Category: Point Pearce Mission Station, South Australia

Categories: Aboriginal Missions and Reserves

Landing level category

This category is for profiles of people associated with Point Pearce Mission Station, South Australia.

In 1867, Aboriginal people who had drifted into the northern towns of Yorke Peninsula were gathered and placed on the Point Pearce Reserve, on the shore of Spencer Gulf near Port Victoria on Yorke Peninsula (Gale, 1966, p.23). Point Pearce was established through the efforts of a group of philanthropists at the Yorke Peninsula mines. This eventually took over from Poonindie, which closed down in 1894 (Brock & Kartinyeri, 1989).

The Point Pearce Aboriginal Station was the new name given to the Point Pearce Mission Station after the State Government took control in 1915. Situated 35 miles south of Wallaroo the Station was home to some Narungga people as well as other Aboriginal people from the closed Poonindie Mission. A school operated at the Station and a new school building replaced the original smaller classroom in 1925. The Aboriginal people of Point Pearce were given control of the land in 1972, when ownership was transferred to the Point Pearce Community Council under the Aboriginal Lands Trust Act.

See: Gale, F. (1966) Patterns of post-European Aboriginal migration in South Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch 67, 21–37.

Brock & Kartinyer, 1989 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19363706)

(https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/sa/biogs/SE01332b.htm)

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Herbert Adams 18 Sep 1885 Poonindie, South Australia - 03 Aug 1893

Maria (Adams) Angie abt 1871 South Australia, Australia - 25 Jan 1938

Maude Adams abt 19 Sep 1889 Point Pearce Mission Station, Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 18 Dec 1950

May (Adams) Edwards 22 May 1882 Poonindie, South Australia - 07 Jul 1946

Thomas Adams 20 Apr 1876 Poonindie, South Australia - 22 Feb 1940

Thomas Adams 19 Jun 1849 Skillogalee Creek, Watervale, South Australia, Australia - 23 Sep 1924

Timothy Adams 11 Oct 1852 Skillogalee Creek, South Australia, Australia - 05 Mar 1908

William Adams abt 1870 Poonindie, South Australia - 05 Jul 1915

Elizabeth (Angie) Adams abt 1856 South Australia

Francis Angie 08 May 1892 Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 03 Aug 1957

Henry Angie 05 Mar 1894 Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 20 Dec 1894

Henry Angie abt 1868 South Australia, Australia - 14 Feb 1937

Norman Angie 03 Aug 1906 Point Pearce Mission Station, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 24 Aug 1935

Valerie Angie 25 Aug 1898 Point Pierce, South Australia, Australia - 11 Jan 1939

William Angie 19 Sep 1895 Moonta, South Australia, Australia - 23 Jan 1904

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Timothy Hughes abt 28 Apr 1919 Point Pearce Aboriginal Station, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia - 01 Apr 1976

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Ityamai (Kaurna) Savage abt 1847 Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - 25 Dec 1929

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Daisy (Milera) O'Loughlin 29 Oct 1899 Point Pearce, South Australia, Australia - abt 1921

John Milera abt 1865 Poonindie, South Australia, Australia - 22 Jun 1938

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Alfred O'Loughlin 1894 Denial Bay, South Australia, Australia - 12 Dec 1952

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Louisa (Roberts) Adams abt 1841 South Australia

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Adrian Sansbury 31 Jan 1949 Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 2000

Dean Sansbury 1944 Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 09 May 1984

Douglas Sansbury 08 Nov 1951 Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 18 Jun 1987

John Sansbury 09 Feb 1909 Point Pearce, South Australia, Australia - 1968

Vivian Sansbury 20 Feb 1936 Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 1963

Gladys Stuart 03 Aug 1904 Point Pearce, South Australia, Australia

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Henry Taylor 1849 Robe, South Australia, Australia - 14 Aug 1915

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Ivy Varcoe 24 Sep 1930 Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 25 Jul 1991

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Jacob Varcoe 23 Nov 1924 Point McLeay, South Australia, Australia - 29 Feb 1932

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Edgar Wanganeen 19 Feb 1903 Point Pearce Mission Station, Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 25 Dec 1934

Gavin Wanganeen 06 Jan 1923 Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 19 Feb 1985

Wilfred Wanganeen 10 Jan 1894 Point Pierce, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 1976

Annie Winifred Warior 27 Mar 1909 Point Pearce Mission Station, Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 1988

Barney Gunaia Ngadjlibuna Waria Warrior 1873 Orroroo, South Australia, Australia - 11 Nov 1948

Dorothy Warrior 02 Sep 1919 Point Pearce, South Australia, Australia - 23 Jan 1944

Vincent (Warrior) Copley 24 Dec 1936 Point Pearce, South Australia, Australia - 10 Jan 2022

Lewis Adams Williams 20 Mar 1910 Point Pearce Mission Station, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

William Williams 10 Jun 1870 Weetra Water Tank Siding, West coast, Port Kenny, South Australia, Australia - 08 Oct 1947

William Williams 29 Feb 1908 Point Pearce Mission Station, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

Mary May Wilson 15 Aug 1878 Raukkan, Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission, South Australia, Australia - 28 May 1930

Robert Wilson 29 Jan 1911 Point Pearce Mission Station, Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia - 17 Mar 1985

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