Sheep driven off Sturt's station and two Aboriginal people arrested, February 1847

Date: 1 Jan 1847
Place: ‘Evelyn Sturt’s station’
On 25 March, Evelyn Sturt reports the loss of about 250 sheep over the previous six weeks. Corporal McCulloch arrests ‘William’ and ‘Charley’ for theft of Sturt’s sheep.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
Notes:
LocationAccuracy: Approximate

People involved

  • Caldecotte (alias One-armed Charley)
    Match note: Matched from legacy people.event_external_id to resolved_event.tlcm_id, mainly data from SA Frontier and its Legacies project.
  • ‘William’
    Match note: Matched from legacy people.event_external_id to resolved_event.tlcm_id, mainly data from SA Frontier and its Legacies project.

Sources

Event mentions

  • Sheep driven off Sturt's station and two Aboriginal people arrested, February 1847
    1 Jan 1847 — ‘Evelyn Sturt’s station’
    On 25 March, Evelyn Sturt reports the loss of about 250 sheep over the previous six weeks. Corporal McCulloch arrests ‘William’ and ‘Charley’ for theft of Sturt’s sheep.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier