| Site Name | Hornet Bank aftermath (2) This massacre is part of a group of massacres |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Yiman |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Taroom |
| Latitude | -25.783 |
| Longitude | 150.153 |
| Date | Between 1 Dec 1857 and 31 Dec 1857 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 70 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Settler(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Carbine(s), Pistol(s) |
| Narrative | In the aftermath of the massacre of the Frazer family at Hornet Bank in October 1857, three reprisal massacres were carried out. In the second massacre, two members of the Fraser family, Sylvester and William Fraser, were known to have killed at least 70 Yiman people. According to Richards (2008, p 64), 'When grazier Andrew Murray met William Fraser... three years after Hornet Bank, Fraser reportedly said that he had shot "seventy blacks to date"' (quote from Andrew Murray's diary in Richards 2008, p 64). Richards also said that Fraser was 'known to many Aboriginal people at the time as Nemesis and Debil Debil' (Richards, 2008, p 64). |
| Sources | Richards, 2008, p 64. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
