Surname:
King Billy (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 Bobby (Indigenous)
Source:
DUNGOG LETTERS - COPIES OF LETTERS SENT 1839/42 AONSW Reel No. 2679
Details:
Captured bushrangers Thomas Fry and David Wooton
Surname:
King Bobby (Indigenous)
Source:
The Dungog Chronicle
Details:
On 6th January 1841, Captain Thomas Cook sent depositions to the Colonial Secretary re the case of a convict being sent to the treadmill in Sydney for 2 months and deprived of his ticket of leave for bringing a false charge of assault and robbery against an aborigine named King Bobby (Dungog Chronicle 29 December 1905)
Surname:
King Bully (King Bulli?) (Indigenous)
Source:
Windross, John, & Ralston, J.P., Historical Records of Newcastle 1797 - 1897, Newcastle, Federal Printing and Bookbinding Works, p. 32
Details:
In 1857, King Bully the last of the kings of the Newcastle tribes of aboriginals, died, and was buried close to the camp. King Bully left a piccaninnie named Kitty who subsequently became a notorious character
Surname:
King Cockey (Indigenous)
Details:
Poor old King Cockey, the last of this districts aborigines has gone to the happy hunting grounds. He was about town only a couple of days before his death. He was then complaining of being bad but no one thought that King Cockey was out for the last time. His death was from natural decay and no doubt the wet and cold weather we have had lately greatly hastened his end.
Surname:
King Cockey (Indigenous)
Source:
Australian Town and Country Journal
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KING COCKEY.-For many years an identity of Singleton was King Cockey. Who by appearance at once claimed the attention of strangers. About 4ft high, and clad usually in a costume consisting of a policemans helmet, a volunteers jacket, and other articles very evidently not made for him, and his manly bosom ornamented with a brass shield bearing the legend Cockey, King of Oswald, this imposing personage would claim a toll of sixpence from all whom he met. Thankful when he got his toll, and uncomplaining when he didnt, Cockey pursued the even tenor of his way until last Friday night, when he gazed his last on his kingdom. King Cockey is dead, and apparently has left no successor to his unsubstantial throne. It may be mentioned that, on the occasion of Lord Carringtons visit to Maitland, Cockey personally welcomed the Governor, and had the honor of shaking hands with him. He did not neglect to ask his Lordship for sixpence, which he got
Surname:
King Cockey (Indigenous)
Source:
King Plates: A History of Aboriginal Gorgets By Jakelin Troy
Details:
Cockey, Chief of Wooleroo, Hunter Valley, rewarded with a Gorget
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King Darby (Indigenous)
Details:
King Darby captured by Constable Conway after he stole a chicken
Surname:
King George (Indigenous)
Place:
Paterson river district
Details:
George, King of Cawarra was a universal favourite among the whites, and held more influence over his countrymen than any other chief in the dsitrict from the period to which I have referred. He had been very severely wounded on one occasion by a young man whom he had approached under the idea that he was unarmed; but the artful fellow had trailed a spear along the ground, keeping it from view held between his toes, until he was within throwing distance. It struck George in the foot, just below the ancle and went right through. He broke it off and managed to reach the residence of Dr. Scott, the original prorieter of Wallalong who succeeded in extracting it. Poor George was, however, lamed for life. It was not ver ylong after this that he was attacked in camp at night by some Maitland blacks and had his jaw smashed with a waddie.
Surname:
King George (Indigenous)
Place:
Paterson river district
Source:
Hunter Estates Comparative Heritage Study
Details:
It is probable King George who was described at a ritual in the late 1820s or early 1830s at a place between Dunmore House and Bolwarra also had traditional attachments to land around Gresford where Henry Lindeman had by 1843 established his 800 acre property he named Cawarra. The correspondent in the 1877 recollection also wrote George held more influence over his country-men than any other chief in the district, from the period to which I have referred, and adds he had employed George one time in pulling corn. Little more is known about George other than his dress at the time consisted solely of a swallow-tailed blue cloth coat, with brass buttons, and an old tall black hat which had a look that George appeared more pleased than angry at the laugh which his singular appearance, thus apparelled, created.
Surname:
King George (Indigenous)
Place:
South Grafton, Clarence River
Source:
King Plates: A History of Aboriginal Gorgets By Jakelin Troy
Details:
Rewarded with a Gorget.
Surname:
King Gorman (Indigenous)
Details:
Aborigine at Maitland. Bowed to Sir Charles Fitzroy as he passed by
Surname:
King Henry (Indigenous)
Source:
State Archives NSW; Roll: 2371. Source Ancestry.com. NSW, Gaol Description Books, 1818-1930
Details:
Admitted to Maitland gaol from Singleton. Occupation shepherd. Age 50. 4ft 10in. Scars on breast and both arms. Spear marks left side, scar on forehead
Surname:
King Jackey (Indigenous)
Details:
Five aboriginal natives of the Namoi and Big River tribes named Sandy, Billy, Jemmy, Cooper and King Jackey were found guilty of stealing from the dwelling house of John Brown, John Hector and Edward Trimmer, at the Namoi on 16 March 1839, clothing, pistols, blankets, gunpowder flour etc
Surname:
King Jacky (Indigenous)
Place:
Werris Creek, southwest Tamworth
Source:
King Plates: A History of Aboriginal Gorgets By Jakelin Troy
Details:
King Jacky of Werris Creek, Tamworth rewarded with a Gorget
Surname:
King James (Indigenous)
Source:
King Plates: A History of Aboriginal Gorgets By Jakelin Troy
Details:
King James of Baelpin, Patrick Plains rewarded with a gorget
Surname:
King Jerry (Indigenous)
Source:
The Grafton Examiner
Details:
Description of Jerry, King of the tribe near Merton c. 1825 in the Memoirs of Mrs. Ellen Bundock.......Amongst my recollections of my childhood was playing with my brother, Fred, outside the house when, on looking up, we suddenly saw the whole hill covered with blacks, all armed to the teeth except the King or Chief Jerry, who was most amiable to us—a fine dignified looking man. He was clothed in an opossum skin rug and strips of fur found the loins and kept shaking hands with each of us in turn to convince his subjects that he was on friendly terms with us. Our father was absent in Sydney just then, so our mother was alone with us children and only a few men convicts about the place. The only weapon the chief had was a waddy stuck in his belt, which was worn on all occasions by the natives...The Grafton Examiner 2 April 1932
Surname:
King Jerry (Indigenous)
Source:
Mission Life: Or Home and Foreign Church Work, Volume 5 -
Details:
Recollections of Ministerial Work in the Diocese of Newcastle by Rev. Boodle.....My first attempt was to learn the language; but it was not very successful. I found one of the survivors of the Merton tribe, King Jerry; who, from intercourse with the white man, had picked up a fair stockpf broken English: and I agreed with him that he should teach me, and I was to give him a dinner each time. The first lesson was short, and Jerry was well satisfied: the second time I kept him about an hour, which proved altogether too much for his patience. As we sat in the verandah be continually stopped me to ask, When you give me what you promise me. He looked wistfully towards the kitchen to see if the cook was coming; and showed every symptom of weariness.When his dinner arrived he did full justice to it; but he avoided me for the future, and I had no more teaching from King Jerry.
Surname:
King Jetto (Indigenous)
Source:
King Plates: A History of Aboriginal Gorgets By Jakelin Troy
Details:
King Jetto of Wallumbi rewarded with a Gorget
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King Joe (Cobban Joe) and Queen Maria (Indigenous)
Source:
The Scone Advocate 16 November 1920
Details:
Recollections of Ernest Docker - I knew King Joe and his Queen Maria very well as a child. The headquarters of the tribe were at Yarrandi or Puen Buen but they paid periodical visits to Thornthwaite, camping on the hill at the bakc of the house. I dont remember the lettering of the crescent that Joe wore but his title was prounced Cobban, or Coggong (i.e. big) Joe. They always received tribue of flour and tea and sugar and in return they would bring wild honey a gift that was not always quite appreciated, consisting as it did of a mass of honeycomb mixed with the larvae of the bees. The vessel containing it was called if I recollect aright, a coolibah and piece of bak cut from the hump of an apple tree. I was a special favourite of Cobban Joe and he used to make boomerangs for me suited for left handed throwing. His tools were a tomahawk and the blade of a broken pair of sheep shears the point of which was sharpened for use as a gouge. The blacks always carried their weapons with them. There were plenty of the mountain or myall in our neighborhood and the weeping or violet scented myall on the other side of the Liverpool Range to supply suitable timber for their boomerangs, waddies, nullah nullahs and shields. But it was always a puzzle to me where they got matieral for their spears from. They were of myall but I had never seen any myall growing in sapling form. Many years afterwards on the top of the almost inaccessible Crag of the Gins, in the Nandewar Range, I found a thicket of myall, straight and slender exactly suitable for spears. Of course there may have been similar thickets nearer at hand. I eventually lost sight of my old friend. I have been informed that he became insane and died at Satur. I can remember when a child hearing a rumour of an impending fight between the Darbrook tribe and another, I think the Warrah across the Liverpool Range and I was most anxious to be a spectator. I was bitterly disappointed when I was told that I could not be permitted. However the combat did not eventuate. One evening I came to their camp at supper time. An opossum which the hunters brought in was flung on the fire and roasted in its skin. It was then torn in pieces. the entrails, evidently considered the tit-bit fell to the lot of Cobban Joe. The other men appropriated the limbs and after most of the meat had been gnawed off the bones were passed to the women and children. The dogs did the final polishing.
