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181734
Surname: (Indigenous) Ill treatment by convicts
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 27 October 1820
Place: Newcastle
Source: Convict Settlement
Details: Robert Davis Punished for inhumanely ill treating and cutting ablack native and intimidating him against bringing in bushrangers
181983
Surname: (Indigenous) Ill treatment by convicts
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 17 July 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: James Jackson, in the service of John Thomas charged with gross disrespectful and threatening language to the Rev. Threlkeld and exciting a disturbance tending to endanger the life of that Gentleman. The Rev. Threlkeld states - I was returning yesterday evening from Newcastle to my residence at the Farm Cottage accompanied by Mrs. Threlkeld and the maid servant. Near the Cedar Ground I heard a noise amongst the blacks and I perceived the prisoners amongst them. On my approach I heard him reply to some observations made to him by the blacks, - Bugger the bloody parson, what do I care for him - He had a spear in his hand and he came towards me brandishing it in a threatening posture. I seized the spear and ordered him to lose his hold of it, which he refused and struggled to retain it and it was only from my threatening to shoot him that he gave it up; he had also a waddie which was spotted with blood and I afterwards ascertained that a black woman was severely cut on the head, but cannot say it was done by the prisoner. He frequently addressed the blacks in their native language and seemed to be exciting them to violence indeed his conduct and language was most outrageous and disgusting both to Mrs. Threlkeld and myself. The prisoner was intoxicated but I think not so much so as to be incapable of knowing what he was doing. From his menaces to me and my family, I do not consider it safe if he is allowed to be at large. Ellen Moore, servant to Mr. Threlkeld states - I was accompanying my master and mistress home yesterday and on the way we heard a black woman screaming and a great noise among some blacks at a little distance; we went towards them and saw the prisoner of the party. I heard him make use of some very bad language about my master. He had a spear in his hand and seemed as if he would have thrown it at my master. He had also a waddie in his hand and I thought he would have struck my master with it. Constable Peter Riley states - at the desire of Mr. Threlkeld I went in pursuit of the prisoner yesterday evening. I found him in the street with a spear and throwing stick in his hand. He was intoxicated when I took him to the watch house. The prisoner in his defence states - I had received a pint of rum in payment for some work I had done. I got intoxicated and did not know what I was about. James Jackson sentenced to 75 lashes
182349
Surname: (Indigenous) Ill treatment by convicts
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 23 January 1827
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: Catherine Ryan in the service of Mr. P. Reilly, charged with general neglect of work, drunkenness and insolence. Mr. Patrick Reilly states - On Saturday last my wife being from home, the conduct of the prisoner came more particularly under my notice, and I observed her general inattention to her duty about the house. In the course of the afternoon I detected her drinking spirits with some soldiers who were at my house and eventually she became so much intoxicated as to commit an outrage on a black native girl which caused considerable disturbance, so much so, that Mr. McLeod and other gentlemen who were with him left their room to enquire into it. Her general conduct is insufferable and when remonstrated with she answers with the utmost insolence. The prisoner states in her defence - I only pushed the black girl out of the house and in so doing I obeyed my mistresses orders - it was not my fault that the girl fell. I could not help the noise. It is impossible to please either master or mistress. Catherine Ryan sentenced to 3rd Class of the Factory for six months
84924
Surname: (Indigenous) Maitland Tribe
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 22 January 1842
Place: Maitland
Source: Hunter River Gazette
Details: Blacks returned to Maitland from one of their short periods of absence and commenced drunken gaity and savage quarrelling
167441
Surname: (Indigenous) Maitland Tribe
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 3 December 1881
Place: -
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: The Aborigines by John Fraser.....The aborigines are rapidly disappearing from amongst us. Not so long ago a score of blacks of the Maitland tribe could have easily been collected here; now only two or three are to be seen in our streets; soon the tribe will be extinct
145370
Surname: (Indigenous) Mary Ann Hide (Hyde)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 8 February 1859
Place: Newcastle
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Baptisms p.72
Details: Daughter of Charlotte
74012
Surname: (Indigenous) Murder
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 9 February 1842
Place: Maitland
Source: CO
Details: Murder of an Aboriginal woman
88404
Surname: (Indigenous) Murder
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 24 April 1841
Place: Paterson
Source: FP
Details: Native suspected of being the murderer of two children near Paterson shot by two of Mr. Livingstone s servants
100367
Surname: (Indigenous) Murder
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 2 May 1853
Place: Northern district NSW
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Murders by Aborigines in the northern districts (Council Papers)
174125
Surname: (Indigenous) Murder
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 12 October 1910
Place: Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: May 1848 - Correspondence by Major Crummer to the Attorney General...Sir, The remains of an aboriginal native having been recently discovered in this neighbourhood and it being generally suspected that deceased was murdered by members of the Newcastle and Port Stephens tribes, I do myself the honour to request that I may be informed whether equal protection is afforded to the aboriginal natives of the colony as to British subjects by the laws relating to injuries against the person, and whether proceedings ought to be instituted against the suspected murderers in the present instance
183411
Surname: (Indigenous) Murder
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 21 August 1838
Place: Big River (Namoi)
Source: Title: Muswellbrook Court of Petty Sessions, Bench Books, 1838-1843. Ancestry.com
Details: Appeared before me E.D. Day Mr. Charles Eyles who deposed - I am superintendent of Mr. Robert Crawfords stock at this station and have commonly four or five assigned servants under my charge. On the seventh of this month I went out on the run with one of the stock keepers named James Dunn (per St. Vincent 1837) to look after the cattle. Shortly after I went out I found that some of the cattle had been speared by the blacks. I found three wounded. In less than a quarter of an hour after on passing through a thick scrub I came upon a party of blacks five in number engaged in the act of cutting up a young bullock of Mr. Crawfords. I rode towards them with intention of taking them into custody. One of them immediately started up and threw a boomerang at me and instantly afterwards he threw a spear at me on seeing this I put my horse to his speed and so avoided both weapons. Directly after this they threw another boomerang which I also escaped from by putting my horse to speed again. The black then began to take up waddies which he threw at me and hit me repeatedly. At that time Dunn came up when the black took up a very large waddy and threw it at Dunns head. Dunn avoided the blow by stooping. Seeing there was no chance of his desisting from his attack and on probability of taking him alive I fired at the black with my musket and hit him on the breast. He ran about thirty yards and fell and soon after died of the wound. The other blacks went off in different directions and were followed by Dunn for some time. The next day I went out again with Dunn and another stockman Smith and we were attacked at the same place by thirty or forty blacks. Fortunately we were able to get away without injury, the great number of boomerangs they threw at us missed. We reached out huts only time enough to prevent a party of the blacks from taking possession of it. From this attack I considered both life and property very unsafe at this station. When this station was first established the blacks were kindly treated here for some months and I have never allowed any person on the establishment to act unfairly towards them. I know they have not received any cause to act as they have done at this station
183129
Surname: (Indigenous) Namoi River
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 2 January 1835
Place: Namoi River
Source: The Australian
Details: Correspondence from Sir John Jamieson regarding his assigned servants James Archer and George Biddles who shot two bushrangers John McDonald and Joseph Lynch at his cattle station on the Namoi. Patrick Tye a ticket of leave holder and stockkeeper to Edward Cox favourably mentioned as having apprehended twenty eight bushrangers and also William Thomas per ship Asia 10, assigned servant who assisted in taking the bushrangers......Notwithstanding the local knowledge of McDonald and his gang enabled them to escape the vigilance of the mounted police for a few months, still their existence appears to have been that of wretchedness and fearful alarm for their safety. McDonald and Lynch were absent from my station eight weeks and three days and from their expectation that the mounted police would closely follow their track, their progress down the river must have been rapid and the distance they penetrated into the interior very considerable. They described with terror to William Thomas the great number, gigantic stature (seven ft in height) and ferocity of the native blacks who they said threw the spear from the hand by its centre and at first from such a distance as to penetrate but little deeper than the skin of their horses, but that afterwards they became so bold as to seize and pull round their horses by the tails and added that the weather was so wet during the attack that their fire arms would not go off; for their protection from the above statement and the anxiety with which McDonald and Lynch enquired of William Thomas if he had seen any of their horses return that way especially a grey mare of Crawford s, it may reasonably be inferred that the report is true which Nutty the Namoi chief received from the native blacks viz, that one of the gang of white robbers had been shot by their own party and two tumbled down (killed) by the natives which would account for the destruction of the whole of McDonalds party which never exceeded five.....George Biddles aged 32 per ship Asia (10) under sentence of transportation for 14 years, a native of Leicester and formerly a marine in his Majesty s naval service gave an account.....I landed in the colony on 26 June 1833 and was assigned to the service of Sir John Jamison in March last; I proceeded to Capita, to his new stock run on the Namoi River. - Joe Lynch was described by George Biddles as a tall thin man about six feet high, fair hair, and an effeminate voice and apparently about five of six and twenty years of age; he wore a pair of black trousers, buttoned up the front, a fancy coloured shirt, a fustian shooting jacket and a muslin cravat, a pair of half boots, and a straw hat; the shirt and trousers he boasted of having taken from Mr. Robertson. They all called McDonald by name and acknowledged him as their chief; McDonald was about five feet seven inches in height, dark complexion, black hair and whiskers, a scar on his nose and slightly pock marked, stout made, and about six and forty years of age; wore at this time a blue jacket, blue waistcoat, duck trousers, a pair of laced half boots, cut in several places, and a straw hat. Crawford the other bushranger wore a fustian shooting jacket and trousers, half boots, and a straw hat, five feet nine inches in height, of swarthy complexion, stout made, and stooped much with his head forward; about 30 years of age. The fourth bushranger was described as a good looking dark haired man, who stated himself to be a Welshman; he was about five feet eight inches high, wore a fustian jacket, dark waistcoat, slop blue trousers, half boots, an a straw hat; he appeared to be four or five and twenty years of age and seemed to be a quiet backward man, not well satisfied with his situation. The fifth was a short man, five ft five inches.....I (George Biddles) had some conversation with John McDonald during the night; he related the sundry robberies he had committed and boasted the most of all in having wounded a police man who had charge of one of his party whom they captured; he told me he came to this Colony in the same ship as myself the first time she came; he further stated, that he had held the indulgence of a ticket of leave and lost it; I recommended him to give himself up to the law, he said no, I know my doom if taken. I will therefore endeavour to get out of the country which I shall try to do in following the river. He added that the police could not be more than a day or two behind and desired me to tell Sergeant Temple that McDonald and his mob had gone down the river and that they would leave track enough for them. James Archer addressed himself during the night to Lynch and said what a pity it is that a set of fine young fellow like you should be running yourselves to the gallows in this way; McDonald looked at him and replied, gallows is it? the gallows will never catch Mac, when I die, I die by a ball; Lynch then added the rope will never be made that will hang Joe; the following morning they all breakfasted by daylight, having previously sewed up in bags upwards of 3cwt of flour; they examined the five unloaded muskets and returned them to us also a pistol which was out of repair. From their hatred to Patrick Tye, they were going to shoot his stock horse; I begged of them not to shoot the horse in consequence of which they left him with us; but stated that if they had found Patrick Tye at home when they went to his station they would have punished him with 50 lashes each man and then have shot him; they acknowledged they had taken all his arms, clothing and ammunition, destroyed his provisions and turned their horses in to eat his wheat; their hatred and vengeance against Patrick Tye was from his constant pursuit and capture of bushrangers in that quarter; after leaving the hut they went in quest of a mare in charge of a free man named Farley, who was fencing down the river in the employment of Sir John Jamieson; Taylor or Archer made the near cut to where Farley was at work and informed him that the bushrangers were coming. Farley instantly mounted the mare, and attempted to swim the river but the stream swept him off the mare and he was unfortunately drowned. Towards the end of October George West, per ship Claudine an assigned servant to Sir John Jamison that the bushrangers had taken cattle away from attempted to swim the river on his stock horse but the stream running so high he was swept off the horse and drowned; his body was found next day by the black natives. Lieut. Steel the commanding officer of the mounted police, stated that no harm would come to men who shot McDonald or any of his party. James Arched was aged 27 and under sentence of transportation for 14 years; a native of Bishops Storford, Essex and an assigned servant of Sir John Jamison since his arrival in the Colony 1829
174123
Surname: (Indigenous) Newcastle Tribe
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: May 1846
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: On 23 May 1846 Correspondence by J.H. Crummer JP to the Colonial Secretary - Sir, The winter season having now set in and the inclemency of the weather at the present period rendering the condition of the aboriginal natives in this district extremely distressnig on account of their having been without the issue of blankets during the last year, I have the honour to recommend that his Excellency will be pleased to order that 35 blankets be forwarded to this district, for delivery to the native blacks as an act of humanity towards alleviating their sufferings - Newcastle Morning Herald 12 October 1910
167429
Surname: (Indigenous) Old Banks Tribe
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 4 April 1848
Place: West Maitland
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Aboriginal Murder.-On Wednesday morning, the body of a black-fellow, named Black Boy, a member of the Newcastle tribe, was found lying dead in the yard of the Queens Head Inn West Maitland. The poor fellow had been killed apparently by some heavy blows with a tomahawk about the ear, as he was lying asleep ; and, from his easy posture, appeared to have died instantly, and without the slightest struggle. For some months past Black Boy had been working about Maitland, cutting wood and carrying water for different persons, and was very harmless and quiet. What may have been the cause of his murder is not known, but it was most probably some old grudge. On Tuesday last Black Boy and three members of the Old Banks tribe were about a good deal together, and in the evening Black Roy and one of the Old Banks tribe (a tall fellow, with one eye,)camped together in the Queens Head yard. About ten oclock in the evening, the one-eyed black went into the Queens Head kitchen with an old quart pot, to beg some hot water to make tea. The water was given to him in the -pot, which he said contained tea ; and from that moment not a sound was heard from the yard all night. In the morning Black Boy was found murdered as above described, but the one-eyed black had disappeared, as well as the pot and every other article the two had possessed. On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held on the body, before J. S. Parker, Esq., coroner, when Dr. Sloan made a post mortem examination, and found that, although there were several jagged incised wounds on the right side of the head,neither the scull nor jaw was fractured : death, in his opinion, was caused by a wound inflicted over the carotid artery, rupturing its fibres, mid causing an effusion of blood, ending in death. It appeared from the evidence that on the Monday night previously, Black Boy had suddenly left the camping place where he was sleeping with some of the Old Banks blacks and next day gave as a reason that they were going to kill him. The Jury returned a verdict that Black Boy was wilfully murdered by some black or blacks unknown.
167288
Surname: (Indigenous) Paterson River
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 25 August 1877
Place: Paterson
Source: MM
Details: Reminiscences...........I much regret my inability to give any reliable opinion as to the number of the blacks in this district in these early times. They appeared to lead a very restless kind of life, constantly on the move, shifting their camps from one place to another, seldom remaining more than three or four days in one camp, and usually numbering from twenty to thirty in a party. On occasions of grand corrobboree they would come from long distances, even from Liverpool Plains, the Manning, Port Stephens, &c. I was present at one of these corrobborees, about 1834, when there was the largest assemblage I ever saw. I had an opportunity a few days ago of comparing notes with a friend, who was then with me, and who being my senior by Several years had a more vivid recollection of what took place., He estimates the number at about two hundred. They performed the kangaroo and emu corrobborees, consisting of a methodical arrangement, I have since learned, of the lively and grotesque movements of these creatures. All that I can remember is my having seen two op-posing double lines of natives, advancing and re-tiring in varying, but most singular positions, swaying this way and that, and the actions of the whole being as the act of one, accompanied by a kind of chant in which the gins joined, at the same movement each beating on a shield to mark the time
73259
Surname: (Indigenous) Paterson tribe
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 23 March 1850
Place: Maitland and Paterson
Source: MM
Details: Use of plants as medicine - Description of noxious plant and its use by the Paterson tribe
78439
Surname: (Indigenous) Patrick Plains
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 2 May 1827
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Two natives in Newcastle gaol for the murder of a stockman at Patrick Plains freed
183262
Surname: (Indigenous) Patrick Plains
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 17 June 1826
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: The Australian
Details: Information has just reached us, that the Aboriginal Natives have lately become very troublesome in the district of Patrick Plains. About a fortnight ago a party of them plundered the Huts of Mr. George Forbes and Captain John Pike, and speared a government servant of the former, wounding him in the back. This man is recovering. The resident Magistrate William Ogilvie proceeded in company with a friendly native in quest of the hostile tribe, and succeeded in obtaining a conference with them, and prevailed on them after a time, to restore a considerable part of some property which they had stolen
144723
Surname: (Indigenous) Port Stephens
First Name: Tommy and Nanny
Ship: -
Date: 26 April 1854
Place: Port Stephens
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Baptisms p. 49
Details: Aborigines of the Port Stephens tribe. Baptism of daughter Charlotte Mary Anne
72521
Surname: (Indigenous) Robbery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 23 October 1840
Place: Wollombi
Source: Sydney Herald
Details: Dray belonging to publican Mr. Darvall robbed of alcohol by natives