Tedbury

Tedbury (c. 1780, Botany Bay – 1810, Parramatta), also known as Tidbury and Tjedboro, was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug Aboriginal Australian people involved in frequent acts of resistance to British colonists in the early years of New South Wales. He was the son of noted warrior and rebel Pemulwuy.

Tedbury was captured in 1805 and tried before the magistrate at Parramatta, Reverend Samuel Marsden. He was released at the behest of Aboriginal Australians who had participated in the capture of Musquito.

Tedbury was an ally of John Macarthur and a frequent visitor to Elizabeth Farm. When Governor Bligh placed Macarthur under arrest in 1808, Tedbury offered to spear the governor.

He also took part in a robbery of a traveller named Tunks on Parramatta Road in 1809. The local newspaper reported at the time:

Tedbury also took part in an attack on a settler's farm owned by Thomas Bond at Georges River on 26 September 1809. According to a contemporary report:

Tedbury was then involved in a theft of a flock of sheep belonging to Edward Powell of Parramatta Road, Canterbury. Powell and some men tried to track down the thieves but they escaped, although some of the sheep were recovered.

On 19 February 1810, Tedbury, in full view of witnesses, threw a spear at the sister of Edward Luttrell, in the garden of her house at Parramatta. Edward shot him in the upper lip and notwithstanding treatment the next day from the Assistant Surgeon at Hawkesbury, after at least some weeks he died of his wounds. Luttrell was charged with assault and acquitted on 10 March 1810, Tedbury being still alive at the time. Edward's brother Robert Burgess Luttrell was clubbed to death on 7 November the next year in a reprisal attack by Tedbury's fellow Darug over his breaking of their spears and taking away of their women.