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Surname: McGee (Craven)
First Name: James (Matthew)
Ship: Maitland 1840
Date: 1852 31 January
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Granted Conditional Pardon
75368
Surname: McGee (McGuire)
First Name: Henry
Ship: Mangles 1833
Date: 1837
Place: Merton
Source: GRC
Details: Assigned to Cyrus Matthew Doyle
136152
Surname: McGifray
First Name: M
Ship: -
Date: 1871 2 December
Place: Raymond Terrace
Source: MM
Details: Leaseholder. Petitioner opposing the proposed incorporation of the Municipality of Raymond Terrace
54721
Surname: McGilavry (McGilvrey)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1843 1 July
Place: Paterson
Source: MM
Details: Died as a result of wounds he received in election riots at the Paterson Hotel
211966
Surname: McGill (46th regt)
First Name: Private Henry
Ship: -
Date: December 1813 - March 1814
Place: Newcastle
Source: 46th Regiment: South Devonshire, December 1812 - December 1815 (File 5809. AJCP Reel No: 3795-3796)
Details: Stationed at Newcastle
212017
Surname: McGill (46th regt)
First Name: Private Henry
Ship: -
Date: June - September 1815
Place: Newcastle
Source: 46th Regiment: South Devonshire, December 1812 - December 1815 (File 5809. AJCP Reel No: 3795-3796)
Details: Stationed at Newcastle
211895
Surname: McGill (73rd regt)
First Name: Private Owen
Ship: -
Date: March - June 1810
Place: Hunter River
Source: 73rd soldiers stationed at Newcastle - Muster and Pay Lists. Trove. 73rd Regiment: Highland, December 1808 - December 1811 (File 8000. AJCP Reel No: 3868-3869)
Details: Stationed at Hunter River
107586
Surname: McGill (99th Regt)
First Name: Corporal John
Ship: -
Date: 22 May 1848
Place: Newcastle
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle. Burials p19
Details: Death of Corporal John McGill of 99th regiment
6112
Surname: McGill (Biraban) (Indigenous)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 2 May 1838
Place: Maitland
Source: R v. Long Jack Superior Court case
Details: Aboriginal interpreter present at the trial of Long Jack
88813
Surname: McGill (Biraban) (Indigenous)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1836
Place: Newcastle
Source: Backhouse
Details: Accompanied James Backhouse to Threlkeld s mission at Lake Macquarie. Described as a tall intelligent black who could speak a little English and was dressed in a red striped shirt, ragged trousers and old hat
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Surname: McGill (Biraban) (Indigenous)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1839
Place: Lake Macquarie
Source: Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838 By Charles Wilkes
Details: At Mr. Threlkelds, Mr. Hale saw McGill, who was reputed to be one of the most intelligent natives; and his portrait was taken by Mr. Agate. His physiognomy was much more agreeable than that of the other blacks, being less strongly marked with the peculiarities of his race. He was about the middle size, of a dark chocolate colour, with fine glossy black hair and whiskers, a good forehead, eyes not deeply set, a nose that might be described as aquiline, although depressed and broad at the base. It was very evident that MGill was accustomed to teach his native language, for when he was asked the name of any thing, he pronounced the word very distinctly, syllable by syllable, so that it was impossible to mistake it.
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Surname: McGill (Biraban) (Indigenous)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1839
Place: Lake Macquarie
Source: A Key to the Structure of the Aboriginal Language in the Vicinity of Hunter River and Lake Macquarie by L.E. Threlkeld
Details: At Mr. Threlkelds Mr. Hale saw Mc Gill, who was reputed to be one of the most intelligent natives ; and his portrait was taken by Mr. Agate. His physiognomy was more agreeable than that of the other blacks, being less strongly marked with the peculiarities of his race ; he was about the middle size, of a dark chocolate colour, with fine glossy black hair and whiskers, a good forehead, eyes not deeply set, a nose that might be described as aquiline, although depressed and broad at the base. It was very evident that M Gil1 was accustomed to teach his native language, for when he was asked the name of anything, he pronounced the word very distinctly, syllable by syllable, so that it was impossible to mistake it. Though acquainted with the doctrines of Christianity, and all the comforts and advantages of civilization, it was impossible for him to overcome his attachment to the customs of his people, and he is always a leader in the corrobories and other assemblies. Biraban was his native name, meaning an eagle-hawk, the analysis of which is at the latter end of this work. He was my almost daily companion for many years, and to his intelligence I am principally indebted for much of my knowledge respecting the structure of the language. Both himself and Patty, his wife, were living evidences that there was no innate deficiency of intellect in either of them. He had been brought up from his childhood in the Military Barracks, Sydney, and he understood and spoke the English language well. He was much attached to us, and faithful to a chivalrous extreme. We never were under apprehensions of hostile attacks when M Gill and his tribe encamped nigh our dwelling. A murderous black, named Bumble-foot from his infirmity, and Devil Devil from his propensities, had attempted to murder a European by chopping of the man s head with a tomahawk, and which he nearly effected ; the man recovered and I had to appear at a Court of Justice on the occasion; this displeased Bumble-foot, and he avowed openly, in their usual manner, that he would slay me at the first opportunity, in the bush; this came to the ears of M Gill, who immediately applied to me for the loan of a fowling-piece to go and shoot that fellow for his three , which was of course refused. M Gill was once present with me at the Criminal Court, Sydney, assisting as interpreter, when he was closely examined by the Judges, Burton and Willis, in open court, on the trial of an Aborigine for murder, 1834, in order that M Gill might be sworn as interpreter in the case; but though his answers were satisfactory to the general questions proposed to him by the Judges, yet, not understanding the nature of our oath in a Court of Justice, he could not be sworn. Patty, his wife, was pleasing in her person, black but comely, kind and affectionate in her disposition, and evidenced as strong a faculty of shrewdness in the exercise of her intellectual powers over M Gill as those of the fairer daughters of Eve, who, without appearing to trespass on the high prerogative of their acknowledged lords, manage their husbands according to their own sovereign will ; this might perhaps have arisen from the circumstance of M Gill, once, when intoxicated, having shot his wife, the which he deeply deplored when he became sober; the injury sustained was not much, and ever afterwards he treated her with that affection which appeared to be reciprocal. It was a romantic scene to behold the happy pair, together with many others, on a moonlight night, under the blue canopy of Heaven, preparing for the midnight ball, to be held on the green sward, with no other toilet than a growing bush, with none other blaze than that from the numerous fires kindled around the mystic ring in which to trip the light fantastic toe. Then each might be seen reciprocally rouging each others check with pigment of their own preparing, and imparting fairness to their sable skin on the neck and forehead with the purest pipeclay, until each countenance beamed with rapturous delight at each others charms. The cumbrous garments of the day were laid aside, and in all the majesty of nature they would dance as Britons did in days of old
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Surname: McGill (Grace)
First Name: Barbara
Ship: -
Date: 1870 18 June
Place: St. Patrick's Church, Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of William, third son of George Grace, of Oak Vale, Jerrys Plains to Miss Barbara McGill, eldest daughter of Robert McGill of Bando, Liverpool Plains. Minister Rev. T.S. Leonard
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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Surname: McGillavry
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 1 February
Place: within a mile of West Maitland
Source: MM
Details: 28 farms of the Dagworth estate known as Bloomfield's grant to be sold under instructions from Oswald Bloxsome. 2080 acres on Wallis Creek. Bounded by land of Brooks, Garven, Clift, McGillavry, Mitchell
54752
Surname: McGillavry (McGilvrey) (McGilvray)
First Name: Duncan
Ship: -
Date: 1843 8 July
Place: Paterson
Source: MM
Details: 30yrs old. Struck on the head with large stick at election riots.Died following Wednesday