Thursday 25 February 2021

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)

9 comments:

  1. Who are Faraway Hart's descendants?

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    1. The following names appear on Tindale genealogical sheet Woodenbong 19

      I dont know what the relationships are.

      HART, Faraway
      HART, Florrie
      HART, Jennie
      HART, Louisa
      KING, Dorothy
      KING, Florrie
      KING, Frank (white)
      KING, Tony
      LUKE, Tilly
      WEBB, Bob
      WEBB, Dorothy
      WEBB, Susie
      WILLIAMS, Billy
      WILLIAMS, Dorothy
      WILLIAMS, Louisa
      WILLIAMS, Lovornia
      WILLIAMS, Molly
      WILLIAMS, Ron
      WILLIAMS, Rory
      WILLIAMS, Rosie

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    2. Just to add to this list Paul- thanks for posting.
      My great grandparents are Bob and Dorothy (Williams) Webb. They are shown in the Tindale genealogies as having 5 living children. These are:
      Robert (called Rube); Gertie, Eddie, Peter (my grandfather) and Esther.
      Grandfather Webb and Uncle Rube were given land as you left Casino on the Lismore road. Aunty Esther and Aunty Gertie worked to raise the money for the house. This was the Webb family home until recently. My grandfather Peter Webb was stationed in Newcase in WWII where he met my grandmother Beryl Russell (Worimi woman). They settled in Waterloo in Sydney. If anyone would like photos of this line of the family they can email me Kathleen.Butler@newcastle.edu.au

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  2. Thank you Paul. I'll have to do a bit more hunting.

    Do you know the name of an ascendant (grandmother or great-grandmother) of Robert Williams (married to Gloria) who an Anthropologist wrote about in the NSW Githabul claim (who lived in Yangan Qld before living in Woodenbong NSW)?

    Robert told me (a few years ago) about this Anthropologist's work. I haven't been successful in identifying it and locating a copy.

    Be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

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    1. Unfortunately Bill I dont have any more information about Robert Williams.

      The Federal Court decision "Trevor Close on behalf of the Githabul People v Minister for Lands [2007] FCA 1847" doesnt mention any anthropologists involved in the case.
      (https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2007/2007fca1847)

      I came across the following in Unsettling Anthropology the Demands of Native Title on Worn Concepts and Changing Lives edited by Toni Bauman and Gaynor Macdonald published in 2011 by AIATSIS.
      "In the Githabul claim in northern New South Wales, anthropologist Ray Wood reported some claimants asserting incompatibility between personal totemic connections to sites on the land and a Christian worldview..."
      (https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/research_pub/bauman-macdonald-2011-unsettling-anthropology_0_2.pdf)

      The Queensland South Native Title Services may also be able to help. One of their reports mentions Ray Wood involved in a Githabul case.
      (https://www.qsnts.com.au/publications/QSNTSAnnualReport2008-09.pdf)

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  3. Thank you, Paul. I haven't checked your Federal Court link but it was a consent Order so I haven't found much previously when I've sniffed down that path. I'll have a look at the Unsettling Anthropology then I'll make contact with Qld Sth Native Title Services. Thanks again.

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  4. I'm hoping you may be able to tell me something about Lily Harrison and Dillon Harrison. Thanks.

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  5. I'm hoping you may be able to tell me something about Lily Harrison and Dillon Harrison? Thanks.

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  6. Tindale Genealogy Sheet 3 Woodenbong.

    HARRISON Dillon
    HARRISON Lily
    HILL Bill (jnr), also Woodenbong Sheet 8, also Photograph N333
    HILL Bill (snr) , N337
    HILL Finlay
    HILL Harold
    HILL Harry
    HILL Janet, also Woodenbong Sheet 8 and Woorabinda Sheet 36
    HILL Les
    HILL Lily
    HILL Maggy
    HILL Malcolm
    HILL Nancy
    HILL Nellie
    HILL Roger , N364
    HILL Venus , N377
    LARDNER Anny
    MERCY Eva, also Woodenbong Sheet 12
    MORGAN Alice, also Woodenbong Sheet 16
    MORGAN Nancy
    MORGAN Raymond, also Woodenbong Sheets 8 and 16
    MORGAN Rosie
    MUNDINE Claude
    MUNDINE Nellie
    MURRAY Lucy
    NEVILLE Venus , N377
    NEVILLE Victor
    NICHOLLS Billy
    NICHOLLS Nancy
    ROBINSON Grace, also Woodenbong Sheet 8
    TURNBULL Anny
    TURNBULL Archie
    TURNBULL Esther
    TURNBULL Josephine
    TURNBULL Lucy
    TURNBULL Nancy
    TURNBULL Ronald
    TURNBULL Willie
    WILLIAMS Alec, also Woodenbong Sheet 16
    WILLIAMS Alice, also Woodenbong Sheets 7, 8 amd 16
    WILLIAMS Arthur, also Woodenbong Sheet 14 and 16 and Woorabinda Sheet 111
    WILLIAMS Bill, also Woodenbong Sheets 14 and 16
    WILLIAMS Nellie, also Woodenbong Sheets 6 and 16 and Yarrabah Sheet 52
    WILLIAMS Sarah, also Woodenbong Sheets 14 and 16
    ANDREW Billy
    ANDREW Sarah
    BOND Alec, also Woodenbong Sheet 7 and 8 and Photograph N346
    BOND Grace, also Woodenbong Sheets 7 and 8
    BOND Jack, also Woorabinda Sheet 78
    BOND Jack, also Woodenbong Sheet 5
    BOND Janet, also Woodenbong Sheet 8
    BUNDOCK Arthur, also Woodenbong Sheet 6
    COOK Bella
    COOK Eva, also Woodenbong Sheet 12
    COOK Lindsay
    COOK Nancy
    COOK Sam, also Woodenbong Sheet 12
    COOK Venus, also Woodenbong Sheet 12, Photograph N377
    GRIFFIN Bella
    GRIFFIN Ted

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