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]
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