People and Community Practices – Contact Times These aspects are generally covered elsewhere in the Contact Times section of this report. The names of some Wiradjuri people and their significance during these times are located in the following table.
Table 22 - Wiradjuri People of Contact Times (Some names of people and their significance as recorded in Literature or Oral History in the Wagga Wagga Local Government Area) Date Name Comment Jemmie & Peter Guide Charles Sturt from Wantabadgery to 1829 Matong area (8). Eunony/ Bunony Fearsome Wiradjuri warrior living in vicinity of 1829 Eunonyhareenyah. (8, 11) John Piper & woman, Lachlan River Wiradjuri who guide and helped 1836 Tommy-come-first, T.L. Mitchell’s expedition over 2700kms ending in Tommy-come-last, Alfredtown, near Wagga Wagga. (16). Turandurey, Ballandella Dapto & woman From Umbango (Tarcutta). Guided first colonists 1837 to the Murray River (20). Two Wiradjuri boys Work at Oura Station (21). 1840 Brian Boru A big, well known Wiradjuri warrior, demands 1843 food at Bullenbong Station, (33). Polly Resides at Wollundry Lagoon with John Franklin, Late 1840’s Wagga Wagga’s first blacksmith assisted women in childbirth and with medical remedies, (39). Big Peter, King of Assists in saving people from the flooded 1852 Wagga Wagga and Murrumbidgee River. (34). Borambola Wiradjuri (Old) Yarry Finds 4 year old Richard Cox, who was lost, at 1852 Livingstone Gully, (41). Kings Mycotha, Some of the Wiradjuri kings known to James 1860’s Booyarri, Jackie, Baylis (48). Warangeline, Yallagumie, Peter King Peter of Ganmain Breast plate made by Devlins, for Peter, stockman 1860’s on Ganmain Station, (45,46). King Peter of Wagga Makes a speech complaining of the non-arrival of 1860’s Wagga /Borambola Government blankets (28). Wiradjuri women Wash, scrub, and nurse for Baylis family at 1860’s “Goonigul”(49). (RSL Club site in 2002.) Jackie Roper River man guides Semple family to Berry 1872 Jerry from Northern Territory, (54). Queen Bhoolidhoo of Photos of her and a Wiradjuri man taken by 1897 Wagga Wagga Charles King Whyman McLean Works for Wagga Wagga police as a tracker, (60). 1906 Tang Wiradjuri worker for Mates of “Toonga” Tarcutta 1912 goes fishing, (62). Tang Tang last of local traditional Wiradjuri of Tarcutta 1914 dies (63). Bill Ferguson Wiradjuri man, formerly from Warangesda, leader 1938 133