Andrew WOODLEY
Born 1881 [519]
Son of George WOODLEY and Annie [15]
His father was European and his mother was an Aboriginal woman from the Greenough Flats [519]
His father took him to the Benedictine Mission in New Norcia on 12 November 1892 and he was baptised there on 14 August 1893 [519]
In 1893 he was one of 23 Aboriginal boys living without a family at the Benedictine Mission at New Norcia [321]
Married "Mena" Philomena YAPPO on 28 January 1900 at the Holy Trinity Church in New Norcia [15] [519]
His wife, who had also been at the Benedictine Mission, had three Aboriginal grandparents and a grandfather from East Africa [239]
Member of the New Norcia Football Club in 1906 [120: 28-Jul-1906]
Member of the New Norcia Mission Cricket Club in 1909 [9: 16-Apr-1909]
Their son Alfred died in the Railway Yard in Mingenew at the age of eight years in 1910 [15]
Resided in Carnamah in 1912 and 1913 [9: 29-Nov-1912, 28-Nov-1913] [86: 11-Apr-1912]
His wife gave birth to their daughter Ethel May in Carnamah in 1912 [15]
Played in the winning Carnamah Natives team who competed against a team of Geraldton cricketers in Geraldton on 9 April 1912 [86]
In 1912 the Carnamah storekeeper Joseph E. BROWN gave him and two other Aboriginal men "spirituous liquor" [9: 6-Feb-1912]
It was illegal to sell or provide alcohol to Aboriginal people and BROWN was fined £62 by the Three Springs Police Court [9]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1912 and 1913 [9: 29-Nov-1912, 28-Nov-1913]
Member of the Wanderers Football Club in Moora in 1914 [9: 24-Jul-1914]
The Wanderers Football Club was an all-Aboriginal team which competed in the Moora District Football Association [120: 28-Jul-1949]
Member of the Wanderers Cricket Club in Moora in 1920 [9: 3-Jan-1920]
Father of Albert, Angelina, Alfred, Dorcia, Mary, Ethel May, Lionel George, Andrew Joseph and Madeline [15]
Died 1954 in New Norcia, Western Australia [15]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Andrew Woodley' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 18 November 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/andrew-woodley [reference list] |
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