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Articles: Colonial Australia

Married to the land: Land grants to aboriginal women in South Australia 1848–1911

Mandy Paul La Trobe University
&
Robert Foster University of Adelaide
Pages 48-68 | Published online: 29 Sep 2008

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  • 1848 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 15 February State Records of South Australia (hereafter SRSA)
  • 1849 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 9 June SRSA
  • 1855 . GRG , 24 ( 4 ) (1633), SRSA A
  • 1849 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 9 June SRSA
  • 1862 . GRG , 35 ( 1 ) : 357
  • 1868 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 300
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 3
  • 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 72
  • 1851 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 13 January letters 6 February 1851 and 3 March 1851, SRSA
  • 1854 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 20 March letters 15 February 1855 and 2 November 1855, SRSA
  • 1864 . GRG , 35 ( 1 ) : 208
  • 1868 . GRG , 35 ( 1 ) : 468 SRSA
  • 1866 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 188
  • 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 4 January : 3 letters, 3 April 1868 and 27 April 1868, SRSA
  • 1860 . GRG , 35 ( 1 ) : 374 SRSA
  • 1866 . GRG , 35 ( 1 ) : 920 SRSA
  • 1849 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 6 December SRSA
  • 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 72
  • 1848 . Letter B.T. Finnis to Thomas Adams . GRG , 24 ( 4 ) 14 August SRSA
  • 1848 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 15 February SRSA
  • 1855 . GRG , 24 ( 6 ) 1633), SRSA
  • Bagot , J.T. 1860 . Commissioner for Crown Lands . SAPP , 165 : 154
  • 1860 . SAPP , 165 : 96 98, q.2573
  • 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 25
  • 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 72 SRSA
  • 1867 . CCL . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 25 minute
  • 1867 . CCL . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 72 minute, 27 February 1867, SRSA
  • 1867 . Advertiser , 19 August : 2
  • 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 409
  • 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 409
  • 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 72 SRSA
  • 1867 . South Australian Parliamentary Debates , October 29 1194 House of Assembly
  • Bakewell , Crown and Solicitor . 1867 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 72 minute 21 February 1868, SRSA
  • 1868 . letter to AR Wortham , 66 ( 68 ) 28 March
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 3 SRSA
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 3
  • 1868 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 40 SRSA
  • 1868 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 40 SRSA
  • 1878 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 234 SRSA
  • 1878 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 234 SRSA
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 4 69/78, SRSA
  • 1878 . Register , 14 September : 5
  • 1880 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 125
  • 1880 . CCL , 8 April minute
  • 1880 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 125 SRSA
  • 1880 . Advertiser , 20 March Supp. 1B
  • 1881 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 30 SRSA
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 5 SRSA
  • 1881 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 30 SRSA
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 5 37/81, SRSA
  • GRG , 3702 ( 1 ) p, SRSA
  • GRG , 3702 ( 1 ) P Box 1, SRSA
  • 1879 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 265
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 5 SRSA
  • 1882 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 204
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 5 SRSA
  • 1885 . GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 10 February : 6
  • 1885 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 11
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 6 SRSA
  • 1882 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 201 SRSA
  • 1885 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 306 SRSA
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 6 SRSA
  • 1885 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 157 SRSA
  • 1883 . South Australian Parliamentary Debates , : 259 – 60 .
  • Jones , Helen . 1986 . In Her Own Name: Women in South Australian History , Adelaide : Wakefield Press . chapter 1
  • 1891 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 379
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 6 30/92, SRSA
  • 1889 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 238 SRSA
  • 1881 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 30 SRSA
  • 1879 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 265 SRSA
  • Jane and Antonie , Frank . 1885 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 11 SRSA
  • Lindsay , Jessie . 1896 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 187 SRSA
  • Bews , Jessie . 1906 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 376 SRSA
  • 1893 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 86 SRSA
  • 1896 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 187 SRSA
  • 1892 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 235 SRSA
  • 1899 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 154 SRSA
  • 1899 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 154 SRSA
  • 1899 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 184 SRSA
  • 1901 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 177
  • 1899 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 154 SRSA
  • 1899 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 154 SRSA
  • 1904 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 93 SRSA
  • 1904 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 93
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 7 67/04, SRSA
  • 1911 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 15 SRSA
  • 1911 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 15 SRSA
  • 1911 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 15 SRSA
  • 1920 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 6 SRSA
  • 1920 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 3 SRSA
  • 1910 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 9 SRSA
  • 1902 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 417
  • 1903 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 387
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 7 164/02, SRSA
  • 1905 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 106
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 7 26/05
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 7 43/05, SRSA
  • 1905 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 199
  • 1905 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 239
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 7 67/05
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 7 72/05, SRSA
  • 1906 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 376 SRSA
  • 1908 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 44
  • 1908 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 115 SRSA
  • GRG , 52 ( 7 ) 7 164/02
  • 1902 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 417
  • 1903 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 387
  • Smiths . 1908 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 115 SRSA
  • 1908 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 115 SRSA
  • 1905 . GRG , 52 ( 1 ) : 199 SRSA
  • * The research on which this article is based was funded by a small ARC grant. An earlier version was given at the Australian Historical Association conference in Adelaide in 2000. Mandy Paul is a consultant historian and part‐time PhD candidate at La Trobe University; Dr Robert Foster is a lecturer in the Department of History, University of Adelaide.

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