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Item: 72537

Surname: McGill (Indigenous)

First Name: Little McGill

Ship: -

Date: -

Place: -

Source: Threlkeld

Details: Of the Lake Macquarie tribe

 

Item: 82201

Surname: McGill (Indigenous)

First Name: Little McGill

Ship: -

Date: 16 June 1837

Place: Lake Macquarie

Source: Australian

Details: Billy Blue and Little McGill taught to read and write in their own tongue but disposed to wander

 

Item: 82147

Surname: McGill (Indigenous) (Beerabahn) (Biraban)

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: April 1836

Place: Lake Macquarie

Source: Backhouse

Details: Guided James Backhouse to Rev. Threlkeld s missionary at Lake Macquarie

 

Item: 178860

Surname: McGill (Indigenous) (Biraban)

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 16 July 1836

Place: Newcastle

Source: Sydney Gazette - Annual Report of the Aboriginal Mission at Lake Macquarie (Threlkeld)

Details: Several of the blacks belonging to this district headed by McGill, are travelling to Windsor, Parramatta and Sydney in order to teach other tribes a new song and dance which have lately been brought from the regions far beyond Liverpool Plains where my son has ascertained that the song exists though the dialect is different to that used in these parts on the sea coast.

 

Item: 187570

Surname: McGill (Indigenous) (Biraban)

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1 May 1846

Place: Newcastle

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Details: At Newcastle, on the 14th April, McGill, the aboriginal native well known a few years back at the Supreme Court as assistant interpreter in several cases in which the aborigines were tried for capital offences. He was a living witness against the assertion of the French Phrenolongists that the blacks of this colony were physically incapable of instruction from organic malformation

 

Item: 82202

Surname: McGill (Indigenous) (Biraban)

First Name: (the elder)

Ship: -

Date: 16 June 1837

Place: -

Source: Australian

Details: Rarely visits Rev. Threlkeld at Lake Macquare, preferrring to stay in Newcastle

 

Item: 72536

Surname: McGill (Indigenous) (Biraban)

First Name: John

Ship: -

Date: -

Place: -

Source: Threlkeld

Details: A chief of the Lake Macquarie tribe and Rev. Threlkelds assistant

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