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Name of Place | Meaning or Reason why it was Given | Name of Place | Meaning or Reason why it was Given |
Wongigai | "Wongi" Tallow wood tree. Name of place on Hill North side of Kynnumboon plain | Tenghie | Flood tide |
Mulgulgum | 'Raspberry Vine" Hill at North Arm | Girrals | Stop |
Mungurrabar | Mungurra. Gum tree, Hill near Myall Creek | ||
Choongurra - bare - nar -in de - arn (arn long) | Choongurra. Pelican. The whole name signifies the Pelican's Corrobbee from "(a flat topped hill close to Boyd's bay Tweed Heads known as "Observatory Hill" | ||
Durobby Creek | Durobby a tree | ||
These are all the names of places I can at present obtain. I now give a list of trees re which may be useful: | |||
Widji Widji | Re Cedar | ||
Benăbara | Beech tree | ||
Kirarē | Box tree | ||
Ningēē | Sun | ||
Kibbūm | Morn | ||
Chungārn | Lightning | ||
Moongera | Thunder | ||
Tukki | White man | ||
Chulgun | Young woman | ||
Wybera | Fire | ||
Bobbin | Smoke | ||
Quong | Rain | ||
Myaal | Flood | ||
Kinnēfŏra | Ebb-tide | ||
J W Martin
District Registrar
Murwillumbah
Current Status:
Completed