Clerk of Petty Sessions, Cooktown
Bench Record and Summons Book
8. 8.1939 - 7. 3.1958
CPS 13E/53 Queensland State Archives
3. 4.1941 Jack Williamson, aboriginal )
Nellie Williamson, aboriginal )
Applied for permit to work at less than the award rate.
5. 3.1942 Hilda, aboriginal )
Kitty, aboriginal )
Applied for permit to work at less than the award rate.
Adjourned to 19. 3.1942.
19. 3.1942 Hilda, aboriginal )
Kitty, aboriginal )
Applied for permit to work at less than the award rate.
Granted.
23. 4.1942 Marie, aboriginal
Applied for permit to work at less than the award rate.
30. 4.1942 Kitty, aboriginal
Applied for permit to work at less than the award rate.
2. 7.1942 Coby, aboriginal
Applied for permit to work at less than the award rate.
Adjourned to 23. 7.1942.
25. 2.1943 Hilda, aboriginal )
Kitty, aboriginal )
Applied for permit to work at less than the award rate.
Adjourned to 11. 3.1943
Adjourned to 18. 3.1943
Adjourned to Sine Die
Withdrawn 9. 4.1943
14.10.1948 Vincent Booth, Protector of Aborigines, on
behalf of Toby Gordon, an aboriginal, against Willie Lee Chen
for unlawful assault on 10. 4.1948. W.L.C. gaoled
for 14 days.
The death entries following are for the issue of a Coroner's Certificate
of Death, where an inquest is deemed unnecessary.
Yuri
Aboriginal aged 65 years, labourer. Died of natural causes at
China Camp on 4. 4.1949.
Jenny Andy
Aboriginal aged about 70 years. Died of natural causes at the
Aboriginal camp at Flaggy near Cooktown on 27. 5.1949.
Johnny Springvale
Aboriginal, no occupation, aged about 75 years. Died of natural
causes at the Aboriginal camp, Cooktown.
C.I. 12.10.1949.
Jimmy Rossville
Aboriginal, no occupation aged about 82 years. Died of natural
causes at Rossville.
C.I. 24.10.1949.
Charlotte Walker
Aboriginal, housewife aged about 24 years. Died suddenly at the
Aboriginal camp, Cooktown after child-birth on 14.12.1949.
Nellie Ball
Aboriginal, infant aged about 1 year. Died at the Aboriginal camp,
Bloomfield on 22. 1.1950.
C.I. 17. 2.1950.
Annie Flinders
Aboriginal aged 42 years. Died at the Aboriginal camp, Cooktown
on 24. 2.1950.
C.I. 9. 3.1950.
Polly Gibson, known as Polly Black
Aged 75 years. Died at Cook Hospital, Cooktown on 22. 4.1950.
C.I. 27. 4.1950.
Polly, known as Polly Bloomfield
Aged 70 years. Died at the Aboriginal camp, Cooktown on 26. 4.1950.
C.I. 27. 4.1950.
Johnson
Nomad aboriginal aged about 65 years. Died at Strathleven Station
about 25. 5.1950.
C.I. 20. 7.1950.
Harry
Aboriginal, Police boy aged about 23 years. Fatally speared at the
Edward River Aboriginal Mission, Cape York Peninsula, shortly
after 9.00pm on 15. 3.1950.
C.I. 31. 8.1950.
Ginnamol
Aboriginal, widow aged 65 years. Died at Bannabilla Aboriginal camp,
Bloomfield River, on 19. 9.1950.
C.I. 6.10.1950
Edna Gibson
Aboriginal aged about 30 years, married. Died at Bramwell Station,
Moreton on 22. 9.1950.
C.I. 12.10.1950.
Frederick Friday Wilson
Aboriginal aged 69 years, old age pensioner, single. Died at Regent
St., Coen on 10.10.1950 at 5.30am.
C.I. 18.10.1950
Old Nellie
Aboriginal, home duties, widow aged about 70 years. Died at Musgrave
Station via Coen at about 6.00pm on 12.10.1950.
C.I. 18.10.1950.
Josephine Benny
Aboriginal, female child aged about 9 months. Died at the Cook
Hospital, Cooktown at about 10.50am on 5.10.1950.
C.I. 27.10.1950.
Lena Weipa
Aboriginal, aged about 42 years, married. Died on the Weipa - Rokeby
Road, Coen in a motor truck owned by Frederick Henry Kepple at
about 10.00am on 23.10.1950.
C.I. 8.11.1950.
Rachel Fay Jacko
Aged 2 years 11 months, of the Lutheran Mission, Cooktown. Died at
Flaggy near Cooktown on 9. 3.1951.
C.I. 20. 3.1951.
Old Man Willie
Full blood Aboriginal. Died at Tanada Station via Coen on 8. 3.1951.
C.I. 28. 3.1951.
Old Man Harry, also known as Harry Cumber
Aboriginal. Died at the Coen Aboriginal Reserve on 18. 3.1951.
C.I. 28. 3.1951.
John Douglas
Aboriginal infant, aged minutes only. Died at the Lutheran Mission,
Cooktown on 17. 4.1951.
C.I. 1. 5.1951.
Unnamed female child
Unnamed female aboriginal infant of Mickie Rosie Allers. Died at New
Yard, Rokeby Station via Coen on 6. 6.1951.
C.I. 27. 7.1951
Maggie Banan
An indigent native, 80/90 years old. Died at Blue Mountains via Coen
on 21. 7.1951.
C.I. 8. 8.1951.
Dick Billy
Aboriginal about 76 years. Died at the Aboriginal camp, Cooktown
on 27. 8.1951.
C.I. 11. 9.1951.
Old Man William
An indigent aboriginal aged about 70 years. Died at Coen River,
Coen on 17. 8.1951
C.I. 11. 9.1951
Cameron Stafford
Aboriginal aged about 74 years. Died at Lan Kelly Creek, via
Coen on 23. 8.1951
C.I. 11. 9.1951.
Womadgee?
Female indigent aboriginal. Died at Bloomfield on 4. 9.1951.
C.I. 19. 9.1951.
Junks
Male aboriginal. Died at Coen on 28. 8.1951.
C.I. 26. 9.1951.
Alick
Aboriginal. Died at Cooktown Aboriginal Camp on 9.10.1951.
C.I. 14.11.1951
Rosie
Wife of Saturday, aged about 51 years. Died at the Aboriginal
Camp, Coen on 13.10.1951.
C.I. 14.11.1951.
Wilma Darkan
Aboriginal child. Died 17.10.1951 on way from the Lutheran
Mission to Cooktown.
C.I. 21.11.1951.
Henry Henry
Aged 5 days. Died at the Aboriginal Camp, Bloomfield on 15.12.1951.
C.I. 23. 1.1952
Thomas Hagan
Aged 77 years, pensioner. Died at China Camp, Bloomfield
on 1.10.1951.
C.I. 5. 2.1952.
Geanethe
Aboriginal woman, aged about 70 years. Found dead at Coen
on 2. 5.1952.
C.I. 21. 5.1952.
Kitty Springvale
Aboriginal woman aged 71 years. Died at the Aboriginal Reserve,
Cooktown on 19. 5.1952.
C.I. 28. 5.1952.
Topsy
Aboriginal female, married, aged 72 years. Died at Bloomfield
River on 26. 8.1952.
C.I. 8. 9.1952.
Tom Confin
Aboriginal, married, aged 77 years. Died at Lutheran Mission,
Hope Vale on 27. 9.1952.
C.I. 7.10.1952.
William
Aboriginal, married, aged 75 years. Died at the Lutheran Mission,
Hope Vale on 30. 9.1952.
C.I. 13.10.1952.
Rosslyn Keith Matthews
Single, aged 26 years. Died at the Lockhart River Mission on the
east coast of Cape York Peninsula at about 6.30pm on 20. 5.1952.
C.I. 11.11.1952.
Caporal King
Aboriginal female infant, aged 5 days. Died at the Aboriginal
Camp, Bloomfield River, near Cooktown on 20.12.1952.
C.I. 12. 1.1953.
Nellie
Aboriginal female, aged about 70 years. Died at Laura on 9. 1.1953
at 6.00am.
C.I. 15. 1.1953
Pamoika Yunkaportar
Aboriginal woman, aged about 40 years. Died at Aurukun Mission
on 5. 1.1953.
C.I. 17. 3.1953.
Long Charlie
Indigent aboriginal, aged about 80 years. Died at the Aboriginal
Reserve, Coen on 4. 4.1953 about 7.30pm.
C.I. 16. 4.1953.
Maggie
Aboriginal woman, aged about 70 years. Died at Flaggy near
Cooktown on 11. 4.1953.
C.I. 27. 4.1953.
Jean Walpu Koolkitcha, also known as Jean Bentinck
Aboriginal woman. Died at Aurukun Mission on 29. 4.1953.
C.I. 22. 6.1953.
(Lilly Teentingeitcha committed for trial on 22. 5.1953 for
wilful murder)
Linda Hall
Aboriginal baby, aged 2 days. Died at Bloomfield River on 21. 6.1953.
C.I. 9. 7.1953.
Stevenson Keppel
Aboriginal infant, aged 2 years 10 months. Died at the Old Main
Telegraph Station on Merluna Station, Cape York Peninsula
on 21. 7.1953.
C.I. 29. 9.1953.
Tundapa?nal
Aboriginal girl, aged about 14 years. Died at Ire-ecta on the Kirk
River, west coast of Cape York Peninsula on or about 15. 5.1953.
C.I. 1. 9.1953.
Archie Harry
Aboriginal aged about 21 years. Died at Coen aerodrome on 12. 8.1953.
C.I. 30. 9.1953.
Alleut (?Allent)
Full blood Aboriginal, aged about 70 years. Died near Port Stewart
on 13. 2.1954.
C.I. 10. 3.1954.
Susie Ann Jack
Full blood aboriginal female child, aged 3 years. Died at Hope Vale
Mission on 16. 2.1954.
C.I. 25. 3.1954
Marthipank Youngaporta
Full blooded aboriginal female, aged about 34 years. Died suddenly
at Aurukun Mission on 22. 3.1954.
C.I. 17. 5.1954.
Maggie
Full blooded Aboriginal female, aged about 75 years. Died at Hope
Vale Mission Hospital on 3. 5.1954.
C.I. 18. 5.1954.
King Gostilow
Full blooded Aboriginal male, aged about 65 years. Died suddenly at
Port Stewart on 15. 5.1954.
C.I. 2. 6.1954.
Hazel Band (?Baud)
Full blooded Aboriginal female infant, aged 8 months. Died suddenly
at the Aboriginal Camp, Bloomfield.
C.I. 24. 6.1954.
Bab Yanbun
Full blooded aboriginal, aged about 40 years. Died suddenly en route
by motor truck from Maimt Romeo to Cooktown Hospital on 23. 6.1954.
C.I. 9. 7.1954.
16. 8.1954 Meseka Mudu
Aboriginal, in possession of Alcohol.
Mr. Robinson Kooyart Tarkowan
Aged about 60 years. Died at the Aurukun Mission on 6.11.1953.
Rachael Ball
Died at the Bloomfield River Aboriginal Camp on 7. 8.1954.
Natural causes.
Unnamed female Aboriginal child
Unnamed female Aboriginal child, born to ?Ella Campbell. Died
immediately after birth at Coen on 29. 8.1954. Cause of
death - premature.
Jimmy Archer
Died of natural causes at the Aboriginal Reserve, Coen on 12. 9.1953.
Tommy Banan
Died at Coen on 25.10.1954.
C.I. 11. 1.1955.
Nellie Jenkins
Died at the Coen Aboriginal reserve on 19. 3.1955.
C.I. 28. 3.1955.
Lynette Smith
Died at the Bloomfield Aboriginal Camp on 28. 1.1955.
C.I. 7. 2.1955.
25. 5.1955 Isaac Waia
Aboriginal, in possession of alcohol
Minnie Robinson
Died at the Coen Aboriginal reserve on 14. 5.1955.
C.I. 14. 6.1955.
Jenny Brown
Died at the Cooktown Aboriginal Reserve on 13. 7.1955.
C.I. 2. 8.1955.
Maggie Batavia
Died at the Coen Aboriginal reserve on 29. 6.1955
C.I. 2. 8.1955.
Gil Pamtoonda
Died at Aurukun on 11. 7.1954.
C.I. 28. 8.1955.
Harry Tomi Kongleina
Died at Aurukun on 4. 4.1955.
C.I. 22. 8.1955
Luke Goldendung
Died at Aurukun on 13. 8.1954.
C.I. 26. 8.1955.
Dick Ingun Yawteelin
Died at Aurukun on 11. 1.1955.
C.I. 26. 8.1955.
Beryl Conrad
Died at the Edward River Mission on 30.11.1954.
C.I. 31. 8.1955.
Tommy Marbotam
Died at Aurukun on 5. 8.1954.
C.I. 14. 9.1955.
Maggie Moses
Aboriginal. Died at Coen on 22. 8.1955.
C.I. 19. 9.1955.
Lulu
Aboriginal. Died at Gillighan's Lagoon, Coen on 26.10.1954.
C.I. 19., 9.1955
Doreen Coleman
Died at the Edward River Mission on 21. 7.1954.
C.I. 6.10.1955.
Clara Butchar
Died at Hope Vale Mission on 13. 9.1955.
C.I. 7.10.1955.
Banjo Gordon
Died at Hope Vale Mission on 3.12.1955.
C.I. 19.12.1955.
Sambo Parsons
Died at Laura on 21. 7.1956.
C.I. 17. 8.1956.
Kerindum Coothak Chalhenen
Aged 12 hours. Died at Aurukun on 28. 2.1956.
C.I. 21. 9.1956.
Claude
Aboriginal. Died at Edward River Mission on 21. 5.1956.
C.I. . 6.1956
Annie Bloomfield
Died at Bloomfield on 9. 1.1957.
C.I. 4. 3.1957.
Silver Johnston
Aboriginal. Died at Coen on 14. 2.1957.
C.I. 28. 3.1957.
The following died at the Edward River Mission on the
following dates. Aboriginals.
Joe 8.11.1956
Margaret 8.11.1956
Deborah 30.11.1956
William 2.11.1956
Rebeckah 18.11.1956
C.I. 20. 8.1957.
The following Aboriginal infants died at the Edward River
Mission on the following dates.
John Norman 28. 9.1957
Joy Conrad 2.10.1956
Hilray Vincent 14.10.1956
Melba Norman 5.11.1956
C.I. 21. 8.1957
Ivy Olbal
Aged 5 years. Died at Bloomfield on 22. 8.1957.
C.I. 14. 9.1957.
Barney Arthur
Of the Hope Vale Mission. Died in Cooktown Hospital on 4. 9.1957.
C.I. 1.10.1957.
Maggie Flour
Aged about 80 years, of Rokeby Station, via Coen. Died in the
Aerial Ambulance in flight from Coen to Cooktown on 9.10.1957.
C.I. 7.11.1957.
Rosie Banjo
Died at Coen Aboriginal Reserve on 26.10.1957.
C.I. 12.11.1957.
Florence Olbar
Aged 1 month 11 days. Died at the Bloomfield Aboriginal Reserve
on 9.11.1957.
C.I. 20.12.1957
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