Angelina Noble
Angelina Noble (c.1879 – 19 October 1964) was an Australian linguist and missionary. She and her husband founded churches and missions in Australia. Life Noble was born in Winton, Queensland, Winton in the Colony of Queensland in about 1879. She was of European and Aboriginal ancestry, but her parents are unknown. She first came to light when she was dressed as a boy named Tommy. She had been abducted as a child slave by a horse dealer. The local police in Cairns took an interest and she was sent to Yarrabah, Queensland, Yarrabah mission school. She was a good student, and she showed a talent for languages. In time she could speak at least five Aboriginal languages of Australia, aboriginal languages. She married James Noble (clergyman), James Noble who was a widower employed by the Reverend Ernest Gribble at Bellenden Ker mission. Gribble had a small number of aboriginal Christian supporters, but James was the most important. James had lost his first wife and their child, and af ...
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Colony Of Queensland
The Colony of Queensland was a colony of the British Empire from 1859 to 1901, when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. At its greatest extent, the colony included the present-day State of Queensland, the Territory of Papua and the Coral Sea Islands Territory. History Nineteenth century In 1823, John Oxley sailed north from Sydney to inspect Port Curtis (now Gladstone) and Moreton Bay as possible sites for a penal colony. At Moreton Bay, he found the Brisbane River whose existence Cook had predicted, and proceeded to explore the lower part of it. In September 1824, he returned with soldiers and established a temporary settlement on the Redcliffe Peninsula. On 2 December 1824, the Moreton Bay penal settlement was transferred to the Brisbane River where the Central Business District (CBD) of Brisbane now stands. The settlement was initially called Edenglassie, a portmanteau of the Scottish towns Edinburgh and Glasgow. Major Edmund ...
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