Charles Williams 'Account of the remains of King Billy the last Tasmanian male Aboriginal', 188- or...
Charles Williams 'Account of the remains of King Billy the last Tasmanian male Aboriginal', 188- or 189-
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Date
188- or 189-
Call Numbers
MLMSS 5593
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1 folder of textual material
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Contents
'Statement made by Charles Williams gate keeper at the General Hospital Hobart Tasmania giving an account of the death of 'King' Billy or 'William Lanne' the last male Tasmanian aboriginal who died in 1869'
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Charles Williams 'Account of the remains of King Billy the last Tasmanian male Aboriginal', 188- or 189-
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Description source
Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-766 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
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Administrative / Biographical history
Formerly kept with papers entitled 'Tasmanian Aborigines : a collection of papers chiefly by George Augustus Robinson', located at A 612, microfilm reel CY 979, provenance unknown. On cover 'Alex Morton MSS'
William Lanney was a member of the last family of aborigines captured at Arthur River and removed to Flinders Island in December 1842....
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MLMSS 5593
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1JkmrJXY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkmrJXY
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932373
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