Biography

Aka Wundagee.

This story comes from Penny, in Carnarvon, who is the daughter of Esau Wanadji: As a young man, he would go out to work but lived with his cousins, Topsy and Billy Shaw. When Penny was born, Topsy and Billy became her foster parents. "Esau joined the boxing team. They had a big truck. He used to come and visit me at New Norcia Mission where I was at school. He had to pay the nuns 1 Pound to get me out to go to the Royal Show for a week. He was working as a boxer at the Stewart’s Boxing Troupe. Esau won the Golden Gloves and belt for boxing. Later on I heard he had passed away at Leonora”. George Stewart ran the Stewart Boxing Troupe which toured around the country towns and featured some of WA's most renowned Noongar fighters. George Stewart was one of the toughest men around at the time. He was no shrinking violet and not one to take a backward step, which testifies to the tough life that Esau must have led in the Boxing Troupe.