Bennelong's family connections are pieced together from the journals, letters and word lists of the First Fleet officers. The names below are those recorded in the historical sources used throughout Finding Bennelong. Spellings vary from writer to writer, and several relationships remain uncertain; each name links to its entry in the glossary.
Woollarawarre Bennelong
Born around 1764 in Wangal country on the southern side of the Parramatta River; died in 1813.
- Bennelong Recorded as Bennillong, Ben-nil-long, Bannelon, Benelong, Benelång and Bunna.lung.
Parents
No reliable record names Bennelong's parents. The three names below appear only once, in a satirical article in the Sydney Gazette of 29 March 1817, which is not a credible citation.
- Goorah-goorah supposed father
- Ga-gulh supposed mother
- Yahanua supposed step-mother
Sisters
- Carangarang sister; also Karangarang
- Munánguri sister
- Warreeweer sister; also Wariwéar. Wife of Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan
- Worogan half-sister; also Wúrrgan
Wives
- Barangaroo second wife; Gamaragaliang. Died in 1791
- Kurúbarabúla third wife; daughter of Mety, Gweagaliang
- Boorong wife; daughter of Maugoran, Burramattagaliang
Children
- Dilboong daughter of Barangaroo and Bennelong
- Dicky Bennelong son; baptised Thomas Walker Coke at Parramatta in 1822, died in February 1823
The family of Maugoran
Burramattagal. Maugoran was Bennelong's father-in-law.
- Maugoran Burramattagal elder
- Gooroobera wife of Maugoran
- Ballooderry son; died 16 December 1791
- Bidgee Bidgee son; later an elder at Kissing Point, died c.1836
- Yerinibe son; also Yerinabie Goruey
- Boorong daughter
- Wareeweer daughter; ‘Wareeweer the less’
The family of Mety
Gweagal, Botany Bay.
- Mety Gweagal elder
- Warungin Wangubile son; known to the British as ‘Botany Bay Colebee’
- Kurúbarabúla daughter
Other brothers-in-law
- Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan husband of Warreeweer; sailed on HMS Daedalus in 1793–1794
- Corrangie also known as ‘Harry’
- Yuwary also Yow-war-re