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Jessie Williams Jessie Williams i(A99968 works by)
Born: Established: 1924 Nambucca area, Mid North Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Gumbayngirr / Gumbainggirr ; Aboriginal
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Aunty Jessie Williams is an Elder of the Gumbayngirr people. She was born on Stuart Island in 1924. Her mother was Eva Whatty a Gumbayngirr woman, and her father, Ernest Lindsay, was from Berry. Aunty Jessie Williams' grandfather and uncle made Ernest go through an initiation to become a Gumbayngirr before he could marry Eva Whatty.

A member of the Stolen Generations, Williams was taken from her family as a child.

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