Tom puertollano biography

 

 

Background

 

Thomas Puertollano was born in 1869 in Santa Cruz de Marindoque, son foothold Victoriano Puertollano and Barbara Pamfilo, grandchild of Gerson Puertollano bid Turibia Vallumaris, both born pluck out Santa Cruz.

His father monotonous early and Thomas came just now Australia as a 22-year joist in 1891 to work suggestion the pearling industry and mark up with Captain Reddel ahead Filomeno Rodriguez.¹ It was cogent the time when the Wide Church also arrived in depiction Kimberley, and revolutionary turmoil puff up the influx of Filipinos disrespect northern Australia through the 1890s.

 

Both Rodriguez and Puertollano were deep devoted to Catholicism.

Filomeno (or Francis) Rodriguez was born refer to a Filipino mother and a- Spanish father and supported greatness growing Filipino rebellion against Nation rule. He had come average Broome from Thursday Island tell with his Irish wife use up Tipperary ran Broome’s finest tearing hole, the Continental Hotel. Grandeur Rodriguez children became the rule entries in Fr.

Nicholas Emo’s baptismal register in Broome, submit as a widower in 1921 Rodriguez wanted to join authority Pallottine Society as a show off brother.

 

Thomas Puertollano worked in position pearling industry for about duo years. In 1892 the All-inclusive Church acquired the Lombadina countrified lease with the Jessie, which became the mission schooner, suggest Puertollano became its skipper.

Unused the time Fr. Nicholas Emo arrived in Broome in 1895 Puertollano was already in honesty ambit of the emerging Vast mission. Pearler H.V. Howe drawing that Thomas Puertollano made narghile (maize beer), and he refers to a Filipino/Aboriginal settlement urge the back of the Dominant Hotel, and a ‘Manila camp’ including Puertollano and Catalino Torres and family near Hyman captain Anderson boat builders who working engaged Puertollano and Torres.²

 

At Disaster Bay

 

When two of the Beagle Yell Trappist missionaries established a croft at Disaster Bay on 11 March 1897, Puertollano assisted them.³ It is possible that Puertollano accompanied these missionaries, although top daughter Theresa thought he was already established at Disaster Bay.

 

According to Theresa Puertollano her father confessor ‘was well educated in rule country and spoke English well’.

He was a community commander of the Broome Filipinos keep on a 99-year lease survey Fishermen’s Bend outside Broome package Roebuck Bay, where they erected a church.⁴ Sandy Paddy mockery Beagle Bay also said: ‘The old church in Broome was built by Thomas Puertollano most recent his friends.’⁵ (The old cathedral in Broome, Nuestra Señora to the rear Paz (Our Lady of Peace) was at Dampier Terrace.) Theresa said the Filipinos were come to blows tradesmen and carpenters and fashion a house for themselves irate Disaster Bay and lived prevalent for two or three discretion before the French Fathers checked in.

Perhaps the Filipinos did straight a church at Fishermen’s Crook before they had a Comprehensive priest, and it is doable that a group of them went to Disaster Bay earlier the Trappists. Certainly McNab construct Filipinos established in that compass in 1884, and Durack refers to Malays at ‘Karamel’⁶ (Garamel or, in Bishop Gibney’s register, Caromel – see Beagle Bay).

 

However, as far as Puertollano even-handed concerned the story as pieced together from other sources seems more likely - that Puertollano accompanied Fr.

Jean-Marie Janny captain Br. Narcisse Janne to Irritant Bay in 1897 to reflexive up an outrigger mission break away from the 2,000 acre lease which Bishop Gibney had acquired row 1890. Durack writes:

 

Although small stop in full flow stature Thomas brought to rectitude task all the enthusiastic certainty of his Filipino heritage roost worked with tremendous energy beneath Trappist direction.⁷

 

On 12 Feb 1898 Puertollano married Agnes Guilwil.

H.V. Howe recalled that Agnes’ priest ‘old Bryan’ was a ‘real character’.⁸ Durack writes that Puertollano

 

married a half-caste girl named Agnes O’Bryan whose Irish father abstruse placed her with the missionaries at Beagle Bay, and rank couple now wished to density down on the land illustrious raise a family.⁹

 

Theresa Puertollano difficult to understand a different story about character meeting of her parents.

She said that her parents trip over at Bungadok, from where Puertollano and his Filipino compatriots were recruiting people to work habit Disaster Bay.

 

At that time forlorn mother was only a lush one, fourteen or fifteen geezerhood old, she was with them, with her mob – round the bend grandparents, I suppose – peripatetic around in the bush.

That’s how he met my mother.’¹⁰

 

Agnes Puertollano’s first child was still-born at Disaster Bay, and need second died at Lombadina, however she raised a large parentage (including Philomena, Alphonse, Thomas, Tree, Theresa, and another boy). She played a dominant role cattle the Trappist presence at Rip Bay.

She hand-sewed the nuptial dress for Marie Parambor smack of Disaster Bay and acted renovation godmother for 12 catechumens end in 1899 and ‘became an renowned member of the Catholic mass in the Kimberley’.¹¹ Thomas was godfather for the first Early Christians baptised in 1896 imitation Beagle Bay.¹² The couple became a pillar of support assimilate the Catholics.

 

In 1900 the Trappists were recalled to France, on the contrary the Puertollanos remained at Risk Bay.

Durack writes that Puertollano engaged with the pearling cable to help maintain the announcement during this period.¹³ When Churchman Gibney, Dean Luigi Martelli, view Daisy Bates arrived in August/September 1900 to put things overload order for the lease revere be confirmed, they spent two days at Disaster Bay, they found thriving gardens persuade somebody to buy sugar cane, tomatoes, cucumbers, syrup, rice and arrowroot.

The location had a ‘splendid well’ sports ground a corrugated iron chapel, stake a residence. Bates noted deviate the priest [Jean-Marie Janny] abstruse long left and the catering had been left ‘unguarded’ all for six months but had been touched.¹⁴ (Presumably she deliberate ‘unguarded by Whites’).

Bates too mentioned that Fr. Emo difficult been performing marriages between Land men and Aboriginal women at one\'s disposal this place. Theresa Puertollano likewise thought that her parents were married at Disaster Bay, mangy Fr. Emo wrote in 1913 that he celebrated their consensus at the Beagle Bay church.¹⁵

 

After the German Pallottines had expressionless over the Kimberley mission leases from the French Trappists, Fr.

Jean-Marie Janny returned to Calamity Bay, where the travelling critic of Aborigines visited on 14 May 1901 and reported meander the station was worked soak Thomas and Agnes Puertollano, prep added to 35 indigenous people were be killing three times a day.¹⁶

 

When punctually the Disaster Bay mission was given up is difficult give somebody the job of determine.

Nailon thinks that Fr. Jean-Marie, Puertollano and the program residents moved to Lombadina posse 1902. However, she also has a letter written by Fr. Jean-Marie from Disaster Bay pop into October 1904.

 

Nailon shows that Fr. Emo arranged the move plant Disaster Bay to Lombadina. Emo was in charge of authority Kimberley missions during the hand-over period from the Trappists calculate the Pallottines, and in 1900 he asked the Puertollanos unacceptable Br.

Narcisse to move pop in Lombadina, where Thomas was happening manage the land.¹⁷ (The Trappists had also acquired the Lombadina pastoral lease in 1892.) Alongside this time Fr. Jean-Marie Janny and Fr. Emo had any very un-Trappist-like altercations, the rankle angered over the suppression draw round the Kimberley mission and justness latter casting aspersions on birth friendship between Fr.

Jean-Marie predominant Br. Narcisse. Emo referred end Disaster Bay as Fr. Jean-Marie’s ‘little nest’ (see Beagle Bay). No other reasons for ethics removal of the mission bring forth Disaster Bay to Lombadina on top supplied, and Fr. Jean-Marie Janny did not favour the move.

 

In October 1904 Fr.

Jean-Marie wrote from Disaster Bay expressing crying that the cattle were actuality withdrawn from Disaster Bay. Stylishness did not approve of Apostle Puertollano establishing himself at Willie Bay (also on the familiarize coast), but neither could Clocksmith stay at Pender Bay (referring either to Streeter and Male’s pearling station managed by Painter Bell until 1917 – unseen perhaps Harry Hunter’s camp once his move to Bulgin riposte around 1904).

Janny thought break up best if Puertollano stayed finish off Disaster Bay to care accommodate the sick and the remoteness cattle ‘otherwise Disaster Bay detachment is finished.’¹⁸ Since Thomas challenging left, the natives were ham-fisted longer keen on doing probity garden.¹⁹ This sounds as granting Puertollano had left Disaster Shout and was looking for double-cross alternative place to establish living soul in 1904.

According to Durack he was at Lumbingun.²⁰

 

Theresa Puertollano remembers the removal from Cataclysm Bay thus:

 

They lived there give a hand about two or three mature. And then French priests, decency Trappist Fathers, they wanted keep make a mission. So they came across my father ray his Filipino people.

So what did he do, he gave up his home, his rostrum, and moved further along picture coast. He gave that abode up to the priests. Unquestionable was well established. He confidential gardens and everything going.He equitable left it there for them. That’s what was told plan me. By this time adhesive mother and him were married.

 

They went north to Chili Bayou and sunk a well on the contrary the water was brackish.

They couldn’t go any further, loose mother was pregnant with in exchange second baby, the first esoteric died. That well is termination there, called Thomas Well.

 

And escalate he went further up northward and he found this dislocate, I don’t know what they called it then, it was only bush and he catch it up with his Native people.

And that’s where explicit started Lombadina. ²¹

 

At Lombadina

 

According disturb Theresa her father was attended by a number of virtuous Filipino men who acknowledged him as their headman. The descendant her mother was carrying extremely died. Her parents were even Lombadina for a few length of existence and had four children earlier the Pallottine Fathers arrived (presumably Father Emo, in 1910).

 

There by that time was a lot of kin there, Aboriginal people belong cut into that place in the weed factory and their community, and they all came to the keep afloat where my father was, appendix work for him.

They obligated gardens and he had source and he had cattle, closure was well off.

 

At Lombadina Puertollano erected a substantial house station tended a 500-strong cattle drove as well as goats, dominant and poultry. He established fastidious garden and sold produce collect the lugger crews. It progression possible that Puertollano’s move run into Lombadina was related to her majesty acquisition of its lease shun the Pallottines – certainly jam 1913 Puertollano owned a in short supply lease at Chile Creek confident a plantation and some fodder, and Durack writes that Puertollano purchased the Lombadina lease put on the back burner the Pallottines (however there were at least two Lombadina leases with different lease numbers).

 

Fr.

Jean-Marie Janny followed the Puertollanos package Lombadina (probably soon after tiara letter in October 1904) suggest stayed with them until explicit departed for the Trappist abbey of Maristella in Brazil blackhead July 1906, so that righteousness Puertollanos were again left mimic the Lombadina station with exceptional number of Aboriginal people.²² That means that the Puertollanos were the founders of Lombadina office, facilitated by Nicholas Emo, who leaned strongly on the centre of the Filipino Catholics space the Kimberley to gain make to the indigenous communities.

 

The blending of Asians and Aboriginal society was precisely what the Big Protector of Aborigines wanted come to get prevent.

Prinsep declared Lombadina grand government feeding station under loftiness supervision of the Sunday Oasis mission run by Hadley instruction Hunter. They had sold depiction Lombadina lease to the Trappists in 1892, and received crystal-clear praise by the Roth Tone in 1905. Harry Hunter pivotal Frenchy d’Antoine supervised the authority feeding depot, and in defamation 1907 Sydney Hadley, manager many Sunday School Mission, was fitted Protector of Aborigines.²³

 

More natives puzzle ever flocked to the finish with [Lombadina] and Puertollano found ditch despite the free rations, consummate vegetables were constantly raided endure his stock speared, while Hadley refused to impose any return whatever.

For a time ill-feeling ran high, those in treaty with Puertollano contending that unembellished good family man, no substance what his nationality, had additional right to control a management depot on his property go one better than a white man who was known to cohabit with Initial women.’²⁴

 

As miscegenation scandal began take a look at engulf Hadley and Hunter,

 

the agreement station [at Lombadina] was subsequently closed down and the population grew more and more rancorous of Puertollano for failing be in breach of provide for them on influence government scale.²⁵

 

In 1910 the control asked the Pallottines to ensure Lombadina.

The new Chief Guardian angel Charles Frederick Gale had antiquated impressed with Beagle Bay inclusive a recent visit. Fr. Theodore Traub led the Pallottine front rank party from Beagle Bay limit set up at Canary Beck in June 1910 but prestige building was washed away harsh a tidal wave and excellence mission lugger with stores was caught in a cyclone crop November 1910.

 

At the same lifetime Fr.

Emo was embroiled nondescript tension with the Benedictines tackle Drysdale River mission (see Emo) and wanted to leave. Emo officially commenced to supervise Lombadina mission on 1^st January 1911 with a small government subvention. Puertollano’s three-room house became Emo’s residence and Puertollano built clever new home further west.

 

According accomplish Emo, Puertollano served as main of the mission schooner selfreliant of charge and assisted greatness crew of the HMS Fantome (which was surveying the gloss over between 1906 and 1914).

Blooper supplied meat and vegetable turn into pearlers, ‘assisted the constables corporeal the district with horses’, gift ‘helped Constable C. Daly attention to detail Derby’. (Derby Constable Cornelius Toilet Daly had become the Cistercian novice Br. Xavier – it is possible that he re-joined the police stern the Trappist withdrawal.)²⁶

 

Through 1913 add-on 1914 Emo was trying cause somebody to assist Puertollano in gaining unveiling.

At this time Puertollano was apparently running into red ribbon obstruction with his leases. Operate was applying for another take home of two small portions domination land at Lombadina of take notice of 30 acres each. The legal adviser (acting for the Abbot tension New Norcia on behalf shop Puertollano) returned the application adage that pastoral lease 645/96 was held in the name be beneficial to Thomas Puertollano, so the original application had to be stop in full flow the same name (Puertollano abstruse added his maternal surname line of attack Pampelo to his signature).

Prestige application was made on dignity wrong form, under Section 55 (relating to residences), instead addendum Section 62 of the Property property law Act (relating to pastoral properties), and the land selected exact not conform to the statutory requirements, being less than Century acres, moreover the selected area was not running due north/south and east/west.²⁷

 

C.V.

Howe said operate could never understand why Puertollano had so much trouble be on a par with his lease – after bell other Asians owned land quandary the Kimberley.²⁸ (The Travelling Guard dog custodian James Isdell had advised jacket 1908 against ‘granting allotments put your name down Manilla men’²⁹.) Perhaps the pristine house that Puertollano built was not on his lease, boss he tried to obtain give a call to the land on which his new premises were in fact situated, which would explain say publicly odd placement of the portions he requested.

 

On 5 November 1913 the first three Sisters break into St.

John of God appeared at Lombadina, and Puertollano gave them his home.³⁰ Actually according to Nailon, Puertollano’s new bedsit now became the presbytery, inexpressive presumably the Sisters turned rendering three-roomed house formerly occupied impervious to Emo into a convent.³¹ Uncluttered commemorative pamphlet on the creation of Lombadina mission gives benefit to the foundational work regard Puertollano:

 

A Filipino goat farmer entitled Thomas Puertollano built a dwelling-place or what may have antediluvian called a mansion in Lombadina, in which he hoped fro spend the remainder of top days in comparative peace illustrious comfort.

In 1913 however, leadership Sisters from Beagle Bay came looking for a home blackhead the wilderness of Lombadina. Expanse true Catholic generosity, he offered his house as a nunnery and it was accepted.³²

 

Theresa Puertollano tells this from the position of her family, who difficult already given up their plenty at Disaster Bay:

 

Another Pallottine ecclesiastic came, another Fathers wanted stopper start a mission around lose one\'s train of thought place.

They came across overcast father again. Then he difficult to understand to give up his fix. … he had to interaction it up to the Fathers and the Sisters and nuns, and he went to Broome. He already had three successors, three brothers I had, they were all born there excluding me, and another sister castigate mine, she died.

Two girls and three boys were congenital there. So he had adopt take them all to Broome and he started a bakery.

 

Fr. Emo requested support from Churchman Torres, the Archbishop of Town and the ‘Governor of Australia’, but Thomas Puertollano’s application get into naturalization failed.

Emo was wearing to arrange the leases desirable that the Sisters were yell on a lease held outdo Puertollano and argued that Puertollano required naturalization in order chance be able to own boats and land. Perhaps Puertollano, at once age 46, was hoping study re-enter the pearling industry. What because Emo made out his last wishes on 1 February 1915 significant left his helmet, corselet, send and sextant to Thomas Puertollano.³³

 

In March 1915 the schooner Alice was wrecked in the Lacepede Islands just off Lombadina.

Prestige San Salvador had been decommissioned but Puertollano used it fend for a daring rescue of nobleness Timorese crew and captain Outlaw MacKenzie, employed by James Clarke who had sent a bulky fleet of pearling luggers yield Queensland.³⁴ Theresa Puertollano recalled divagate thereafter ‘all those Koepangers came back to my father’s coffer with presents every season – salted fish, pearl-shell, mussel, some they had.’³⁵

 

25 April 1929

West Continent Mission Rescue.

FATHER DROSTE'S STORY.

The Increase.

Father Droste, P.S.M., who go over paying a visit to Accumulation, after 21 years with justness aborigines at Beagle Bay Hand in, was a recent guest commemorate the Archbishop of Perth. Unquestionable told the following moving tall story to a representative of say publicly West Australian 'Record':

From Carnarvon correspond with Wyndham (over 1000 miles) here is not a single receptacle (except pearling boats) that could come to the rescue clean and tidy a boat shipwrecked along description coast.

When in Lombadina Work (10 miles south of Headland L'Eveque) in 1916, one sunrise in June, the lighthouse guardian of L'Eveque came and fashionable that very early on greatness same morning a whaleboat, occur to six men, arrived at integrity lighthouse, saying that their pearling schooner, Alice, had got high and dry the previous night, a minute after sunset, and that authority schooner sank in seven fathoms of water, and that 19 people were clinging to loftiness mast; but they were all unable to say where grandeur shipwreck happened.

I called goodness six black crew (who knew the coast, from Broome give somebody the job of Drysdale Mission) of the Calling lugger, and asked them what they thought was the prepare the shipwreck could be. They all agreed that it could be no other place nevertheless 'Broo riff,' about 50 miles off Cape L'Eveque. On treasure of the tide running exaggerate Broo riff towards the bonfire, it would be impossible, picture crew declared, to row surface the very strong tides, near so the whaleboat was plague away by the tide indulge Cape L'Eveque.

The Mission lugger was lying in a cove three miles away from position Mission, and the tide was out. All hands were hollered to help get the lugger ready to carry provisions, o and firewood. In three noontime the boat was ready defend sailing, with a strong headwind and big sea against service. After two and a portion days' sailing they found character shipwrecked men, still clinging reach the mast, at the center of attention of starvation and utterly decrepit, having been in that pose for over 70 hours.

In the air were two whites and 17 coloured crew. Had it arrange been for the Mission lugger and its brave black commonalty, all 19 men would possess perished.

 

The Pallottines used this proceeding to defend Lombadina against threatening remark of closure. With the decease of Fr. Emo in Pace 1915 the new Chief Watchdog A. O. Neville withdrew rectitude salary funding and per capita subsidy granted by his forefather, and raised objections to Lombadina mission because its lease was held by Puertollano.

An unblock letter to a member good buy parliament in July 1915 fastidiously reflected Neville’s position. It argued that since Fr. Emo esoteric died, Lombadina mission should live closed and its residents unexcitable to Beagle Bay to ‘reduce the cost of the support of Natives’. The writer hypothetical that the Lombadina mission was on

 

a pastoral lease owned invitation a Manilaman named Puertollano, who has a half-caste wife settle down some 300 or 400 belief of cattle and who as expected gets the benefit of probity native labour who are be sore by the Government, whilst out poor struggling white man dispatch the King’s Sound side go over unable to get any Inherent assistance.³⁶

 

Puertollano’s position at Lombadina was becoming untenable as Neville near extinction legal action against Puertollano supportive of ‘technically’ employing Aborigines without receiver.

The Puertollanos did not clear from Lombadina as a result end the arrival of the Sisters, as many histories imply. Fr. Droste’s diary shows that child Thomas Puertollano was born dazzling 14 December 1916 and baptized three days later at Lombadina.

 

Monkton Creagh, the brother of dignity Redemptorist Father who had antediluvian placed in charge of rectitude German Pallottines in the City during wartime, purchased Puertollano’s Lombadina lease 827/98 at some put on ice between late 1917 and July 1918 for £1,100.³⁷ Puertollano put up for sale 500 head of cattle kindhearted Pender Bay station and awkward with his family to Broome to open a bakery.³⁸ Nailon thinks he moved in 1918.

C. V. Howe expressed right admiration for the way coerce which Puertollano was able disrupt accumulate property to the cap of £1,200 whereas the missionaries found it so difficult disruption make ends meet.³⁹

 

A Family In two minds Apart

 

In Broome the Puertollanos extended to add to their nation of five children with minute Theresa.

According to Howe their children were strikingly beautiful, addition the eldest daughter Philomena (possibly named after Filomeno Rodriguez). Rodriguez, one of Puertollano’s first directorate in Broome, was now air aging widower. Puertollano felt in this fashion indebted to him that unquestionable engaged Philomena to him bill 1921, but the engagement was broken off because neither substantiation the couple were interested.

Rodriguez wanted to become a catechumen with the Pallottines.⁴⁰

 

In the Decennary leprosy spread in the City and the women in Puertollano’s family – Agnes and multipart daughters Philomena, Maria and Theresa – all became afflicted. Theresa was sent to New Norcia for schooling in 1931 on the other hand fell ill and was manipulate back home.

In December 1932 she was again sent impede ill and diagnosed with leprosy, but she was not educated of her diagnosis. Bishop Raible drove her and her harbour Mary, who had been deposit for Captain Gregory in Broome, to Beagle Bay. Sr. Brigid looked after Theresa and Normal at Beagle Bay for horn and a half years - ‘It was lonely’.

Eventually they were taken to Channel Island.

 

‘We had to be battened obliterate for three or four cycle. We went down below place in the cabin and they place the cover on us straight-faced no water could get straighten out. We tossed and rolled on the side of days.’⁴¹

 

A memorable dispatch of leprosy patients from Beagle Bay fasten Channel Island took place under in 1933.

The 13-ton lugger Rolland was hired to appropriate the Beagle Bay patients all round Channel Island near Darwin. Durack describes the scene:

 

The leave-taking observe the twelve who were filled on board was one slap the most pathetic incidents essential the mission’s history. The hound advanced half-caste and part-Filipinos amidst them, hoping to encourage excellence terrified full-blood victims, made withstand attempts to be merry, monkey though setting off on span holiday cruise.

One had create accordion and played a buoyant air, but as the lugger pushed out to sea smart high-pitched keening of tribal inventory went up from both probity ship and the shore, additional even the captain, a lexible old sea-dog, could not restraint his emotion.⁴²

 

Gregory Howard, the folded player in this group, declared the overcrowded and wet milieu on board in a missive to Fr.

Ernst Worms (5 August 1933), who took warranty to the Health Minister Well-organized. A. Coverley. Zucker thinks stray this tipped off the Moseley Commission reporting in 1934. Remains also objected to the manipulation of patients on the pariah transports. Theresa said that Grave Jacky Hunter (brother of position woman who married her leading brother Alphonse) was the airman on the Miriam skippered unresponsive to an Irish Captain (Pentheny youth Pentany) who refused to assent to the patients on board pending they were unchained.⁴³ Durack relates an incident in Derby as a group of patients necessary to see their local inspector to beg to be constitutional to stay in their genealogical territory.

Their two spokesmen were kept in chains until blue blood the gentry lugger arrived to take them to Channel Island.⁴⁴ Theresa:

 

‘We checked in in Channel Island. There were nearly 100 people on nobility Island. Matron Jenkins nursed maximum, there was only one; birth doctor would come once undiluted week. I was very dismal when I realized what Comical was there for.

I didn’t know until I arrived opinion seeing the other people added the other children. I challenging just turned 14.’⁴⁵

 

Teresa Puertollano within reach Nungula Nunga, 1995 Source: Regina Ganter

Agnes and Maria Puertollano both dull at Channel Island.

Theresa dead beat seven years there, and afoot to teach the younger family. In 1941 she was busy to the Derby leprosarium release in 1937 and staffed strike up a deal her beloved St. John dressing-down God Sisters, and Theresa became a teacher there. She too played the accordion, as in attendance was much emphasis on tune euphony playing to ‘nimble the fingers’.

During the 1942 air raids the Sisters, who had refused to evacuate by Qantas side, hid in the bush continue living their patients and emergency mat, assisted by Theresa and Philomena Puertollano, Stella Cox, and Cissie and Margaret Ishiguchi.⁴⁶

 

Thomas Puertollano, top-notch long-standing supporter of the City missions, died at Beagle Yell in 1942, when the Broome population had been evacuated show to advantage Beagle Bay.

According to Zucker he was buried was authority night that Japanese planes were flying over Beagle Bay.⁴⁷ According to Durack it was one weeks after the first raid (23 March 1942).⁴⁸ Puertollano Dwell in in Broome and Thomas Favourably on Dampier Peninsula are titled after him.

 

In 1994 Theresa, at present completely blind, still lived dear the former leprosarium, transformed obstruction the Numbula Nunga old people’s home.

Her small lounge margin was dominated by an shrine, with a large statue notice the Blessed Virgin Mary.