Aarons, Maurice Lewis
303
Airey, Captain J. J.
197
Alcock, W. W.
280-281
Allen, Marmion
165
Allen, Sarah
165
Allen, Seaborn Robert Cottrell
165
Allen, Thomas Maurice
and Koombana passengers
227-228
as Port Adelaide pilot
174-175
at sea from age fourteen
165-166
cautious commander
246
childhood
165-166
Cuzco disablement, 1878
166-167
delivery command, Echunga
176-177
delivery command, Junee
176
early career progression
169
events of March 20th, 1912
179-186, 236, 243, 247-248, 250
exchange of ships with John Rees
72, 177
experience with sail and steam
170
finding of culpable negligence, 1897
171-174
first command
170
gold prospecting
170-171
Koombana inquiry finding
242
master of Koombana, 1911–12
177-179, 246-247
royal visit, 1900
174-175
Allen, Thomas, Senior
165
Andersen, C., Koombana fireman
212
Andriassen, Christian, second mate, Crown of England
157
Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor
25
Arrow, James Grant
210
Atkinson family, Carnarvon
30
Augustine, tender aboard Cleopatra
307-308
Aylward, James Thomas (Jim)
253-254, 257-258
Bailey, C. A., lost with Koombana
226
Bailey, Garnet Sydney
227
Baker, A., Koombana passenger
226
Bamford, Frederick William (Fred)
269-270, 274
Banger, William
70
Bardwell, Bernard
322
Barker, Walter
and Koombana inquiry
241-242, 248
on Aborigines and the legal system
42
on Koombana firemen’s strike
117-118
on the fate of Koombana
250
on “the native question”
87
praise of Koombana
39
recollections of March 20th, 1912
180, 246-247
zealous defence of Port Hedland
39, 42
“Alien Influx” editorials
41-42
Barlee, Frederick Palgrave
122
Barry, Thomas
225
Bates, Daisy May
87-89, 91-95, 106-111
Bates, H., Koombana passenger
225
Batty, Mrs, ‘lock hospital’ cook
31
Bedford, Admiral Sir Frederick
317
Benedict, Claude H. (Bennie)
215
Bin Ahmat, Malay crewman of Clara
159, 162
Binning, Thomas Henry
226
Binns, Jack
74-75
Birt, William Radcliff
146
“Black Paddy”, boxer
229
Black, Neil, Junior
63
Black, William Patrick
218
Blackwell, Francis
172-174
Blades, John Stephen (Jack)
215
Blythe, Joseph, Senior
223
Bow, Florence
214
Bow, Harold (Harry)
214
Bragg, Professor William
61
Brandt-Rantzau
see
Rantzau
Briden, Annie
229-230
Briden, Elizabeth (Dollie)
230
Briden, Harry
229-230
Briden, Harry, Junior (Otto)
230
Briden, Mollie
230
Brockman, John
124-125
Broome, Sir Frederick Napier
27
Brown, Alfred Radcliffe
see
Radcliffe-Brown
Bryant, Albert Edward
212
Burkin, George
215
Burkin, William H.
211, 215-217
Burns, Tommy, Canadian boxer
79-80
Burnside, Robert Bruce
315-316
Burrows, Walter
217
Burt, Octavio
101
Buttle, Minnie
227
Buttle, Police Corporal Frank Taylor
227, 274
Byrne, Police Sergeant John
309
Báthory, Stefan, King of Poland 1576–86
287
Cane, Fred
229
Cant, Frederick William
217
Cappelli, Lawrence
253-259
Carlos, George
155
Carton, William
214
Cattellini, Frank
see
Cappelli, Lawrence
Celezis, Con
155
Challenor, Captain John
245-246
Chandros, Dimitris
155
Charles Moore & Company
31
Christie, Arthur Mowbray
210
Churchill, Winston
75-76
Clark, James, pearler
221
Clarke, Bert
181-182
Clarke, Elizabeth
225
Clarke, Henry
14-15, 22-23, 238-239
Clarke, James William, shearer
225
Clarke, James, agent for ‘Singapore line’
189
Clarke, Thomas (Tommy)
244
Clarke, William Job
212-213
Clinch, Eliza
222-223
Clinch, Frederick W. B. (Fred)
222-223, 274
Clinton, Peter C. (Petie)
214
Collins, W. E. (Algy)
187, 191-193, 199-200
Connolly, James Daniel
defence of ‘lock hospitals’
104
inspection of ‘lock hospitals’
104-106
Nor’-West tour, 1910
37, 101-102
‘lock hospital’ repatriations
111
Connor, Frank
276-277
Connor, Tom
173-174
Conrad, Joseph, novelist
139-140, 146-147
Copley, S. W.
277
Coppin, Chris
126-127
Coughlan, John Francis (Jackie)
211
Cowain, William Laughton
224
Cox, Captain, Tottenham
64
Craigie, James S.
223
Crippen, Cora (a.k.a. Belle Elmore)
82-83
Crippen, Hawley Harvey
82-83
Crosbie, James (Jim)
217
Crotty, Master Thomas Charles
227-228
Cuney, William Waring
81
Cussen, Melbourne magistrate
302-303
Daglish, Henry
94-95
Dalton (or D’Alton), Ernest James
225
Dalziel, Captain Oswald C.
188, 196, 202-203, 205-206
Darlington, Thomas
253-259
Davey, William Libby
226
Davies, Evan
218-219
Davis, Abraham de Vahl
aboard Koombana, March 1912
220
and the roseate pearl
305, 322-325
disappearance
302
divorce
299-303
education
288
Jewish faith
288-289, 291, 297-298, 302
letters to mark son’s bar mitzvah
297-299
on value of pearls
315
origin of name “de Vahl”
288
part-time rabbi
293
partnership with Mark Rubin
291-292, 294, 297
pearl buying expertise
297, 302
president of congregation
289, 291
protection of reputation
323-324
views on pearling industry
295-297
will and estate
302-303
Davis, Cecily (née Altson)
288-289, 292-293, 297, 299-303
Davis, Dorothy
293
Davis, Gerald de Vahl
289, 297-299
Davis, Moses De Vahl, born 1856
288
Davis, Moses De Vahl, born 1895
288
Davis, Rachel
288-289
Davis, Woolf
288-289
Day, J., second officer, Tottenham
64
Dean, Simon K.
323-324
Deller, Albert Ernest
218
Dew, Walter
82-83
Dick, William C.
215
Dixon, Sir Raylton
176
Dove, Heinrich William
146
Dowley, Edward Poor, Fremantle Magistrate
114, 235, 240
Downie, Joseph
212-213
Doyle, James
229
Drake, Alfred
224
Dreyfus, Captain Alfred
289-291
Drummond, Jim
224
Durham, Henry
214-215
Dwyer, Jack (“Jockey Jack”)
224
Dwyer, Michael (Jack)
214
d’Espeissis, Adrian
261-262
Ellery, James H.
39
Ellies, Thomas Bastian (“T.B.”)
320-322, 324-325
Emo, Father Nicholas Maria
89-93
Eriksen, Captain O. E.
152
Espada, Simeon
306, 309-312, 317-319
Esterhazy, Major Ferdinand
289
Farnell, Farnell
213
Farnell, William Alexander
213
Farrance, Percy
215
Farrow, George
225
Faure, Félix, President of France 1895–99
290
Fawcett Storey, P.
67
Finnerty, P., Koombana steward
217
Firth, Captain F.
60-61
Fisher, Balla Balla beachcomber
159-160
Fisk, Ernest Thomas
76-78, 81-82, 84-86
Fitzpatrick, W., Koombana fireman
212-213
Fletcher, Constable Bertram Henry
229
Forrest, David
249
Forrest, John (later Sir John)
44, 93, 165, 269-270
Forrest, Thomas (Tom)
223
Foss, Charles, Carnarvon Magistrate
27, 263
Franck, Captain
307
Fraser, Malcolm, W.A. Registrar-General
93-94
Fraser, Sir Malcolm
127
Freer, Anastasia
211
Furlong, G., Koombana fireman
212
Gainsburg, H.
218
Gala, Silber
307-308
Gee, Gordon Alan
214
Gibney, Bishop Matthew
87-93, 95
Gilbert, Mr, Koombana passenger
229
Gilham, George
227
Gilham, Miss, Koombana passenger
227, 274
Gilham, Mrs, Koombana passenger
227, 274
Gillen, Francis James
106
Gillies, Kitty
209
Gilruth, Dr John Anderson
277
Goddard, Thomas (Tom)
225
Gooch, George
223
Grant, Thomas Millar
217
Green, Edgar P.
226
Gregory, Ancell Clement
133
Gregory, Francis Thomas
34-35
Gron, Hans, steward, Crown of England
157-158
Gron, Karl, cabin boy, Crown of England
156
Growden, Frederick Henry (Fred)
159-160, 162, 252, 254-258
Gunn, Murdoch
209
Gunning, Fred
213
Guthrie, Robert Storrie
116-117, 120
Hagen, Charles
306, 309-310, 312, 316-318
Haile, Harry
255
Hall, Captain, Black Nymph
145
Hamilton, John, Queensland politician
95-96
Hare, Frederick Arthur
99
Harper, George N.
188, 219, 302
Harper, Hugo
188, 195, 202, 219, 302
Harper, Norman
219
Harris, Francis Hedley
208
Hartel, H., Koombana passenger
229
Hassan, Malay pearl diver
221
Hattrick, Jack
299-302
Hayes, James
223
Hayman, Herbert Henry
255
Haynes, J. H.
127
Haynes, Richard
317
Hedditch family
230
Heffernan, M.
213-214
“Henrietta”, skipper of The Shark
109-110
Henry, Robert
225
Herbert, Fred
213
Higgins, Henry Bourne
114-116, 118-119
Hill, Ernestine
305-307, 313-314, 319
Hill, Thomas James
151-152, 156-158, 254, 259
Hogan, Melbourne solicitor
302-303
Holmes, Joseph J.
280
Holst, Matthias
154
Houlahan, police sergeant
173-174
Howitt, Alfred William
106
Hughes, J. (Harry)
215
Hughes, Lawrence
82
Hughes, William Morris (Billy)
85
Hunt, Charles Cooke
34
Hunter, Edmund Harold (Ted)
187
Hurford, William Henry
226
Hurrell, Captain P. C.
70-71, 197
Idriess, Ion L. (“Jack”)
fact and fiction
305, 319-320, 322-323
Forty Fathoms Deep
306-307, 311-312, 319-322
in Broome, 1933
305-306, 320-322
Over The Range
320
popularity of books
305
travelling writer
305-307
Ilbery, Captain Joshua
59
Innes, William Booth (Jock)
209
Ireland, Wallace Bruce
229
Irvine, Captain Charles
career and retirement
249
inquiry, Koombana grounding, 1909
58
inquiry, Koombana reef strike, 1909
58
role in Koombana search
188-189, 196
inquiry, loss of Koombana, 1912
235-236, 241, 249
opinion of Koombana
249
Irvine, Claude
249
Jackson, John, Koombana crewman
218
Jamieson, Norman C.
208
Jarman, Captain John T.
34
Jeffries, James J., boxer
78, 80-81
Jenkins, Peter
214
Jenkins, Robert Henry (Rob)
222, 274
Johnson, Francis William (Frank)
113-114, 118, 210-211
Johnson, John Arthur (Jack), boxer
78-81
Johnson, Joseph Madison
221
Johnson, William (Bill)
262
Jones, David, shearer
226
Jones, G., Koombana cook
218
Jones, William, Koombana cook
218
Kader, Abdul
42
Katola, Antle
70-71
Katzenellenbogen, Saul
287-288
Kay, Alexander Patrick
258
Kearns, John
217
Keenan, Norbert
257-259
Kelly, Edward (Ned)
88
Kelly, Walter John
209-210
Kendall, Captain Henry George
82
Khan, Asala, Enterprise passenger
153
Kingsmill, Walter
95
Knight, Rupert Leonard Tower (Len)
134-135
Lang, Andrew, English anthropologist
94
Lawrence, George H.
225
Lenihan, Harriet Patricia
31, 46, 49-50, 53, 103, 106, 111-112
Levins, James (“Nish”)
214, 217
Levins, Mary
217
Lewis, William (Bill)
225
Ley, William Clement
146
Lilly, Carl
308
Low, James Galloway (Jim)
at Shark Bay, March 1909
16, 18, 21-22
first impression of Derby
48
impressions of Broome
44-45
McDonald & Low, Broome engineers
302
on Broome’s “white experiment”
272-273
on cyclones
135
on death of William Webber
271-272
on Gantheaume Point incident
56, 58
on loss of Koombana
302
on Nor’-Westers and Koombana
48-49
on Shark Bay society
27
on Shark Bay ‘pogey’
26
on transport of prisoners
100-101
positive impression of Nor’-West life
53
Lyon, Harry A.
210
McAuley family
52
McCallum, Leonard, private investigator
299-300
McDermott, Delia
211
McDermott, T., Koombana fireman
212-213
McDonald, Charles
62
McDonald, Hugh
158
McDonald, Jock
chief engineer, Koombana
15
McDonald & Low, Broome engineers
302
opinion of Koombana
192
singing voice
15
McDonnell, Thomas
214
McDougall, chief engineer of Cuzco
167
McFarlane, Melbourne solicitor
302-303
McGovern, Evelyn
227
McGowan, Frank
224
McGuckin, J., Koombana crewman
214
McIntosh, Hugh Donald
79-80
McKay, Hugh Victor
115
McKay, Samuel
107
McKibbin, William J.
224
McNab, Duncan, pioneer missionary
91
Macnab, John
138-139, 146, 193-194
McRouble, A., Koombana passenger
221
McSwain, Donald
224
MacWhirr, Conrad’s fictional shipmaster
146-147
Maginnis, Edward P. (Eddie)
Balla Balla wharfinger
151-152
death
155-158
life and career
158
mandolin playing
15
second officer, Koombana
15, 158
Maginnis, Ellen
158
Maginnis, Maude
158
Main, Robert William
228-229
Male, Archie
45
Mangan, John Joseph (Jack)
211
Mangan, Maggie
211
Mangan, Minnie
211
Marconi, Guglielmo
73
Marmion, William
165
Marquez, Pablo
306, 309-312, 317-319
Martin, G. Frederick (Fred)
226
Martin, Jack
53
Mathews, Robert Hamilton
94
Matthews, Charles (Charlie)
224
Maxfield, G. T.
2
Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria
287
Meagher, J., Cossack
132
Meldrum, Charles
146
Merry, Walter
69
Mills, Captain Andrew
189, 194, 196-197, 201-202
Mills, Captain Arthur
308
Milne, William Patrick
226, 302
“Missie”
see
Lenihan, Harriet
Moore, Captain, Insizwa
62
Moore, Doug
51-52, 66, 227, 238-239
Moore, George Fletcher
94
Moore, Newton
45
Morberg, Captain of Glenbank
70
Moss, Matthew Lewis, barrister
Marloo inquest, 1897
173-174
Koombana inquiry, 1912
235-242, 248
Moxon, William E.
1-2, 7, 12, 56-57, 69, 114, 120, 189-190
Mulholland, Koombana wireless operator
84
Murdoch, Captain John
167-168
Murphy, John (Jack), Koombana passenger
227
Murphy, John, Carnarvon Hotel manager
263
Murphy, Leah (née Asher)
227
Murphy, Matthew
255
Nabos (or Naboo), Victor
306-308
Nagga Nitsia, Clara crew member
159
Neave, Ethel “Le Neve”
82-84
Newton, Hall, English sailor, Crown of England
156
Nishioka, Y.
321
Norlin, Carl
212-213
Norman, Hugh D., Broome mayor
189
Odman, Captain Olaf
137, 142-143, 146
Offord, Henry
212-213
Olmsted, Denison
143
Olsen, Captain Martin
153-154, 156
Olsen, Louis
107
Olsen, O., Koombana fireman
212-213
Overall, Mary (née Scougall)
225-226
Owen, Captain of Sabine
63
O’Halloran, Reverend
318
O’Loughlin, Thomas
212
Padbury, Walter
34-35
Pappastatis, Nicholas
153
Parkes, Captain F. L.
235
Paton, Mr & Mrs, at Condon
129-130
Patrick, Reverend William
240, 245
Peacock, F. S., Koombana officer
208
Pearson, Captain William Robin
227, 245, 274
Pearson, R. Koombana passenger
223
Phillips, Roy
53
Phillipstein, Muriel (“Min”)
298
Phillipstein, Reverend Phillip
297-298
Picquart, Lieutenant Colonel
289
Piddington, Henry
146
Pigott, Jane (née Skamp)
219, 227-228
Pigott, Stanley Pash
273
Pigott, Sydney Capel
194, 219, 273, 302
Piper, Alfred Charles (Ally)
222, 274
Pitchford, Mr, of Carnarvon
31
Pitsikas, John
156
Poor, William
223
Pope Leo XIII
115
Price, Florence Lucy (Florrie)
228-229
Purcell, W. W.
222
Purkiss, William Morton
317
Queen Victoria
27
Quinlan, Richard C.
225
Quinlan, Thomas A.
225
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred
106-111
Rankin, Captain James
237-238
Ranson, Captain Joseph Barlow
75
Rantzau, Captain T. Brandt
204
Rea, Harry A.
213
Redfield, William
143-144
Reece, T., shearer aboard Koombana
225
Rees, Captain John
exchange of ships with Tom Allen
72, 177
Koombana grounding, Shark Bay, 1909
13-24
Koombana incidents 1909–11
55-58, 66, 68-70, 72, 238-239
master of Koombana, 1909–11
12, 13-24
Reid, William
144-146
Reynolds, Stanley Warwick
217
Richardson, Captain E.
193-194, 197, 210, 257-258
Rodriquez, Filomeno (“Pat”)
90
Rogers, Tom, of Cossack
314
Romans, George Henry (“Vindex”), journalist
on Nor’-West pioneers
28
flood-prone Carnarvon
29
North West Cape sea change
31-32
early history of Nor’-West ports
32
description of Onslow
33
decline of Roebourne
37
vulnerability of Point Samson jetty
38
observations of Port Hedland
39-40
first impression of Broome
44
tidal races of Kimberley coast
47
first impression of Derby
48
fertility and prosperity of Derby
49-50
seasonal migration of population
52-53
on ‘the native question’
101-102
at the ‘lock hospitals’
104-106
Ronan, Denis James (Jim)
78-79, 224, 274
Ronan, Julia
78
Ronan, Thomas Matthew (Tom)
47-48, 78-79, 274-275
“Rosie”, Aboriginal patient, Bernier Island
105
Rouse, A., Cossack
131
Rubin, Mark
133, 291-293, 297, 302-303, 315, 322
Russell, Father, Broome Catholic priest
309
Sack family
51
Sack, Louise Caroline
227-228, 274
Salkilld, Arthur Thomas
216-217
Salter, Elizabeth
94
Salvado, Bishop
94
Samson, Michael
34
“Saul the Jew”
see
Katzenellenbogen, Saul
Saunders, A. T.
268
Saunders, Alfred
244
Sawyer, Claude
61
Scaddan, John
elected Premier, 1911
264
Koombana search
188-189, 195-196
Koombana inquiry
240
Aboriginal labour restrictions
275
rising State debt
267-268
beef freezing works, Wyndham
277-278
Scanlon, Hugh
159
Scanlon, James
159
Scanlon, Michael J.
159
Scordese, John
153
Scougall, Robert
225-226
Sealby, Captain William Inman
74-75
Seleno, Joseph
252-260
Seymour, Lieutenant
63
Shelmerdine, Dr Joseph Caton
255-258
Shepherd, Jack
126-127
Shi Raata, Clara crew member
159
Shiels, Andrew (Andy)
225
Sholl, Robert
122-123
Sigismund III Vasa, of Sweden
287-288
Simpson, Amelia
227
Simpson, George Nicolas
226-227, 302
Skamp, Alice Beatrice
219-220
Skamp, Genevieve Callanan (Jennie)
220
Slade, S. H.
224
Slavin, James
151
Sleeman, H. R.
158
Smith, Benjamin (Ben)
229
Smith, H., Koombana steward
215
Smith, Jack, Koombana fireman
211-212
Smith, manager, Charles Moore & Company
31
Smith, Patrick
224
Smith, William (Will), nephew of Jim Ronan
224, 274-275
Smith, William, Koombana passage worker
225
Spencer, Sydney
226
Spencer, Walter Baldwin
106
Stanley, Charles Herbert (Charlie)
213
Stanley, Herbert Bertie (Bert)
217-218
Stewart, Sidney Graham
213
Strickland, Sir Gerald
107
Stuart, Captain Charles Browne
221, 302
Sudholz, Walter
279-281
Taylor, A. S.
223
Taylor, George
95
Taylor, Thomas
212
Thompson, A. S., Cossack
132
Thompson, Robert McGregor
151-152, 156
Thornton, Walter Clifford
225
Timmins, Isaac, Enterprise passenger
153
Tindale, Edward
264-265
Townley, Captain Peter
187, 191-193, 197, 200
Truscott, Tom
173-174
Turner, Charles
150-158
Tutt, Walter
218
Tyler, Captain of Komura
213
Tyson, James S.
222
Ulbricht, Gustav
307-308
Unmack, Frank G., solicitor
113
Upjohn, Captain Harry
160-161, 190, 202-203, 205, 236-237, 239-240, 243, 247-248
Vallianos, master of Enterprise
152-153
Vasey, Maurice
226
Vile, William E. (Billy)
224
“Vindex”
see
Romans, George Henry
Walker, Charles Gilbert Shaw (Charlie)
218
Ward, Captain J. L.
194
Wardlaw, Edward
215
Warton, Michael S., Broome magistrate
309
Wassell, Albert
209
Watson, Elliot Grant
107-110
Webber, William
271-272
Webster, chief warder, Fremantle Gaol
319
Weir, Captain Alexander
59
Weld, Sir Frederick Aloysius
35
White, Robert J.
188
Williams, Kate (a.k.a. “Vulcana”)
83
Wilson, Constable John
96-98
Wilson, Fred, Koombana crewman
214
Wilson, H., Cossack
132
Winpenny, F. J. (Joe)
215
Winsloe, Commodore Alfred L.
175
Wood, Major, Resident Magistrate, Broome
189
Woolbeck, George
126-127
Worbey, Annie
218
Wright, Mrs, of Geraldton
225
Yama Cooa, Clara crew member
159
Yates, Captain J. W. W.
235
Yee Ah Chun, of Broome
308
Zola, Émile, French writer
290-291
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