diamond

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated September 8, 2021

Some items of interest -

The political and economic basis of Kuku-Yalanji social history

Jon Christopher Anderson B.A. (Hons.), Dip. Psych. (University of Queensland)

University of Queensland Doctor of Philosophy Thesis  1984

Mentions

The Aboriginal Employment Register for Cooktown (Q.S.A.) gives some examples of Thompson Creek men and their jobs. (The primary estate affiliation of the men is shown in brackets.):

Henry Bloomfield of Bloomfield [Buruwarra man. Norman Baird's wife's brother]. 31 yrs. Employed from 1/1/27 by E.P. Feinn, mail contractor of Ayton as horseboy. Same for 24/1/28.

Henry Bloomfield employed by Bowden Pearling Co. from 26/6/28. 

Pinky of Bloomfield [Wuialwuialwarra]. 50 yrs. Employed from 24/2/30 by L.J.Neill, mailman as horseboy.

Pinkie of Bloomfield. 45 yrs. Employed from 22/10/27 by E.G. Olufson, farmer of Bloomfield as yardboy.

Willie Burchell of Bloomfield [upper Daintree man]. Employed from 8/2/30 by Arthur Pierce, packer of Bloomfield as horseboy.

Willie Burchell. 12 years. Same for 1931.

Matty Boathoy of Bloomfield [Kangkiiiwarra]. Employed from 8/4/29 by Edward Pitt, fisherman of Bloomfield.

Charlie Ball of Bloomfield [Wuialwuialwarra]. 38 yrs. Employed from 7/2/28 by Bowden Pearling Co.

Johnny Baird of Bloomfield [Buruwarra]. Employed from 31/1/28 by Bowden Pearling Co.

Charlie Ogilvie of Bloomfield [upper Daintree man]. 56 years. Employed from 18/1/26 by E.Feinn, mail contractor of Ayton as horseboy. Same for 3/4/28 and 1/1/29.

Charlie Ogilvie employed from 12/3/27 by Thomas Pierce, farmer of Bloomfield.

Johnny Ogilvie of Bloomfield [son of Charlie]. Employed from  20/2/29 by Th. Pierce, miner of  Bloomfield.

The Aboriginal Employment Register (Cooktown) confirms that Banabila men were on the boats in the 1920s and 30s, although the records are scanty. This may mean the record is incomplete or that very few out of the total number who worked on boats actually signed on:

Alec Olbar [Wulbar's son]. Employed from 21/1/29 by Bowden Pearling Co. 50/month. Same for 1928 and 1930.

Jimmy Kerry [ditto] . Employed from 14/2/28 by Bowden Pearling Co. 50/month.

Billy Mapoon [ditto] . Employed from 24/1/28 by Wyben Pearling Co. 55/month.

Oscar Olbar [ditto] . Employed from 24/1/28 by Wyben Pearling Co. 55/month.

Other jalunii men who sometimes camped at Banabila and who worked on boats were:

Corporal Medium [Julkurwarra]. Employed from 24/1/28 by Bowden Pearling Co. of Thursday Is.

George Doughboy [Kangkiiiwarra]. Employed from 21/1/29 by Horey & Co.

Georgie Bamboo [Doughboy's B-S]. Employed from 21/1/29 by Bowden Pearling Co. Same in 1928.

Warrgamay People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 977

Warrgamay People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 977 here .

The claim area is north west of Townsville and centred on Abergowrie.

The Warrgamay People are the biological and adopted (in accordance with traditional law and custom) descendants of the following people:

(a)    John Tooth (father of Beryl Tooth and others);

(b)    Maggie (mother of Cocky, also known as Cockie, and Manala, and grandmother of Lambert Cocky);

(c)    Annie Tim (mother of Kathleen Saunders, Agnes Cooktown and others);

(d)    Elsie Barnes (mother of William Morganson and others);

(e)    Harry Ingham and Jinnie (or Jennie and Jeannie) (parents of Mark also known as Sam Smith, Laura Jackson and others);

(f)    Bien (father of Peter, Esau and Annie);

(g)    Kitty (mother of Alice Wye, Ivy Wyles and Nora Boyd);

(h)    Rosie (mother of Charlie Choolburra and others);

(i)    Lizzie (mother of Maggie and Albert Blackman);

(j)    Christina Kinch (mother of Melba Devow and others);

(k)    Kitty Shepherd (mother of George Shepherd and Florence Shepherd);

(l)    Annie and Alec (parents of Laura Ambrym);

(m)    Billy King (father of Bridget who was wife of Esau); or

(n)    Adelaide Kingsburra (mother of Marjorie Sunna and others).

Woppaburra People (QUD 16/2019) Native Title Meeting

Woppaburra People (QUD 16/2019) Native Title Authorisation Meeting and Information Session

The claim area comprises the Keppel and other islands east of Yeppoon and Emu Park, Queensland

The Woppaburra People native title claim group is described as the descendants of the following apical ancestors:
1. Yulowa “Weerobilling”
2. Nellie “Ooroong-ooran”
3. Oyster Maggie
4. Fanny Lohse/Singh

Appeared in the Koori Mail of August 11, 2021

Some items of interest.

Native Housing, Hervey Bay
Letter dated 5. 9.1962 lists some families at Hervey Bay includes
Frederick Ross, 77 yrs, born Emu Park, father white, mother Fanny Lohse (Aborigine)
Maidie Ross, wife, 67 yrs, father Garry Owen (Black Tracker at Woodford), mother Jenny Bowman (European)
Albert Ross, son, 32 yrs, single
Garry Ross, grandson, 13 yrs, son of daughter Joyce Smith, wife of Ronald Smith (white man),
Douglas Curry, grandson, 15 yrs, son of daughter Audrey Curry, wife of Frank Curry H/C

Myths and Non-Myths: Frontier ‘Massacres’ in Australian History — The Woppaburra of the Keppel Islands
Michael Rowland
Journal of Australian Studies Vol 28, Iss 81, 2004
(Available here )

Durundur Correspondence 1902 - 1904
Lourie, Native Name not given, male aged 61y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Goobooroo
Albert , Native Name Monquarran , male aged 16y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Goobooroo
Freddy , Native Name not given, male aged 12y, Native of Keppel Island, Class Woongoo
Mary Ann , Native Name not given, female aged 27y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Bunburri
Annie , Native Name Alkirran , female aged 32y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Bunburri
Nellie , Native Name not given, female aged 34y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Bunburri
Conomie , Native Name Conomie , female aged 17y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Woongoo
Annie Lucas , Native Name not given, female aged 1y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Goobooroo
Lula , Native Name Lula , female aged 14y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Woongoo
Paddy , Native Name not given, male aged 25y, Native of Keppel Island, Class Goobooroo
Old Woman , Native Name not given, female aged 63y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Bunburri
May , Native Name not given, female aged 5y, Native of Keppel Is, Class Goobooroo

Jessie Stanley H/C of Yarrabah, born c1893 North keppel Island, parents Charles Ron (white man) Maggie F/B, husband Luke Stanley H/C (deceased)

Nellie Level of Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, aged 48 yrs, born Keppel Island, Queensland married Dick Moffitt in 1916 at Barambah

Some items of interest

The following publication is available as a paperback and ebook.
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate
Peter Sutton, Keryn Walshe
Melbourne University Press 2021

"An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led to believe because it resembled more closely the farming communities of Europe. In Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe ask why Australians have been so receptive to the notion that farming represents an advance from hunting and gathering. Drawing on the knowledge of Aboriginal elders, previously not included within this discussion, and decades of anthropological scholarship, Sutton and Walshe provide extensive evidence to support their argument that classical Aboriginal society was a hunter-gatherer society and as sophisticated as the traditional European farming methods. Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? asks Australians to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal society and culture."

Three further articles of interest are

Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland
Michael C Westaway et al 
Antiquity 2021 available here .

"Ethnohistoric accounts indicate that the people of Australia's Channel Country engaged in activities rarely recorded elsewhere on the continent, including food storage, aquaculture and possible cultivation, yet there has been little archaeological fieldwork to verify these accounts. Here, the authors report on a collaborative research project initiated by the Mithaka people addressing this lack of archaeological investigation. The results show that Mithaka Country has a substantial and diverse archaeological record, including numerous large stone quarries, multiple ritual structures and substantial dwellings. Our archaeological research revealed unknown aspects, such as the scale of Mithaka quarrying, which could stimulate re-evaluation of Aboriginal socio-economic systems in parts of ancient Australia."

Using satellite imagery to evaluate precontact Aboriginal foraging habitats in the Australian Western Desert
W. Boone Law, Peter Hiscock, Bertram Ostendorf & Megan Lewis
Scientific Reports volume 11, 2021 available here .

"Modern satellite imaging offers radical new insights of the challenges and opportunities confronting traditional Aboriginal ecology and land use in Australia’s Western Desert. We model the likely dynamics of historic and precontact desert land use using Earth observation data to identify the distribution of suitable foraging habitats. Suitability was modelled for an ideal environmental scenario, based on satellite observations of maximal water abundance, vegetation greenness, and terrain ruggedness. Our model shows that the highest-ranked foraging habitats do not align with land systems or bioregions that have been used in previous reconstructions of Australian prehistory. We identify impoverished desert areas where unsuitable foraging conditions have likely persisted since early in the last glacial cycle, and in which occupation would always have been rare. These findings lead us to reconsider past patterns of land use and the predicted archaeological signature of earlier desert peoples."

When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?

James F. O’Connell, Jim Allen, Martin A. J. Williams, Alan N. Williams, Chris S. M. Turney, Nigel A. Spooner, Johan Kamminga, Graham Brown, and Alan Cooper

PNAS August 21, 2018 115 (34) 8482-8490 available here .

"Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens, AMH) began spreading across Eurasia from Africa and adjacent Southwest Asia about 50,000–55,000 years ago (ca. 50–55 ka). Some have argued that human genetic, fossil, and archaeological data indicate one or more prior dispersals, possibly as early as 120 ka. A recently reported age estimate of 65 ka for Madjedbebe, an archaeological site in northern Sahul (Pleistocene Australia–New Guinea), if correct, offers what might be the strongest support yet presented for a pre–55-ka African AMH exodus. We review evidence for AMH arrival on an arc spanning South China through Sahul and then evaluate data from Madjedbebe. We find that an age estimate of >50 ka for this site is unlikely to be valid. While AMH may have moved far beyond Africa well before 50–55 ka, data from the region of interest offered in support of this idea are not compelling."

"A World That Was" by Ronald M & Catherine H Berndt

The following book is available as an ebook to download free from Melbourne University Press.

A World That Was - The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia

Ronald M Berndt & Catherine H Berndt

Melbourne University Press  ebook 2018 (Original published 1993)

Appendix 5 contains

Genealogical tables with keys

Tables 7–14: from the perspective of Karloan

Tables 15–20: from the perspective of Pinkie Mack

The MUP website states

"This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia.

In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged a young ethnologist, Ronald Berndt, to set up camp at Murray Bridge and to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on the story to future generations.

For Ronald and Catherine Berndt, this was their first fieldwork together in an illustrious joint career of almost fifty years. During long periods, principally until 1943, they laboured with pencil and paper to put it all down-a far cry from the recording techniques of today's oral historians. Their fieldnotes were worked into a rough draft of what would become, but not until recently, the finished manuscript.

The book's range is encyclopaedic and engrossing-sometimes dramatic. It encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths, and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Not least, it is a record of the dramatic changes following European colonization.

A World That Was is a unique contribution to Australia's cultural history. There is simply no comparable body of work, not is there ever likely to be."

Extract from Patrol Report by W MacDougall in 1961

Extract From National Archives of Australia, Reference A6456 R136/008
Report on Patrol 25th September to 17th November by W MacDougall

Giles
Thirty natives were camped approximately half a mile from the Station. These were waiting for a Patrol Officer as they had dingo scalps to trade. They also wanted information re a young lubra, Molly, who had been removed from the Station to Musgrave Parm by Frank Quinn under instruction from the OIC of the camp as advised by wireless from Woomera. (Story Appendix A).

APPENDIX A

History
Molly is an ex Warburton Ranges Mission School girl. She was not satisfied as the second wife of David at the Mission. This dissatisfaction produced behaviour that caused considerable trouble to the community. Because of this her parents arranged for her to be the first wife of Tiger, who was to keep her well away from the Mission until she settled down.

Trouble at Giles
Molly was lazy in her duties. For the sake of discipline in general and because of the lack of firewood in particular, Tiger speared her in the buttock. Molly left the camp in a hurry, presumably to gather more firewood. As she did not return, Tiger and some others followed her tracks which led to the Giles camp where she had taken refuge.
Molly told the OIC that she was in fear for her life and the attitudes of the natives surrounding the camp seemed to support her fears.

Action taken at that time
OIC Giles asked for advice by wireless. For obvious reasons we could not refuse protection. In the absence of the Commissioner of Native Welfare, WA, Mr Anderson, second in charge, approved and authorised the removal of Molly to Musgrave Park. Mr Anderson stated that he would explain the situation to the District Officer Kalgoolie who would arrange for the trouble to be investigated and settled. No Western Australian Officer visited Giles or spoke to any of the natives concerned, and it is therefore presumed they cannot know of this particular upset.

Situation at Musgrave Park
The presence of a young unattached female with no official interest apparent, inevitably caused trouble at Musgrave Park. This was overcome by alloting Molly to another man, Tjipikuta.
On my arrival Molly expressed fear of Tiger and reasonable satisfaction with the new arrangement.

Situation at Giles
I conveyed the news to Tiger at Giles. He was naturally upset and wanted to go to Musgrave Park to recover his wife. This was frowned upon by the District Welfare Officer, Kalgoolie, so on a dingo trading run I took two delegates from Giles to Musgrave Park. At an around-a-tree conference comprised of all those concerned, it was decided that Tjipikuta had an even better claim to Molly than Tiger, and that in view of all the circumstances, this arrangement was the best. Tiger does not agree to this and is perplexed at white man interference which has deprived him of a wife. He accepts the fact that the Giles personnel acted in good faith, but cannot understand why they will not return the woman.
All this could have been avoided if an investigation had been made within a reasonable time of Molly's transfer to Musgrave Park.
Tiger is not likely to take any further action, but he is left with the problem of securing another wife.

Full report here .

Yuwaalaraay/Euahlayi People Native Yitle Meeting

Yuwaalaraay/Euahlayi People (QUD32/2017) Native Yitle Authorisation Meetings

The Claim area is roughly south of St George and centred on Dirranbandi and Hebel.

The Yuwaalaraay / Euahlayi People native title claim group is currently described as the descendants of the following ancestors:
1. Billy Bloomfield
2. Ned Combo and Jane Sands
3. Sarah Forester
4. Clara [Foster/Murray/Ward]
5. Kitty Hibbett
6. Peter Hippi alt. Hippi Peters
7. Ellen Leonard
8. Susannah McCauley
9. Eliza McCrae
10. Albert Murray father of Dolly McPherson
11. Biddigae (Biddy) Murray [Hall]
12. Lucy ‘Sookie’ Murray
13. Mary Murray [Dancey]
14. Mary Murray [Orchard]
15. Thomas Murray and Kitty Bootha parents of Katie Murray [Butler] and Jenny Murray [Rose]
16. Biddy Martha mother of Harry Rose
17. John ‘Jack’ Simpson
18. Ada Russell/Murdock/Murray/Bloomfield
19. Fanny White [Murray]
20. Jimmy Inch and Kitty

The purpose of Authorisation Meeting #1 is to:
1. CONSIDER anthropological and legal advice about proposed amendments to the native title claim group description for the Native Title Claim; and
2. Subject to #1 above, AUTHORISE amendment of the Native Title Claim by replacing all of the wording at Schedule A to the native title application Form 1 (the description of the native title claim group) with the following wording:

The Yuwaalaraay/Euahlayi People are the descendants of the following ancestors:

1. Billy Bloomfield
2. Ned Combo and Jane Sands
3. Jennie of Bangate
4. Clara Murray/Billie/Foster and Bangate Charlie (Charlie Wilson)
5. Kitty Hibbett
6. Peter Hippi (Hippi Peters) and Lady Hippi
7. Ellen Leonard
8. Susannah McCauley
9. Eliza McCrae
10. Albert Murray father of Dolly McPherson
11. Biddigae (Biddy) Murray [Hall]
12. Lucy ‘Sookie’ Murray
13. Mary Murray [Dancey]
14. Mary Murray [Orchard]
15. Thomas Murray and Kitty Bootha, parents of Katie Murray [Butler] and Jenny Murray [Rose]
16. Biddy Martha mother of Harry Rose
17. John ‘Jack’ Simpson
18. Ada Russell/Murdock/Murray/Bloomfield
19. Fanny White
20. Fanny Cubby
21. Jenny Murray (Horne)
22. Albert Sharpley
23. Lucy Brandy
24. Kitty Thunderbolt, mother of Arthur and Jimmy Dixon and Peter Hill
25. Alice Brandy, the mother of Arthur Dodd
26. Eliza Buguthar Brandy
27. George Bullaman

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated May 19, 2021.

Some odds and Ends

Refer also to the following Federal Court of Australia determination -

Knox on behalf of the Yuwaalaraay/Euahlayi People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 1440 here .

John Bishop of Currawillinghi, Bachelor, aged 46 yrs, born Melton Mowbray, parents William Bishop and Mary Healey married Susannah McCauley of Currawillinghi, Spinster, aged 28 yrs, born Woolerina Stn, Qld, parents John McCauley (white) and Biddy on 20. 5.1907 New Angledool, NSW

Kate Bloomfield of Angledool, parents Billy and Ada Bloomfield of Angledool , married Jack Sands 2 August 1931 (registered New Angledool 6389/1931).

Annie Hibbett was removed from Hebel to Taroom in 1914.

Alfred Bullaman Alfred, father George Bullaman, residence Angledool

See also Memory and History at Angledool New South Wales by Marisa Menin (Sub-thesis as partial requirement for the degree of Master of Letters at the Australian National University March 1996. Extracts here .

See also Brewarrina Shire - Community-based Aboriginal Heritage Study, Part 2, Laila Haglund 2012

A patrol report of South eastern Queensland lists for Hebel an Albert Sharpley aged 63 yrs, Widower

Werai Lands IULA

The claim area is roughly west of Deniliquin and north of Wakool, New South Wales.

The Werai Traditional Owners are currently proposed to comprise:
(a) each and every person who:
(i) identifies as a Wemba Wemba / Wamba Wamba person or a Barapa Barapa/Perepa Perepa person; and
(ii) is accepted as a Wemba Wemba / Wamba Wamba person or a Barapa Barapa/Perepa Perepa person by Wemba Wemba / Wamba Wamba people or Barapa Barapa / Perepa Perepa people in accordance with their traditional laws and customs; and
(iii) is a descendant of one or more of the following apical ancestors:
(a) Yanga Louisa (born 1828, Yanga)
(b) John BRIGHT (born at Tubbo)
(c) George William CHARLES (born 1851, Goulburn River)
(d) John Andrew CHARLES (born at Bacchus Marsh)
(e) Richard Thomas CLAYTON (born 1863)
(f) Albert COLGER (born 1846, Cobram)
(g) William DAY (born 1854, Deniliquin)
(h) Henry EDWARDS (born at Moulamein)
(i) Edward FIREBRACE (born 1855, New South Wales)
(j) Johanna GARDINER (born 1851, Kerang)
(k) Isabella GREEN (born 1869, Stanhope)
(l) Geramy HARRY (born 1854, Balranald)
(m) John INGRAM (born 1871, Swan Hill)
(n) Oswald INGRAM (born 1863, Mellool)
(o) Sarah INGRAM (born 1851, Niemur)
(p) William INGRAM (born 1868, Barham)
(q) King Thomas IVANHOE (born 1825, Balranald)
(r) Jeremiah KIRBY (born 1842, Toorong)
(s) Kitty LEWIS (born 1829)
(t) Alexander MCCOY (born at Warbreccan)
(u) Ada MCGRADIE (born 1867, Deniliquin)
(v) Jane MURPHY
(w) William MURRAY (born at Conargo)
(x) Annie TAYLOR (born at Toganmain)
(y) David TAYLOR (born 1859)
(z) Robert TAYLOR (born 1850 Barham)
(aa) Clara WALTERS (born at Oxley)
(bb) Sabina WISE (born 1859, Balranald)
and
(b) each and every other person who:
(i) identifies as a Wemba Wemba / Wamba Wamba person or a Barapa Barapa/Perepa Perepa person; and
(ii) is accepted as a Wemba Wemba / Wamba Wamba person or a Barapa Barapa/Perepa Perepa person by Wemba Wemba / Wamba Wamba people or Barapa Barapa / Perepa Perepa people in accordance with their traditional laws and customs.

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated May 5, 2021

The Wakka Wakka People #3 and the Wakka Wakka People #4 native title Meeting

The Wakka Wakka People are the Aboriginal people who have a connection to the application area in accordance with their traditional laws acknowledged and traditional customs observed and are descendants of one or more of the following ancestors:

1. Jenny and David Carlo (parents of Princess Carlo)
2. Minnie Bly (mother of Thomas Simpson), Ethel and Bill Button
3. Mother of Maggie Hart (Grandmother of Crabbie Chapman and Henry Hart)
4. Mother of Willie Boy Pickering
5. King Billy and Maria of Boondooma (parents of Tommy Dodd of Taabinga)
6. Maggie West
7. Kitty of Boonara
8. MiMi
9. Kitty (mother of Jack Bulong)
10. John Bond
11. Kitty (mother of Jenny Lind), Jenny Lind and Mick Buck
12. Boubijan Cobbo
13. Stockman Bligh and Aggie Bligh
14. Tommy (aka Boondoon) and Maggie (parents of Willie Bone), Billy McKenzie (father of Chlorine McKenzie), Chlorine McKenzie
15. Kate/Katie/Kitty Law
16. Emily of Degilbo, mother of Annie
17. Taabinga Harry
18. Nellie, mother of Elsie Fitzgerald / Edwards

The purpose of Authorisation Meeting #1 is to AUTHORISE amendments to each of the Wakka Wakka People #3 and Wakka Wakka People #4 native title claims (‘the Native Title Claims') replacing all of the wording at Schedules A to the native title application Forms 1 (the description of the native title claim group) for each native title claim with the following wording:

The native title claim group is made up of families whose members identify as Wakka Wakka, in accordance with traditional laws acknowledged and traditional customs observed by them. Membership is based on the principle of cognatic descent (i.e. descent traced through either mother or father).

This application is brought on behalf Aboriginal people whose members identify as Wakka Wakka People, who are descended from the following ancestors:
1. Jenny and David Carlo (parents of Princess Carlo)
2. Minnie Bly (mother of Thomas Simpson), Ethel and Bill Button
3. Mother of Maggie Hart (Grandmother of Crabbie Chapman and Henry Hart)
4. Mother of Willie Boy Pickering
5. King Billy and Maria of Boondooma (parents of Tommy Dodd of Taabinga)
6. Maggie West
7. Kitty of Boonara
8. MiMi
9. Kitty (mother of Jack Bulong)
10. John Bond
11. Kitty (mother of Jenny Lind), Jenny Lind and Mick Buck
12. Boubijan Cobbo
14. Tommy (aka Boondoon) and Maggie (parents of Willie Bone), Billy McKenzie (father of Chlorine McKenzie), Chlorine McKenzie
15. Kate/Katie/Kitty Law
16. Emily of Degilbo, mother of Annie
17. Taabinga Harry

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated May 5, 2021

Barkandji and Malyangapa People Native Title Holders Meetings

Barkandji and Malyangapa People Native Title Holders Meetings Proposed Indigenous Land Use Agreements
1. Buronga Sandwash ILUA
2. White Cliffs dugouts and other terminated licences ILUA
3. Buronga Sandwash ILUA

In accordance with the Federal Court of Australia’s determination of native title in Barkandji Traditional Owners #8 determination (Part A), native title in the area covered by the ILUA is held by the Barkandji and Malyangapa People who are all the descendants of the following apical ancestors:

1) Manfred Mary/Mary Johnson/ Mary Brodie
2) Manfred Tommy
3) Louisa Brown
4) Cuthero Jack Brown
5) Susan/Annie Webster
6) Bill Webster
7) Harry Whyman
8) Kate Whyman
9) Louisa McLean
10) Alec McLean
11) Nganya
12) Sarah Cabbage
13) Harry Mitchell
14) Daniel McGregor
15) Lucy Benson
16) Jack “Doctor” Benson
17) Crancey
18) Jack Tyler
19) Taylor Matjulum Gibson
20) Tottie Gibson
21) Kutyi
22) Cate Newton/Maggie Tyler
23) Albert Bates
24) Fanny Bates
25) Yancannia Kitty
26) Judy Quayle
27) Nancy Watts
28) Topsie Crowe
29) Alec Bridge
30) Olive Barton
31) Margaret Payne
32) Kitty Knight
33) Jacky Knight
34) Matilda Murray
35) Paddy Black
36) Hero Black
37) Tall Boy Keegan
38) Kitty Keegan
39) Fanny Buugali Williams

and persons adopted into the families of those persons who identify as, and are accepted as, members of the Barkandji and Malyangapa People in accordance with Barkandji and Malyangapa traditional laws and customs (and the biological descendants of any such adopted persons).
Barkandji and Malyangapa People Native Title Holders Meetings

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated April 21, 2021

Some Notes

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage of the Menindee Lakes Area
Part 1 Aboriginal Ties to the Land
(A Report to the Menindee Lakes Ecologically Sustainable Development Project Steering Committee)
Sarah Martin

Humpy, House and Tin Shed
Aboriginal Settlement History on the Darling River
Paul Memmott
Published I B Fell Research Centre, University of Sydney, 1991

Menindee Mission Station 1933 – 1949 and Carowra Tank Aboriginal School
Compiled and Edited by Beverley and Don Elphick Canberra January 2000

NNTT Uwynmil ML(A) 32327 and ML(A) 32328 Claim (N.T.)

NNTT Uwynmil ML(A) 32327 and ML(A) 32328 Claim (N.T.)

Tribunal file no.: DC2020/006
Federal Court file no.: NTD26/2020
Application name: Uwynmil ML(A) 32327 and ML(A) 32328 Claim
State or Territory: Northern Territory;
Local government area(s): Un-Incorporated (Marrakai-Douglas Daly) Area
Date filed: 21/12/2020
Date claim entered on Register: 05/02/2021

Extract here .
Boundary Description here .

The claim is a small area between the Litchfield National Park and the Kakadu National Park.

The Uwynmil group comprise a restricted cognatic group which traces descent from the following apical ancestor; Alangurradj.

The apical ancestor referred to above is more particularly identified as follows; Alangurradj was an Aboriginal person whose children included Neddy Tambling (Walaparnda/ Walpungiti).

The Other Native Title Holders are other Aboriginal persons who, in accordance with the Primary Native Title Holders' traditional laws and customs, have rights and interests in respect of the application area, subject to the rights and interests of the Primary Native Title Holders.

The Other Native Title Holders are:
(a) Members of the neighbouring native title holding groups or estate groups; and
(b) Spouses of the Primary Native Title Holders.

Some Odds and Ends

Northern Standard (Darwin, NT) Friday 24 Aug 1951
The death occurred on August 7 at Humpty Doo Station of Neddy Tambling well known manager of the station, at the age of about 60. Tambling has been in charge of the station for many years and was widely known and respected among the station folk. In deference to his wishes and those of his employers the coroner consented to his burial at Humpty Doo where he spent so much of his life. The funeral was conducted on August 9.

We All Bin Mix Together - a Study of the Formation of the Aboriginal Community at Humpty Doo, N.T., 1980.
David J Ritchie B.A. (Hons) Thesis, La Trobe University
The following families are listed

Neddy Tambling (Walapunditi), wife Bessie (Laniyuk),
children Tom Tambling (Darr Darr), Madeline Tambling and Daisy Tambling

Tom Tambling (Darr Darr), wife Barbara Yates, children Angus Tambling (Uiddie),
Jennifer Tambling (Dadik), Daryll Tambling (Punambul), Valerie Tambling (Punalamatj),
Jason Tambling (Maranda), Stella Tambling (Malurrk)

Andrew Hender, wife Madeline Tambling

Ned Tambling is also mentioned in the Alligator Rivers Stage II Land Claim available here .

NNTT Gurambilbarra Wulgurukaba Mada Claim

NNTT Gurambilbarra Wulgurukaba Mada Claim

Tribunal file no.: QC2020/002
Federal Court file no.: QUD176/2020
Date filed: 05/06/2020
Date claim entered on Register: 14/08/2020

Membership of the Gurambilbarra Wulgurukaba People’s group is in accordance with the traditional laws acknowledged and the traditional customs observed by them and is based upon descent from an acknowledged Gurambilbarra Wulgurukaba antecedent.

The GW Mada Claim Native Title Claim Group is comprised of the biological and adoptive descendants (in accordance with traditional laws and customs) of the following apical ancestors:

Hilda Ambrym
Anne, mother of Peter Hegarty
Emily Underwood
Jimmy White

Extract available here.
Map available here.
Boundary description available here.

Some Odds and Ends

Ada Underwood (Choikee), born c1885, parents James Underwood (white man) and Emily, husband Neddie Choikee F/B (legally married)

List of Aborigines to be removed from Ayr to Barambah in 1911 listed as follows Peter Hegarty and gin, Jenny and 6 H/C children,Frank Fisher and gin, Rosie and 4 H/C children, Fred Weeds and gin, Jemima, Harry and his gin Fanny, Raymond Duncan and his H/C gin Mary & child, Johnny Ryan and gin, Maudie, Tommy Maryboro, Wondai (25)

Cherbourg genealogical sheet gives the following information
Peter Hegarty (parents William Gala (Malayan) and Annie), born 1878 Townsville, died 4. 3.1957 married Jenny Ross, deceased 27.10.1931 at Cherbourg.

Jangga People #3 and State of Queensland (QUD296/2020)

Jangga People #3 and State of Queensland (QUD296/2020)

The native title claim group is the Jangga People.

Federal Court number: QUD296/2020
NNTT number: QC2020/004
Date application filed: 21/09/2020
Date claim entered on Register: 04/11/2020

Register is available here .
Boundary description is available here .

The Jangga People are persons who are descendants of one or more of the following apical ancestors:

Charlie Tiers
Dick Hegarty, also known as Dinduk
Pompey Earl
Mick Havilah (also known as Mick Cotherstone) or his brother Johnny Havilah
Albert Twist
Dick Cook and his wife/partner Lilly Cook
Charlie Pinkipie and his wife/partner Judy Pinkipie
Billy (also known as King Billy) and his wife/partner Clara (also known as Queen Clara)

The claim area is north west of Emerald and has the Belyando river running through it.

Some Notes

Protector of Aborigines, Nebo, Memos and Circulars 1935 - 1938
12. 9.1936 Lily Cook to take up residence on Croydon Stn, St Lawrence Protectorate, with her son Pincher Cook.

Charlie Pinkie Pie C-38 F/B, born c1863 Yacamunda Stn, parents Jim Remmis and Lizzie, spouse Judy

Mick Havilah, born c1867 Bowen River, parents Willie and Polly, wife Rosie

Wages Register Nebo
Rosie Havilah Folio 78 Dates 1925-1941
(Wife of Neddy (dec), now wife of Mick Havilah)
(Cousin Lenny (dec) of Collinsville 1939, A/C to Rosie)
(Tommy Thorning (dec) 1941, A/C to Rosie)

Jean Earls, born c1914 Bowen, parents Pompey Earl and Bella

Protector of Aboriginals, Nebo
24. 9.1932 Old aboriginal Dick No. 2 (also known as Dick Hegarty) died in Collinsville Hospital
on 24. 8.1932. He has two daughters in the Nebo District, namely Eliza Iffley, wife of Tommy Iffley,
now at Byerwen and Kate at Suttor Creek.

Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka Native Title Meeting

Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka Native Title Meeting

The meeting, amongst other things, is "to authorise the native title determination application (the authorisation meeting) over the two areas depicted on the map denoted as YY Claim #3, and at the time and location set out, below." These areas appear, from the map in the advertisement to be in Queensland.

Under the traditional laws and customs of the Yandruwandha and Yawarrawarrka People, the Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka Native Title Holders are those living Aboriginal people who identify as, and are recognised by other Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka Native Title Holders as Yandruwandha or Yawarrawarrka (or both), because:

(a) he or she is biologically descended from one or more of the

following Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka apical ancestors:

Annie (born at Cordillo Downs), mother of Archie Guttie;
Clara Nirrpinni, mother of Frank Booth and Alice Miller (nee Booth);
Cora the mother of Bob Parker and Nellie Parker;
The parents of Flash Ted Bikehandle and Flash Tommy;
Kimi (born at Innamincka) and his wife;
Maramundu Jack “The Ripper” Parker;
Caroline (born at Cordillo Downs) the mother of Mary Stafford (nee Moore), Jack Moore, Charlie Moore, female twins (Winifred and Freida) and Albert Moore;
Brothers Walter Harris(on) and Dick Harrison;
The parents of Lilly (whose married name is Parker) and her sister Kathlene (whose married name is George);
Annie and her husband, who are the parents of Coongie Maggie (born at Coongie Lakes in South Australia);
The parents of the sibling set – Billy Parker, Jessy Parker, Peter “Petekin” Parker, and Paddy Parker;
The parents of sibling set – Merty George and Merty Johnny and Merty Mick;
Larriken Mick.

or he or she is biologically descended from such other ancestor who is acknowledged by the Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka Native Title Holders as a Yandruwandha or Yawarrawarrka apical ancestor.

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated February 24, 2021

Some Odds and Ends

Innamincka Words - Yandruwandha dictionary and stories (here)
compiled by Gavan Breen
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

Wallace on behalf of the Boonthamurra People v State of Queensland [2014] FCA 901 (here)

Frank Booth, born c1899 Innaminka, parents Jim Booth and Clara Booth, first wife Janey (deceased), second wife Florrie Tomahawk.
Florence Tomahawk and Frank Booth married at Woorabinda 4.11.1933

Githabul People Native Title Authorisation Meeting

Githabul People Native Title Authorisation Meeting

Descendants of the following Old People:
(who are the Old People describing the native title holding group as determined in Trevor Close on behalf of the Githabul People v Minister for Lands (NSD6019/1998))

Yagoi
Billy Williams
Doctor or Billy Williams
Julia Charles
Hughie Williams
Mary Williams
Elizabeth Williams
Lily Williams
Elsa/Eileen Williams
Euston Williams
Jimmy Sambo
Dan Sambo
Emily Sambo
Margaret Sambo
Jean Sambo
Timegar Sambo
Jerry Wagner
Alec Bond
Rene Bond
Anne Hippine
Lily Harrison
Dillon Harrison
Elizabeth Sutherland
Arthur Bundock
Fred Yarrie
Margaret Yarrie
Sam Yarrie
Bob Yarrie
Syd Yarrie
Kitty
Billy McBride
Elizabeth McBride
Gergan Williams
Minnie Williams
Clara Williams
Girlille
Lena Weekly
Emily Weekly
John Devan
Dolly Devan
Tom Close
Nellie Devine
Roy Close
Violet Cliff
Sarah Kenny
Lizzy Andrew
Digger Marine or Mareen
Bill Williams
Nellie Williams
Alice Williams
Arthur Williams
Faraway Hart
Tommy Boyd
Roger Boyd
Bill Hill Snr
King Edward Derry
Billy King Snr
Bill Brown
Tommy Kenny


The proposed Githabul application area is wholly within Queensland and falls within the Upper Condamine River Catchment area, extending in the south from the Queensland / New South Wales border, north almost to Clifton, in the East from the Great Dividing Range and to the Herries Range in the West. The application area includes the towns of Warwick, Allora and Killarney. The area proposed to be claimed in the Githabul People Application is adjacent to the Githabul determination area in NSW.

Some Odds and Ends

Aspects of Aboriginal Station management (Woodenbong, NSW)
R. G. Hausfield, 1960
M.A. Thesis, University of Sydney
Appendix III, A Sample Genealogical Table (here)

Wangkamahdla People Native Title Authorisation Meetings

Wangkamahdla People (QUD52/2016) Native Title Authorisation Meetings

The Wangkamahdla People have made a claimant application to the Federal Court of Australia seeking recognition of their native title rights and interests under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). The claim is Wangkamahdla People (QUD52/2016) (‘the Native Title Claim’). Location is South western Queensland adjacent to the Northern Territory border.

The Wangkamahdla People native title claim group is described as the descendants of the following people:

Rainmaker, the father of Joe Rose and Kwetyaneke;
Belia Toby, the father of Billy Butler, Johnny Belia and Ivy (Mutchee) Belia;
Charlie Deemera, the father of Paddy Deemera;
Puppa, the mother of Annie Topsy Hansen (nee Daley);
Toby Roxborough;
Billy (Yummpibilly) Brady, the father of Bessie Brady;
King Peter, the father of Biddy Dinger, Les and Billy Jenkins, Ethel and Donnelly Britcher;
George Quartpot, the father of Tony, Patricia, Kerry, Gladys, Maria and Patrick Quartpot;
Jackie Beauchamp, the father of Paddy Beauchamp and social father of George Quartpot, and Jackie Beauchamp’s brother Aldie;
Dolly of Glenormiston, the mother of Ruby Lyon, Dinger, Peter Western, Lion and Tiger;
Molly, the mother of Judy Sailor and Arthur (Poddy) Daley Jnr;
Polly Docherty, the mother of Jack (Snapshot) Hansen and Bergin Smith;
Dolly, the sister to Polly Docherty and the mother of Charlie Trotman and Jack O’Donnell;
Topsy (also known as Bonny), the mother of James Roxborough Craigie and George Craigie;
Bunny, the mother of Joe, Dora, Peter and Jack Craigie, Dinah Aplin and Donald Bedourie;
Jinny Toby, the mother of George and Fred Age, Queen Ida Toby and Lily Clayton;
Tommy Ferguson, the father of Betty Major;
Kitty Bedourie, the mother of Bessie and Jessie Bedourie, Donald Dee and Emily Denny;
Mother of Turukalanima, Turukalanima was the mother of Norah Jacks, Ivy Nardoo and Monty Cameron;
Lizzie (Wiriwaltu) Green, the mother of Jubilee Page;
Jimmy Mantandi, the father of Clara (Indjiniga) Naylon
Alice (Wiyekari), the mother of Mary and Daisy Craigie.


Appeared in the Koori Mail dated February 24, 2021

Some Notes

Oodnadatta Genealogies by Jen Gibson 1988
Clara (Indjiniga) Naylon, father Jimmy (Arbilindiga) Naylon, mother Elizabeth (Garatjari, Aranda), spouse Johnny (Njambiga) Reece
Jimmy (Arbilindiga) Naylon, father Yungili, mothjer Bugagaguna, spouse Elizabeth (Garatjari, Aranda)
Elizabeth (Garatjari, Aranda), born c1888, died 1950, spouse Jimmy (Arbilindiga) Naylon

Demera, born c1880 at Tobermorey Stn, N.T., parents Toby and Mary Ann, wife Ida, children Vera (born c1922, married to Jubilee Page) and Paddy (born c1924)

Judy Sailor H/C, born c1905 Boulia / c1909 Glen Ormiston, parents Arthur Daly and Molly Daly, husband Sela Sailor, married Palm Island 1937