INDEX

Abbey, Sandy

Aborigines. See also by name.

Active (vessel)

Adavale

Adelaide

Adelong

Afghans

Albany

Albury

Annondale Station

Archerfield Station

Argyle Downs Gold Mining and Quartz Crushing Company

Argyle Station

Arnhem Land

Australian Melodist, The

Auvergne Station

 

Baker, William

ballads/verse

Barcoo River

Barkly Tableland

Barnes, Harry

Baynes, Ernest

Beagle Bay

Beech worth

Behn River

Bennet, John

Bennet, Margaret (nee Durack)

Bennet, Mary Anne

‘Big Momminna’

Bill of Indenture (1852)

birds

Birdsville track

Blackney Creek Station

Blake, Will

Blythe, Joe

Boldrewood, Rolf

Book of Ballymore

Boontamurra people

Boorowa

Bourke

Bourke, Governor

Bow River

Bowen Hotel, South Brisbane

Boxer (Aborigine)

Boyd, William Carr

Brisbane

Brisbane Courier

Brockman, George Julius

Brogan, Michael

Brogan, Stephen

Brown, Jack

Buchanan, Gordon

Buchanan, Kitty (nee Gordon)

Buchanan, Nat

Bulloo River

Bunginderry Station

Burke, Robert O’Hara

bushfires

bushrangers

Butcher’s Creek

Button, Bob

Button’s Gap

Byrne, Jim

Byrne, Catherine (see Kilfoyle)

Byrne, (Miss) Joe

Byrne, Maggie

Byrne, Mick

 

Cable family

Cable, Georgina, see Doherty

Cahill family

Cahill, Tom

Cambridge Downs Pastoral Association

Cambridge Gulf

Cameron, Don

Cameron, Miss, see McCaully

Campbell, Sir Alexander Cockburn

Cappabaun (Ireland)

Carawilla Station

Carey, James

Carlton Reach

Castle Hackett

Catholic Record

cattle/cattle industry

cattle, restrictions on movement to W.A.

cattle, sickness in, see cattle tick; sickness

cattle brands

cattle stealing (poddy dodging)

cattle tick

Cavanagh, Fred

Cawarral Station

Charleville

Charlie (Aborigine)

Chinese in Australia

Chisholm, Caroline

Chisholm, James

Christian Brothers’ College

Clare County

Clastnamuck Station

Cloncurry

Cobb and Co.

Cobby (Aborigine)

Colak (vessel)

Coles, Jenkin

Collins, Constable

Coman, Edward

Congabulla Station

Connemara Station

Connor, Doherty and Durack Pty Ltd

Connor and Doherty (& Co.)

Connor, Francis

Connors, Tom

convict transportation

convicts

Coolgardie

Cooper, Frank

Cooper Cup

Cooper Plains

Cooper River

Cooper’s Creek

Copley, John

Cosmopolitan, The (hotel)

Costello, John

Costello, John (son of John and Mary)

Costello, Mary (daughter of John and Mary)

Costello, Mary (nee Scanlan; wife of John)

Costello, Mary (wife of Patsy), see Durack

Costello, Michael (senior)

Costello, Michael (son of John and Mary)

Costello, Mrs (‘Great-grandmother’)

Coughlin, Tom

Croaker, Sam (‘Greenhide’)

crocodiles

Cunnamulla Station

Currawilla Station

Curtis family

 

Darling Downs

Darlot, Lennie

Daru Station

Darwin

Davenport Downs Station

De Grey River

De Grey Station

depression, economic

Diamantina River

Dillon, Bridget, see Durack

Dillon, Jim

Dillon, John

diseases (human or animal), see sickness

Dixon’s Creek

Doherty, Dennis

Doherty, Georgina (nee Cable)

drought

drovers/droving xiv,

drug addiction

Dryman, Pat

Duke of Roxborough (vessel)

Dunham, Father

Dunham River

Dunham Towers

Dunraven of Adare, Lord

Durack, Ambrose

Durack, Amy (‘Mammie Amy’) nee Forde

Durack, Anne, see Redgrave

Durack, Bridget (‘Birdie’)

Durack, Bridget (daughter of Darby and Margaret)

Durack, Bridget (daughter of Galway Jerry and Frances)

Durack, Bridget (daughter of Michael and Bridget), see Scanlan

Durack, Bridget (nee Dillon)

Durack, Captain Will

Durack, Catherine (Kate), nee McInnes

Durack, Cornelius

Durack, Darby

Durack, Frances (Fanny), nee Neal

Durack, James

Durack, Janie

Durack, Jeremiah (son of Patsy and Mary: died)

Durack, Jeremiah (‘Dermot’)

Durack, Jeremiah (‘Galway Jerry’)

Durack, Jeremiah (‘Jerry Brice’)

Durack, John (‘Big Johnnie’)

Durack, John (‘Daddy Jack’)

Durack, John (‘J.W.’)

Durack, Lawrence

Durack, Margaret, see Bennet

Durack, Margaret (nee Kilfoyle)

Durack, Mary (nee Costello: wife of Patsy)

Durack, Mary (first daughter of Patsy and Mary: died)

Durack, Mary (second daughter of Patsy and Mary)

Durack, Mary (‘Poor’), see Skeahan

Durack, Michael

Durack, Michael (‘Long Michael’)

Durack, Michael Patrick (‘M.P.’) xii,

Durack, Michael (‘Stumpy’)

Durack, Patrick Bernard (‘P.B.’)

Durack, Patrick (‘Black Pat’)

Durack, Patrick (Patsy) xi, xiv, death of father; goes to Ovens River goldmine; begins farming in Goulburn district; marries Mary Costello; moves with family and stock to Queensland; settles with family on Cooper’s Creek; organises expedition to the Kimberley district of W.A.; goes to Kimberley,; gold mining at Ruby Creek; financial disaster; death of wife, Mary; in Ireland death

Durack, Patsy (son of Galway Jerry and Frances)

Durack, Sarah, see Tully

Durack, Walter

Durack, Will

Durack, William

Durack Downs Station

Durack River

‘Durack tree’

 

education/school

Ellerton (vessel)

Elsey Station

Emanuel, Isadore

Emanuel, Samuel

Emanuel, Solomon

Emanuel, Sydney

Emigrant Friends’ Society, Goulburn

emigration/immigration

equipment lists

Eureka Stockade (1854)

explorers/exploration

Eyre, John

 

family origins, Durack

Farrar, Jack

Farrar’s Creek

Feeney, Bill

finances

Fitzroy Crossing

Fitzroy River

Flinn, Barney floods

food

Foott, Mary Hannay

Forbes, Arthur

Forde, Amy, see Durack

Forrest, Alexander

Forrest, Matthew

Forrest, Sir John

Forrest and Emanuel (& Co.)

Forrest Vale run

Forrester, William

free selection

Free Selection Act (1861), NSW xiii,

Fremantle

 

Gallagher, the Reverend Dr

Galway, County of (Ireland)

Galway Blazers

Galway Downs Station

Gardiner, Frank (‘Darkie’)

Garvey, Father

Gaunt, Charlie

Georgina River

Gibney, Bishop

Gidyeagunbine

Gilmour, Inspector

Gilppie Station

gold/gold prospecting xiii,

Gordon, Hugh

Gordon, Kitty, see Buchanan

Gordon, S.D.

Gordon, Wattie

Gordon family

Goulburn

Goulburn Herald

Gregory, A.C.

Griffiths, W.K.

 

Hall, Ben

Hall’s Creek

Hamilton River

Hammond, Frances

Hammond, Jim

Hammond, Mick

Hammond, Ned

Hannan, Paddy

Hardman, Edward

Harper, Charles

Harriet (vessel)

Hart, Jack

Hart, Joe

Hashemy (vessel)

Hayes, Tom

Healy, John

Helms, Richard

Hill, Lumley

Hodgeson River

Hogan, Thomas

Holtze, Dr Maurice

Hope, John

Horan, Tom

Horrigan, Jack

horse brands

horse racing, see race meetings

horse stealing

horses

Hotel Imperial, Adavale

hotels

Hume Creek

Hutchins, Bill

 

immigration, see emigration

Ireland

Irish Mercy school

‘Irish question, the’

Ivanhoe Station

 

Jack in the Rocks (hotel)

‘J.C.’ tree see also trees

John, Adam

Johnston, H.F.

Josey, James

 

Kalgoorlie

Kalkadoon people

Kangaroo (Aborigine)

Kapunda

Katherine

Keep River

Keerongoola Station

Kelly, Father

Kelly, Jack

Kelly, Ned (Aborigine)

Kelly, Ned (bushranger)

Kermode, George

Kilfoyle, Catherine (nee Byrne)

Kilfoyle, Jack

Kilfoyle, Margaret, see Durack

Kilfoyle, Tom

Kimberley

Kimberley cattle trek

Kimberley expedition

Kimberley House, Sydney

Kimberley Pastoral Association

King, John

King, Phillip

King Leopold Range

King Sound Pastoral Company198,

Kippilaw estate

Kirwan, Matt

Kyabra Creek

Kyabra Station

 

Lake Bathurst

Lake Nash Station

Lambing Flat

Lamond, Barney

land grants

land purchases/selection xiii, see also free selection; Free Selection Act

Landsborough, Will

Lang, Dr John Dunmore

Lavery, Sergeant

lawsuit, Durack

Leichhardt, Ludwig

Leichhardt’s Crossing

Leslie, Pat

Levuka (vessel)

Lilley, Charles

Limmen River

Lissadell Station

Livingstone, Jas

locusts

Lorinda Borstil (vessel)

Lucanus, August

Lulugai Station

Lynott, Tom

 

McAlister, Charles

McAlister, George

McAlroy, Father Michael

Macarthur, John

McArthur River

McCaully, Duncan

McCaully, Mrs Duncan (nee Cameron)

McClarty, Will

MacDonald, Charlie

MacDonald, Willie

MacDonald family

McInnes, Angus

McInnes, Catherine (Kate), see Durack

McInnes, Donald

McIvor, Ivor

MacKensie family

McLarty, Will

McMinn’s Bluff

MacNamara, Con

McPhee, Jock

McTavish, Annie

Magerareagh (Ireland)

Maggie (Aborigine)

Mansbridge, Will

Margaret River

Mary River

Mary Smith (vessel)

Maryview, Brisbane

Meda Station

Meid, Aled

Melbourne

Melon Head (Aborigine)

Milka Lane Station

mining licences

mining, gold, see gold

Minogue, Jim

Mirriwun people

Mistake Creek

Mitchell, Thomas

Mobel Creek

Molong Station

Monagee Station

Monkira Station

Mooraberrie Station

Moore, Patsy

Moorlands Station

Morney Plains Station

Mount Bernagh (Ireland)

Mount Leonard Station

Mount Marlowe Station

Mount Misery

Mount Shannon Station

Moynoe (Ireland)

Muchenba

Mundoona Station

Munroe, Alex

Murchison River

Murphy, Mary Elizabeth

Murragon people

Murrawarri people

Murray, Captain

mustering

 

Nappamerri Station

Naughton, William

Neal, Frances (Fanny), see Durack

Negri River

New South Wales see also Goulburn; Sydney

Newry Station

Ngoa people

Ngurrun (Aborigine)

Nicholson Plains

Nicholson River

Northern Territory

 

O’Donnell, William

O’Donnell Ranges

Ogilvie, Will

Ogoneloe (Ireland)

opals/opal mining

Ord River

Orme, Inspector

O’Rourke, Billy

Osman and Panton

Otway (vessel)

Ovens River diggings

Overland Telegraph

 

Pannick (horse)

Pannikin (Aborigine)

Parapitcherie waterhole

Parkes, Henry

Parramatta barracks

Pastoral Leases Act (1869)

Paterson, A.B. (‘Banjo’)

‘peacocking’

pearling/pearlers

Pentacost, John

Pentacost River

Perry, Bob

Perth

Pethic, Tom

Pierce, Frederick

Pierce, Norma

Pierre, Tommy

Pine Creek

Pintpot (Aborigine)

Pita-Pita people

poetry/songs, see ballads/verse

Polding, Archbishop John

police action against Aborigines

Pollak, James

Pompey (Aborigine)

Prout, Alfred

Prout, Sydney

Pumpkin (Aborigine)

 

Queensland

Queensland Cooperative Pastoral Co. Ltd

Quinlan, Will

Quinn, John

Quirk, Frances

Quirk, John

 

race meetings

Rae, George

Rajputana

Rasmore Station

rat plague

Ray (formerly Wathagurra) Station129,

Redford, Harry

Redgrave, Anne (nee Durack)

Redgrave, John

Redgrave, John Patrick

religion

Ridge family

Robbery Under Arms

Robertson, John

Robinson River

Rockhampton

Roma

Roper River

Rose, Edwin

Rosewood Station

Ruby Creek

Ruby Queen Goldmine

Russell, Jim

 

St Patrick’s College, Goulburn

Saunders, Phil

Scanlan, Bridget (nee Durack)

Scanlan, Delia

Scanlan, Jim

Scanlan, Mary, see Costello

Scanlan, Mary (nee O’Keefe)

Scanlan, Mick

Scanlan, Pat

Scanlan, Susan

Scariff (Ireland)

Scarr, Frank

Scrammy Jimmy (Aborigine)

Settlement Creek

Shadforth, Tudor

sheep/sheep farming

Sherringhara, Jack

sickness

sickness of cattle/horses

Skeahan, Dinny

Skeahan, Jack

Skeahan, Jeremiah

Skeahan, John

Skeahan, Mary (nee Durack)

Skeahan, Michael

Skeahan, Patsy

Slains Castle (vessel)

Slattery, Father Michael

Slieve Aughty Mountain (Ireland)

snakes

Soldier (Aborigine)

songs, see ballads/verse

squatters

Steinbeck, Adolph

Stock Act (1888)

Stock Diseases Act

Storier, Jack

Strzelecki Creek

Stuart, John McDouall

Sturt, Charles

Sultan (Aborigine)

Sydney

Sydney Gold Escort

Sydney Morning Herald

 

Tambo

Tanbar Station

Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane

Tea-tree Station

Tenham Station

Thargomindah

Thillung-gurra waterhole

Thompson River

Three Mile Hotel

Thylungra Station

Thylungra Station daybook/stock book

Tommy (Aborigine)

Travers, Jack

trees, marked

Tully, Annie Amy Forde

Tully, Francis

Tully, Frank

Tully, Mike

Tully, Pat

Tully, Sarah (nee Durack)

Turon River

Tyson, James

 

Uhr, D’Arcy

Ulysses (Aborigine)

Urquart, John

 

Valley (Aborigine)

Valley of Springs Station

Victoria River

Vindex Station

Volmer (vessel)

Vortigen (vessel)

 

Waddi Mundoai (Aborigine)

wages

Waker-di people

Walsh, John

Warroo Springs Station

water supply

Wathagurra Creek

Wathagurra Station, see Ray Station

Weldon, Edward

Welford Downs Station

Western Australia

Western Star, The (hotel)

Whichello Station

White, T.K.

Whynot property

Wickham Gorge

Wickham River

Wilcannia

Willie (Aborigine)

Windorah (formerly Stoney Point)

Wolf, Theodore

Wolfe, Robert

Wollondilly River

Wyndham

 

Yeeda Station