Surname:
King John (Indigenous)
Details:
MURDER OF A NATIVE BLACK BY ABORIGINALS.-On Thursday (Christmas Day) an in-quest was held before Mr. Parker, at the Rose Inn, West Maitland, on the body of Jackey, a native black lad, about seventeen years old. It appeared from the evidence that Jackey had been for years in the service of Mr. Fitsimmons, of Gora, Castlereagh River, and that he had just come down the country with Mr. Fitsimmonss drays. On Wednesday Jackey received from Mr. Fitsimmons a shilling to buy some food, and sixpence from another person to buy drink ; late that evening Jackey was seen by this latter person, Patrick Rourke, then stopping at Mr. Youngs inn, the Queens Arms, West Maitland, to enter Mr Youngs yard in company with four other aboriginals (of the Maitland or Sugarloaf tribes) ; they appeared all more or less in liquor, and Rourke saw them subsequently drinking something out of a quart bottle they brought there with them; at a later hour, between ten and eleven oclock, Mr. Young being in his yard saw Murphy, a Maitland black, leaving the yard ; Mr. Young was aware there had been a number of blacks about his yard that afternoon and evening, but as the blacks make a practice of camping at the back of the yard he took no particular notice of them; Mr. Young was under the impression that all the blacks had left his yard about eight oclock. That evening being Christmas Eve, Mr. Young was up till about one oclock, his back windows being open to let in the breeze ;Stephen Balcombe, the night watchman, was about the street, and in and out of Mr. Youngs yard, on his beat, all night ; and chief constable Wood, with some policemen, were about the streets till near two oclock. None of these parties heard a noise of any kind from Mr. Youngs yard during the night, yet next morning early Jackey was found lying dead near the lower fence, having been killed by two heavy blows on the head from a waddy ; a bondi, or club, was seen near him, with marks of blood on it. As soon as the alarm was given, the police were informed, and the six following aboriginals were apprehended : Murphy, Tommy Potts, Martin, and King John, of the Maitland tribe; Jemmy and Richard Wiseman, of the Sugarloaf tribe. Some blood was seen on the clothes or skin of some of them, but nothing further was elicited to bring home the deed to either. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some aboriginals unknown. We were sorry to learn, last evening, that Jackeys body was still lying unburied at the back of Mr. Youngs yard.
Surname:
King Jonathan (Indigenous)
Source:
Dungog Chronicle 12 November 1926
Details:
Sir Edward Parry was informed by Major Sullivan from Stroud that if he gave liberal encouragement to a black called King Jonathan, he thought they might succeed in finding Nicodemus and his party who murdered Hogue some time ago
Surname:
King Jonathon (Indigenous)
Details:
Gave information to Binder and Whitmore regarding the haunts of runaway Michael Reilly
Surname:
King Malumbra (Indigenous)
Details:
A blackfellow who gave his name as King Malumbra brought in a nearly new colonial pig skin saddle which he found in the bush near Sugar Loaf. He was rewarded by the Magistrate with 5 shillings
Surname:
King Robert Fly (Indigenous)
Source:
Sydney Mail 30 August 1902
Details:
Illustrations of King Robert Fly and his wife Emily of Port Macquarie district. Robert was born on the Comboyne Mountains near the Hastings River in 1845 and was one of the oldest survivors of a tribe almost extinct known as the Bunya tribe. He was the only surviving son of Bunya Jimmy who was proud of his brass plate denoting his kingship over tribes extending from King River to Port Macquarie. Robert is passing his few femaining years with his wife at Port Macquarie mainly subsisting on charity and a little Government aid. He spent his young days on the Manning River and was a famous horsebreaker and stockman as few if any of the horses he met could unseat him provided he was free of krangi (rum). He is most trustworthy and has never been known to break his word or go back on a promise. About 20 years ago a number of strange darkies visited Port Macquarie some of them having a little money and during their spree one of the visitors tried to carry off Roberts sister Maria. Robert objected and picked up his spear and three at the culprit the spear striking fatally. Robert was arrested and sent to Sydney and after a long trial was acquitted. He returned to his old home, where he still remains. He possesses a good memory and relates ome thrilling incidents of floods that visited the manning in the early days and drowned one of his country men, the body being found high and dry in a limb of a tree after the water subsided.
Surname:
King Sandy (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:
King Shingleman (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 Tom (Indigenous)
Details:
Reminiscences - King Tom of Dunmore whose experience must have gone back fifty or sixty years never saw the site on which the Dunmore Steam mills covered by flood water. There was always a portion of dry land there though it had been frequently surrounded and the space but limited. It was cusomary for the blacks to visit the place in flood time as the spot then would swarm with wild animals of all descriptions which fell an easy prey
Surname:
King Tom (Indigenous)
Details:
Subscription List to the Patriotic Fund in the district of Maitland - King Tom of Dunmore donated two pair wild ducks
Surname:
King Tom (Indigenous)
Source:
Hunter Estates Comparative Heritage Study
Details:
A rectangular sandstone memorial block cut out in the shape of a tomb stone that is inscribed (carved) with the word Sacred on the back of the block, and on the front engraved in 2cm high letters is King Tom Died December 1875. This is likely to be the same man who told a correspondent of a favoured camping spot on a levee overlooking the river when in floods nearby to Dunmore House in the 1820s. The suspected burial site is in an open paddock a short distance to the north of Bolwarra House. The location of this land on the Hunter River bank would have been within the land grant made to John Brown in 1822
Surname:
King Tom (Indigenous)
Source:
Hunter Estates Comparative Heritage Study
Details:
An image of a King Tom of Dunmore, Maitland dated September 1861 is held in the State Library of NSW.
Surname:
Kirby (Indigenous)
Source:
Australia Birth Index (Ancestry)
Details:
Father s name Henry. Birth registered at Scone
Surname:
Kitty (Cownanah) (Indigenous)
Source:
State Library of NSW. Papers relating to Aborigines in the Singleton District, Blanket for Native Blacks, Colonial Secretarys Office
Details:
Age 21. On Return of Aborigines to receive blankets
Surname:
Kitty (Esewingra) (Indigenous)
Source:
State Library of NSW. Papers relating to Aborigines in the Singleton District, Blanket for Native Blacks, Colonial Secretarys Office
Details:
Age 22. On Return of Aborigines to receive blankets
Surname:
Kitty (Indigenous)
Place:
from the Newcastle tribe
Source:
Macquarie University. Original Documents on Aborigines and Law, 1797-1840. Correspondence of Rev. Threlkeld
Details:
Document 66....Three Black women named Kitty, Yellow Mary Ann and Pinkey all belonging to Newcastle had been taken up the country by the A.A. Co drays to the station at Liverpool Plains.
Surname:
Kitty (Indigenous)
Details:
Reminiscences of Nelsons Plains.....As a boy going to school there it was common to see the aboriginals of all ages passing along the road to camp on the uplands of Nelsons Plains and there exists a waterhole there called Kittys waterhole after a black woman who died there
Surname:
Kitty (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:
Kitty (Indigenous) Brisbane Water
Source:
Newcastle Morning Herald
Details:
In an account of the life of Old Margaret of Lake Macquarie, Robert Talbot mentioned Kitty of the Wyong tribe as a relative of old Margaret
Surname:
Kotera Jackey (Indigenous)
Place:
Gloucester district
Details:
Reward offered. Wanted for the murder of 5 men on Mackenzie s station. Wore a white linen shirt
Surname:
Kotra Jackey (Kotera Jackey (Indigenous)
Source:
Dungog Chronicle 1 December 1905
Details:
The following letters, addressed by D.F. Mackay to the Attorney General on 29th January 1836 - Sir, I do myself the honor to transmit original depositions taken before this court relative to the two native blacks named Kotra (Kotera) Jackey and Jemmy, who were committed to take their trial as two of the gang of blacks who committed so many outrages and murdered George Mackenzies men in May last. Kotra Jackey is one for whom a reward is offered by the Government 9vide Gazette 3rd June 1835)
