Surname:
Bob Barrett (Indigenous)
Details:
Died - At Port Stephens - on the 15th instant the well known Aboriginal Bob Barrett. In intelligence and docility, he was inferior to none of his sable contemporaries and was the only native in the above district who had any correct ideas of time or distance. His migrations extended from Port Macquarie to Sydney, at which latter place many will remember having seen a tall upright Black, dressed in an old uniform. Unlike the majority of the Natives, Barrett was an instance of improvement by intercourse with Europeans and had the honor of having been employed occasionally on His Majestys service. He died of confluent small pox. He had been removed into a house appropriated to the reception of sick Natives, and was supplied through the humanity of Sir Edward Parry with every requisite. Here he was doing well, till the Karadquo induced him to quit the house, on the second day after which he expired
Surname:
Bob Barrett (Indigenous)
Details:
Reminiscenses of R. Fitzpatrick who accompanied Father Connolly on a visit to Port Macquarie in 1822 -......I remember a great tall blackfellow called Bob Barrett they had at the settlement to catch bushrangers
Surname:
Bob Barrett (Indigenous) (alias Monunggal)
Details:
Coroners inquest into the death of Borondo alias Dirty Dick..Testimony of Mr. Walpole that he saw the man beset by four aborigines one of who he identified as Monunggal alias Bob Barrett who had been that day perambulating about Sydney in a uniform coat, cocked hat and red feather, he also wore a white frilled shirt, which made him double conspicuous. From these circumstances the Coroner deemed it essential to get hold of Bob Barrett which every means for that purpose was adopted and he was found secreted on board a colonial vessel and brought under a proper escort before the Coroner who interrogated him so closely that he acknowledged that he was present at the transaction and that although he did not give the first blow he did the second with his walking stick. He was therefore given in charge and put in safe custody.
Surname:
Bob Roberts (Indigenous)
Details:
Distribution of Blankets to the Aborigines - Brisbane Water tribe - Bob Roberts, 1.
Surname:
Bobby (Indigenous)
Details:
The Blacks of Dungog, Port Stephens and Gresford . By Gordon- Bennett. In June 1841 a black fellow named. Bobby met with a violent end near Stroud. From the records it appears that Bobby, with another black named Dick, approached the hut of an assigned servant who was known throughout the district by the name Cranky, and asked for some flour. The response was a gun-shot and Bobby was killed outright. The murderer was apprehended at once, the crime having been committed in sight of a number of the officers of the Company, and he was brought before Capt. Cook. Commenting on the case to the Attorney-General in Sydney, Capt Cook wrote - I feel very keenly over this case as the murdered aboriginal was of excellent character and has done me many valuable services. The murderer, from his nick-name Cranky made me at first think that he might at times labor under an aberration of mind, but no great abnormality ever having been noticed in his conduct or behaviour I fear that the deed has altogether emanated from a naturally violent and ungovernable temper. In a subsequent letter Capt. Cook notes with pleasure that the death penalty had been carried out and that Cranky paid fully for his crime. - Dungog Chronicle 13 May 1919
Surname:
Bobby Crawford (Indigenous)
Source:
State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757.....Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books
Details:
From Dungog. Committed to Newcastle gaol for putting Thomas ? in bodily fear
Surname:
Bobby Crawford (Indigenous)
Source:
State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757.....Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books
Details:
From Dungog. Admitted to Newcastle gaol. Sent for trial for stealing tumblers
Surname:
Bobby Crawford (Indigenous)
Source:
The Maitland Mercury
Details:
The trial of Bobby Crawford, an aboriginal charged with stealing four tumblers at Dungog was ordered to be postponed till the next sessions, the principal witness being too ill to attend; Bobby to be admitted to bail one surety in 40 pounds if he could procure it.
Surname:
Boney (Indigenous
Details:
TWENTY POUNDS REWARDS, OR A CONDITIONAL PARDON. Whereas it has been represented to the Government, that warrants have been issued for the apprehension of the aboriginal natives hereafter named, who are charged with the murder of John Meldoun, and Elizabeth, Mary, and Fanny Mason, at the Bald Hills station, in the police district of Armidale, New England, his Excellency the Governor General directs it to be notified, that a reward of twenty pounds will be paid to any person who may, within six months from the present date, give such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the guilty parties ; or if the person giving such information be a prisoner of the crown, application will be made to her Majesty for the allowance to him of a conditional pardon. Names of the aboriginal natives above referred to -.Dead, Joey Joey,Charley,Paddy,Boney, Blanket Jemmy Jemmy,Charley, Willie Willie, Mungo, and Jackey Jackey.
Surname:
Boney (Indigenous)
Details:
Cautioned and discharged after being charged with drunkenness
Surname:
Boney Jack (Burrigan) (Indigenous)
Source:
State Library of NSW. Papers relating to Aborigines in the Singleton District, Blanket for Native Blacks, Colonial Secretarys Office
Details:
On Return of Aborigines to receive blankets
Surname:
Boomerang Jacky (Indigenous)
Place:
Ding-a-Dee near Williams River
Details:
On the skirts of the brushwood, we came upon some tribes of blacks, encamped. They are a very fine race here, being chiefly natives of Port Stephens and its neighbourhood. A princely looking savage, almost hid in glossy curls of dark rich hair, calling himself Boomerang Jackey, smiled and bowed most gracefully, saying, bacco massa, any bacco. Some chiefs with shields and badges of honour on their breasts sat silently by the fire with some very young natives, who were going to a wombat or grand corroboree when the moon got up.
Surname:
Booramee (Indigenous)
Source:
The Present state of Australia: A Description of the Country,etc. Robert Dawson. P. 16
Details:
On our journey we fell in with a wild, fierce-looking man, about the middle age, with two slender, interesting looking youths, named Wandoman and Booramee, apparently about twelve years of age
Surname:
Bootha (Indigenous)
Details:
John Reardon to be tried at Maitland circuit court on 10th Sept. for the murder of Bootha, an aboriginal female
Surname:
Bora Bora (Indigenous)
Source:
The Scone Advocate. 25 January 1923
Details:
Reminiscences of Tom Alternator - The biggest congregation he remembers seeing was on the Peel River, when he came across some 600, including members of the New England and Clarence tribes, who were making for Nundle to participate in a bora ceremony. Most of them were ta-tooed, but all had their hair entwined with kangaroo grass. The get-up was weird, yet awe-inspiring.
Surname:
Bourias (Indigenous)
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books - Discharged
Details:
Bourias, an Aboriginal, admitted to Newcastle gaol 20 January 1847. Discharged by the Governor on his visiting the gaol 2 February 1837
Surname:
Bow-in-bah (?Harry Brown) (Indigenous)
Source:
Aboriginal Creek Names Three Lower Ironbark Creek Tributaries Report by: Community Development Group
Details:
Bow-in-bah name proposal was endorsed at the Guraki Committee meeting held on the 18th June 2007 after consultation with local Aboriginal community groups. The name Bow-inbah, commemorates an Aboriginal historical figure who was the head man of the Pambalong people of the area, and a guide to Leichhardt circa 1840s.
Surname:
Bow-in-bah (Indigenous)
Source:
ABORIGINAL CREEK NAMES THREE LOWER IRONBARK CREEK TRIBUTARIES REPORT BY: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP
Details:
This name proposal was endorsed at the Guraki Committee meeting held on the 18th June 2007 after consultation with local Aboriginal community groups. The name Bow-inbah, commemorates an Aboriginal historical figure who was the head man of the Pambalong people of the area, and a guide to Leichhardt circa 1840s. http://www.nag.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/20988/Community_Item_9.pdf
Surname:
Bownas (Indigenous)
Details:
Aborigine. To be tried with Harry at Maitland Circuit Court 11.3.46 for aiding and abetting and assault
Surname:
Bownas (Indigenous)
Details:
18 years old. Sentenced to 12mths in Newcastle gaol for assault on Peter Davis
