Cotter country : a history of the the early settlers, pastoral holdings and events in and around the County of Cowley, NSW / by Bruce Moore
- Bib ID:
- 1869054
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Moore, Bruce
- Description:
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- Lyneham, A.C.T. : Greg Moore, 1999
- xiii, 249 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0959464948
- Summary:
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History of the early settler familes and their properties, Indigenous residents, places and events in and around the County of Cowley on the ACT side; p. x assistance of local Aborigines to open up the area; p. 9, 22, 25 Garrett Cotter's friendship with Honyong; p. 51 two Aboriginal men capture bushrangers Watson and Green at Conlon's Corner; p. 56 Long Jimmy rescues shepherd from drowning; p. 70, 142 William Davis Jnr's Ginninderra Cricket Club included Aboriginal members Bobby Deumonga, Jemmy Taylor and son Johnny; p. 79 Black Peter, a 'servant' of Dr Andrew Gibson, a magistrate in Goulburn, acts as guide for Terence Aubrey Murray; p. 95 Commissioner Bingham meets 'natives' at Yaouk and takes arms from them; p. 99 Gudgenby area a gathering place for Aboriginal people; p. 108-109 Aboriginal people at Boboyan; p. 139-143 ch. 24 title 'Local Aborigines'; includes photos of Murray Jack, Bobby Hamilton (Deumonga), his wife Nellie and children Eddie and Millie; p. 139 Elizabeth McKeahnie's letter to the Queanbeyan Observer mentions that her parents spoke of a plan by Aborigines to murder all of the men on Acton; p. 147 black trackers commended by the Governor in 1828 for assisting in the capture of bushrangers Tennant and Ricks; p. 157 Christy Goody dies after fall from horse; p. 201 photo of James (Jack) Clements (Marvellous) from Tumut at the opening of Parliament House 1927; p. 221-231 Appendix 3 - Early Burials - mentions Aboriginal burials; various meanings for place names or Aboriginal names for places mentioned throughout - p. 3 Monaro Plains; p. 53 Cuppacumbalong; p. 67 Booroomba; p. 72 Congwarra; p. 79 Coolalamine; p. 81 Urayarra; p. 144 Mount Tennant.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Literature and stories - Non indigenous - Poetry
- Ngunawal / Ngunnawal people (D3) (NSW SI55-16)
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- History - Genealogy and family history
- Walgalu / Walgal people (S47) (NSW SI55-16)
- Queanbeyan region (N.S.W.) -- History
- Canberra Region (A.C.T.) -- History
- Canberra map area (ACT, S NSW SI55-16)
- Cotter River (ACT SI55-16)
- Copyright:
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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