Birth, death and marriage records relating to Point McLeay and Point Pearce, South Australia

Archive Collections / Marjorie Alice Angas / Series AA676/01 / Birth, death and marriage records relating to Point McLeay and Point Pearce, South Australia

This series contains the following items:

AA 676/1/1

  1. One complete copy (2 bound volumes) and one incomplete copy (unbound) of Births, Deaths and Marriages records for Point Pearce Station (originally compiled by Yorke Peninsula Mission Trust)

  2. Black ring folder - copy of Point Pearce Births, Deaths and Marriages records (typed by Angas from records maintained by Yorke Peninsula Mission Trust)

  3. Black ring folder - copy of Point McLeay Births, Deaths and Marriages records (typed by Angas from Aborigines' Friends' Association records (see AA 1))

  4. Leather-bound volume - handwritten details of Point McLeay Aboriginal families, including births, deaths and marriages data, compiled by Angas.


These records are contained in Box 1.

AA 676/1/2
  1. Leather-bound Aborigines' Friends' Association letterbook, Point McLeay, 1879-1884

  2. Leather-bound Aborigines' Friends' Association letterbook, Point McLeay, 1888-1892

  3. Leather-bound Aborigines' Friends' Association letterbook, Point McLeay, 1917-1918

  4. Leather-bound Aborigines' Friends' Association letterbook, Point McLeay, 1919-1920

  5. Leather-bound Aborigines' Friends' Association letterbook, Point McLeay, 1920-1925

  6. Leather-bound Aborigines' Friends' Association letterbook, Point McLeay, 1905-1921


These records are contained in Box 2.

AA 676 /1/3
  1. Journal entries by Fred Taplin at Point McLeay dated 24 July - 14 December 1879

  2. Financial returns for Point McLeay dated 1916

  3. Pasted newspaper articles from Register 1876-1877

  4. Religious translations into Ngarrindjeri 1874


These records are contained in Box 3.

This series contains references to the following regions of South Australia:
River Murray - Coorong; Yorke Peninsula.

This series includes references to the following named groups:
Narangga; Ngarrindjeri.

Tindale Tribes: Narangga.

AIATSIS Language Groups: Narangga; Ngarrindjeri.

CreatorMarjorie Alice Angas
ControlAA 676/1/1-3
Date Range1874  -  1997
Quantity 66cm,     5 boxes
FormatsNewspaper Clippings, General Correspondence, Photocopied Documents, Diaries, Notebooks, Loose Notes
Series AA676/01
Tindale Tribes: