"Carmen" Mary Carmen YAPPO / WALYA
Born 14 July 1875 in New Norcia, Western Australia [519]
Daughter of "Paddy" Patrick YAPPO and Mary TAINAN or DINAH [15] [519]
Baptised when just one day old at the Benedictine Mission in New Norcia on 15 July 1875 [519]
She had three Aboriginal grandparents and a grandfather from East Africa [471] [239: Tree 19]
Her parents left her and her brother Patrick in the care of the Benedictine Mission in New Norcia from 17 June 1883 [519]
Married Richard WALLOWALLO, later known as Henry WALYA, in New Norcia on 12 February 1893 [15] [519]
She and her husband were among the Aboriginal people living at the Benedictine Mission in New Norcia in 1894, 1898 and 1899 [519]
Their daughter Theodosia, later known as Dorcia, was baptised in New Norcia on 30 May 1894 and died in Moora in 1925 [519]
Their son Placidio was born in Victoria Plains in 1900 and died in Victoria Plains at the age of eight months in 1901 [15]
They appear to have resided in New Norcia from 1907 to 1909 with their children Sarah, Richard and Henry being born there [15]
Their daughter Mary Carmen was born in Victoria Plains in 1910 [15]
She gave birth to four children in four years with Sarah, Richard, Henry and Mary Carmen being born between 1907 and 1910 [15]
In New Norcia, Sarah died aged six days in 1907, Richard aged two weeks in 1908, and Henry aged three days in 1909 [15]
By 1911 they had shifted to Carnamah, it being where their daughter Mary Carmen passed away at the age of one year [15]
She gave birth to an unnamed son, who didn't survive, in Carnamah during 1913 [15]
Mother of "Dorcia" Theodosia, Placido, Sarah, Richard, Mary Carmen, and Henry [15]
Died 1 January 1917; buried at Guildford Cemetery in the Perth suburb of Guildford (Roman Catholic, Old Section, 68) [2]
Her husband married her sister Mary Conception YAPPO in Three Springs in 1918 [15]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Mary Carmen Yappo / Walya' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 2 July 2025 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/mary-carmen-yappo [reference list] |
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