Second Wiradjuri War and Resistance
Listen:
- The War on Wiradjuri has never ended | The Blak Lens | NITV, Dec 17, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asq-RPvPyWo
(The focus of this documentary is on the First Wiradjuri War, but is also relevant to this conflict)
Notes:
This conflict, in the south of Wiradjuri country came after the well known First Wiradjuri War or 'Bathurst War' to the north. It was part of one of the major phases of the Australian Wars throughout the south east of the continent, from south east Queensland to Victoria, starting in the late 1830s, and through to the 1850s and 60s, as colonists expanded rapidly in all directions from the earlier settlements. This conflict is closely connected to conflict along the overland route or 'south road' (now the Hume Highway) from south Wiradjuri (upper Murrumbidgee) through Yorta Yorta (upper Murray) to Kulin country (Port Philip/Melbourne). It is also closely connected to conflict on the overland route to Adelaide, along the lower Murrumbidgee and lower Murray where many languages are spoken around Tar Ru and Millewa-Mallee. The resistance involved many raids on stock, huts and people by groups of warriors, which met with lethal reprisals. One of the main leaders of this resistance was dubbed 'Buonaparte' by colonists. Similar to 'Blucher' in the First Wiradjuri War, colonists most likely named him after a famous European general, in recognition of his leadership. Another was 'Brian Boru', named after a medieval High King of Ireland. Colonists at the time referred to this conflict as a 'war', some saying it should be admitted as such by the government.
People
The following identifies some people involved in this conflict. More may be found in other sources, and may be recorded in Indigenous knowledge, and may be added to this list in future. Please contact us with additions or corrections.
If an individual or group is mentioned more than once in an article, only one instance from that article is referenced. If they are mentioned in more than one article there is a record for each article. Links are provided to the article to read the full account. The sentence quoted may contain poor quality uncorrected text from Trove OCR.
The 'people' field indicates the people, country, nation or language group, as specifically as possible, and is marked with a questi on mark if it's unclear. In many cases, due to colonists limited knowledge, this is inferred from the description and the region. For example, colonist may simply mention 'blacks' or 'Murrimbidgee blacks'. If the event was in Wiradjuri country, or given the Murrumbidgee is in Wiradjuri country, and Wiradjuri is the preferred present day term, then Wiradjuri is assumed.
Listed are:
- Named Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander people. This includes people involved in violent action, or in some other way involved, such as messengers or informants. In many cases only the colonists' name for the person is available. The 'people' field indicates the people, country, nation or language group, as specifically as possible, and is marked with a question mark if it's unclear.
- Unnamed individuals or groups of people. We have attempted to be as specific as possible. If a group is mentioned, we indicate that group, then if an individual is mentioned, we also list that individual. These numbers should not be tallied to arrive at a total, as that would result in double counting. Estimates of numbers of people effected, of combatants directly involved in action, or of non-combatant victims, should be derived from population estimates and understanding of cultural roles, as well as information in sources.
- Colonists involved in the conflict. This list includes people whose stock, runs or huts were raided, or were involved in violent actions. In most cases colonists are named. In some cases someone involved may be referred to by their role only or as belonging to a run, or the owner of the run, eg: 'a shepherd' or 'stockman of Mr Smith's run'.
Named Aboriginal People
| True Name | AKA | Source Quote | Date of Mention | Citation | URL | Note | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | Billy | SIR-I have to inform you that this day before sunrise, anout one hundred of the Mullinbudgee Blacks appeared at this place in search of the Warwick Blacks; but not finding any of them here, they made their way to your station, where they found Taylor, Billy, Budger, John Watterman and two gins, who took shelter in your house. | 1836-01-30 | The Native Blacks. (1836, January 30). The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved August 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | Aboriginal? | |
| unknown | Billy Billy | He soon returned to his own territory ; and after a short stay there, pre- ceeded to the Murrumbidgee, where his son, a prince of the blood, "' Bills Billy," resides with a gentle- man, King Charles states, that when he got to Shoalhlaven he found all the blacks very sick, and a vast number of them died ; and that the suvivors piled the bodlies in heaps and burned them. | 1839-02-13 | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | Son of 'King Charles' of Tolwong Tribe (Gundungurra) | Tolwong Tribe, Gundungurra |
| unknown | Billy the Ram | On Friday the 8th instant, a tribe of them went to Messrs Hurley and Fennell's sheep station, and tbree, named, Billy the Ram, Jackey Williams, and Buonaparte, followed the shepherd until about one o'clock in the day, when they collared him, threw him down, two held him down whilst the other stood over him with a tomahawk threatening his life, whilst the others proceeded to rush the flock : they took three wethers away beside wounding some others with their spears and tomahawks, dividing the flock into three parts ; and three others, named, John Dilla, Johnny Murphy, and Yoyoe Mickey, Mr Ryan's stock- keeper found killing, a cow. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | Wiradjuri warrior | |
| unknown | Brian Boru | He states that the murder took place not at ‘Bangus”, but at a branch station about 40 miles farther down the River; that the body was found in the state described in Mr. William’s letter to me; that a well known Tribe of Blacks indigenous to that neighbourhood were known to have been on the spot on the morning of the murder as well as for several days previously; that amongst them was a very remarkable Black known by the name of “Brian Boru”, who, amongst other peculiarities, has a foot of very great length (14 inches at least, and of proportionate breadth); that the marks of this foot were distinctly seen on the ashes of the Hut and round about by several persons the same day the murder was committed; that this Tribe have not made their appearance since in the neighbourhood, but are known to have gone farther down the River; and, lastly, that, owing to the great scarcity of water, the Tribe in question are, in his opinion, certainly to be met with on its Banks, and at no great distance. | 1839-01-18 | Letter – Hardy to Thomson, 18 January 1839; AONSW Reel 1912, CSO 4/2470.4; 20-22. | Aboriginal? | ||
| unknown | Budger | SIR-I have to inform you that this day before sunrise, anout one hundred of the Mullinbudgee Blacks appeared at this place in search of the Warwick Blacks; but not finding any of them here, they made their way to your station, where they found Taylor, Billy, Budger, John Watterman and two gins, who took shelter in your house. | 1836-01-30 | The Native Blacks. (1836, January 30). The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved August 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | Aboriginal? | |
| unknown | Buonaparte | On Friday the 8th instant, a tribe of them went to Messrs Hurley and Fennell's sheep station, and tbree, named, Billy the Ram, Jackey Williams, and Buonaparte, followed the shepherd until about one o'clock in the day, when they collared him, threw him down, two held him down whilst the other stood over him with a tomahawk threatening his life, whilst the others proceeded to rush the flock : they took three wethers away beside wounding some others with their spears and tomahawks, dividing the flock into three parts ; and three others, named, John Dilla, Johnny Murphy, and Yoyoe Mickey, Mr Ryan's stock- keeper found killing, a cow. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | Wiradjuri resistance leader. | |
| unknown | Buonaparte | They collarred the shepherd in the bush, about one o'clock in the day, knocked him down, and one of them, whom he states to be Bonsparte, stood over him with a tomahawk, whilst two others kept him down, threatening his life ; he knows all of them well; they then took three of the wethers, killed them, wounded more with spears and sent them all over the place. | 1839-08-29 | THE BLACKS. (1839, August 29). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36860110 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36860110 | Wiradjuri resistance leader. | |
| unknown | Jackey Williams | On Friday the 8th instant, a tribe of them went to Messrs Hurley and Fennell's sheep station, and tbree, named, Billy the Ram, Jackey Williams, and Buonaparte, followed the shepherd until about one o'clock in the day, when they collared him, threw him down, two held him down whilst the other stood over him with a tomahawk threatening his life, whilst the others proceeded to rush the flock : they took three wethers away beside wounding some others with their spears and tomahawks, dividing the flock into three parts ; and three others, named, John Dilla, Johnny Murphy, and Yoyoe Mickey, Mr Ryan's stock- keeper found killing, a cow. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | Wiradjuri warrior | |
| unknown | John Dilla | On Friday the 8th instant, a tribe of them went to Messrs Hurley and Fennell's sheep station, and tbree, named, Billy the Ram, Jackey Williams, and Buonaparte, followed the shepherd until about one o'clock in the day, when they collared him, threw him down, two held him down whilst the other stood over him with a tomahawk threatening his life, whilst the others proceeded to rush the flock : they took three wethers away beside wounding some others with their spears and tomahawks, dividing the flock into three parts ; and three others, named, John Dilla, Johnny Murphy, and Yoyoe Mickey, Mr Ryan's stock- keeper found killing, a cow. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | Wiradjuri warrior | |
| unknown | John Watterman | SIR-I have to inform you that this day before sunrise, anout one hundred of the Mullinbudgee Blacks appeared at this place in search of the Warwick Blacks; but not finding any of them here, they made their way to your station, where they found Taylor, Billy, Budger, John Watterman and two gins, who took shelter in your house. | 1836-01-30 | The Native Blacks. (1836, January 30). The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved August 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | Aboriginal? | |
| unknown | Johnny Murphy | On Friday the 8th instant, a tribe of them went to Messrs Hurley and Fennell's sheep station, and tbree, named, Billy the Ram, Jackey Williams, and Buonaparte, followed the shepherd until about one o'clock in the day, when they collared him, threw him down, two held him down whilst the other stood over him with a tomahawk threatening his life, whilst the others proceeded to rush the flock : they took three wethers away beside wounding some others with their spears and tomahawks, dividing the flock into three parts ; and three others, named, John Dilla, Johnny Murphy, and Yoyoe Mickey, Mr Ryan's stock- keeper found killing, a cow. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | Wiradjuri warrior | |
| unknown | King Charles | King Charles, of the Tolwong tribe, Argyle contry, lately vbilted his brother potentate near the Sholhaveun river. | 1839-02-13 | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | Tolwong leader (Gundungurra?) visited Shoulhaven, then Murrumbidgee where his son Billy Billy lived. | Tolwong Tribe, Gundungurra |
| unknown | Mudnilly | I cannot accurately answer this question; but I may state in general terms, that the amount of daily labour of the Aborigines, fall far short of that of the European; I may here observe that in answer to Q. 2, I have stated that none of the natives have continued in constant employment ; I shall state one exception, an Aboriginal Native (son of the chief of the district) remained with me upwards of 2 years ; he was latterly employed in the kitchen and to wait at table, in which latter capacity he acted when his Lordship the Bishop of Australia did me the honor of a visit ; I certainly thought that he was civi- lized, but after having obtained possession of a new suit of clothes, &c, he left the place about midnight, and the next time I saw Mudnilly, he was (perhaps more becomingly) dressed as a savage chief ; he evidently preferred a precarious existence —perfectly uncontrolled—to every comfort in a state of thraldom. | 1841-11-06 | COUNCIL PAPERS. (1841, November 6). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | Gundungurra? | Aboriginal |
| unknown | Taylor | They likewise took the sad dle sheets off your hut and speared Taylor in the back. | 1836-01-30 | The Native Blacks. (1836, January 30). The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved August 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | Aboriginal? | |
| unknown | Yoyoe Mickey | On Friday the 8th instant, a tribe of them went to Messrs Hurley and Fennell's sheep station, and tbree, named, Billy the Ram, Jackey Williams, and Buonaparte, followed the shepherd until about one o'clock in the day, when they collared him, threw him down, two held him down whilst the other stood over him with a tomahawk threatening his life, whilst the others proceeded to rush the flock : they took three wethers away beside wounding some others with their spears and tomahawks, dividing the flock into three parts ; and three others, named, John Dilla, Johnny Murphy, and Yoyoe Mickey, Mr Ryan's stock- keeper found killing, a cow. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | Wiradjuri warrior |
Unnamed Aboriginal People
| Unnamed People | People/Country/Nation/ Language Group | Number | Accuracy | Date Of Mention | Source Quote | Citation | URL | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Est. min. 250 Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 250 | Inferred minimum | 1830-11-18 | Their greatest enemies are the Blacks, who drive them into the swamps, and then spear them. | YASS PLAINS. (1830, November 18). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2196540 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2196540 | This describes Wiradjuri attacks in general. A group of 1000 Wiradjuri people gathered in this area is described elsewhere. If we estimate a third of the men might have been of an age for hunting and coordinated raids, we might loosely estimate a minimum of 250 involved in these raids on cattle in general. The population around the Murrumbidgee was probably much greater than the 1000 witnessed by colonists. |
| 30 Wiradjuri Warriors | Wiradjuri | 30 | Specified in source | 1833-03-21 | He then discovered that about 30 natives had surrounded the folds and were endeavouring to steal a sheep, and exclaimed to them, if they did not go away he would fire on them. | ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE (1833, March 21). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | A group of 30 who raided a station near Wondibadgeri and killed a shepherd. They were likely also involved in the raids reported as widespread and frequent in the region. |
| 1000 Wiradjuri people | Wiradjuri | 1000 | Specified in source | 1833-03-21 | There is now (March 1) about a thousand of the blacks convenient to our stations ; and the shepherds are afraid to graze their sheep, or to watch them at night, lest the blacks should come on them by sur- prise." | ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE (1833, March 21). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | A gathering of 1000 is large and indicates a special occasion such as corroboree, ceremony and cyclical feasting. (A single cow can feed a few hundred people for one day.) |
| Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 4 | Estimate from description | 1833-05-13 | The night they had attacked the hut, while Smith, one of the shepherds, was in it. | DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. (1833, May 13). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved May 11, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | A small group attacked a hut. One of them was killed and another wounded in the fight while others escaped. |
| Wiradjuri warrior | Wiradjuri | 1 | Specified in source | 1833-05-13 | Smith, assisted by a man belonging to H. M'Arthur, Esq. who chanced to call in at the moment, killed one, and laid open the head of another-the rest escaped across the river. | DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. (1833, May 13). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved May 11, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | Killed |
| Wiradjuri warrior | Wiradjuri | 1 | Specified in source | 1833-05-13 | Smith, assisted by a man belonging to H. M'Arthur, Esq. who chanced to call in at the moment, killed one, and laid open the head of another-the rest escaped across the river. | DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. (1833, May 13). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved May 11, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | Wounded |
| Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 30 | Estimate from description | 1833-08-05 | Last week rather a strong party attacked one of Mr. Shelley's stock stations, but were repulsed with great courage ; and we regret to say, that during the hottest of the conflict, while the combatants were at close quarters, Mr. Rowland Shelley met with a serious accident. | DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. (1833, August 5). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12847404 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12847404 | Descriptions of raiding parties range from several to 30. This was described as a 'strong' group. |
| Wiradjuri warrior | Wiradjuri | 1 | Specified in source | 1833-08-05 | The balls passed through the body of the Black, and levelled him to the ground ; but, unfortunately, one of them also struck Mr. Shelley, and passed through the fleshy part of his thigh. | DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. (1833, August 5). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12847404 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12847404 | Killed. The shooting also wounded colonist, Mr Shelley. |
| 6 Aboriginal assistants | Wiradjuri | 6 | Specified in source | 1835-03-21 | The Bushrangers have been playing great pranks at Monoroo ; they have shot five or six tame blacks, from a fear of being tracked, and also a Mr Shepherd, the overseer of Mr. Cat- terell. | BUSHRANGERS IN ARGYLE. (1835, March 21). The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (WA : 1833 - 1847), p. 464. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article641017 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article641017 | Killed by bushrangers who feared being tracked by Aboriginal people in the service of colonists. |
| 100 Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 100 | Specified in source | 1836-01-30 | SIR-I have to inform you that this day before sunrise, anout one hundred of the Mullinbudgee Blacks appeared at this place in search of the Warwick Blacks; but not finding any of them here, they made their way to your station, where they found Taylor, Billy, Budger, John Watterman and two gins, who took shelter in your house. | The Native Blacks. (1836, January 30). The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved August 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | While searching for 'Warwick blacks' Wiradjuri warriors from Murrumbidgee raided huts. |
| 2 Aboriginal women | Aboriginal | 2 | Specified in source | 1836-01-30 | SIR-I have to inform you that this day before sunrise, anout one hundred of the Mullinbudgee Blacks appeared at this place in search of the Warwick Blacks; but not finding any of them here, they made their way to your station, where they found Taylor, Billy, Budger, John Watterman and two gins, who took shelter in your house. | The Native Blacks. (1836, January 30). The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved August 17, 2025, from | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | |
| 6 Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 6 | Estimate from description | 1839-02-13 | The blacks have recently done a deal of mischief since the murder of a hut-keeper of Mrs Jenkin's. This man's murder was very, coolly planned and perpetrated, viz.—they lay in ambush until the man went to milk his cows, and then threw six spears at him, which went through his body; they afterwards mangled his body with tomahawks, and then plundered the hut, and set fire to it. | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | Raided and burned a hut and killed a shepherd at Mrs Jenkins |
| 6 Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 6 | Estimate from description | 1839-02-13 | J. J. Therry's station, and the blacks have murdered his hut keeper. | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | Killed hut keeper at Rev. J.J. Therry's. |
| 15 Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 15 | Specified in source | 1839-02-13 | A short time ago, ten or fifteen blacks went to Dr. Mackay's sheep station, and ordered him to give them some "jimbucks"—he peremptorily refused, and they were about to despatch him, when the arrival of a stockman and some others prevented them, and they dispersed. | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | Raided Jenkins hut. |
| 60 Wiradjuri people | Wiradjuri | 60 | Specified in source | 1839-02-13 | Upwards of thirty able strong bodied men, with their gins and picka- ninies, making a total of upwards of sixty, have taken up their residence at the station of Mr. Smith of Kyeamba, for upwards of two weeks, where they still remain waiting for the Hume River blacks to meet them About eight days ago, they put six or seven of their dogs amongst a flock of newly weaned lambs. | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | Group of 30 'able bodied' men, with women and children, seen waiting to be met by people from the upper Murray River (Hume River) and raiding sheep at Mr Smith's of Kyeamba. |
| 2 Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 2 | Specified in source | 1839-02-13 | Last night while the men were a little way from the hurdles, just when the sheep were put into the folds, two blacks rushed into the fold at Mr S.'s head station, in sight of his own door, and took out one sheep. | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | Raiding sheep at Mr Smith's of Kyeamba. |
| 7 Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 7 | Specified in source | 1839-02-13 | The men ran after the blacks, who had the sheep on their backs, until a party of seven or eight sprang out from behind trees, and stood alongside of the two that took the sheep, where they made a dead stand as if to keep their ground. | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | Ambushed and halted colonists pursuing raiders at Mr Smith's of Kyeamba. |
| 30 Wiradjuri Warriors | Wiradjuri | 30 | Estimate from description | 1839-07-24 | to their cattle s1ti.tins, fr the purpose of mus'ering or selecting out a few for slanghter, owiun principally to the acere-.ioin= of the " black." The tollwine is the plan adapted by the blacks to spe.r the cattle, !tr the truth if which, if neces sary, I can refer you to a gentleman of the first re-prc:uhitity in .Sylivey. In con-quence of the' repea'ed attack rof the" blacks" on the herd-, the animals have been wi:d, -, that it i, with much tart and stratacem a suhite man or stockman can et near tlerln-and even if it should so happen that the stockmen in siaht of a herd, it will takea grold and well-fed hirse, with an excellent rider, to head themI-Now as the " blacks" cann ot approat h themn withiout being di-covered, they mIsa naged in the early part of the year to burn ..ll the grass frim the t,vers, creerk and ltac,i,ns for several itiles back in the hbus-the " blacks" well knowins,that thtecattle wnrll. as well as "old man" (KanSa: oni) antl ' Jack Wall lhy," depatsure on the hrehl springing gras', and being clrse to the water. and creeks &c. a seort of aiithuscade, where thty secreted them selvre, until their victims appro..cbed to d, Ink they then let fly their spears into as mainy as they possibly could-and patiently waited for the issue. The auinials finding thetm-elves wounded, would run up the bank'-some perhas would drop dead, others plunne into the forest with from otine to three spears sticking in them. and after running about until they were exhausted, expire in some unfe quented part of the scrub or bush, and the carcasses never found except by accident; and in many in stance', the skeletons of beasts have been found with whole and broken spears in them. | Yass. (1839, July 24). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32164984 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32164984 | This is a general description wide ranging attacks and of cultural burns and strategies used to kill cattle near rivers. Elsewhere groups of up to 30 are described in coordinated actions. |
| 2 Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 2 | Specified in source | 1839-08-29 | They collarred the shepherd in the bush, about one o'clock in the day, knocked him down, and one of them, whom he states to be Bonsparte, stood over him with a tomahawk, whilst two others kept him down, threatening his life ; he knows all of them well; they then took three of the wethers, killed them, wounded more with spears and sent them all over the place. | THE BLACKS. (1839, August 29). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36860110 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36860110 | Participating in a raid with the resistance leader known as 'Buonaparte'. |
| 30 Wiradjuri Warriors | Wiradjuri | 30 | Specified in source | 1839-08-31 | We made Burrengong, Mr James White's station, Mr White then joined up, and on Wednesday, about four o'clock in the afternoon, we overtook the tribe at Wamber Tumber Gap, consisting of about thirty men, with all their implements of war, spears, &c. | Vox Popuil—Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | Described as a 'tribe' with Buonaparte, Johnny Murphy, Yoyoe Mickey, Jackey William, raiding runs in the region, including those of Ryan, Roberts, Hurley, Fennell and Nichols. |
| 300 Aboriginal people | Wiradjuri | 300 | Specified in source | 1839-10-02 | About three hundred blacks are collected together and have driven the herds here all over the country. | THE POOR BLACKS!! (1839, October 2). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355 | Persistent raids on the mid-Lachlan river, est 300m from Goulburn, or possibly 180m west from Bathurst (stated to be the furthest run in the Sydney Monitor, 22 Oct 1838). |
| 1 Aboriginal servant | Wiradjuri | 1 | Specified in source | 1839-10-16 | The blacks are still spearing many cattle on the Hume River, and last week they com- mitted a most barbarous murder on one of their own cast, at Mr. Peters' station, on the Murrum- bidgee, but of course, as the white subjects of Her Majesty had no hand in it, we shall hear nothing of British law on the subject ; if the blacks, however, are considered British subjects, it is painful to see such atrocities. | LINES (1839, October 16). The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 - 1840), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31723865 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31723865 | Killed by Wiradjuri people on Mr Peters run. It's likely his killing was noted because he was in the employ of Mr Peters. |
| Wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 1 | Estimate from description | 1839-10-16 | Were the blacks punished for the murders committed amongst their own tribes, it would do more to- wards naturalizing them than any thing else that could be devised. | LINES (1839, October 16). The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 - 1840), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31723865 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31723865 | At least on person was involved in killing an Aboriginal man on Mr Peters station. |
| Large assembly of wiradjuri warriors | Wiradjuri | 100 | Estimate from description | 1840-08-25 | The blacks in the vicinity of Bathurst have assembled in large numbers, and declared their intention of exterminating all defenceless white men at out-stations. | Colonial and Foreign News. (1840, August 25). The South Australian Colonist and Settlers' Weekly Record of British, Foreign and Colonial Intelligence (London, England : 1840), p. 391. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228133743 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228133743 | While a large raiding party may be up to 30, large assembly's may be hundreds, up to a thousand. 100 is a low estimate for the 'large assembly' reported near Bathurst. |
| 100 Wiradjuri people | Wiradjuri | 100 | Specified in source | 1841-11-06 | As labourers they are rather slothful, but when employed for any length of time, this gradually wears off, as it is only the natural result of their previous habits ; from the point where the Port Phillip road crosses the Murrumbidgee, for 50 miles down and 20 back, the Aboriginal popu- lation does not much exceed 100, of whom not more than 45 are males above the age of puberty. | COUNCIL PAPERS. (1841, November 6). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | 100 is a population estimate of people in the vicinity of the Port Phillip Road crossing of the Murrumbidgee River. |
| 400 Wiradjuri people | Wiradjuri | 400 | Specified in source | 1841-11-06 | They are too lazy and idle, and when asked to perform work which requires manual exertion, they will immediately leave your establishment ; the number in this district, known as the Murrumbidgee district, I conceive to be about 400. | COUNCIL PAPERS. (1841, November 6). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | 400 is a population estimate of people in the Murrumbidgee region made by Mr Shelley of 'Tumut'. On some maps of this time the whole region between the Murrumbidgee and upper Murray or 'Hume' River is labelled either 'Tumut' or 'Murrumbidgee District'. |
| 30 Wiradjuri men | Wiradjuri | 30 | Specified in source | 1850-02-09 | ABORIGINAL MOUNTED POLICE.—Frederick Walker, Esq., Commandant of this anomolous branch of the military service, passed through Yass on Sunday last, escorted by two black troopers, on his way to Collandoon, on the Murrumbidgee, where he is proceeding for the purpose of enlisting thirty sable recruits and establishing a garrison. | Country News. (1850, February 9). The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (NSW : 1848 - 1859), p. 5. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101729871 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101729871 | Commandant Frederick Walker and two Aboriginal troopers hoped to recruit 30 Wiradjuri men to the Aboriginal mounted Police At Collandoon on the Murrumbidgee. |
Colonists
| Name | Sentence | Date of Mention | Citation | URL | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckham | Bushranging â The two knights of the road, who have been for so many months past levying extensive imposts upon the settlers of the lower Murrumbidgee, have at length, by the untiring perseverance of pursuit made by two of Commissioner Beckham's troopers, been captured â having been suddenly surprised by them in a Black's Camp, and although the aborigines numbered upwards of 400, no sooner did they perceive the Policemen's carabines cocked than they thought fit to go off. | 1845-01-25 | Country News. (1845, January 25). The Star and Working Man's Guardian (Parramatta, NSW : 1844 - 1845), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228132288 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228132288 | |
| Bingham | Mr. Bingham urges the propriety of making the aborigines some reward as an acknowledgment for their services and exertions. | 1844-11-30 | SYDNEY NEWS. (1844, November 30). The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), p. 4. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article670567 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article670567 | |
| C. R. | C. R. Sydney, 28th September, 1839. | 1839-10-02 | THE POOR BLACKS!! (1839, October 2). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355 | Correspondent to Sydney Herald, describing frequent raids from massed groups of warriors. |
| C.H.Nichols | Yours truly, C. H. NICHOLS. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | Reported his involvement of a pursuit of Wiradjuri warriors after raids. |
| C.T. | I remain, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, March 17, 1833. C.T ------------ | 1833-03-21 | ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE (1833, March 21). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | |
| Charles Huon | By the by, one of the Police told me that Charles Huon and his party, who were driving over to Port Ade- laide 1100 head of cattle, had been again attacked by the blacks, but without injury to the Europeans. | 1839-02-13 | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | |
| Chief Constable, Yass | 17th, when we formed party of the chief: rnimtuble, Mr Ryan, Michael- Caughlin, James Hoolahan, and myself. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Commissioner Bingham | Mr Commissioner Bingham has been employed sinc- his arrival here, betxron this place and the Ovens River. | 1839-09-19 | CORRESPONDENCE. (1839, September 19). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36861498 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36861498 | |
| Commissioner Cosby | Mr Commissioner Cosby, who stands equally hipb with bis brother Comniiwioner in the eatiiuatiuu nf the people of this quarter, has already given con Tinting proofs of bis readiness to afford protection wbrc called on* | 1839-09-19 | CORRESPONDENCE. (1839, September 19). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36861498 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36861498 | |
| Dr Mackay | A short time ago, ten or fifteen blacks went to Dr. Mackay's sheep station, and ordered him to give them some "jimbucks"-he peremptorily refused, and they were about to despatch him, when the arrival of a stockman and some others prevented them, and they dispersed. | 1839-02-13 | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | |
| Ellis | The latent arrivals at the Murrum- bidgee are the herds of Messrs. McArthur, Throsby and Ellis. | 1832-05-12 | BATHURST. (1832, May 12). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206524 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206524 | New settler |
| Fennell | We should like to know what the Border Police are about : why were they not tent in pursuit of the marauders? 'Gatimg, August 24 183 9 My Dear R - , I hasten to inform you of the alarming state in which the settlers in our -part of the country are placed, in consequence of the blacks ; for tbe last month they have been killing cattle in all directions, both outside .and within the boundaries ; the last three weeks they hare commenced their havoc here among the cattle of Messrs Ryan, Roberts, Hurley, and Fennell | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Frederick Walker, Aboriginal Mounted Police Commandant | ABORIGINAL MOUNTED POLICE.âFrederick Walker, Esq., Commandant of this anomolous branch of the military service, passed through Yass on Sunday last, escorted by two black troopers, on his way to Collandoon, on the Murrumbidgee, where he is proceeding for the purpose of enlisting thirty sable recruits and establishing a garrison. | 1850-02-09 | Country News. (1850, February 9). The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (NSW : 1848 - 1859), p. 5. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101729871 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101729871 | |
| George Gipps | The distance to Goulburn cannot be less than three hundred miles, but of course, as Sir George Gipps said in Council the other day, as the blacks were an hungered it is nothing but natural (which means I suppose right as well,) that they should eat, come by it how they may. | 1839-10-02 | THE POOR BLACKS!! (1839, October 2). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355 | |
| George Gipps | [Sir George Gipps, we are sorry to say, talks too fast on many occasions. | 1839-10-02 | THE POOR BLACKS!! (1839, October 2). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12858355 | |
| George Shelley | George Shelley, Esq., of Tumut, 21st July, 1841. | 1841-11-06 | COUNCIL PAPERS. (1841, November 6). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | Describes Aboriginal (Wiradjuri?) people working for him near Tumut, and give population estimate of about 400 in the Murrumbidgee region. |
| H. M'Arthur | Smith, assisted by a man belonging to H. M'Arthur, Esq. who chanced to call in at the moment, killed one, and laid open the head of another-the rest escaped across the river. | 1833-05-13 | DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. (1833, May 13). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved May 11, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | |
| Hurley | We should like to know what the Border Police are about : why were they not tent in pursuit of the marauders? 'Gatimg, August 24 183 9 My Dear R - , I hasten to inform you of the alarming state in which the settlers in our -part of the country are placed, in consequence of the blacks ; for tbe last month they have been killing cattle in all directions, both outside .and within the boundaries ; the last three weeks they hare commenced their havoc here among the cattle of Messrs Ryan, Roberts, Hurley, and Fennell | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| James Hoolahan | 17th, when we formed party of the chief: rnimtuble, Mr Ryan, Michael- Caughlin, James Hoolahan, and myself. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| James White | We made Burrengong, Mr James White's station, Mr White then joined up, and on Wednesday, about four o'clock in the afternoon, we overtook the tribe at Wamber Turaber Gap, consisting of about thirty men, with all their implements of war, appears, flee. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| John Peter | John Peter, Esq., YASS, 21st July, 1841. | 1841-11-06 | COUNCIL PAPERS. (1841, November 6). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | Describes Aboriginal (Wiradjuri?) people working for him near Yass. |
| Larkham | A person of the name of Larkham has a station about 40 miles below the Rev. J. J. Therry's station, and the blacks have murdered his hut keeper. | 1839-02-13 | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | |
| Lee | They have already killed a shepherd of Mr. Lee's, and have threatened Mr. R. Murphy's establishment on the Aber- crombie River. | 1840-08-25 | Colonial and Foreign News. (1840, August 25). The South Australian Colonist and Settlers' Weekly Record of British, Foreign and Colonial Intelligence (London, England : 1840), p. 391. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228133743 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228133743 | |
| McArthur | The latent arrivals at the Murrum- bidgee are the herds of Messrs. McArthur, Throsby and Ellis. | 1832-05-12 | BATHURST. (1832, May 12). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206524 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206524 | New settler |
| Michael Caughlin | 17th, when we formed party of the chief: rnimtuble, Mr Ryan, Michael- Caughlin, James Hoolahan, and myself. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Mr Peters | The blacks are still spearing many cattle on the Hume River, and last week they com- mitted a most barbarous murder on one of their own cast, at Mr. Peters' station, on the Murrum- bidgee, but of course, as the white subjects of Her Majesty had no hand in it, we shall hear nothing of British law on the subject ; if the blacks, however, are considered British subjects, it is painful to see such atrocities. | 1839-10-16 | LINES (1839, October 16). The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 - 1840), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31723865 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31723865 | |
| Mr Ryan's Stockkeeper | On Friday the 8th instant, a tribe of them went to Messrs Hurley and Fennell's sheep station, and tbree, named, Billy the Ram, Jackey Williams, and Buonaparte, followed the shepherd until about one o'clock in the day, when they collared him, threw him down, two held him down whilst the other stood over him with a tomahawk threatening his life, whilst the others proceeded to rush the flock : they took three wethers away beside wounding some others with their spears and tomahawks, dividing the flock into three parts ; and three others, named, John Dilla, Johnny Murphy, and Yoyoe Mickey, Mr Ryan's stock- keeper found killing, a cow. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Mr. M- | They have done Mr. M-----'s herd of cattle a great deal of injury, having killed and eat some - some they have speared, and many more (supposed about 60) they have driven quite away, where they are not to be found, and they still continue the practice. | 1833-03-21 | ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE (1833, March 21). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | Owner of a cattle 60 of which were speared and others driven away by Wiradjuri people. |
| Mr. Surveyor Stapylton | Mr. Surveyor Stapylton has returned to Sydney from the vicinity of these rivers, where he has been for some months actively engaged in laying down a chart of the intermediate country, the result of this officer's labours is spoken of as being particularly favourable, inasmuch as he has succeeded in throwing open a most delight- ful portion of the territory. | 1832-05-13 | BATHURST. (1832, May 12). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206524 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206525 | Surveyed Murrumbidgee and region. |
| Mrs Jenkin's | The blacks have recently done a deal of mischief since the murder of a hut-keeper of Mrs Jenkin's. | 1839-02-13 | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | |
| Mrs. Jenkins's | The man we havei taken (Buonaparte) is supposed to be the person who murdered Mrs .Jenkins's man on the Murrumbidgee. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Oakes | At the time of apprehension, these whole- sale marauders had a very fair, both in number and conditionâ herd of cattle with them, which they had selected from the stock of our townsman Mr. Oakes and other settlers â and with which they may truly be said to have been "eating their own way" towards South Australia, as they were supplying their sable companions with meat to procure their escorting them to Adelaide, that being their purposed destination. | 1845-01-25 | Country News. (1845, January 25). The Star and Working Man's Guardian (Parramatta, NSW : 1844 - 1845), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228132288 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228132288 | |
| Peter Carroll | To the Editors of the Sydney Herald. GENTLEMEN,-Last night was brought down in a cart from my station on the Minrumbidgee below Wondibadgerce, a man named Peter Carroll, who had been wounded with a spear by the natives at that place, under the following circumstances:- About the hour of midnight of the 26th of last month, Peter Carroll, who was the watchman of the folds at one of my sheep stations, was .suddenly alarmed by the violent rushing of the sheep. | 1833-03-21 | ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE (1833, March 21). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | |
| R. Murphy | They have already killed a shepherd of Mr. Lee's, and have threatened Mr. R. Murphy's establishment on the Aber- crombie River. | 1840-08-25 | Colonial and Foreign News. (1840, August 25). The South Australian Colonist and Settlers' Weekly Record of British, Foreign and Colonial Intelligence (London, England : 1840), p. 391. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228133743 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228133743 | |
| Robert's stockkeeper | A few days since one of Mr Roberta's ?stock-keepers found no less than three head .-slaughtered and in a pit roasting at once, and I should -any, at an average, no less than two head per day are kiled by them. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Roberts | We should like to know what the Border Police are about : why were they not tent in pursuit of the marauders? 'Gatimg, August 24 183 9 My Dear R - , I hasten to inform you of the alarming state in which the settlers in our -part of the country are placed, in consequence of the blacks ; for tbe last month they have been killing cattle in all directions, both outside .and within the boundaries ; the last three weeks they hare commenced their havoc here among the cattle of Messrs Ryan, Roberts, Hurley, and Fennell | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Rowland Shelley | Last week rather a strong party attacked one of Mr. Shelley's stock stations, but were repulsed with great courage ; and we regret to say, that during the hottest of the conflict, while the combatants were at close quarters, Mr. Rowland Shelley met with a serious accident. | 1833-08-05 | DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. (1833, August 5). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12847404 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12847404 | |
| Ryan | We should like to know what the Border Police are about : why were they not tent in pursuit of the marauders? 'Gatimg, August 24 183 9 My Dear R - , I hasten to inform you of the alarming state in which the settlers in our -part of the country are placed, in consequence of the blacks ; for tbe last month they have been killing cattle in all directions, both outside .and within the boundaries ; the last three weeks they hare commenced their havoc here among the cattle of Messrs Ryan, Roberts, Hurley, and Fennell | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Ryan | Mr Rynn proceeded to Yass and there obtained a warrant for them on the 14th, and the magistrates sent the chief constable with him â they arrived at my house on Saturday the. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Shelly | We that, right proceeded as far as Maringo, when Mr Shelly kindly gave as up a strong stone store to ; put them in; after tying them with straps, Sec, having no hand-cuffs, Mr Ryan and I went -to. lied in Mr Shelly's house, leaving them in charge of the chief constable, Oaughlin, Hools- han and, White, all well armed; they, through' indeed , gave them 'blankets, &c. to cover them, and .having themselves laid dooii the blacks took advantage of it, unloosed their hands, and laying hold of spades and other tools that were in the store rushed the men. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | |
| Smith | When we arrived we found things in great disorder for fear of the blacks. The night they had attacked the hut, while Smith, one of the shepherds, was in it. | 1833-05-13 | DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. (1833, May 13). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2. Retrieved May 11, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846790 | |
| Smith | Upwards of thirty able strong bodied men, with their gins and picka- ninies, making a total of upwards of sixty, have taken up their residence at the station of Mr. Smith of Kyeamba, for upwards of two weeks, where they still remain waiting for the Hume River blacks to meet them About eight days ago, they put six or seven of their dogs amongst a flock of newly weaned lambs. | 1839-02-13 | Yass. (1839, February 13). The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32162854 | |
| Taylor | SIR-I have to inform you that this day before sunrise, anout one hundred of the Mullinbudgee Blacks appeared at this place in search of the Warwick Blacks; but not finding any of them here, they made their way to your station, where they found Taylor, Billy, Budger, John Watterman and two gins, who took shelter in your house. | 1836-01-30 | The Native Blacks. (1836, January 30). The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved August 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150640 | |
| Thomas B. Wilson | Thomas B. Wilson, Esq., J.P., Braidwood, July 21, 1841. | 1841-11-06 | COUNCIL PAPERS. (1841, November 6). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872102 | Describes Aboriginal (Wiradjuri?) people working for him at Braidwood. |
| Throsby | The latent arrivals at the Murrum- bidgee are the herds of Messrs. McArthur, Throsby and Ellis. | 1832-05-12 | BATHURST. (1832, May 12). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206524 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206524 | New settler |
| Warby | It first commenced at Warby's where they killed a fat cow which Mr. W. and his men traced to the camp of the depredators where he pounced upon them in the act of roasting and feeding on the flesh. | 1833-03-21 | ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE (1833, March 21). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12846463 | Cattle spearing commenced at Warby's and continued along the river. Warby and his men shot a member of the raiders, assumed to be the leader. |
| White | We that, right proceeded as far as Maringo, when Mr Shelly kindly gave as up a strong stone store to ; put them in; after tying them with straps, Sec, having no hand-cuffs, Mr Ryan and I went -to. lied in Mr Shelly's house, leaving them in charge of the chief constable, Oaughlin, Hools- han and, White, all well armed; they, through' indeed , gave them 'blankets, &c. to cover them, and .having themselves laid dooii the blacks took advantage of it, unloosed their hands, and laying hold of spades and other tools that were in the store rushed the men. | 1839-08-31 | Vox Popuili - Vox Dei. (1839, August 31). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 2. Retrieved June 9, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863077 |