Police Station, Kilcoy
Letterbooks
4. 1.1919 - 6. 7.1921 POL 2A/G1 Queensland State Archives
5.11.1922 - 20. 6.1924 POL 2A/G2 Queensland State Archives
20. 6.1924 - 20. 7.1925 POL 2A/G3 Queensland State Archives
21. 7.1925 - 25. 8.1926 POL 2A/G4 Queensland State Archives
31. 8.1926 - 31.12.1927 POL 2A/G5 Queensland State Archives
2. 1.1928 - 5. 8.1930 POL 2A/G6 Queensland State Archives
5. 8.1930 - 5. 4.1932 POL 2A/G7 Queensland State Archives
11. 4.1932 - 5.11.1933 POL 2A/G8 Queensland State Archives
7.11.1933 - 12.10.1934 POL 2A/G9 Queensland State Archives
12.10.1934 - 2. 8.1935 POL 2A/G10 Queensland State Archives
4. 8.1935 - 20. 2.1936 POL 2A/G11 Queensland State Archives
24. 2.1936 - 25.10.1936 POL 2A/G12 Queensland State Archives
26.10.1936 - 15. 5.1937 POL 2A/G13 Queensland State Archives
1. 6.1937 - 12.10.1937 POL 2A/G14 Queensland State Archives
8.10.1937 - 30. 6.1938 POL 2A/G15 Queensland State Archives
30. 6.1938 - 31.12.1938 POL 2A/G16 Queensland State Archives
4. 1.1939 - 4. 8.1939 POL 2A/G17 Queensland State Archives
7. 8.1939 - 27.11.1939 POL 2A/G18 Queensland State Archives
28.11.1939 - 11. 3.1940 POL 2A/G19 Queensland State Archives
2. 7.1940 - 9.12.1940 POL 2A/G21 Queensland State Archives
18.12.1940 - 21. 6.1941 POL 2A/G22 Queensland State Archives
25. 6.1941 - 20.10.1941 POL 2A/G23 Queensland State Archives
21.10.1941 - 28.12.1942 POL 2A/G24 Queensland State Archives
Extracts
Letters are marked Hopetown Station, Kilcoy
21. 2.1919 Re Agreement under Aborigines Protection Act. The boy
Norman is now holidaying at Redcliffe and wil return in about another
week when the matter will be attended to.
4. 3.1919 Agreement between the half-caste boy Norman and
Mr W H Atthow handed in and also wages.
31.12.1919 Annual Report for the year 1919 - Aboriginals.
There is only one half-caste boy in the district who is
Norman Charles, aged 10 years, under Agreement to H Atthow.
31.12.1922 There are no Aboriginals in the District.
15.10.1923 Accounts of wages owing to the half-caste boy Norman
were handed to Mr Walter Highwood Atthow today.
31.10.1923 Wages for Norman not received by the Chief Protector.
If not paid Norman will be removed at no further notice.
6.11.1923 Norman with W Atthow's brother at Avoca, Linville,
Moore District. Will get the matter sorted out.
31.12.1923 There are no Aboriginals or half-castes male or female
in this Police District and there has been no work in connection
with Aboriginals during the year with the exception of two short
patrols made to Woolmar to interview W H Atthow with regard to
wages due to half-caste boy Norman Young employed at Linville.
13. 1.1924 Re Wages due on Agreement to Chief Protector of
Aborigines by Walter Highwood Atthow of Kilcoy for half-caste
boy Norman Young. Norman has not been seen in the district for
about two years. He is with the brother of W H Atthow, namely
Albert Reginald Atthow at Linville. Perhaps the Moore Police
could follow it up.
31.12.1924 There are no Aboriginals or half-castes in the district
23. 5.1925 Reply to a circular. There do not appear to be any
Aboriginals or half-castes who left the district to go to the
late war.
4. 8.1925 Two Aboriginal skeletons found in caves at Mount Kilcoy.
Apparently the Mount Kilcoy Range was the boundary line between
the Dawson and Durundu tribes. The Dawson blacks used to come
to this range fifty years ago. The remains of a dilly bag were found
with one skeleton.
14. 8.1925 Doctor Park of Kilcoy stated the two skeletons were
female.
31.12.1925 There are no Aboriginals or half-castes in the district
27. 4.1926 Letter to the Assistant Superintendent, Barambah
Aboriginal Mission states that George Logan and family would
provide a good home to a married couple. Dont appear to have
employed Aboriginals before.
31.12.1926 There are no Aboriginals or half-castes in the district
In August 1927 the correspondence is addressed as Kilcoy Station.
20. 1.1928 No Aboriginals in this division at present or in the
past twelve months.
8. 1.1929 No Aboriginals in this district at present or in the
past twelve months.
4. 1.1930 No Aboriginals in this district at present or in the
past twelve months.
30.12.1930 Re Nationality of a half-caste woman Mrs Eva May Willis
of Jimna via Kilcoy. Her father is white and her mother is
Aboriginal. Eva's husband is also a half-caste Aboriginal.
18. 1.1932 No Aboriginals in this district at present or in the
past twelve months.
4.10.1933 Mr A R Atthow resides at Kingham in the Imbil Police
District. Inquired for by the Chief Protector of Aborigines.
30. 8.1934 Re Informing Eileen Willis, wife of Eddie Willis
of Jinna that the Chief Protector of Aboriginals had sanctioned
her admission to Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement and of
informing Eddie Willis of the Protectorates decision. Children
are mentioned one of which was named Cedric Willis.
1.11.1934 Re Eileen Willis, half-caste. She lives with her husband,
Edward Willis at Jimna. Eileen has a mother and step-father. Edward
is very cruel to Eileen and hits her badly. This letter is missing
about one inch on the right hand side so the following is what I
assume the letter says. Edward Willis has a sister probably in the
area. Edward is not the father of Eileen's son. Eileen is pregnant
and Edward is the father. Eileen has a sharp temper and the two
should be separated.
7. 1.1935 Re Order for Removal of Eileen Willis from Jimna to
Cherbourg Mission Station. Order will be held at Kilcoy in case
they can work out their differences.
30. 1.1935 Re Half-caste Aboriginal boy named Norman for Removal.
Not employed in the Kilcoy district. Apparently employed at
Kingham which is either in the Goomeri or Imbil Police districts.
20. 2.1935 Re conduct of Mr and Mrs Willis of Jimna. Edward Willis'
father also lives at Jimna. Apparently the Willis family now live
happily together. Removal Order has been returned.
17. 5.1935 Re Domestic relations of Eileen Willis and Edward Willis
of Jimna Mill. Apparently are now happy together. Eileen Willis will
soon enter St Margarets Private Hospital at Kilcoy as an expectant
mother.
1.10.1935 Telephone Trunk Calls for the quarter ending 30. 9.1935
To Police Imbil, 15. 7.1935, about Aboriginals at Jinna
28.10.1935 Mr Atthow is the only person employing Aboriginals
in the Kilcoy Police Division.
10.12.1935 About Lennie Jerome, half-caste, inquired for at the
instance of the Superintendent of the Cherbourg Aboriginal
Settlement. No trace of him in the district. Also no information
on Roy Charleville and Alf Starlight who are supposed to be
accompanying him.
30. 6.1936 Telephone Trunk Calls for quarter ending 30. 6.1936
To Chief Protector of Aborigines, 24. 4.1936, About complaint
Willis, Jinna.
9. 7.1936 Re William Bargo, Aboriginal, wanted for removal to
Townsville. He was working for Mr D Logan at Pineview via Kilcoy.
He was apprehended on 12. 6.1936
30. 9.1936 Telephone Trunk Calls for quarter ending 30. 9.1936
To Inspector Fortitude Valley, 9. 7.1936, Arrest of W Bargo
To Senr. depot., 10. 7.1936, Van escort for Bargo
To Chief Protector of Aborigines, 13. 7.1936, Arrest of Bargo
19. 3.1937 There are no Aboriginals in the Kilcoy Police Division.
30. 6.1937 Telephone Trunk Calls for quarter ending 30. 6.1937
To W H Atthow, Jinna, 27. 4.1937, about Norman Young, Aborigine
26. 4.1938 Re Mr W A Atthow, Kingham, Kilcoy, employer of half-caste
Aboriginal Norman Young. Inquiry at instance of Chief Protector
of Aborigines. Kingham Station is about 50 miles from Kilcoy.
Correspondence about Agreements.
22. 6.1938 Re Norman Young, Aboriginal, working in the employment
of W H Atthow at Kingham Station via Kilcoy. Inquired for by the
Chief Protector of Aborigines.
30. 6.1938 There are no Aboriginals in the Kilcoy Police Division
for the year ending 30. 6.1938
30. 6.1938 Telephone Trunk Calls for Quarter ending 30. 6.1938
To Mt Atthow, Kingham, about Norman Young, Aboriginal.
To Chief Protector of Aborigines, about Norman Young, Aboriginal.
31.12.1938 Information required by the Chief Protector of
Aboriginals. There are no Aboriginals, Native Camps or Reserves
within the Kilcoy Police Division.
1. 7.1941 There are no Aboriginals in the Kilcoy Police Division
and the Annual Return for the year ended 30. 6.1941 is nil.
10.11.1941 There are no male Aboriginals or Half-castes in the
Kilcoy Police Division.
10. 1.1942 There are no Aboriginals, native camps or Reserves
within the Kilcoy Police Division.
12. 1.1942 Relative to the sudden death of Mitchell Kilcoy,
also known as Darky Mitchell, an Aboriginal native, aged about
75 years, at a place known as The Squeak, on the eastern bank
of the Brisbane River, in portion of Yabba Station. No
suspicious circumstances. Buried in the Kilcoy Cemetery
according to the rites of the Church of England. He lived at
Cherbourg prior to his death.
1. 6.1942 Relative Enrolment of Aboriginals under the National
Security (Man Power) Regulations. The Following
Kenny, Aboriginal, resident on Yabba Stn, Jimma
Super, Aboriginal, resident on Yabba Stn, Jimma
Norman Young, half-caste, resident on Kingham Stn, Jimma
have completed the necessary forms under the Regusations.
18. 7.1942 Expenses for the burial of Mitchell, Aboriginal,
on 23. 2.1942
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