Bidgee Bidgee

Son of Maugoran and brother-in-law of Bennelong. He spoke good English and was noted as an accomplished mimic.  He was engaged as a tracker by Governor Macquarie and rewarded by being appointed ‘Chief of the Kissing Point tribe’. A grant of land for Bidgee Bidgee at Kissing Point was initiated in 1816 but not completed. Bidgee Bidgee remained an important elder in the Sydney district throughout the 1820s. He is believed to have died in c.1836. Affiliation: Burramattagal.

Text Category

Geonology
Primary Texts
Blackburn
Bradley
Clark
Collins/1
Collins/2
Dawes – language notebooks
Dumont d’Urville/1
Dumont d’Urville/2
Fowell
Hunter
Johnson
King
Nagle
Phillip/2
Phillip/3
Smyth
Southwell
Tench
Turnbull/3
Waterhouse
White
Worgan
Secondary Texts
Aboriginal History Vol 33
Aboriginal History Vol 33

Kate Fullagar - Woollarawarre Bennelong: rethinking the tragic narrative 
Aboriginal History Vol 33

Keith Vincent Smith - Bennelong among his people
Aboriginal History Vol 33

Kate Fullagar - Bennelong in Britain
Aboriginal History Vol 33

Emma Dortins - The many truths of Bennelong’s tragedy
Attenbrow, Valerie

‘Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson  and Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia Sources and uncertainties’ in Aboriginal Placenames. Naming and Re-naming the Australian Landscape Aboriginal History Monograph 19 Edited by Harold Koch and Luise Hercus ANU E Press 2009
Attenbrow, Valerie

Sydney's Aboriginal past: investigating the archaeological and historical records, Sydney, UNSW Press, 2002. 
Dictionary of Sydney

Contains biographical entries for many of the people mentioned in text
Eora
Powell, Michael and Hesline, Rex

 ‘Making tribes? Constructing aboriginal tribal entities in Sydney and coastal NSW from the early colonial period to the present.’ Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society