Site Name | Clyde and Ouse Rivers |
Aboriginal Place Name | |
Language Group | Big River |
Present State/Territory | TAS |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | VDL |
Police District | Clyde |
Latitude | -42.316 |
Longitude | 146.886 |
Date | 10 Mar 1829 |
Attack Time | Dawn |
Victims | Aboriginal People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 6 |
Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 6 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Field Police, Settler(s), Stockkeeper(s) |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
Transport | Foot |
Motive | Opportunity |
Weapons Used | Musket(s), Bayonet(s), Blade(s) |
Narrative | In a report on 10 April 1829 to Thomas Anstey , the police magistrate at Oatlands, Jorgen Jorgenson the leader of a roving party between the Clyde and Ouse rivers, said that the leader of another, "fired at a party of natives. He had no recourse left but to fire at them and by the traces of blood some of them were wounded if not mortally." Six Aboriginal people were killed. (TAHO CSO 1/316, p 189). |
Sources | TAHO CSO 1/316, p 189. (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | * |