Beeton, Lucy (1829-1886)

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Aboriginal teacher; Indigenous leader; schoolteacher; trader
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BEETON, LUCY (1829-1886), Aboriginal teacher and businesswoman, was born on 14 May 1829 on Gun Carriage (Vansittart) Island, eastern Bass Strait, daughter of Thomas (John) Beeton (also known as Beedon, Baden or Beadon), from a Jewish family of jewellers in London, and Emmerenna ('Bet Smith'), a Tasmanian Aborigine from Cape Portland. Beeton had been a sailor in the British navy, transported for seven years in 1817 for mutiny. His sentence completed, he voluntarily moved to Bass Strait in 1824, became an independent sealer and was paid a 'handsome allowance' by his family.

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Lucy Beeton spent most of her life on Badger Island, though she was sent to Launceston as a young girl to receive a Christian education. In adult life, the well-loved Beeton provided an education for the children of sealers on Badger Island and entertained visitors there.

Lucy Beeton, of Pyemmairrener descent, was born on Badger Island, Bass Strait. Her mother was taken from her when Lucy was two, to be returned on petition from her father. While still young, Lucy was sent to Launceston where she stayed with a doctor’s family and was given a Christian education. F. R. Nixon, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, wrote in 1854 that Beeton was the greatest lady it had even been his good fortune to encounter, that she was everyone’s friend, and that she ‘daily gathers together the children of the sealers, and does her best to impart to them the rudiments both of secular and religious knowledge’. In recognition of her work, she was given a life lease of approximately 40 ha on Badger Island. There in her cottage she entertained all visitors to the island. In 1872 she told Canon Marcus Brownrigg that she longed to give Truganini a home where she might spend her remaining days among the descendants of her own race.

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  1. The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture
    Horton, David
    [1994]
    Published: Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS
  2. Beeton, Lucy (1829-1886)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Beeton, Lucy (1829-1886)
    Breen, Shayne
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10031b.htm

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