Bill Ferguson

                          Bill Ferguson


1882   -    born in Waddai, Darlington Point, New South Wales
1895-96 - got brief education by Warangesda mission school. 
1896  -     Working in Riverina shearing sheds
1895  -     his wife Emily died in childbirth
1911  -     married Margaret Mathieson Gowans
1916  -     family settled at Gulargambone 
1920-24 - worked as mailman between Quambone and Gular
1928  -     took labouring jobs
1933  -     settled his wife and twelve children at Dubbo permanently
1937  -     he launched the Aborigines' Progressive Association at Dubbo
1938  -     organised the A.P.A.
1944-49-  worked with the Welfare Board
1949  -     was elected as a vice-president of the New South Wales branch of the Australian                  Aborigines' League, a national body with Onus as president
1950 -      died of hypertensive heart disease, in Dubbo Base Hospital.