Outback Graves Markers

Charlie GINNERCHANGO

Burial Location:Yinnietharra Station - permission required to visit  (details...)
Occupation: Shepherd
Place of Death: Thomas River
Date of Death: 25 December 1887
Age:Unknown
Cause of Death:Murdered by a native named Mondilya
OGM Ref#: 3306
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
This is a photograph of plaque number 3306 for CHARLIE GINNERCHANGO at THOMAS RIVER

REF 3306 CHARLIE GINNERCHANGO THOMAS RIVER

Biography

Alias Ginnerchango or Gnathawallangalla.

Charlie. a shepherd for Gilbert Henry Rotton, was murdered by another native, named Mandilya.  Apparently Charlie had killed Toby's woman near Mt Augustus.

On 28 December 1887, Ernest Hilcke, a shepherd for pastoralist Gilbert Henry Rotton, reported the native murder to the Gascoyne Junction police.  On 5 January 1888, Police Constable Alfred Bird left to examine the body and Mondilya was arrested and taken back to the Gascoyne Junction Police Station.

The Thomas River Police Station is now known as Police Station Woolshed.