Caldecotte (alias One-armed Charley)
Events
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26 Apr 1839 — North of Adelaide near the Milner Estate and Para RiversJames Thompson, Hallett’s shepherd, was killed in the vicinity of the Milner Estate and the Para (Gawler) River, inland from Port Gawler. Picha-Cud-Nacha (Tam O’Shanter), Wang Nucha (Tommy Round Head) and Tippa Warricha (Bob) were charged with wilful assault and murder. Wang Nucha was found guilty and hanged.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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31 May 1839 — Adelaide GaolWang Nucha (Tommy Round Head) was charged and found guilty for the murder of Mr Hallett’s shepherd, James Thompson, at the Para River on 26 April 1839. His trial took place on 25 May 1839 and he was hanged at the Adelaide Gaol on 31 May 1839.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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5 Mar 1844 — Magpie CreekThree Aboriginal men approached hutkeeper John Wood at his hut on Magpie Creek and asked him for flour. On refusal, the men ‘rushed’ Wood and one man, possibly Kertamera (alias Charley), took 30 pounds of flour. The following day the police found Kertamera and some other Aboriginal people with flour a short distance from Wood’s hut. Kertamera was arrested. He appeared at the Supreme Court Criminal Sittings on 5 July and was found not guilty.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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11 Apr 1844 — The Sturt River, near Marion VillageA large group of Aboriginal people confronted Sarah Stutely and her younger sister Emma at her parents’ house on Mr Dyke’s station. On being refused flour, some pushed Sarah and entered the house, shaking their waddies and demanding flour. Emma sought help from Robert Adams. When the group refused to leave, Adams took down an empty gun and threatened to shoot. Caldecotte, a well-known and highly respected man from Encounter Bay, was tried at the Supreme Court on 5 July 1844 and sentenced to three months imprisonment.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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11 Apr 1844 — Happy Valley , Port LincolnPolice Constables William Prewitt and Henry Lock approached a group of half a dozen people who were sitting around their fires. Prewitt claimed to have shot Padlulta in self-defence. Schurmann provides a contrasting account demonstrating Padlulta’s defencelessness and that the policemen ran away leaving Padlulta helpless and dying.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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6 May 1845 — SA Company’s run near Rivoli BaySouth Australia Company men continue their search for sheep stolen on 13 May. On 16 May they come upon a group of Aboriginal men in possession of sheep and take an Aboriginal man, ‘Charley’, prisoner.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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8 Nov 1846 — Stoney Creek (near Mount Remarkable)Native Constable Charley, a man from the Broughton district, was killed by Manooka Bidea (alias Billy), either in revenge for the role he played in apprehending those involved in Whitney and Scott’s deaths, or for killing the sister of Manooka Bidea.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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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.)Sources- 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
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17 Aug 1847 — Two miles off the coast north of Cape NorthumberlandAfter three hundred sheep driven off the SA Company’s run, Corporal McCulloch assisted by men from the station tracked the sheep to Cape Northumberland, where Aboriginal people there had built four brush yards to pen the sheep. There were about 100 Aboriginal people were present concealing themselves in the thick scrub. Spears were thrown and thrust at the Europeans as they attempted to arrest people. Shots were fired and it is reported that four Aboriginal people were killed.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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1 Dec 1848 — PekinaJF Hayward informed his employer, Price Maurice, that ‘the blacks’ were very troublesome in mid-December 1847, and that one hundred sheep had been taken by ‘Yellowman’ and ‘Charlie’ from the Pekina station.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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8 May 1849 — Beautiful Valley, near Mt RemarkableKudnutya was found guilty of stealing eighty sheep belonging to Messrs Burnett and Fotheringham, and under the charge of Robert Lee (‘Bob’), in the vicinity of Beautiful Valley. At the Police Commissioner’s Court on 28 June, Kudnutya, through Protector Moorhouse, said he partook of mutton but did not take the sheep. He was sentenced to two months with hard labour.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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21 Jun 1852 — Fergusson and Younghusband’s station, vol. 2, p.87, (in Bowman’s name, but Bowman purchased from Younghusband in 1856. See SA Register, 5 August 1856, .Seven Aboriginal men; Malia (alias Charley), Pedia (alias Jacky), Malia (alias Jemmy), Pedia (alias William), Coonia (alias Kangaroo), Coonia (alias Tunbo), and Wariol (alias Tommy), were charged at Clare Court with stealing sheep from Ferguson and Younghusband’s station, near Crystal Brook.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
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28 Sep 1865 — Mount FreelingIn attempting to arrest Paralana Jacky and Paralana Tommy for the murder of John Walter Jerrold, the latter is shot and later dies.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Sources- 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
Mentions of person in sources
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‘Charley’
26 Apr 1839Source: 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
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Charley
31 May 1839Source: 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
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Kertamera (alias Charley)
5 Mar 1844Source: 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
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Caldecotte (alias One-armed Charley)
11 Apr 1844Source: 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
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Charley
11 Apr 1844Source: 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
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‘Charley’
6 May 1845Source: 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
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Charley
8 Nov 1846Source: 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
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‘Charley’
1 Jan 1847Source: 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
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Charlie
17 Aug 1847Source: 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
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Charley
1 Dec 1848Source: 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
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Charlie
8 May 1849Source: 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
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Malia (alias Charley)
21 Jun 1852Source: 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
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Boco Charley, alias Mr Charley
28 Sep 1865Source: 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