Frederick Dunne (abt. 1882)

Born about 1882 in Gympie, Queensland, Australia

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Biography

Fred Dunne is an Indigenous Australian.

Fred Dunne was born about 1882 at Cootharaba Hill, Gympie, Queensland to William and Emma Dunne^[1]. There is an Australia, Birth Index record for a Frederick Dunne born to William Dunne and Jane Smith on 6 July 1896 and registered in Queensland, Australia. However, this is linked to a suggested record for a Frederick Dunne who married a Dagmar M Doyle, with the marriage registered in Wollongong, New South Wales in 1919. An Ancestry family tree suggests there is no relationship between the two Frederick Dunnes^[2].

In 1908 Frederick Dunne was listed on page vi of the Queensland, Australia, Police Gazette Index, 1881-1945, to a reference on page 77. The sub-heading in the Index is for "Prisoners Tried at S.C. or D. Court". This is in the Index to Volume XLV of 1908 but no other details are given in the Ancestry record.

In the Police Gazette Index for 1911, Frederick Dunne is listed on page xvi of the Index under the heading "Photographs of Discharged Prisoners", with the entry for Fred on page 11. The only location given for these two Police Gazette Index records is Queensland, Australia.

The detailed document listing removals of Aborigines to various Mission Stations in Queensland that now goes back to 1908, though previously from 1912 to 1939^[3], has Frederic Dunne removed from Brisbane Gaol and sent to Barambah Mission in 1911. It also has in that year alone, 61 Aborigines ('Natives') removed from their 'Country', from as far away as Coen in the Cape Yorke Peninsula in the north and Charleville in the west. Annie Uhr was removed to Barambah in the following year of 1912, the year in which she married Fred Dunne, who was born about 1882 (see ref.1).

No further information on the lives of Frederick Dunne and Annie has been found through the internet. In the correspondence files series of the Office of the Chief Protector of Aboriginals there is a considerable amount of correspondence relating to marriages. In some cases copies of the marriage certificates are included with the correspondence. A register of marriages which was arranged chronologically was also kept by the Chief Protector's office as were index cards which were arranged alphabetically by the groom's name. Marriages were also recorded by the Registrar-General's Office. Details of their deaths were probably recorded in a register of deaths and on card indexes, with correspondence relating to a person's death also kept that can be located in the correspondence file series of the Office of the Chief Protector of Aboriginals^[4].

Sources

1. ↑ http://cifhsaust.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/
2. ↑ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/55931518/family?usePUBJs=true
3. ↑ http://www.cifhs.com/qldrecords/qldremovalsmod.html
4. ↑ http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/atsi/community-history/qld-legislation/brief-history

• Birth: Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Page Number: 7213, Registration Number: 000817.
• Ancestry.com. Queensland, Australia, Police Gazette Index, 1881-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. 1908 & 1911.
• Removals: Queensland Removals 1912 - 1939 (Further information added.)
• Extract from: Records Guide Volume 1: A Guide to Queensland Government Records Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. Queensland State Archives and Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, 1994.