Additional Information

• Stella was an Allowera (Allyawarr) woman, Jane Webb's trusted Allyawarr Aboriginal friend, who lived at Mount Riddock Station with the Webb family for eighteen years.
• She helped with the Webb family's housework and reared the five children.  Apparently the children could speak four local Aboriginal languages but could not read or write English until a male teacher stayed with them to help them through correspondence lessons.
• Stella's story is also told through a unique radio play, 'Stella The Fugitive Lubra', part of a series called 'The Land and its People' written by Marjorie Gartrell.  A copy of the original script is held in the NPWHF's HerStory archive.
• Described as Jane's trusted and most beloved friend, Stella later brought up Jane's youngest daughter Joy, who was still a little girl when her mother died.  Joy always had fond memories of her upbringing.

Image - Stella

Photo courtesy the late Marilyn Webb, Jane Webb’s granddaughter