Box 5 Folder 3: Victorian place names, 1899-1900 - Page 7

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[Page 7]

Place Native name Meaning of native name
Portland

  

Wombitchmunjeril
                       also

Gnullum

                   (a) Woombitchmunjerrl, named after old native

Gnullum, reed used by natives for suck water out of the ground
Hamilton Wunnuckin Called after the head man of the District Tribe
Heywood Be-athup "         "         "             "         "
Condah Nill-ung-geak-url Disrict
Branseholme Mullock Stinging Nettle
Lake Condah Carrup District
Condah Swamp

Top end

Gell Gell-uh

also We-re-will                     

(Bottom end)       (B) First two names, District names.

Kannuck     wurruth

Stick               Gumtree
Myamyu Tharn-kurruck-kulh Than, road, Karruck-kulh, name of plant used for food
Milltown U-rah-thuck Called after the Headman of District Tribes
Merino Thorowool, Thing-gurrh-min

Thorowool, name of District

Thing-gurrh-min Headman f District Tribes

  
Digby Poor-mung-burrh called after head of tribe
Dartmoor Koong-ing "         "         "         "         "
Drumborg Thahti-marlkupenk An invisible spirit with sharp projecting elbows, held responsible for mad persons, was supposed to cause madness by sticking persons with elbow
Dunmore Moonoock-kequrrl[?] District
Bessibelle Killemboolth[?] named after head of Tribe
Tyrandalla Gunart[?] "         "         "         "     "
Narrawong Meingip-               (D) gunatyuhtiook[?] Two springs flowing into the Surrey Ck[?]; supposed by the natives to be the final resort of departed spirits, and where an invisible being gave them their final exit from this world to another.

Notes

Why some Districts have a double name is because the original was the name of some person since deceased, and is accounted for by them being disinclined to mention the name of any dead persons.
(A) Woombitchmunjerrl means rotten mutton fish, Wombithc; rotten, stinking; Munjerrl, mutton fish

(B) Kunnuck-Wurruth

Kunnuck - Yam sticks used by women for digging yams; also used in self defense, and fights.

Wurruth - Gum tree

(C) Tharu-Karruckulh.

Tharu, = road; Karrackulh, Plant ised for food found in streams

(D) Meingip guardyahkook

Meingip. To push down

  

                                

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