• Title
  Petition from John Connell to Captain Dumaresq recommending Aborigines of Botany Bay to receive General Darling's donation of blankets, 1825-1831
• Creator
  Henry Dumaresq, 1792-1838
• Call number
  Aa 84
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1825-1831
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  893645
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 3583
  
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Connell, a landholder on the Kurnell peninsula, addressed this petition to Captain Henry Dumaresq recommending that Aborigines known to him receive General Darling's donation of blankets. Dumaresq was secretary to Governor Darling during Darling's term of office from December 1825 to October 1831.
  
  At this period Bulkabra or Bolgobrough was regarded as the ‘chief’ of Botany Bay. His wife, ‘Mrs Bulkabra’, was called Queen Maria.
• Scope and Content
  Connell writes that the bearers of the note, Bolgobrough and his brother Willamanann (also known as William Munnen), ‘Generally Reside at the South Side of Botany bay, they and their tribe are come to Sydney for his Excellency General Darling’s Benevolent Donation of Blankets & for the Ensuing Winter. I know them from many years’.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 900410
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Connell, John, d.1848
  
• Name
  Bulkabra
  
• Subject
  Landowners--New South Wales--Kurnell
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Botany Bay
  Petitions--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  blankets
  
• Place
  Kurnell Peninsula (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE167327

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