Surname:
Joney (Indigenous)
Place:
Lake Macquarie/ Newcastle
Source:
Glenrock Lagoon Cultural Landscape Conservation Management and Cultural Tourism Plan NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Details:
From Awabakal tribe. - Lieut. Sacherevell Coke s journal....6 July. Went out Shooting took Joney a black with me. On our return Parmegony had arrived, but he brought only two black Ducks, his Shot being by far too small to kill the Large Kangaroos
Surname:
Kaling-go Skirmish (Indigenous)
Source:
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder 24 March 1916
Details:
On 11th January 1854 there was a skirmish between outposts of the Wollombi and Ellalong sub tribes of aboriginals. The trouble was over hunting and fishing rights (Catch-a-boy Lagoon). The home team (Kaling-go) repulsed the aggressors.
Surname:
Kamilaroi Language (Indigenous)
Details:
Warialda on the north east and Yuroka on the south west are on the boundaries of the district wherein the Kamilaroi dialect prevails. These places are 200 miles apart. Kamilaroi is spoken along 100 miles of the Bundarra, on Mooni Creek, and at least eighty miles of the Barwan, all down the Peel and Namoi, over Liverpool Plains and around Murrurndi. It is also spoken on the Bolloon where the blacks are still very numerous. The names of adjoining dialects are Wolroi or Wollaroi spoken on the Bundarra above Warialda, Wailwun, spoken on the Barwan below the junction of the Namoi, Barrabinya and Kuno at different distances down the Barwan, and Wirathere on the Castlereagh. - from a lecture by Rev. William Ridley
Surname:
Kamilaroi tribe (Indigenous)
Details:
Recollections of the Kamilaroi tribe by Charles Naseby who first went to the Gwydir in 1833 and settled at Yaggabi
Surname:
Kamilaroi tribe (Indigenous)
Details:
Report of a visit to the Aborigines on the Namoi River by William Ridley
Surname:
Kamilaroi tribe (Indigenous)
Details:
The Kamilaroi is spoken over a wider extent and by a larger number of blacks than any other dialect, at least in that part of the country. At Warialda, and to the East and North, Wolroi is spoken, but just below that town we come on Kamilaroi speaking blacks - from a lecture by the Rev. William Ridley
Surname:
Kamilaroi Tribe(Indigenous)
Source:
Kamilaroi, Dippil and Turrubul Languages spoken by Australian Aboriginals
Details:
Kamilaroi, Dippil, and Turrubul languages spoken by Australian Aborigines. Author Rev. William Ridley……….The information presented in the following pages, on the Kamilaroi, Dippil, and Turruhul languages, was obtained by the author during three years missionary effort among the Aborigines of Australia, including journeys over Liverpool Plains, the Barwan or Darling, and its tributaries, the Namoi, the Bundarra, the Macintyre, and the Mooni; also along the Balonne or Condamine, across Darling Downs, by the Brisbane River, and in a circuit about Moreton Bay. The shortness of the time spent in the research will account for the fragmentary character of this contribution to the Philology of Australia. In seeking knowledge of the languages, with a view to the communication of instruction to the Aborigines, the author gladly accepted the aid of colonists who, during many years residence among that people, had learned to converse with them in their own tongue. He was especially indebted to Mr. Charles Greenaway, of Collemungool (a Kamilaroi name, meaning Broadwater) on the Barwan, for instruction in the Kamilaroi; to James Davies, blacksmith, Brisbane, who lived thirteen years with the blacks near Wide Bay, Queensland, for instruction in Dippil; and to Mr. Petrie, of Brisbane, for instruction in Turrubul
Surname:
Kearnon (Indigenous)
Details:
Indicted for stealing saddle belonging to Robert Scott. Found not guilty. Discharged.
Surname:
Kearnon (Indigenous)
Source:
State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2016; Roll: 759 Gaol Description Books. Ancestry
Details:
Born c. 1828. 5ft 3 1/2in, stout build, black complexion, black hair, dark eyes. Nail of middle finger left hand split
Surname:
Kennedy (Indigenous)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flyn, William Ward and John Austin, all in the service of the Australian Agricultural Company at Port Stephens charged with being at large without passes....Mr. George Muir, chief constable states - On Wednesday evening the prisoners were delivered to my custody by Constable George Higgins and a soldier of the Buffs who stated they had received them from Mr. Joseph Pennington, overseer and some native blacks at the 1st branch of the Hunter River. A letter from Mr. Joseph Pennington, a free settler, produced and read of which the following is a copy.....Leigh Farm, Hunters River, 14th November 1826...I beg leave to report that my overseer in junction with the following named black natives viz Doughboy, Kennedy, Bremen, Taylor and Jemmy Murray, captured the five following named convict servants assigned to the A.A. Co., who ran from their service on Saturday evening last viz - Edward Flyn (Surry 4th), Samuel Harris (Norfolk), Patrick Hoy (Isabella), John Austin (Hebe) and William Ward (Ann and Amelia). I should conceive my overseer as well as the Blacks are entitled to some reward as a stimulus to future exertions and request they may be noticed as others are performing similar services, I am, Sir, Joseph Pennington......The prisoner being called on to account for their being absent from their assignments - Patrick Hoy states as follows - Our reason for leaving Port Stephens was for the purpose of proceeding to the nearest Magistrate to make our complaint - We were on the way to Newcastle when we met Mr. Pennington s overseer to whom we surrendered ourselves and accompanied him without objection altho we were five in number. Four of us belong to the same gang at Port Stephens and were employed in breaking up new ground. There were sixteen in the gang and every Monday morning one hundred rod per man was measured off for our weeks work. The ground was hard to work and we were not able to accomplish the task, upon one occasion 15 of the gang received 25 lashes each for not performing it. I escaped from being on the sick list, besides which it was sometimes the custom to stop our allowance of tea and sugar if the task was not completed. It is impossible to do 100 rod in a week on new ground such as we had to work. We tried to do it but could not. We have even got to work in the morning before the Bugle sounded for work to try what we could do but with our utmost efforts from day break to sun set we could not succeed. Our rations are good. We have no complaints on that account. Harris, Flyn and Ward corroborate this statement. John Austin states - I was employed with two others to put up fences, that is not my trade - I am a sawyer. We were tasked to do 20 rod of rail per week, to cut and split the stuff and mortice and put it up. It is more than any three men can do. On remonstrating with Mr. Dawson, he said we must do even more. Remanded for a further hearing
Surname:
Kernon (Kearnon) (Indigenous)
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Singleton district. To be sent for trial for stealing a saddle belonging to Robert and Helenus Scott
Surname:
Kerns (Indigenous)
Details:
Employed driving a dray by C.E. Doyle
Surname:
King (Indigenous)
Details:
Honora King, the young aboriginal woman who was sfined 10s or forty eight hours in the cells, in the police court, for using profane language, is said to be the daughter of the well known King Billy of Port Stephens
Surname:
King Ben (Indigenous)
Source:
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the ..., Volume 2 By Charles Wilkes
Details:
During our travellers stay, two natives of some note arrived: King Ben and King Shingleman. The natives had no distinctions of rank among themselves, but when a native had performed any great service for one of the settlers, he was rewarded by giving him a large oval brass plate, with his royal title inscribed thereon. At first the natives were greatly pleased and proud of this mark of distinction, but as is the case every where, when the novelty was over, and these honorary medals became common, they began to hold them in disrepute, and now prefer the hard silver.
Surname:
King Ben (Indigenous)
Source:
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the ..., Volume 2 By Charles Wilkes
Details:
Inquiries for their implements of the chase and warfare, caused McGill, King Ben, and Shingleman, to set to work to furbish up their arms, including spears, shields, boomerengs, clubs, &c The natives are seldom seen without arms, for they have not only to fear attacks from other tribes, but assaults from their own. This not unfrequently happens; and it is not long since the brother of King Ben was speared while asleep, for some private grudge, by Dismal; and it is said that Big-headed Blackboy, who has already been introduced to the reader, has committed several murders, and not long since burnt his mother nearly to death, in revenge for the loss of his brother, who died whilst under her care. This was not because he had any suspicions of unfair conduct, but simply from one of the unaccountable customs or superstitions of these people, which holds the nearest relative of a person accountable for his death, if it takes place under his care
Surname:
King Ben (Kungkamama) (Indigenous)
Details:
Chief of the Lake Macquarie tribe
Surname:
King Billy (Indigenous)
Details:
Some little time back a paragraph appeared in the columns of the Sydney Mail relating to the death of Old Charley, an Australian aboriginal aged 118 years. Our travelling representative has secured his latest photograph taken by Mr. McNeil of Kempsey. The taller one of the two blacks in the illustration and standing by Charlies side is King Billy whose age is nearly a century and who is alive and well (in 1902)
Surname:
King Billy (Indigenous)
Details:
An enlarged photo of King Billy of Bulladelah was on view, and attached to it was the shield or tablet commemorating the old aboriginals coronation by the people of Bullahdelah in 1867
Surname:
King Billy (Indigenous)
Details:
Correspondence from Billy Bonner, the son of King Billy re the liklihood of discovering gold
Surname:
King Billy (Indigenous)
Place:
Port Stephens - Newcastle
Details:
KING BILLY.—Newcastle has been honoured with a visit from his Majesty King Billy, of Port Stephens, in the interests of his subjects, and has resulted in an order from the Government for the supply of a large fishing boat, with all the necessary gear. Her Majesty Queen Bungaree succumbed recently to senility, and Billy has just taken to himself wife number two, whom he states fills her new position with honour to the tribe.
