Surname:
McGill (Indigenous)
First Name:
Little McGill
Details:
Of the Lake Macquarie tribe
Surname:
McGill (Indigenous)
First Name:
Little McGill
Details:
Billy Blue and Little McGill taught to read and write in their own tongue but disposed to wander
Surname:
McGill (Indigenous) (Beerabahn) (Biraban)
Details:
Guided James Backhouse to Rev. Threlkeld s missionary at Lake Macquarie
Surname:
McGill (Indigenous) (Biraban)
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.
Surname:
McGill (Indigenous) (Biraban)
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
Surname:
McGill (Indigenous) (Biraban)
Details:
Rarely visits Rev. Threlkeld at Lake Macquare, preferrring to stay in Newcastle
Surname:
McGill (Indigenous) (Biraban)
Details:
A chief of the Lake Macquarie tribe and Rev. Threlkelds assistant
Surname:
McQuarrie (Macquarie) (Indigenous)
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 138 (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol. Sentenced to 24 hours hard labour. Discharged 8 August
Surname:
McQuarrie (Macquarrie) (Macquarie) (Indigenous)
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 757
Details:
Sent to Newcastle gaol under sentence of 24 hours hard labour
Surname:
Mellon (Indigenous)
Details:
The women who accompanied the rash adventure from Newcastle a few days since got into Parramatta; their names, Susannah Danford, Mary Murphy and Ann Gooder. Their travel through the woods was attended as might be expected with every vicissitude of famine and fatigue. The body of natives by whom they were stripped consisted of several hundreds; who departing from their accustomed hospitality to travellers within their power, were content with plundering them .This mark of extreme forbearance was owing to the friendly interference of one of the Newcastle natives among the number, who had received civility from one of the deplorable travellers and in return afforded his protection. This fellow distinguished by the name of Mellon was still further induced by a sense of gratitude to to past obligation, to assist them with part of a kangaroo, when sinking under extreme hunger.
Surname:
Melville (Indigenous)
Details:
Hunted by chief of the Glendon tribe Jemmy
Surname:
Melville (Indigenous)
Source:
Maitland Mercury 18 August 1877
Details:
Reminiscences of days gone by.a....description of a fight between King George of Cawarra and his tribe and Melville and his tribe (This was the same Melville who would be hung in Maitland in later years)
Surname:
Melville (Indigenous)
Source:
State Archives NSW; Roll: 757 Ancestry.com NSW Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details:
Melville and Harry admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland on a charge of wilful murder
Surname:
Memorial (Indigenous)
Source:
The Voice of the North
Details:
A very interesting ceremony will take place at Sandgate cemetery in the near future when the memorial to the last of the Hawkesbury tribe of aboriginals will be unveiled. A movement is also on the tapis to mark the final resting place of the last of the Awabakal people
Surname:
Messengers (Indigenous)
Details:
MESSENGERS. The carrying of messages from one tribe to another in the early days was an important matter for the aboriginals. This was done particularly when the tribes were being summoned to a bumbat, and in different districts different methods wore observed. The practice of the Kamilaroi tribes may be taken as that of the tribes that lived nearest to Maitland some seventy or eighty years ago. In each clan there was one man who, was a herald and had an official designation. He was well known in all the adjoining tribes and could go with safety between them, even when they were at war. When sent as an envoy to the enemies camp he might have to wait for a night to bring back a message from them. While there he made a camp by him self a little distance from their encampment. These heralds, being well known, did not need to carry any badge or emblem of office, but if a black were employed as a white man s messenger, the message was written on a piece of paper which was fastened in the end of a split stick. Carrying this before him he might pass safely through the enemy s country because he was seen to be the white man s messenger, and if any harm were done him the tribe of the white man would be angry. With the Gringal, wrote Mr Boydell, a messenger could pass in safety from one tribe to another. A red coloured net was worn round the forehead if the messenger were on an errand to summon the tribes, together for a bumbat, or for any other great occasion such as a council of war. It was customary for a messenger, when within sound of the camp that was his destination to give a particular coo-ee. Immediately this is heard the whole tribe gathered together to hear what he had to say, but not a word was spoken to him until he thought it proper to deliver his message. Sometimes, for the sake of effect probably, the herald would sit silent for hours. When, however, he unburdened his mind his eloquence was wonderful and he was listened to with the greatest attention. No message Sticks were used in this tribe.
Surname:
Mick (Indigenous)
Details:
A large piece of land adjacent to Dr. Stacys new house has been ploughed for the first time by a young man named Mick, an aboriginal of the Maitland tribe. Considered a first rate hand at the plough
Surname:
Mickey (Bungewah) (Indigenous)
Source:
State Library of NSW. Papers relating to Aborigines in the Singleton District, Blanket for Native Blacks, Colonial Secretarys Office
Details:
Age 30. On Return of Aborigines to receive blankets
Surname:
Mickey (Indigenous)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. For trial at Supreme Court. Sent to Sydney gaol 14 January
Surname:
Mickey and Tommy (Indigenous)
Source:
Criminal Court Records. Muswellbrook Court of Petty Sessions, Letter Books, 1838-1851. Ancestry
Details:
Edward Fulman, Stockman employed by Robert Pringle. Murdered by native blacks Mickey and Tommy who afterwards burned his body
Surname:
Mickey Ugly and Maria (Indigenous)
Details:
John Chapman who co habited with Maria, a gin belonging to Mickey Ugly of the Gangal tribe on the Manning River was accused of murdering Mickey Ugly and burning his body. Maria later testified to the circumstances surrounding the killing
