Surname:
Wallaby Joe (Indigenous)
Source:
An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales by John Dunmore Lang. p. 341
Details:
I had frequently inquired of intelligent settlers residing on one or other of the three rivers in the district of Hunters River, what the native names of these rivers were; and I confess I was not a little surprised to find that none of them had ever had the curiosity to ascertain them, or could give me any information on the subject. I happened, however, when riding alone in the district one day, many years ago, to overtake a solitary black native, who was travelling in the same direction, and whose name, he told me, was Wallaby Joe—a name which had probably been given him by some of the convict-servants of the neighbouring settlers. I found him rather an intelligent and somewhat communicative personage; for, on asking him, among a variety of other questions bearing on the native mythology, the native names of the three rivers, he immediately told me that the main, or Hunters River was called Coquun; the first branch, or Williams River, Dooribang; and the second, or Pattersons River, Yimmang.
Surname:
Wallambrah (Indigenous)
Place:
Ourianbah, 16 miles from Maitland
Source:
Town and Country Journal 29 April 1871
Details:
In 1828 the great chief Wallambrah while residing on the verdant slopes of Ourianbah, distant about sixteen miles from Maitland issued a proclamation to the surrounding tribes that he would hold a Boorah when the third moon from that time had reached its fifteenth day
Surname:
Wallinga (Wallings) (Indigenous)
Details:
Sentenced to 3yrs on the roads for stealing flour, sugar, tea belonging to W.C. Wentworth
Surname:
Wallings (Jemmy the Policeman) (Indigenous)
Details:
Aboriginal. To be tried at Maitland Quarter Sessions for robbing a store
Surname:
Wambush Jerry (Indigenous)
Source:
Registers of Coroners Inquests and Magisterial Inquiries (Ancestry)
Details:
Accidentally shot by Joseph Kelly
Surname:
Wandoman (Indigenous)
Source:
The Present state of Australia: A Description of the Country,etc ...Robert Dawson. p. 16
Details:
On our journey we fell in with a wild, fierce-looking man, about the middle age, with two slender, interesting looking youths, named Wandoman and Booramee, apparently about twelve years of age
Surname:
Waratah Camping Reserve (Indigenous)
Details:
Reminiscences of T. Bray....As a boy of six or seven, Mr. Braye mingled with aborigines at the blacks camping reserve at Waratah - a triangular piece of land bounded by Turton Road, Station St. and the railway fence. This is how Mr. Braye recalled the incident....The Port Stephens blacks coming by way of Raymond Terrace were met at Waratah by the blacks from the western end of Lake Maccquarie, who came via Wallsend and thence by a track leading past what is now Braye Park to the camping reserve. They came about twice a year for their rations which were issued at Newcastle. I have seen them throwing the come back boomerang and playing about like children. At that time there were a number of children who had come to Australia from England with their parents but the blacks particularly the Port Stephens blacks would have nothing to do with them. With Australian born children it was quite different. One of them made me a present of what is known as a bull roarer. You twisted it around quickly and it made a moaning sound like a bull. The blacks called us native children my little countley men.
Surname:
Ward (Indigenous)
Source:
Australia Birth Index (Ancestry)
Details:
Son of Anne and Richard . Birth registered at Whittingham
Surname:
Warfare (Indigenous)
Details:
THE BLACKS.—Great hostilities have long existed and still exist among the different tribes of the aborigines in this quarter, to the great annoyance of the authorities, and continual jeopardy on the part of the natives. Some few nights back a body of blacks from the Dungog and Gloucester tribes came to a camp of the Stroud and Booral tribes in the dead hour of the night, and having first fired a gun to awaken and alarm, immedi- ately discharged a volley of musketry and spears into the camp, and killed one man and wounded five others, among whom was a woman and a boy. This is the eighth murder committed by these savages within the last five months, nor is it likely to end with this. Orders have been given by the magistrates to the police to disarm all the natives found with firearms, till such time as a reconciliation can be effected among them.
Surname:
Waterhole (Indigenous)
Details:
Newcastle....On the sandy flat behind the town, toward the interior the blacks also obtain fine water, by digging to the depth of three or four feet, while in a brick hole at the bottom of a gully facing in that direction, water has been retained through the whole of the drought, only requiring it to be more deeply excavated, and screened from the sun and wind, to form an inexhaustible tank
Surname:
Waterman (Colganegan) (Indigenous)
Place:
District of Port Stephens and Gloucester
Source:
Return of Aboriginal Natives taken on 19 July 1836 in the district of Port Stephens and Gloucester. Hunter Living Histories Online
Details:
Waterman (Aboriginal name Colganegan). Of the Seal Rock tribe
Surname:
Wattle (Indigenous)
Source:
DUNGOG LETTERS - COPIES OF LETTERS SENT 1839/42 AONSW Reel No. 2679
Details:
Captured bushrangers Thomas Fry and David Wooton
Surname:
Watty (Indigenous)
Details:
Aboriginal native who guided Rev. John Dunmore Lang on an expedition from Stroud to the Manning River in November 1850. Watty was eloquent in illustrating his narrative of a fight amongst the aborigines by pointing with his own spear and using as much gesticulation as a Frenchman.
Surname:
Waukivory (Indigenous)
Source:
The Dungog Chronicle
Details:
Waukivory - Aboriginal meaning scene of tribal fight between coastal blacks and the Kalooks, the tribe of the Gloucester-Barrington district. Legend states that it was a very important affray because it decided which tribe held this very fine hunting ground. The Kalooks won
Surname:
Weakeye (Indigenous)
Details:
Distribution of blankets to the Aborigines - Port Stephens Wingle 1; Joe and wife Nancy, 2; Weakeye and wife 2; Robert 1; Jem 1; John and wife and daughter 3.
Surname:
Wellington (Indigenous)
Details:
Fryingpan and Wellington - placed at the bar at Maitland Circuit Court but removed on the affidavit of Commissioner Maine as an interpreter could not be found
Surname:
Wellington (Indigenous)
Details:
Brought to Maitland Circuit Court from the Gwydir. Sentenced to 10 yrs in penal settlement for being found with others of his tribe killing a cow belonging to William Scott of Richmond
Surname:
Whip-em-up (Indigenous) Brisbane Water
Source:
R v. Monkey & Others
Details:
Aboriginal arraigned for burglary in the house of Alfred Hill Jacques. Found not guilty
Surname:
Whip-em-up (Indigenous) Brisbane Water
Details:
Aborigine convicted of felony and sentence of death recorded against him
Surname:
Whip-em-up (Indigenous) Brisbane Water
Source:
Gosford and the Kendall Country p22
Details:
Apprehended by Miles McGrath and Thomas Swan and taken to Sydney
