Table Eight: Aboriginal killings by colonists recorded by G. A. Robinson, 1829-1839

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Date

 

Place

 

Number claimed killed

 

 

Identity of killer(s)

 

 

Circumstances

 

Source

 

Reliability

 

Reference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a*

Recherche Bay

1

Soldier

Conflict over kangaroo hunt

Eye witness

Plausible

Friendly Mission pp 84, 713, 807

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

Man had tro­phies of ears and noses of those slain

Second hand

Highly Im­plausible

Friendly Mission p 88

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Cape Grim

1

VDL Company stockmen

Tried to get native women into their hut. Native men objected.

Second hand

Plausible (Aborig.)**

‘Several’ claimed by Chambler­lain p 175 implausible

Friendly Mission p 181

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Febru­ary 1828

Cape Grim

30 (6)

VDL Company stockmen

See Chapter 8

Par­tici­pants

Thirty im­plausible but six plausible

(Aborig.)

Friendly Mission pp 175, 183, 196

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 1829

Emu Bay

1

Alexander Goldie and VDL Co stockmen

Unprovoked attack on a native woman

Second hand

Highly Plausible

Friendly Mission pp 192, 235, 603

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c 1827

Eddystone Point

Several

Edward Mansell, Jack Wil­liams, John Riddle, Thomas Tucker

Retaliation by sealers for natives killing four others

Eye­witness and sec­ond hand

Plausible

(Aborig.)

Friendly Mission pp 192-3, 249, 403, 437 n 16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

“The Retreat”, Westbury

19

Paddy Heagon, stockman

Shot them with a swivel gun

Second hand

Highly Im­plausible

Friendly Mission pp 197-8

 

Date

 

Place

 

Number claimed killed

 

 

Identity of killer(s)

 

 

Circumstances

 

Source

 

Reliability

 

Reference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Western Marshes (Quamby Bluff)

1

N/a

Native leader resisted whites but later killed

Second hand

Highly Im­plausible

Friendly Mission p 198

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Epping Forest

1

VDL Co stockmen

During native attack, stock­men shot a woman

Second hand

Implausible

Friendly Mission p 202

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c 1820

Mount Cameron West

2

Sealers

Raided tribe to abduct women and shot men who resisted

Second hand and eye­witness

Plausible

(Aborig.)

Friendly Mission pp 185, 202, 203–4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

N/a

1

Stock­keeper

Kept her for a month and then shot her

Second hand

Highly Im­plausible

(Aborig.)

Friendly Mission p 210

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

N/a

1

Thomas John of VDL Co

Enticed native with damper and then stabbed him

Second hand

Plausible

Friendly Mission p 210

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

N/a

1

N/a

Skull found  near stockyard

Sup­posi­tion

Highly Im­plausible

Friendly Mission p 217

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Western Marshes

3

Stock­keeper

N/a

Second hand

Implausible

Friendly Mission p 217

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Middle Plains and Ritchie’s Sugarloaf

‘a tribe’

Lyons and others

Drove tribe into lagoon and shot several, went to R’s Sugarloaf and shot the rest

Second hand

Implausible

Friendly Mission p 218

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Long Swamp, Western Marshes

Several

Murray or Murphy and others

N/a

Second hand

Implausible

Friendly Mission p 218

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

 

 

Place

 

 

Number claimed killed

 

 

 

Identity of killer(s)

 

 

 

Circumstances

 

 

Source

 

 

Reliability

 

 

Reference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Western Marshes

10

Gibson’s stock­keeper

Retaliation for attack on him

Second hand

Highly Im­plausible

Friendly Mission p 219

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Western Marshes

9 or 10

Party of 40th Regiment

N/a

Second hand

Highly Im­plausible

Friendly Mission p 219

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Kents Group Is

1

Bob Gambell, sealer

 N/a

Third hand

Plausible

Friendly Mission p 246

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c. 1830

Piper River

1

‘white men’

N/a

Third hand

Implausible, (see FM p 436 n 9)

Friendly Mission pp 246, 436

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Piper River

Several

N/a

Bones on banks of river

Sup­posi­tion

Implausible

Friendly Mission p 248

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/a

Woody Island

1

James Everitt, sealer

Native woman would not get mutton-birds for him

Second hand

Plausible

Friendly Mission pp 249, 279

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Octo­ber 1830

Launceston Road

3

Soldiers

Killed while returning from intertribal war at central lakes area

Par­tici­pants

Implausible – see Ch. 6

(Aborig.)

Friendly Mission p 263