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A few colonists erected a tombstone to Derrimut in Melbourne General Cemetery in his honour. [citation needed] By 1839, the Boonwurrung had been reduced to 80–90 people, with only 4 of 19 children under four years old, from a probable pre-contact population of greater than 500 people.
[citation needed] Derrimut's gravestone in Melbourne General Cemetery. Derrimut (also spelt Derremart or Terrimoot) (c. 1810 – 20 April 1864), was a headman or arweet of the Boonwurrung (Bunurong) people from the Melbourne area of Australia. [1] Derrimut was born around 1810, before European settlement of the colony of Victoria. [2]
Nancy and Jimmy Dunbar died in 1877, the last Bunurong people from the Mordialloc camp. [ 26 ] In 1878 the Minister of Lands, in deciding on the application by George Langridge for 4.0 hectares (10 acres) at Mordialloc "believed to have been reserved for an aboriginal reserve", denied that the Lands department had ever allocated it to such purpose.
A shipping service between Gippsland and Melbourne was created, but it soon became obvious that a road service was required to link the settlements over land. In 1851, the State of Victoria was established and the construction of a road linking St Kilda to Dandenong was approved - Princes Highway/Dandenong Rd. On completion, the route passed ...
The area was one of the Bunurong's regular places of encampment, but was also used by "anyone travelling to and from Melbourne, even though the route was outside their own country". The Bunurong continued to use the area after the killings, as in 1843 "Worawen" was listed as the place of death of Worrowurk, a 28-year-old man. [12]
The traditional custodians of the land surrounding what is now known as the Dandenong Creek were the indigenous Bunurong people of the Kulin nation who referred to the creek as Narra Narrawong; while others gave the creek the name Dandenong, sometimes spelled as Dand-y-non or Tanjenong by early settlers, believed to mean "high" or "lofty". [1]
According to the two morticians, who prepared Marilyn for burial, the legendary sex symbol had hairy legs, false teeth, and purple blotches all over her face when she was found dead aged 36 in 1962.
Evidence of Australian Aboriginal settlement of the area dates back 40,000 years. Bunurong women often bore their children at the point. [3] Their name for the point was Boona-djalang, which means 'kangaroo-hide', descriptive of the angular shape of the point akin to a stretched hide. [4]