Luggenemenener

Luggenemenener (c1800 – 21 March 1837) was a Tasmanian Aborigine woman who was captured by John Batman in the Ben Lomond district of north-east Tasmania in September 1829.[1] Batman sent Luggenemenener to Campbell Town gaol and kept her two-year-old son, Rolepana (c1827 – 1842) (aka Benny Ben Lomond) "...whom she had faced death to protect."[2] Batman kept the child so he could rear him himself, and took him to settle Port Phillip where he subsequently died in Melbourne in 1842.[3][4]

Luggenemenener had another son, Walter George Arthur, (c1820 – 1861) who was born at Ben Lomond, his father, Rolepa (aka King George), was an important Ben Lomond Chief. Walter died in a night-time boating accident on the Derwent River on 21 May 1861. A third son, Maulboyheener (AKA Friendly Mission adventurer) also died in Melbourne.[5]

Luggenemenener was sent to the Flinders Island settlement of Wybellena, with the remnants of the Tasmanian Tribes, where she died on 21 March 1837.[6] She was called Queen Charlotte by George Augustus Robinson.[7]

References
  1. Rosalind Stirling, John Batman: Aspirations of a Currency Lad, Australian Heritage, Spring 2007, p.41
  2. James Boyce (2008) Van Dieman's Land, Black Inc, Melbourne, pp.200–201
  3. Anna Haebich, 2000, Broken circles: fragmenting indigenous families, 1800-2000, Fremantle Press, p.101
  4. Henry Reynolds, (1995) Fate of a Free People: A Radical Re-examination of the Tasmanian Wars, Penguin, Melbourne, p.81
  5. The Wybalenna Seven
  6. Kristyn Harman, Send in the Sydney Natives! Deploying Mainlanders against Tasmanian Aborigines, University of Tasmania Web site (http://www.utas.edu.au), p.14
  7. Alistair H Campbell, in John Batman and the Aborigines (1987), p.116


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