"Paddy" Patrick YAPPO
Born 1903 in New Norcia, Western Australia [15]
Son of Albert YAPPO and Elizabeth WILLIAMS [15]
Worked in Carnamah for pastoralist and farmer Donald MACPHERSON [P399]
Member of the Carnamah Football Club 1921-1930 [4: 28-Aug-1926, 6-Jul-1929, 14-Jun-1930] [9: 20-May-1921]
In 1921 he was also a member of the Wanderers Football Club in Moora [9: 3-Jun-1921]
The Wanderers Football Club was an all-Aboriginal team which competed in the Moora Football Association [120: 28-Jul-1949]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1922-23 and 1925-26 [9: 2-Mar-1923] [86: 25-Mar-1926]
In the 1925-26 cricket premiership he "maintained his reputation as a crack fielder by taking two brilliant next-to-impossible catches" [86]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Smoke Social and Wind-Up at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 7 September 1929 [4: 14-Sep-1929]
Won the Sheard Medal for being the Carnamah Football Club's highest goal kicker for the 1929 season [4: 14-Sep-1929]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Grand Presentation Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 9 October 1930 [4: 18-Oct-1930]
In 1930 he once more received the medal for being the Carnamah Football Club's highest goal kicker for the season [4: 18-Oct-1930]
His and Eva JATTER's son Benedict was baptised by the priest from Saint Paul's Roman Catholic Church in Three Springs on 28 March 1931 [91]
Sent a floral tribute for the grave of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery in 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Resided in Carnamah until at least 1931 [91]
Married Eva JATTER in Moora 1933 [15]
His and Eva's son Paul died from enteritis at the age of one year on 31 December 1940 [471]
Paul was buried at the cemetery of the Moore River Native Settlement in Mogumber, later known as the Mogumber Mission [471]
Father of Benedict [91], Albert [15] and Paul Anthony [471]
Died in Perth in 1957 [15]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Patrick Yappo' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 10 May 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/patrick-yappo [reference list] |
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