Colebee (Darug)

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Colebee (* around 1800 in New South Wales , † after 1830 in New South Wales, Australia ) was an Aboriginal elder from the Darug tribe . He and another elder - Nurragingy - were the first Aborigines to receive land in recognition of a peace mission between Europeans and indigenous Australians.

Life

Colebee was involved as an advisor in an early road construction project for the British colony of New South Wales, carried out by William Cox , who built the 163 km long road from Sydney to Bathurst from July 18, 1814 to January 14, 1815 . This road marked the beginning of the development of the interior of Australia, because it enabled the Blue Mountains, which were previously considered to be insurmountable, to be overcome.

Governor Lachlan Macquarie sent Colebee with Nurragingy to the local Aborigines who fought violently along the Hawkesbury , Nepean and Colo Rivers and in the South Creek area with the Europeans settling there, which were supposed to bring about peace. For their initiative, Colebee and Narragingy were the first Aborigines to receive 30 accres (approx. 12 hectares ) of land from the British Crown.

It is known that Macquarie honored Nurragingy in 1816 by presenting a King plate on which Chief of the South Creek Tribe was engraved (German: Leader of the Aborigines Tribe on South Creek ). In the understanding of the Aborigines, this symbol was equivalent to a ruler symbol. Nurragingy was the second elder after Bungaree to receive such a mark.

Blacktown

Both Colebee and Nurragingy died in the 1830s - exact dates are unknown, whereupon a dispute over the inheritance between sons Bobby and Billy von Nurragingy and Colebee's sister broke out in court. The court awarded the land to Maria Lock , a person historically known in Australia, as she was the first Aboriginal to legally marry a white man, a British convict.

When she died in 1878 the land was divided among her nine children. The Lock family settled in this country until the 1900s. It was only when this family was decimated by a series of diseases and epidemics that they could no longer pay their obligations, so the Blacktown Council took over the payments and probably bought the area after the Second World War . Walter Lock sued unsuccessfully for the surrender of the land that had been named Blacktown. In mid-2011 it became known that apartments are to be built on this site. The Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation registered cultural and historical concerns in August 2011 and justified this mainly with the fact that there are burial sites for Aboriginal children and achieved that it will be involved in the planning in the future.

Naming

In the local administrative area Blacktown City in Outer Sydney , about 35 km west of the city center, a district was called Colebee.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b dictionaryofsydney.org : Keith Vincent Smith: Colebee , 2008, in English, accessed October 12, 2011
  2. ^ Westernsydneylibraries.nsw.gov.au : First Aboriginal Land Grants , in English, accessed October 13, 2011
  3. ↑ abc.net.au ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : The Story of Maria Locke , accessed October 13, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abc.net.au
  4. ↑ rouse-hill-Times.whereilive.com : Penelope Bradley: Darug tribe fight for Colebee sacred site , August 18, 2011, in English, accessed October 13
personal data
SURNAME Colebee (Darug)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elder of the Aborigines
DATE OF BIRTH around 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH after 1830
Place of death New South Wales