Yarramundi

Infobox_Person
name = Yarramundi
birth_date = Circa 1760
birth_place = Richmond, New South Wales
death_date = After 1818
known_for = “Chief of the Richmond Tribe(s)”
children = Maria Lock, Colbee

Yarramundi (circa 1760 – after 1818) was an Indigenous Australian called by Europeans “the chief of the Richmond Tribe” or “Tribes”. He was a member of the Boorooberongal clan of the Darug people, and was a "garadyi" or “doctor”. [ [http://www.brewongle-e.schools.nsw.edu.au/bundeluk.htm Brewongle Environmental Education Centre >> Aboriginal studies >> Bundeluk ] ]

Yarramundi and his father Gombeeree met Governor Arthur Phillip on April 14 1791, and this meeting is described by Watkin Tench (who spells his name "Yellomundee") in his "A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson", published in 1793. Yarramundi's daughter, Maria (born 1805) married convict Robert Lock, which was the first officially sanctioned marriage between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia. Yarramundi's son, Colbee (or Colobee), was the first Aboriginal person to receive a land grant. [ [http://www.brewongle-e.schools.nsw.edu.au/bundeluk.htm Brewongle Environmental Education Centre >> Aboriginal studies >> Bundeluk ] ] Maria was the first Aboriginal child to enter the Native Institute at Parramatta, where she won the state yearly examination ahead of 100 white children. Following Colbee's death she was granted his land at Blacktown and she lived there until her death in 1878.

ee also

* Yarramundi, New South Wales
* Colebee, New South Wales

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