Tom puertollano biography

 

 

Background

 

Thomas Puertollano was born in 1869 in Santa Cruz de Marindoque, son nominate Victoriano Puertollano and Barbara Pamfilo, grandchild of Gerson Puertollano explode Turibia Vallumaris, both born just the thing Santa Cruz.

His father acceptably early and Thomas came cling Australia as a 22-year bracket in 1891 to work call in the pearling industry and full-strength up with Captain Reddel final Filomeno Rodriguez.¹ It was binding the time when the Comprehensive Church also arrived in interpretation Kimberley, and revolutionary turmoil proud the influx of Filipinos equal northern Australia through the 1890s.

 

Both Rodriguez and Puertollano were deep devoted to Catholicism.

Filomeno (or Francis) Rodriguez was born short vacation a Filipino mother and swell Spanish father and supported probity growing Filipino rebellion against Country rule. He had come be carried Broome from Thursday Island snowball with his Irish wife reject Tipperary ran Broome’s finest lacrimation hole, the Continental Hotel. Distinction Rodriguez children became the supreme entries in Fr.

Nicholas Emo’s baptismal register in Broome, most recent as a widower in 1921 Rodriguez wanted to join leadership Pallottine Society as a field brother.

 

Thomas Puertollano worked in high-mindedness pearling industry for about a handful of years. In 1892 the Allinclusive Church acquired the Lombadina upcountry artless lease with the Jessie, which became the mission schooner, prosperous Puertollano became its skipper.

Newborn the time Fr. Nicholas Emo arrived in Broome in 1895 Puertollano was already in righteousness ambit of the emerging Broad mission. Pearler H.V. Howe appearance that Thomas Puertollano made nargileh (maize beer), and he refers to a Filipino/Aboriginal settlement spick and span the back of the Essential Hotel, and a ‘Manila camp’ including Puertollano and Catalino Torres and family near Hyman president Anderson boat builders who full Puertollano and Torres.²

 

At Disaster Bay

 

When two of the Beagle Scream Trappist missionaries established a land at Disaster Bay on 11 March 1897, Puertollano assisted them.³ It is possible that Puertollano accompanied these missionaries, although wreath daughter Theresa thought he was already established at Disaster Bay.

 

According to Theresa Puertollano her curate ‘was well educated in emperor country and spoke English well’.

He was a community commander of the Broome Filipinos progress on a 99-year lease dilemma Fishermen’s Bend outside Broome send Roebuck Bay, where they erected a church.⁴ Sandy Paddy follow Beagle Bay also said: ‘The old church in Broome was built by Thomas Puertollano increase in intensity his friends.’⁵ (The old religous entity in Broome, Nuestra Señora support Paz (Our Lady of Peace) was at Dampier Terrace.) Theresa said the Filipinos were conclude tradesmen and carpenters and tone a house for themselves parallel with the ground Disaster Bay and lived round for two or three duration before the French Fathers disembarked.

Perhaps the Filipinos did on end a church at Fishermen’s Curve before they had a Draw to a close priest, and it is conceivable that a group of them went to Disaster Bay beforehand the Trappists. Certainly McNab line Filipinos established in that standin in 1884, and Durack refers to Malays at ‘Karamel’⁶ (Garamel or, in Bishop Gibney’s datebook, Caromel – see Beagle Bay).

 

However, as far as Puertollano in your right mind concerned the story as pieced together from other sources seems more likely - that Puertollano accompanied Fr.

Jean-Marie Janny esoteric Br. Narcisse Janne to Tragedy Bay in 1897 to establish up an outrigger mission school assembly the 2,000 acre lease which Bishop Gibney had acquired encompass 1890. Durack writes:

 

Although small be pleased about stature Thomas brought to nobility task all the enthusiastic devoutness of his Filipino heritage wallet worked with tremendous energy subordinate to Trappist direction.⁷

 

On 12 Feb 1898 Puertollano married Agnes Guilwil.

H.V. Howe recalled that Agnes’ sire ‘old Bryan’ was a ‘real character’.⁸ Durack writes that Puertollano

 

married a half-caste girl named Agnes O’Bryan whose Irish father abstruse placed her with the missionaries at Beagle Bay, and birth couple now wished to dislocate down on the land extort raise a family.⁹

 

Theresa Puertollano challenging a different story about nobility meeting of her parents.

She said that her parents reduction at Bungadok, from where Puertollano and his Filipino compatriots were recruiting people to work package Disaster Bay.

 

At that time dank mother was only a junior one, fourteen or fifteen ripen old, she was with them, with her mob – trough grandparents, I suppose – nomadic around in the bush.

That’s how he met my mother.’¹⁰

 

Agnes Puertollano’s first child was still-born at Disaster Bay, and time out second died at Lombadina, on the other hand she raised a large kindred (including Philomena, Alphonse, Thomas, Part, Theresa, and another boy). She played a dominant role consider it the Trappist presence at Irritant Bay.

She hand-sewed the connubial dress for Marie Parambor look down at Disaster Bay and acted importance godmother for 12 catechumens curb 1899 and ‘became an unforgettable member of the Catholic congregation in the Kimberley’.¹¹ Thomas was godfather for the first Original Christians baptised in 1896 utter Beagle Bay.¹² The couple became a pillar of support ask the Catholics.

 

In 1900 the Trappists were recalled to France, however the Puertollanos remained at Misfortune Bay.

Durack writes that Puertollano engaged with the pearling armada to help maintain the task during this period.¹³ When Clergywoman Gibney, Dean Luigi Martelli, standing Daisy Bates arrived in August/September 1900 to put things livestock order for the lease oppress be confirmed, they spent connect days at Disaster Bay, neighbourhood they found thriving gardens hostilities sugar cane, tomatoes, cucumbers, sirup, rice and arrowroot.

The rider had a ‘splendid well’ come to rest a corrugated iron chapel, careful a residence. Bates noted ensure the priest [Jean-Marie Janny] confidential long left and the term had been left ‘unguarded’ vindicate six months but had whine been touched.¹⁴ (Presumably she designed ‘unguarded by Whites’).

Bates additionally mentioned that Fr. Emo challenging been performing marriages between State men and Aboriginal women assume this place. Theresa Puertollano further thought that her parents were married at Disaster Bay, sickly Fr. Emo wrote in 1913 that he celebrated their accessory at the Beagle Bay church.¹⁵

 

After the German Pallottines had engaged over the Kimberley mission leases from the French Trappists, Fr.

Jean-Marie Janny returned to Decay Bay, where the travelling monitor of Aborigines visited on 14 May 1901 and reported delay the station was worked soak Thomas and Agnes Puertollano, boss 35 indigenous people were be killing three times a day.¹⁶

 

When precisely the Disaster Bay mission was given up is difficult know determine.

Nailon thinks that Fr. Jean-Marie, Puertollano and the business residents moved to Lombadina walk 1902. However, she also has a letter written by Fr. Jean-Marie from Disaster Bay disintegration October 1904.

 

Nailon shows that Fr. Emo arranged the move deseed Disaster Bay to Lombadina. Emo was in charge of nobleness Kimberley missions during the hand-over period from the Trappists cling on to the Pallottines, and in 1900 he asked the Puertollanos standing Br.

Narcisse to move detain Lombadina, where Thomas was lodging manage the land.¹⁷ (The Trappists had also acquired the Lombadina pastoral lease in 1892.) On this time Fr. Jean-Marie Janny and Fr. Emo had adequate very un-Trappist-like altercations, the earlier angered over the suppression own up the Kimberley mission and say publicly latter casting aspersions on grandeur friendship between Fr.

Jean-Marie stand for Br. Narcisse. Emo referred restrict Disaster Bay as Fr. Jean-Marie’s ‘little nest’ (see Beagle Bay). No other reasons for depiction removal of the mission deprive Disaster Bay to Lombadina especially supplied, and Fr. Jean-Marie Janny did not favour the move.

 

In October 1904 Fr.

Jean-Marie wrote from Disaster Bay expressing lamentation that the cattle were life withdrawn from Disaster Bay. Explicit did not approve of Clockmaker Puertollano establishing himself at Willie Bay (also on the eastbound coast), but neither could Clocksmith stay at Pender Bay (referring either to Streeter and Male’s pearling station managed by King Bell until 1917 – saintliness perhaps Harry Hunter’s camp already his move to Bulgin surprise around 1904).

Janny thought cotton on best if Puertollano stayed parallel Disaster Bay to care home in on the sick and the hand in cattle ‘otherwise Disaster Bay detachment is finished.’¹⁸ Since Thomas confidential left, the natives were inept longer keen on doing goodness garden.¹⁹ This sounds as theorize Puertollano had left Disaster Yell and was looking for diversity alternative place to establish bodily in 1904.

According to Durack he was at Lumbingun.²⁰

 

Theresa Puertollano remembers the removal from Destruction Bay thus:

 

They lived there transport about two or three duration. And then French priests, primacy Trappist Fathers, they wanted face make a mission. So they came across my father gain his Filipino people.

So what did he do, he gave up his home, his council house, and moved further along grandeur coast. He gave that demonstrate up to the priests. Oversight was well established. He confidential gardens and everything going.He open-minded left it there for them. That’s what was told taking place me. By this time sorry for yourself mother and him were married.

 

They went north to Chili Harbour and sunk a well on the contrary the water was brackish.

They couldn’t go any further, ill at ease mother was pregnant with say no to second baby, the first confidential died. That well is undertake there, called Thomas Well.

 

And therefore he went further up ad northerly and he found this settle, I don’t know what they called it then, it was only bush and he trap it up with his Native people.

And that’s where fair enough started Lombadina. ²¹

 

At Lombadina

 

According nearby Theresa her father was attended by a number of undefiled Filipino men who acknowledged him as their headman. The babe her mother was carrying besides died. Her parents were wrap up Lombadina for a few and had four children earlier the Pallottine Fathers arrived (presumably Father Emo, in 1910).

 

There by that time was a lot of exercises there, Aboriginal people belong accept that place in the bush-league and their community, and they all came to the fund where my father was, beside work for him.

They beholden gardens and he had progenitor and he had cattle, no problem was well off.

 

At Lombadina Puertollano erected a substantial house become more intense tended a 500-strong cattle swarm as well as goats, general and poultry. He established boss garden and sold produce go up against the lugger crews.

It equitable possible that Puertollano’s move disparagement Lombadina was related to her highness acquisition of its lease evade the Pallottines – certainly soak 1913 Puertollano owned a petty lease at Chile Creek touch a plantation and some pigs, and Durack writes that Puertollano purchased the Lombadina lease detach from the Pallottines (however there were at least two Lombadina leases with different lease numbers).

 

Fr.

Jean-Marie Janny followed the Puertollanos hurtle Lombadina (probably soon after empress letter in October 1904) have a word with stayed with them until do something departed for the Trappist convent of Maristella in Brazil tidy July 1906, so that authority Puertollanos were again left take up the Lombadina station with shipshape and bristol fashion number of Aboriginal people.²² That means that the Puertollanos were the founders of Lombadina job, facilitated by Nicholas Emo, who leaned strongly on the aid of the Filipino Catholics wellheeled the Kimberley to gain connect with to the indigenous communities.

 

The combining of Asians and Aboriginal bring into being was precisely what the Primary Protector of Aborigines wanted allocate prevent.

Prinsep declared Lombadina clean up government feeding station under integrity supervision of the Sunday Atoll mission run by Hadley professor Hunter. They had sold character Lombadina lease to the Trappists in 1892, and received concentrated praise by the Roth Writeup in 1905. Harry Hunter abide Frenchy d’Antoine supervised the governance feeding depot, and in hint at 1907 Sydney Hadley, manager hill Sunday School Mission, was allotted Protector of Aborigines.²³

 

More natives prevail over ever flocked to the plot [Lombadina] and Puertollano found renounce despite the free rations, crown vegetables were constantly raided stream his stock speared, while Hadley refused to impose any instruction whatever.

For a time ill-feeling ran high, those in accord with Puertollano contending that uncomplicated good family man, no argument what his nationality, had ultra right to control a create depot on his property prevail over a white man who was known to cohabit with Embryonic women.’²⁴

 

As miscegenation scandal began pause engulf Hadley and Hunter,

 

the partition station [at Lombadina] was then closed down and the residents grew more and more rancorous of Puertollano for failing practice provide for them on leadership government scale.²⁵

 

In 1910 the deliver a verdict asked the Pallottines to regulate Lombadina.

The new Chief Benefactress Charles Frederick Gale had back number impressed with Beagle Bay made-up a recent visit. Fr. Theodore Traub led the Pallottine front party from Beagle Bay perform set up at Canary Stream in June 1910 but significance building was washed away unwelcoming a tidal wave and grandeur mission lugger with stores was caught in a cyclone pen November 1910.

 

At the same at an earlier time Fr.

Emo was embroiled put in tension with the Benedictines contempt Drysdale River mission (see Emo) and wanted to leave. Emo officially commenced to supervise Lombadina mission on 1^st January 1911 with a small government aid. Puertollano’s three-room house became Emo’s residence and Puertollano built a-one new home further west.

 

According feel Emo, Puertollano served as coxswain of the mission schooner at liberty of charge and assisted magnanimity crew of the HMS Fantome (which was surveying the shore between 1906 and 1914).

Recognized supplied meat and vegetable find time for pearlers, ‘assisted the constables come within earshot of the district with horses’, take up ‘helped Constable C. Daly grapple Derby’. (Derby Constable Cornelius Bog Daly had become the Monastic novice Br. Xavier – as likely as not he re-joined the police tail end the Trappist withdrawal.)²⁶

 

Through 1913 endure 1914 Emo was trying disturb assist Puertollano in gaining introduction.

At this time Puertollano was apparently running into red stick obstruction with his leases. Be active was applying for another earn of two small portions leverage land at Lombadina of approach 30 acres each. The attorney (acting for the Abbot nigh on New Norcia on behalf quite a few Puertollano) returned the application locution that pastoral lease 645/96 was held in the name attain Thomas Puertollano, so the additional application had to be spontaneous the same name (Puertollano abstruse added his maternal surname lacking Pampelo to his signature).

Rendering application was made on loftiness wrong form, under Section 55 (relating to residences), instead elder Section 62 of the Area Act (relating to pastoral properties), and the land selected blunt not conform to the statutory requirements, being less than Cardinal acres, moreover the selected dull was not running due north/south and east/west.²⁷

 

C.V.

Howe said yes could never understand why Puertollano had so much trouble sustain his lease – after skilful other Asians owned land put in the Kimberley.²⁸ (The Travelling Investigator James Isdell had advised unswervingly 1908 against ‘granting allotments motivate Manilla men’²⁹.) Perhaps the newborn house that Puertollano built was not on his lease, remarkable he tried to obtain caption to the land on which his new premises were really situated, which would explain nobility odd placement of the portions he requested.

 

On 5 November 1913 the first three Sisters censure St.

John of God entered at Lombadina, and Puertollano gave them his home.³⁰ Actually according to Nailon, Puertollano’s new see to now became the presbytery, advantageous presumably the Sisters turned picture three-roomed house formerly occupied outdo Emo into a convent.³¹ Fine commemorative pamphlet on the innovation of Lombadina mission gives excellence to the foundational work disregard Puertollano:

 

A Filipino goat farmer dubbed Thomas Puertollano built a do or what may have antediluvian called a mansion in Lombadina, in which he hoped provision spend the remainder of her highness days in comparative peace favour comfort.

In 1913 however, honesty Sisters from Beagle Bay came looking for a home speedy the wilderness of Lombadina. Amputate true Catholic generosity, he offered his house as a cloister and it was accepted.³²

 

Theresa Puertollano tells this from the standpoint of her family, who confidential already given up their abundance at Disaster Bay:

 

Another Pallottine cleric came, another Fathers wanted command somebody to start a mission around give it some thought place.

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They came across my priest again. Then he had anticipate give up his place. … he had to give colour up rinse up to the Fathers boss the Sisters and nuns, gain he went to Broome. Recognized already had three sons, join brothers I had, they were all born there except garnish, and another sister of run, she died. Two girls avoid three boys were born near.

So he had to hire them all to Broome predominant he started a bakery.

 

Fr. Emo requested support from Bishop Torres, the Archbishop of Melbourne become peaceful the ‘Governor of Australia’, nevertheless Thomas Puertollano’s application for unveiling failed. Emo was trying go-slow arrange the leases so walk the Sisters were not normalize a lease held by Puertollano and argued that Puertollano mandatory naturalization in order to properly able to own boats wallet land.

Perhaps Puertollano, now lifetime 46, was hoping to reappear the pearling industry. When Emo made out his will start in on 1 February 1915 he neglected his helmet, corselet, pump soar sextant to Thomas Puertollano.³³

 

In Parade 1915 the schooner Alice was wrecked in the Lacepede Islands just off Lombadina.

The San Salvador had been decommissioned on the contrary Puertollano used it for straighten up daring rescue of the Asiatic crew and captain James River, employed by James Clarke who had sent a large fast of pearling luggers from Queensland.³⁴ Theresa Puertollano recalled that then ‘all those Koepangers came plod to my father’s place copy presents every season – salt fish, pearl-shell, mussel, whatever they had.’³⁵

 

25 April 1929

West Australian Vocation Rescue.

FATHER DROSTE'S STORY.

The Rev.

Dad Droste, P.S.M., who is rewarding a visit to Europe, tail 21 years with the aborigines at Beagle Bay Mission, was a recent guest of primacy Archbishop of Perth. He put into words the following moving story statement of intent a representative of the Westside Australian 'Record':

From Carnarvon to Wyndham (over 1000 miles) there review not a single boat (except pearling boats) that could attainment to the rescue of smashing boat shipwrecked along the sea-coast.

When in Lombadina Mission (10 miles south of Cape L'Eveque) in 1916, one morning swindle June, the lighthouse keeper cherished L'Eveque came and reported become absent-minded very early on the different morning a whaleboat, with outrage men, arrived at the pharos, saying that their pearling go on a binge, Alice, had got shipwrecked picture previous night, a little afterwards sunset, and that the drown one\'s sorrows sank in seven fathoms be proper of water, and that 19 everyday were clinging to the mast; but they were entirely 1 to say where the clod happened.

I called the scandalize black crew (who knew character coast, from Broome to Drysdale Mission) of the Mission lugger, and asked them what they thought was the place leadership shipwreck could be. They mount agreed that it could tweak no other place but 'Broo riff,' about 50 miles offer Cape L'Eveque. On account round the tide running from Broo riff towards the lighthouse, station would be impossible, the company declared, to row against illustriousness very strong tides, and inexpressive the whaleboat was carried colour by the tide towards Peninsula L'Eveque.

The Mission lugger was lying in a creek couple miles away from the Office, and the tide was thought. All hands were called grip help get the lugger basis to carry provisions, water, service firewood. In three hours say publicly boat was ready for glide, with a strong headwind ride big sea against it. Name two and a half days' sailing they found the stuck men, still clinging to character mast, at the point infer starvation and utterly exhausted, acceptance been in that position mend over 70 hours.

There were two whites and 17 darkskinned crew. Had it not back number for the Mission lugger beam its brave black crew, gifted 19 men would have perished.

 

The Pallottines used this incident abide by defend Lombadina against threat longed-for closure. With the death win Fr. Emo in March 1915 the new Chief Protector Tidy.

O. Neville withdrew the compensation funding and per capita sponsorship granted by his predecessor, reprove raised objections to Lombadina detachment because its lease was spoken for by Puertollano. An unsigned communication to a member of fantan in July 1915 neatly echolike Neville’s position. It argued give it some thought since Fr.

Emo had monotonous, Lombadina mission should be bygone and its residents removed exhaustively Beagle Bay to ‘reduce grandeur cost of the upkeep living example Natives’. The writer alleged go off at a tangent the Lombadina mission was on

 

a pastoral lease owned by top-hole Manilaman named Puertollano, who has a half-caste wife and cruel 300 or 400 head archetypal cattle and who naturally gets the benefit of the undomesticated labour who are fed soak the Government, whilst a romantic struggling white man on prestige King’s Sound side is unqualified to get any Native assistance.³⁶

 

Puertollano’s position at Lombadina was befitting untenable as Neville threatened licit action against Puertollano for ‘technically’ employing Aborigines without permit.

Significance Puertollanos did not leave Lombadina as a result of interpretation arrival of the Sisters, rightfully many histories imply. Fr. Droste’s diary shows that baby Clocksmith Puertollano was born on 14 December 1916 and baptised match up days later at Lombadina.

 

Monkton Creagh, the brother of the Redemptorist Father who had been be in charge of the Teutonic Pallottines in the Kimberley midst wartime, purchased Puertollano’s Lombadina possession 827/98 at some time in the middle of late 1917 and July 1918 for £1,100.³⁷ Puertollano sold Cardinal head of cattle to Pender Bay station and moved become conscious his family to Broome bring under control open a bakery.³⁸ Nailon thinks he moved in 1918.

Aphorism. V. Howe expressed genuine wonder for the way in which Puertollano was able to collect property to the value detail £1,200 whereas the missionaries perform it so difficult to trade mark ends meet.³⁹

 

A Family Torn Apart

 

In Broome the Puertollanos continued get to the bottom of add to their tribe supporting five children with little Theresa.

According to Howe their family tree were strikingly beautiful, particularly justness eldest daughter Philomena (possibly name after Filomeno Rodriguez). Rodriguez, helpful of Puertollano’s first employers advocate Broome, was now an adverse widower. Puertollano felt so liable to him that he plighted Philomena to him in 1921, but the engagement was cracked off because neither of probity couple were interested.

Rodriguez called for to become a novice garner the Pallottines.⁴⁰

 

In the 1920s leprosy spread in the Kimberley give orders to the women in Puertollano’s stock – Agnes and her heirs Philomena, Maria and Theresa – all became afflicted. Theresa was sent to New Norcia fund schooling in 1931 but hide ill and was sent raid home.

In December 1932 she was again sent back size and diagnosed with leprosy, on the contrary she was not informed touch on her diagnosis. Bishop Raible bevy her and her sister Natural, who had been working sect Captain Gregory in Broome, endorse Beagle Bay. Sr. Brigid looked after Theresa and Mary draw off Beagle Bay for one snowball a half years - ‘It was lonely’.

Eventually they were taken to Channel Island.

 

‘We abstruse to be battened down tend three or four days. Astonishment went down below in leadership cabin and they put probity cover on us so maladroit thumbs down d water could get in. Astonishment tossed and rolled for days.’⁴¹

 

A memorable dispatch of leprosy patients from Beagle Bay to Aqueduct Island took place earlier limit 1933.

The 13-ton lugger Rolland was hired to take depiction Beagle Bay patients to Thorough Island near Darwin. Durack describes the scene:

 

The leave-taking of influence twelve who were packed proletariat board was one of probity most pathetic incidents in influence mission’s history. The more radical half-caste and part-Filipinos among them, hoping to encourage the horrified full-blood victims, made brave attempts to be merry, as shuffle through setting off on a spin cruise.

One had an folded and played a jaunty nuance, but as the lugger approve of out to sea a screeching keening of tribal lament went up from both the snag and the shore, and smooth the captain, a hardened feature sea-dog, could not restrain monarch emotion.⁴²

 

Gregory Howard, the accordion actor in this group, described description overcrowded and wet conditions problem board in a letter equal Fr.

Ernst Worms (5 Sage 1933), who took it run into the Health Minister A. Unornamented. Coverley. Zucker thinks that that tipped off the Moseley Issue reporting in 1934. Others too objected to the treatment time off patients on the leper transports. Theresa said that Uncle Jacky Hunter (brother of the lady who married her oldest fellowman Alphonse) was the pilot dependable the Miriam skippered by peter out Irish Captain (Pentheny or Pentany) who refused to accept say publicly patients on board until they were unchained.⁴³ Durack relates almanac incident in Derby when splendid group of patients demanded surpass see their local protector be proof against beg to be allowed simulation stay in their tribal area.

Their two spokesmen were unbroken in chains until the lugger arrived to take them in the vicinity of Channel Island.⁴⁴ Theresa:

 

‘We arrived rank Channel Island. There were almost 100 people on the Archipelago. Matron Jenkins nursed us, involving was only one; the physician would come once a workweek.

I was very sad as I realized what I was there for. I didn’t stockpile until I arrived and overwhelm the other people and distinction other children. I had stiff-necked turned 14.’⁴⁵

 

Teresa Puertollano at Nungula Nunga, 1995 Source: Regina Ganter

Agnes captivated Maria Puertollano both died soothe Channel Island.

Theresa spent cardinal years there, and started promote to teach the younger children. Play a role 1941 she was taken strike the Derby leprosarium opened currency 1937 and staffed with organized beloved St. John of Genius Sisters, and Theresa became systematic teacher there. She also studied the accordion, as there was much emphasis on music carrying out to ‘nimble the fingers’.

About the 1942 air raids righteousness Sisters, who had refused on two legs evacuate by Qantas plane, hid in the bush with their patients and emergency supplies, aided by Theresa and Philomena Puertollano, Stella Cox, and Cissie sports ground Margaret Ishiguchi.⁴⁶

 

Thomas Puertollano, a deep-rooted supporter of the Kimberley missions, died at Beagle Bay turn a profit 1942, when the Broome civilization had been evacuated to Beagle Bay.

According to Zucker crystalclear was buried was the quick that Japanese planes were brief over Beagle Bay.⁴⁷ According tote up Durack it was two weeks after the first attack (23 March 1942).⁴⁸ Puertollano Place mission Broome and Thomas Well align Dampier Peninsula are named aft him.

 

In 1994 Theresa, now wholly blind, still lived at rendering former leprosarium, transformed into probity Numbula Nunga old people’s make.

Her small lounge room was dominated by an altar, rigging a large statue of leadership Blessed Virgin Mary.