Details
Latitude-36.165 Longitude146.545 Start Date1838-04-28 End Date1838-04-28
Description
After the Faithfull Massacre, no Mounted Police were available in the area. Major Nunn who had lead campaigns against Wiradjuri in the Bathurst War was ordered to send Mounted Police, but they failed to apprehend anyone.
"His Excellency there requests that you will make immediate arrangements for sending an officer of Mounted Police and as many troopers as can be spared from their duties, but not less than 10 in number, to the scene where this dreadful outrage took place."p327 Col Sec to Major J.W. Nunn, 28 April 1838 Instructions to Pursue murderers in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982"
Extended Data
- Location Source
- Location is not specific. Dispatched to general area.
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- Placename
- Campaspe
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-36.3486 Longitude144.7981 Start Date1838-05-22 End Date1838-07-21
Description
"June 9. Seven or eight blacks killed in defending a flock of sheep which they had carried away from the station of Mr Yaldwyn, about 80 miles from Port Phillip. On this occasion the blacks are said to have defended themselves with great bravery." pp356-357 Gipps, Sir George 'Aboriginal attacks summarised: Enclosure in dispatch from Sir George Gipps to Lord Glenelg, 21 July 1838' in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982
See also, Colonial Frontier Massacres
https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=520
Extended Data
- DateNote
- estimate
- Location Source
- Campaspe region. Location of station unclear. http://mahistory.org.au/images/Website/pdf/earlyyears/firstcommittee_yaldwyn.pdf
- Livestock
- a flock
- Size of Aboriginal War Party
- 8
- Aboriginal Deaths
- 7
- Colonist Deaths
- 0
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- Placename
- King River
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-36.52 Longitude146.391 Start Date1841-12-01 End Date1842-02-28
Sources
TLCMap IDt1c2d5
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- Placename
- Campaspe River
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-36.312 Longitude144.688 Start Date1839-06-01 End Date1839-06-15
Sources
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Details
Latitude-37.149 Longitude144.446 Start Date1838-06-01 End Date1838-08-31
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TLCMap IDt1c2d7
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Details
Latitude-36.734 Longitude145.154 Start Date1837-11-01 End Date1837-11-30
Description
After Taungurung people demanded food Mundy and his men gave them flour and then attacked them, killing 6.
Sources
TLCMap IDt1c2d8
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- Placename
- Sutton Grange Station
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-36.989 Longitude144.36 Start Date1838-06-03 End Date1838-06-03
Description
"I have sent a party of the Mounted Police to show themselves thereabouts for a short time in order to inspire confidence and to alarm the blacks."
p336 William Lonsdale to Col. Sec., 3 June 1838 Lonsdale sends Mounted Police 'to alarm the blacks' in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982
Extended Data
- DateNote
- It's not indicated when they returned in information available to me.
Sources
TLCMap IDt1c2d9
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- Placename
- Goulburn River
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-37.026 Longitude145.107 Start Date1838-11-12 End Date1838-12-13
Description
"...I received a communication from Mr John Rutledge that a party of blacks had been upon his station on the Goulburn River on the 12th ult., that they had killed a number of sheep and an assigned servant of Doctor Forster's name George Mould, per Mangles.
I immediately desired Mr De Villiers with the black police to proceed there, and if the people who were present at the killing of the man could be identified, to endeavour to apprehend them. They returned on the 13th inst., but without having accomplished anything, beyond tracking the tribe they went in pursuit of a considerable way along the Goulburn."
p341, William Lonsdale to Col. Sec., 14 December 1838 Native Police unable to find those responsible in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982
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- Placename
- Benalla
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-36.549 Longitude145.976 Start Date1838-04-12 End Date1838-04-12
Description
The Faithfull massacre in which 8 colonists and 1 Aboriginal person were killed, and squatters and Governor Gipps response to it, were the main trigger for the most intense decade of violence in the Australian wars, the 1840s, through the full extent of the colony in the south east of the continent. These events established the way the wars were waged thereafter, with 'Military Mounted Police' and the Native Police, used as proxies for military units, in collaboration with small groups of squatters, their workers and other colonists, usually beyond the 'limits of location' (the region beyond which the British colonial government did not administer or enforce land ownership nor guarantee protection) fighting a guerilla style resistance of Aboriginal people. See
https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=506
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Details
Latitude-36.5072167 Longitude146.587822 Start Date1841 End Date1842
Description
After the major raid or seige at Mackay's run, in which 1 man and thousands of cattle were killed:
"I followed them for eighteen months, and apprehended seventeen
of them, and, though they were discharged from Melbourne gaol
almost as soon as they entered it, yet their capture had such a
good effect that their depredations have since been confined to a
few cattle for food. There have been none of their former whole-
sale slaughterings, and no murders of white men since then."
pp187-189 George Edward Mackay to His Excellency C. J. La Trobe, Esq. in Thomas Francis Bride (ed) Letters from Victorian Pioneers Melbourne: Librarian of the Public Library Victoria, 1898
https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromvicto00publiala/lettersfromvicto00publiala_djvu.txt
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- Placename
- Merri Creek
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-37.76121631 Longitude144.9828023 Start Date1840-10-11 End Date1840-10-11
Description
In the lands of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung of the Kulin Nation, Major Lettsom apprehended more than 200 Aboriginal men, women and children at a corroboree at Merri Creek, 3 miles north of the town of Melbourne (now Brunswick East). Colonists referred to these people as 'The Goulburn blacks'. The Goulbourn River stretches from the southern part of the south road up to the Murray River at Echuca/Moama in Yorta Yorta country. Those arrested included Jagga Jagga (Jacka Jacka), Billy Hamilton and Winberry. Winberry was killed while resisting. As reported:
"The remainder of the gang were secured,
consisting of between two and three hundred
(including women and children), and were led
captive into town, and placed in a yard in the
rear of the Military Hospital for identification,
by any of the settlers as having been concerned
in any outrages. Thirty-three were picked
out as having been aggressors in numerous
cases of cattle and sheep-stealing, as well as
being concerned in several of the murders
which from time to time have occurred in the
interior districts. These ruffians were placed
in irons, and deposited in the jail, including
Jagga Jagga or Jacka Jacka, and Billy Hamilton.
The remainder were locked up during
Sunday and the night, in the newly erected
store of Mr. Rattenbury, at the back of the
new church, being placed under the custody of
only two constables. The consequence was, as
might have been anticipated, from having so
slender a guard, that some thirty or forty of
the men effected their escape during the night."
One person was killed during the escape.
p6 Tasmanian Weekly Dispatch, Fri 30 Oct 1840,
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/233619804
Extended Data
- Location Source
- Finding Merriman site specifies Merri Creek. Newspaper sources say 3 miles north of town, (Melbourne).
- Aboriginal Deaths
- 2
- Colonist Deaths
- 0
Sources
TLCMap IDt1c2dd
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