Yarramundi

Yarramundi (* 1760 in Richmond, New South Wales, Australia, † after 1818 in New South Wales ) was an Aborigine, the European colonists The chief of the Richmond Tribe called.

Yarramindi, a member of the clan of Boorooberongal in Aboriginal tribe of the Darug, and his father were Gombeeree healer ( German: healer ) and leading personalities of the Aborigines.

They met on April 14, 1791 Governor Arthur Phillip on the first friendly meeting of Aboriginal and British, where they presented him with the Bardo Narring ( Little Water ), two stone axes. Today there is this place a plaque that was mounted in 2001.

Yarramundi also met with Watkins Tench together, a British captain of the first ship fleets that came to Australia, and was one of his wounded men medical help.

Maria Locke was the daughter of Yarramundi and the first Aboriginal girl who went from 1815 in the Native Institute in Parramatta to school. She was valedictorian in 1819 among 20 indigenous and 100 European children. Mary married Robert Locke; This was the first legal wedding of an indigenous woman with a European in Australia and she was also the first Aboriginal woman who contributed the land in their possession.

After Yarramundi is a suburb of Sydney and the small peninsula Yarramundi Reach, west of Lake Burley Griffin, named in the Australian Capital Territory.