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Isabella (Sumner) Rigney (abt. 1858 - 1925)

Isabella Rigney formerly Sumner
Born about in Coorong, South Australia, Australiamap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1872 in Defacto Relationship at Melrose, South Australia, Australiamap
Wife of — married 1877 in Wellington, South Australia, Australiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 67 in Point McLeay, South Australia, Australiamap
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Biography

Isabella (Sumner) Rigney is an Indigenous Australian.

Isabella Mutyuli Sumner was born in about 1858 in the Coorong, South Australia, the daughter of Mulpurini (Patronym unknown) of the Coorong Tribe, and father unknown but who was possibly Benjamin Sumner of the Jaraldekald Tribe (Kartinyeri, 2006, p.97).

Mutyuli had a relationship with an English man from Yorkshire named Benjamin Challenger from about 1873. Benjamin was married to Mary Rowbotham, also from Yorkshire. The children of the union between Mutyuli and Benjamin were Benjamin John Rigney and Edward Rigney, who were born in 1874 and 1876 respectively, and in Melrose, South Australia, where Benjamin had lived since 1859, having emigrated with his family in 1851[1][2].

She married Philip Henry Rigney, a West Australian man, in 1877 in the district of Wellington, South Australia, Australia [3][4] and he accepted her sons as his own. The location was the Point McLeay Mission. Together, they had at least seven children, Victor Herbert Rigney, Ethel May Rigney, Percy Philip Rigney, Gordon Wilfred Rigney, Daisy Gertrice Rigney, UnNamed Rigney and Vera Gussy Rigney.

Mutyuli (Isabella) died on 22 April 1925 in the district of Wellington, South Australia, Australia [5], at the Point McLeay Mission.[6]

Sources

  1. 1895 Obituary in The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Tuesday 9 July 1895, page 6
  2. 1895 Obituary sighted in https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/598059
  3. Marriage: South Australia, Australia Marriages: YEAR: 1877 REG#: 111/1054 NAME: RIGNEY Philip SPOUSE NAME: MUTYULI Isabella DISTRICT: Wellington
  4. Wedding: Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) Wed 27 Jun 1877 Page 2 Family Notices: MARRIAGES: RIGNEY—MUTYULI— On the 25th June, at the Mission Church, Reid Town, Point Macleay, by the Rev. George Taplin, Philip Rigney. of Point Macleay, late of Albany, Western Australia, to Isabella Mutyuli, late of Melrose.
  5. Death: South Australia, Australia Deaths: YEAR: 1925 REG#: 481/333 NAME: RIGNEY Isabella RELATIVE NAME; undefined DISTRICT: Wellington
  6. Genealogy: DOCUMENT: Ngarrindjeri Genealogies c. 1840-1912 - FirstSources.info: Compiled by Maria Rigney and Joe Lane from the Raukkan, Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages and from A World That Was, 1993. January 1996. by R.M. and C.H. Berndt.
  • Dr Doreen Kartinyer, 2006, 'Ngarrindjeri Nation: Genealogies of Ngarrindjeri Families', Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia.

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