Mary Jane Cain [SEP] date of death
granted to Mary and her family by Queen Victoria.
Mary Jane Cain died at Burra Bee Dee, Coonabarabran, NSW on 29 July 1929 aged 85.
Language.
Mary Jane Cain spoke a local indigenous language, Gamilaraay, and a manuscript compiled by Mary is held at the State Library of New South Wales containing wordlists of place names and the natural environment.
Memorials.
A bridge over the Castlereagh River in Coonabarabran was named after Mary Jane Cain. A plaque was erected by the Coonabarabran Rotary Club near
moves between two worlds of such profound difference, and she gives her people the strength to move forward." She quotes Mary Jane, 'We gotta make it good for ourselves to go forward, the people say. How can I move across this space between Nganyinytja and me?' After the death of her mother, Jinnie Griffin, in 1882, Mary became the leader of her community and was known to everyone as "Queenie" Cain.
In notices published after her death, Mary's recollections were recorded