Surname:
Ceremonies (Indigenous)
Source:
The Newcastle Sun 30 May 1938
Details:
From Governor Macquarie s journal - At night the King of the Newcastle native tribe with about 40 men, women and children of his tribe, came to Government House and entertained the Governor and his party in high style for half an hour. They too were given an allowance of grog
Surname:
Charley (Charlie Fisher) (Indigenous)
Source:
The Maitland Weekly Mercury
Details:
En passant, it would not be out of place to refer to Harry Brown and Charley, the two aboriginals, who accompanied Leichhardt. Harry Brown had a wonderful talent for anecdote and was most entertaining a rather happy accomplishment when no newspaper was seen for over a year. Brown was burnt to death at Newcastle some years after the return of the expedition. Charley, on the other hand, was morose and silent, hardly ever speaking. Mr. Roper was the only one in the party who would trust himself alone with Charley. The latter s strong point was his knowledge of direction, which was most wonderful. In making excursions in search for water or horses, etc., no matter how tortuous the course taken, Charley could point direct to the main camp and give the approximate distance
Surname:
Charley (Charlie Fisher) (Indigenous)
Source:
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate
Details:
In July, 1844, Leichhardt was back in Sydney, and on August 13, 1844, left for Brisbane in the Sovereign steamer. He took James Calvert, John Roper, John Murphy (a boy of 16), a ticket of-leave man named Bill Phillips, and Harry Browne, a Newcastle aboriginal. On the Downs he added Pemberton Hodgson,- Charles Gilbert (a collector for Gould), Caleb (an American negro), and Charley (a Bathurst aboriginal), but Caleb and Hodgson returned to the Downs after the first month, leaving Leichhardt with five white men and two aboriginals, a small party to face that long journey through wild, unknown country to Port Essington. His provisions included 12001b. of flour, 2001b. of sugar,801b. of tea, and 201b. of gelatine. They had 301b. of powder, eight bags of shot, chiefly 4 and 6, seven muzzle loading guns, four pistols, and two cutlasses. His instruments included sextant, chronometer, Katers compass, artificial horizon, and small thermometer. Thus that small party journeyed on across creeks and rivers, through thick Brigalow scrubs, over rough ranges, through country where game and fish were abundant, the aboriginals either friendly or keeping out of sight, eating goannas, opossums, flying foxes, eels, fish, carpet snakes, mussels, and any bird or animal that could be cooked and eaten. Flying foxes were a favourite dish, and are excellent if roasted on red coals. The long-continued safety from the blacks led to a suicidal want of common precautions, especially at night, and on the night of June 28, 1845, the party camped beside a small lagoon on a box-tree flat on the present Nassau River, in latitude 15.55. Though surrounded by hostile and dangerous blacks, they camped in tents far apart, PhiUip3 actually on the opposite side of the lagoon, and there was nobody on watch. The blacks made a night attack, with a shower of woomera spears and a chorus of fearful yells. The party were all asleep, and even the fires burning brightly to reveal their position. The stupidity of it all seems incredible. Even the guns were not capped. Calvert and Roper received several spears, and were severely bruised by blows from the woomeras. A spear was driven into Gilbert s left lung, and he walked over to where Charley and Leichhardt were standing by the fire, gave his gun to Charley, saying, The blacks have killed me, drew the spear, and died at once. Drawing the spear was the very act he should not have done. How all the others escaped death on that unfortunate night passes all comprehension. Just 38 years afterwards I stood by that lagoon and heard the story from blacks who were among those who speared Gilbert. They told me that Leichhardts two blacks had improperly interfered with two aboriginal women a couple of days before, and the men were seeking revenge. Roper told me the same story in one of several letters I received from him when he was stock inspector at Merriwa, in New South Wales. The blacks told me that two of their people were killed and three wounded, and that when Leichhardts party went away, they dug up the body of Gilbert and cooked and ate it. So Gilberts grave, like that of Leichhardt, is lost for ever to the knowledge of mankind.
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Source:
R v. Monkey & Others. Superior Court Records
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Aboriginal native arraigned for burglary in the house of Alfred Hill Jacques. Found not Guilty
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Source:
R v. Monkey & Others. Supreme Court Records
Details:
Murdered Alfred Simmons at Williams River and was hanged at Dungog 4 September 1835 after being forwarded by the steam packet
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Details:
Aboriginal. To be tried at Maitland Circuit Court on 10th Sept. for manslaughter
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Place:
Cockfighters Creek
Details:
Aboriginal. Found guilty of feloniously killing James Watt by throwing a knife at his head. Remanded
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Details:
Aboriginal boy sentenced to imprisonment in Maitland gaol for three months
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Details:
Of the Upper Williams River. Found guilty of the murder of Alfred Simmons
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Details:
Charged under the Masters & Servants act by James Clift when he absconded after being paid 30s wages
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Details:
Charley a native black indicted for the wilful murder of Alfred Simmons in the neighbourhood of the Gloucester Riverin May 1835. A station belonging to Robert McKenzie was attacked in May by a large party of blacks. The servants attached to the station, twenty in number took to flight and ran away, five of them were never afterwards seen. A constable was sent to endeavour to find the bodies; from inforation he received, he went to a black camp stationed in the neighbourhood and took the prisoner Charley into custody. Charley knew sufficient English to make himself understood and when acquainted with the reason of his capture he offered to shew them where Simmonds had been murdered. Charley gave the first blow and another black by the name of Paddy struck next. Simmonds begged them not to killed him. Rev. Threlkeld interpreter at the trial
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous)
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details:
Charley, an aboriginal native, admitted to Newcastle gaol from Singleton. Sent for trial for manslaughter. Sentenced to 3 months confinement
Surname:
Charley (Indigenous) (Executed)
Details:
Aboriginal forwarded by steam packet. To be executed at Dungog
Surname:
Charley Myrtle (Indigenous)
Details:
Correspondence re Charley Myrtle (or Murphy) who was identified as a perpetrator of rape
Surname:
Charley Myrtle (Indigenous)
Source:
Phoenix Hulk Entrance book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 189
Details:
Charley Myrtle admitted to the Phoenix Hulk. To be transported to VDL for life
Surname:
Charley Myrtle (Muscle) (Indigenous) Brisbane Water
Source:
Gosford and the Kendall Country p20
Details:
Apprehended and forwarded to Sydney gaol with Little Dick and Monkey
Surname:
Charlie (Indigenous)
Details:
5ft 7 in; no beard; does not understand or speak English. Reward offered for his apprehension on suspicion of murdering Ellen Sullivan.
Surname:
Charlie (Indigenous)
Details:
Since the execution of Charlie, the blackfellow at Dungog in 1838 for the murder of five shepherds, the blacks dread the soldiers.....
Surname:
Charlie (Indigenous)
Place:
Supreme Court Sydney
Details:
Evidence of George Anderson in the trial of men accused of the slaughter of black natives near the station of Henry Dangar, Myall Creek - Cross examined by Mr. Windeyer.-I am not sure they would have killed the gins they left behind. I asked them to leave one gin, but not the one they left. They untied one for Davy (a black). I don t know why they spared Davy, only that he had been so long about the place and was more naturalised than the rest. I staid in the hut, and never left it after they left. Davy did not go with the whites. I never went to the place where the bodies were. I saw no other smoke that day than what I have described. I told Mr. Hobbs when he came home, that they took the blacks away, and that I could not help it. I only identified one man when before Mr. Day, the magistrate, and said I knew no more. The two men I named, were Russell and Flemming ; I knew the others faces. I say I only knew the name of one, and of Flemming who was away. I never expected any thing for coming forward to give evidence in this case. I ll take anything any body will give me, but I ask for nothing but protection. The magistrate said, he would commit me for thinking, or for not thinking, or something. I then began to recollect all I knew about it. I was punished twice since I have been in the country (about six years), once for neglect of duty, and once for being absent without leave. I was marched from New England to Patrick Plains, and got 100 lashes. I was transported for life for robbing my master. Foley was left with me as a guard over the fire arms. I thought they left him to make me believe the blacks were coming. I know old Joey ; he used to be with the rest of the blacks. King Sandy, his wife, and child, were taken away. The name of the gin I wanted to keep was Hipita. Daddy, and another black named Tommy, were taken away. I knew Sandy, Joey; King Sandy, and Daddy, King Sandy s wife, and young Charlie, her child.; they were all taken away. Re examined -Davy did not belong to the tribe that was taken away ; he came from the Peel with cattle
Surname:
Charlie Myrtle (Indigenous)
Source:
Sydney Gaol entrance book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 855
Details:
A black native. Admitted to Sydney gaol 23 February. To be transported to VDL for life. Died suddenly on board the hulk on 6th July 1835
