Note to readers: This is one of a series of pages that I am creating to provide a reference list of people with New England connections.
Initially the references will be fairly fragmentary, linking especially to my own posts. My hope is that in time it will provide the base for a true New England Dictionary of Biography. You will find a complete list of pages here.
Olley, Margaret. Northern Rivers. Painter. Here.
Note to readers: This is one of a series of pages that I am creating to provide a reference list of people with New England connections.
Initially the references will be fairly fragmentary, linking especially to my own posts. My hope is that in time it will provide the base for a true New England Dictionary of Biography. You will find a complete list of pages here.
Note to readers: This is one of a series of pages that I am creating to provide a reference list of people with New England connections.
Initially the references will be fairly fragmentary, linking especially to my own posts. My hope is that in time it will provide the base for a true New England Dictionary of Biography. You will find a complete list of pages here.
Kent Hughes, Ellen Mary (1893-1979). Doctor, community activitist, Aboriginal welfare, local government. Northern Tablelands. Here.
My thanks to Neil Whitfield for pointing me to the University of Newcastle's virtual sourcebook for Aboriginal Studies in the Hunter Region.
From a quick scan it looks a very useful historical resource.
Note to readers: This is one of a series of pages that I am creating to provide a reference list of people with New England connections.
Initially the references will be fairly fragmentary, linking especially to my own posts. My hope is that in time it will provide the base for a true New England Dictionary of Biography. You will find a complete list of pages here.
Note to readers: This is one of a series of pages that I am creating to provide a reference list of people with New England connections.
Initially the references will be fairly fragmentary, linking especially to my own posts. My hope is that in time it will provide the base for a true New England Dictionary of Biography. You will find a complete list of pages here.
Draytons. Hunter Valley wine family. Here.
Note to readers: This is one of a series of pages that I am creating to provide a reference list of people with New England connections.
My hope is that in time it will provide the base for a true New England Dictionary of Biography. You will find a complete list of pages here
Freame, Harry. Spy and adventurer. Northern Tablelands. Here.
Frewen, Hugh. First cousin to English PM Winston Churchill, Hugh Frewen's life stretched from aristocratic and county life in England before the First World War through various adventures to Dorrigo on the Northern Tablelands. Here.
Note to readers: This is one of a series of pages that I am creating to provide a reference list of people with New England connections.
My hope is that in time it will provide the base for a true New England Dictionary of Biography. You will find a complete list of pages here.
Dixon, Patricia (Pat) ?-2001. Macleay Valley, Northern Tablelands. Labor Party activist and the first Aboriginal person elected to a NSW Council (Armidale City), Pat worked to extend the involvement of Aboriginal people in local government. Here.
Note to readers: This is one of a series of pages that I am creating to provide a reference list of people with New England connections.
My hope is that in time it will provide the base for a true New England Dictionary of Biography. You will find a complete list of pages here.
Allen, Peter. Northern Tablelands. Singer and entertainer. Born Peter Woolnough, Peter Allen became an international singing star. Here.
According to Wikipedia, Gambu Ganuurru, or Cumbo Gunnerah in an older spelling, also known as the Red Chief, or Red Kangaroo was a Kamilaroi [Gamilaraay] man who lived in the area nowknown as town of Gunnedah in the 18th Century.
He had a reputation as a warrior and wise leader of the Gunn-e-darr tribe.
He was buried in the mid 1700s in a manner befitting a Kamilaroi man of great importance; in a sitting position, backed by a tree carved with totemic designs. The stories of his unsurpassed bravery, achievements and adventures were handed down through the generations and his burial place was treated with great respect.
In 1887 the town's doctor arranged for the remains of Gambu Ganuurru to be dug up, and later sent them, along with a slab of what was locally known as The Blackfellow’s Tree, to the Australian Museum.
As custom demanded his silence, "Old Joe" Bungaree [born ca. 1817], the last full-blooded Aborigine of the Gunn-e-darr tribe, was unwilling to talk about his great leader. It was only just before he died that he decided to confide in his friend, J P Ewing, the local Police Sergeant.The Sergeant's son Stan Ewing (1878-1938) recorded this information and passed it on to other historians. Gambu Ganuurru soon became recognised as a great Aboriginal leader, his story appearing in The Sydney Mail in 1891.
Writer Ion Idriess wrote The Red Chief first published in 1953, which became a best-seller of its day. The tag 'Red Chief' was coined by Idriess; it is not used in the source documents (see O'Rourke 2005).
