Luggenemenener

Luggenemenener (c1800 - 21 March 1837) was a Tasmanian Aborigine woman who was captured by John Batman in the Ben Lomond district of north-east Tasmania in September 1829.[1] Batman sent Luggenemenener to Campbell Town gaol and kept her two-year-old son, Rolepana (c1827 - 1842) (AKA Benny Ben Lomond) "...whom she had faced death to protect."[2] Batman kept the child so he could rear him himself, and took him to settle Port Phillip where he subsequently died in Melbourne in 1842.[3][4]

Luggenemenener had another son, Walter George Arthur, (c1820 – 1861) who was born at Ben Lomond, his father, Rolepa (aka King George), was an important Ben Lomond Chief. Walter died in a night-time boating accident on the Derwent River on 21 May 1861. A third son, Maulboyheener (AKA Friendly Mission adventurer) also died in Melbourne.[5]

Luggenemenener was sent to the Flinders Island settlement of Wybellena, with the remnants of the Tasmanian Tribes, where she died on 21 March 1837.[6] She was called Queen Charlotte by George Augustus Robinson.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Rosalind Stirling, John Batman: Aspirations of a Currency Lad, Australian Heritage, Spring 2007, p.41
  2. ↑ James Boyce (2008) Van Dieman's Land, Black Inc, Melbourne, pp.200–201
  3. ↑ Anna Haebich, 2000, Broken circles: fragmenting indigenous families, 1800-2000, Fremantle Press, p.101
  4. ↑ Henry Reynolds, (1995) Fate of a Free People: A Radical Re-examination of the Tasmanian Wars, Penguin, Melbourne, p.81
  5. ↑ The Wybalenna Seven
  6. ↑ Kristyn Harman, Send in the Sydney Natives! Deploying Mainlanders against Tasmanian Aborigines, University of Tasmania Web site (http://www.utas.edu.au), p.14
  7. ↑ Alistair H Campbell, in John Batman and the Aborigines (1987), p.116


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