William Alderson William Alderson i(9066755 works by) (a.k.a. Yorkie Bill; Yorky Billy)
Born: Established: 1897 ; Died: Ceased: 1979
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; English
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Yorky Billy was an Aboriginal buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter whose father was an Englishman, William Alderson (known as Yorky Mick), from Yorkshire, England, and whose mother was a Ambugaria woman from around Nourlangie. who died when Yorky Billy was three years old. Yorky Billy accompanied his father as a fettler on the railways and droving in the VRD. They later returned to the Kakadu area and lived by prospecting, crocodile shooting and working for buffalo hunters. (Source: NT Place Names Register website)

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