People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Black Tom
• Black Tom Birch
• Birch's Tom
• Kickerterpoller
• Kikatamana

Birth

c. 1800
Tasmania, Australia

Death

c. 14 May, 1832 (aged ~ 32)
Burnie, Tasmania, Australia

Cause of Death

dysentery

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Indigenous Australian
• Oyster Bay Tasmanian
• palawa
• Paytirami/Poredareme

Occupation or Descriptor

• clerk
• farm labourer
• Indigenous guide
• Indigenous resistance fighter

Key Events

• Black War (Tas)

Key Places

• Sorrell gaol
• Hobart Gaol