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