Nmp Event 59386

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Nmp Event 59386

Has Cause Reason	Not specially given, but clearly the whites were fearful of the blacks and were trying to discourage them from visiting Sweers Island^[1]
Has Contemporary Reference	QSA846912 1873 Letter from Aulaire Morisset to Col Sec dated 15 March 1873 (with depositions), Colonial Secretarys Office in letters 73/849^[1]
Has Coordinate X Max	139.614096^[1]
Has Coordinate X Min	139.614096^[1]
Has Coordinate Y Max	-17.139264^[1]
Has Coordinate Y Min	-17.139264^[1]
Has Csv Record Number	2056^[1]
Has Date of First Reporting	1873^[1]

ex:nmp-event-59386

Nmp Event 59386 has 37 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 1 reference.

37 facts·37 predicates·1 sources

Mostly:has cause reason(1), has contemporary reference(1), has coordinate x max(1)

Has Cause Reason`hasCauseReason`

Not specially given, but clearly the whites were fearful of the blacks and were trying to discourage them from visiting Sweers Island^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Contemporary Reference`hasContemporaryReference`

QSA846912 1873 Letter from Aulaire Morisset to Col Sec dated 15 March 1873 (with depositions), Colonial Secretarys Office in letters 73/849^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Coordinate X Max`hasCoordinateXMax`

139.614096^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Coordinate X Min`hasCoordinateXMin`

139.614096^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Coordinate Y Max`hasCoordinateYMax`

-17.139264^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Coordinate Y Min`hasCoordinateYMin`

-17.139264^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Csv Record Number`hasCsvRecordNumber`

2056^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Date of First Reporting`hasDateOfFirstReporting`

1873^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Description of Event`hasDescriptionOfEvent`

Detailed depositions from John Farrell, Robert Christison, Ah Foo^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Label`hasLabel`

Attack on Aboriginal people - five unnamed men near Locust Rock, Sweers Island (26 October 1872)^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Has Location Description`hasLocationDescription`

the beach towards a reef inside “Locust Rock”.^[1]all time · Row 2056 Eid 59386

Inbound mentions (5)

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`providedDeposition`Provided Deposition(3)

James Ah Fooex:james-ah-foo
John Farrellex:john-farrell
Robert Christisonex:robert-christison

`heldInquiryAsJp`Held Inquiry As Jp(1)

Aulaire Morissetex:aulaire-morisset

`subsequentToEvent`Subsequent to Event(1)

Raft Return on 27thex:raft-return-on-27th

Other facts (25)

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25 facts

Predicate	Value	Ref
Has Location Notes Issues	Area at south end of Sweers Island on mainland adjacent to Locust Rock has been mapped	[1]
Has Location Type	Offshore island	[1]
Has Named Perpetrator1	John Farrell	[1]
Has Named Perpetrator2	Joseph Mccarthy	[1]
Has Named Perpetrator3	James Ah Foo	[1]
Has Named Perpetrator4	Robert Christison	[1]
Has Names of People Wounded and Details	At least one man was wounded, though whether from a bullet or from being injured on the rocks trying to escape. while another was clubbed with the stock of rifle.	[1]
Has Nature of Event	Attack on Aboriginal people	[1]
Has No of People Wounded	2	[1]
Has Notes Comments	It is possible some of the men in the Aboriginal party were killed, but as all witness were white it is not clear that the enquiry, held several months later, got to the truth of what happened. Aulaire Morisset was the JP who held the inquiry into the event, seemingly after talk about it had reached the ears of the authorities.	[1]
Has Other Associated Individuals	Farrell, John;McCarthy, Joseph;Christison, Robert (Bob);Ah Foo, James (or Jemmy)	[1]
Has Perpetrators Category	Settlers/Squatters	[1]
Has Reliability of Sources	First hand account of participants	[1]
Is Associated With Event	Attack on Aboriginal Watercraft Sweers Island 1872	[1]
Is Associated With Nmp Officer	Aulaire Liddiard Morisset	[1]
Is Related to Language Group	Gayardilt	[1]
Is Related to Native Title Boundary	Lardil, Yangkaal, Gangalidda & Kaiadilt Peoples	[1]
Occurred in Year	1872	[1]
Occurred Near	Locust Rock	[1]
Occurred on	Sweers Island	[1]
Occurred on Day and Month	26 October	[1]
Part of Nmp Events Database	Nmp Events Csv	[1]
Related to Project	rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection	[1]
Caused by Fear of Aboriginals	Group of Four Men	[1]
Implies Racial Conflict	Frontier Violence	[1]

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causedByFearOfAboriginalsrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:group-of-four-men

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hasCauseReasonrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Not specially given, but clearly the whites were fearful of the blacks and were trying to discourage them from visiting Sweers Island

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hasContemporaryReferencerosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

QSA846912 1873 Letter from Aulaire Morisset to Col Sec dated 15 March 1873 (with depositions), Colonial Secretarys Office in letters 73/849

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hasCoordinateXMaxrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

139.614096

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hasCoordinateXMinrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

139.614096

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hasCoordinateYMaxrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

-17.139264

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hasCoordinateYMinrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

-17.139264

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hasCsvRecordNumberrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

2056

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hasDateOfFirstReportingrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

1873

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hasDescriptionOfEventrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Detailed depositions from John Farrell, Robert Christison, Ah Foo

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hasEntryIdrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

59386

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hasLabelrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Attack on Aboriginal people - five unnamed men near Locust Rock, Sweers Island (26 October 1872)

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hasLocationDescriptionrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

the beach towards a reef inside “Locust Rock”.

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hasLocationNotesIssuesrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Area at south end of Sweers Island on mainland adjacent to Locust Rock has been mapped

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hasLocationTyperosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Offshore island

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hasNamedPerpetrator1rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:john-farrell

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hasNamedPerpetrator2rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:joseph-mccarthy

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hasNamedPerpetrator3rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:james-ah-foo

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hasNamedPerpetrator4rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:robert-christison

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hasNamesOfPeopleWoundedAndDetailsrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

At least one man was wounded, though whether from a bullet or from being injured on the rocks trying to escape. while another was clubbed with the stock of rifle.

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hasNatureOfEventrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Attack on Aboriginal people

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hasNoOfPeopleWoundedrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

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hasNotesCommentsrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

It is possible some of the men in the Aboriginal party were killed, but as all witness were white it is not clear that the enquiry, held several months later, got to the truth of what happened. Aulaire Morisset was the JP who held the inquiry into the event, seemingly after talk about it had reached the ears of the authorities.

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hasOtherAssociatedIndividualsrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Farrell, John;McCarthy, Joseph;Christison, Robert (Bob);Ah Foo, James (or Jemmy)

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hasPerpetratorsCategoryrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Settlers/Squatters

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hasReliabilityOfSourcesrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

First hand account of participants

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impliesRacialConflictrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:frontier-violence

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isAssociatedWithEventrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:attack-on-aboriginal-watercraft-sweers-island-1872

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isAssociatedWithNmpOfficerrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:aulaire-liddiard-morisset

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isRelatedToLanguageGrouprosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Gayardilt

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isRelatedToNativeTitleBoundaryrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

Lardil, Yangkaal, Gangalidda & Kaiadilt Peoples

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occurredInYearrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

1872

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occurredNearrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:locust-rock

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occurredOnrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:sweers-island

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occurredOnDayAndMonthrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

26 October

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partOfNmpEventsDatabaserosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

ex:nmp-events-csv

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relatedToProjectrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2056-eid-59386

rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection

References (1)

1 references

[1]Row 2056 Eid 5938637 facts
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Nmp Event 59386

Has Cause Reason`hasCauseReason`

Has Contemporary Reference`hasContemporaryReference`

Has Coordinate X Max`hasCoordinateXMax`

Has Coordinate X Min`hasCoordinateXMin`

Has Coordinate Y Max`hasCoordinateYMax`

Has Coordinate Y Min`hasCoordinateYMin`

Has Csv Record Number`hasCsvRecordNumber`

Has Date of First Reporting`hasDateOfFirstReporting`

Has Description of Event`hasDescriptionOfEvent`

Has Entry Id`hasEntryId`

Has Label`hasLabel`

Has Location Description`hasLocationDescription`

Inbound mentions (5)

`providedDeposition`Provided Deposition(3)

`heldInquiryAsJp`Held Inquiry As Jp(1)

`subsequentToEvent`Subsequent to Event(1)

Other facts (25)

Timeline

References (1)

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Nmp Event 59386

Has Cause ReasonhasCauseReason

Has Contemporary ReferencehasContemporaryReference

Has Coordinate X MaxhasCoordinateXMax

Has Coordinate X MinhasCoordinateXMin

Has Coordinate Y MaxhasCoordinateYMax

Has Coordinate Y MinhasCoordinateYMin

Has Csv Record NumberhasCsvRecordNumber

Has Date of First ReportinghasDateOfFirstReporting

Has Description of EventhasDescriptionOfEvent

Has Entry IdhasEntryId

Has LabelhasLabel

Has Location DescriptionhasLocationDescription

Inbound mentions (5)

providedDepositionProvided Deposition(3)

heldInquiryAsJpHeld Inquiry As Jp(1)

subsequentToEventSubsequent to Event(1)

Other facts (25)

Timeline

References (1)

See also

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Has Cause Reason`hasCauseReason`

Has Contemporary Reference`hasContemporaryReference`

Has Coordinate X Max`hasCoordinateXMax`

Has Coordinate X Min`hasCoordinateXMin`

Has Coordinate Y Max`hasCoordinateYMax`

Has Coordinate Y Min`hasCoordinateYMin`

Has Csv Record Number`hasCsvRecordNumber`

Has Date of First Reporting`hasDateOfFirstReporting`

Has Description of Event`hasDescriptionOfEvent`

Has Entry Id`hasEntryId`

Has Label`hasLabel`

Has Location Description`hasLocationDescription`

`providedDeposition`Provided Deposition(3)

`heldInquiryAsJp`Held Inquiry As Jp(1)

`subsequentToEvent`Subsequent to Event(1)