Baddaginnie is a town in
Victoria,
Australia
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. It is located on the
North East railway line, in the
Rural City of Benalla, 12 kilometres south-west of
Benalla itself on the old
Hume Highway
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. It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one kilometre west of
Baddaginnie Creek
Baddaginnie is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the North East railway line, in the Rural City of Benalla, 12 kilometres south-west of Benalla itself on the old Hume Highway. It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one ki ...
. At the , Baddaginnie and the surrounding area had a population of 308.
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This name was related to Sri Lankan labourers who worked in a railway line project in early 1900. Labourers didn't know English and they only used word "Baddaginnie" during the time of working. "Baddaginnie" meaning "Hungry" in Sinhala.
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History
The town was surveyed in 1857, named after the nearby Baddaginnie Creek, but settlement was slow, a Post Office finally opening on 16 September 1879.railway station
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was open and served passengers until July 1978.
Baddaginnie Football Club won the 1909 Benalla Wednesday Football Association premiership when they defeated Euroa.
George "Joey" Palmer, the 1880s Australian test cricket
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er, died there on 22 August 1910.
Although often mistaken for an Aboriginal word, Baddaginnie may have been named by a surveyor, J.G.W. Wilmot
John George Winchester Wilmot (19 September 1830 – 3 August 1895) was a pioneering coffee planter in Sri Lanka and a surveyor in Victoria, Australia. In the latter role, he named several Victorian places, including Baddaginnie, Dimbool ...
, who had spent some time in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), from baddaginnie (''bada-gini'' - literally 'stomach on fire’), meaning "hungry" in the Sinhala language
Sinhala ( ; , ''siṁhala'', ), sometimes called Sinhalese (), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 milli ...
.
References
External links
Australian Places - Baddaginnie
Towns in Victoria (Australia)
Rural City of Benalla
Shire of Strathbogie
1857 establishments in Australia
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