Maggie Yalling (abt. 1860 - abt. 1908)

Born about 1860 in Yauanup, Western Australia, Australia

Ancestors

Died about 1908 at about age 48 in Katanning, Western Australia, Australia

Biography

Maggie Yalling is an Indigenous Australian.

Notuman’s second daughter was Yellingan, also known as Yaaling and Maggie Yelham. Looking at her details it appears Yaaling’s life connections also ran south and east of Katanning to Jaramungup and the coast between Cape Rich and Doubtful Islands Bay.

Yaaling’s first husband was an Aborigine Bates called Nerdonbaron, later spelled Ngerdongbarong. According to Bates, this man’s people were from Cape Riche, once again introducing links to the South Coast around the mouth of the Pallinup River. According to the Bates genealogy the couple had three children; two boys, Dalungart and Kwelangit, and a girl; possibly Ngoweruk.

Yaaling looks to have died relatively young but not without having three partners. There is some confusion over her second. Mongel or Mongalwar, who appears to have had the tag ‘Pretty Boy’ attached, is generally accepted as the man. The couple’s daughter was known as Gracie and their two sons as Wenyil and Togur. Bates talks about Togur as being a boy in 1907 when she was at the Katanning camp. Togur was also known as Samuel Morrison. The confusion here is that the English surname Morrison, which enters the Noongar world here, is also linked to another near family. According to Bates, Mongal was born near Jaramungup and was also at the Katanning measles camp where Bates listed his English name as Tommy. Elsewhere, Mongal was recorded by the English name Tebi Morrison.

Yaaling’s third husband was Warilyit, also known as Henry Rodney. Henry Rodney was the son of a part Maori man, possibly Thomas Rodney, and Wirijan. Together Yaaling and Henry Rodney had two daughters, Girbagen and Majen, otherwise known as Laura and Florrie Rodney.^[1]

Then it was reported to me that an aboriginal woman named Maggie was killed by one Jimmy Nondong on the Albany-Perth road.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://theviewfrommountclarence.com/quartermaine-country/
2. ↑ Our Black Brudder (1909, January 31). Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), p. 1 (SECOND SECTION). Retrieved March 3, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57590028

• Bates, Daisy, "Section III, 2a - Genealogies. South Western Australia. Book I", p. 20, The University of Adelaide (Online: adelaide.edu.au, 2014), <http://hdl.handle.net/2440/82589>