Taminick, (Runkard's Island) the squatting run

...a place in the KellyGang story 

 

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One of the original squatting runs in the Kelly Country

nearest towns
Wangaratta to the north
Glenrowan to the south west
Riverina
Murray
Beechworth
Glenrowan

History at Taminick before the KellyGang

Greta

First taken up by overlanders from New South Wales in 1837 to 1840. In the early 1850s by Benjamin Warby (23,000 acres). In 1865 Taminick was still owned by Ben Warby.

Spicer and Cowell and the use of dummies (Argus7/2/74)
McVean (McBean)(Ensign12/1/1875)

In 1876 the license was owned by the Bank of New South Wales, 19,290? acres,
And Taminick Plains was owned by William Newcomen, 19,290? acres, £93/10 half year license fee

At the time of the search in the Warby Ranges, after the Stringy Bark murders it was owned by Newcomen.(Newcombe?) (RC17285)(RC13061)

Benalla
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Mansfield
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Where did the name Taminick come from

 

The original aboriginal owners

 

The first selectors

Robert Hoysted horse trainer (Ensign4/10/1872)(Ensign25/4/1873)
Allegation of using dummies (Argus7/2/74) (Argus23/2/74)

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What was Taminick like in the late 1870's

In 1874 the Benalla Land Enquiry investigated cases involving the use of dummies to get selections on the Taminick Run

Links to the KellyGang

Daniel Morgan visited Taminick on the day before he died in 1865

On 10/11/1878 Insp Brook Smith and Const Johnson's search party followed the KellyGang's tracks for about 15 miles on Taminick Station (RC12460)
The tracks were traced within about a mile, or perhaps less than about a mile of Taminick, and then they turned to the left, and ceased four tracks, and got into two. (Argus14/11/78)(RC17285)

The fires that the police searching the Warby Ranges saw may have been caused by the sheppherds on Taminick. (RC5871)

 

Rivers Creeks and Hills near Taminick

 

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What happened at Taminick after the time of the KellyGang

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5-dec-11

What is happening at Taminick today - a part of the Kelly Country and Ned Kelly's story

See also Graham Jones, Memories of Oxley

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