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James Stirling - Meeandip

Placename
Meeandip (Garden Island)
Layer
WALBS bios - James Stirling
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-32.182833
Longitude
115.673222
Start Date
1829-06-01
End Date
1829-06-01

Description

Sources

ID
t17735

Extended Data

Location notes
Date notes
We do not know the exact date Stirling and family reached Garden Island, but records have indicated they were likely there from June 1829.
Biographical information
On 30 December 1828 Stirling became the first Governor of the Colony of Western Australia. He was in this role until October 1837. Before the first Government House was built in Perth, a tent residence was set up on Meeandup (Garden Island) between June and September of 1829.
Links to slavery
Stirling had multiple connections to the slave trade. His intergenerational family businesses traded in slave-produced goods in the United States and Caribbean. His brother Walter Stirling received compensation for the loss of enslaved people in Guiana and Barbados. Stirling was stationed in the Royal Navy at Jamaica, where his Uncle Charles Stirling was Commander-in-Chief. They received prize money for capturing ships, some of which contained slave-produced goods. Stirling's father-in-law James Mangles owned a ship which transported enslaved people between Africa and the Caribbean. [Georgie refs]
Attitudes around race
Attitudes around labour
Images
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Link to People Australia entry
https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/stirling-sir-james-2702/text3791
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