Yarramundi
Yarramundi (* around 1760 in Richmond in New South Wales , Australia , † after 1818 in New South Wales) was an Aborigine whom the European colonists called The Chief of the Richmond Tribe .
Yarramindi, a member of the clan of Boorooberongal the Aboriginal tribe of Darug , and his father Gombeeree were healer (German: healer ) and leaders of the Aborigines.
They met with Governor Arthur Phillip on April 14, 1791 at the first Aboriginal-British Friendship Meeting, where they presented him with two stone axes at Bardo Narring ( Little Water ) . Today there is a plaque at this location that was attached in 2001.
Yarramundi also met with Watkins Tench , a British captain of the first fleets of ships to come to Australia, and gave medical assistance to one of his injured men.
Maria Locke was the daughter of Yarramundi and the first Aboriginal girl to go to school in the Native Institute in Parramatta from 1815 . She was best of the year in 1819 among 20 indigenous and 100 European children. Maria married Robert Locke; this was the first legal wedding of an indigenous woman to a European in Australia and she was also the first Aboriginal woman to own land.
A suburb of Sydney and the small peninsula of Yarramundi Reach , west of Lake Burley Griffin , in the Australian Capital Territory is named after Yarramundi .
Web links
- waymarking.com : Image of the plaque commemorating the first friendship meeting between Aborigines and the British (plaque from 2001, donated by Berry Barlett)
Individual evidence
- ↑ waymarking.com : The first meeting in Friendship , in English, accessed October 15, 2011
- ↑ abc.net.au ( memento of August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ): Narelle Tait: The Story of Maria Locke , in English, accessed on October 15, 2011
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| SURNAME | Yarramundi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian aboriginal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Richmond , New South Wales , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1818 |
| Place of death | New South Wales |