Jimmy Tarpot Memorial

Aboriginal Cricketer Murrumgunerrimin (Jimmy Tarpot) "Jimmy" worked on Bringalbert Station and from there was selected in "The First Eleven": an Aboriginal team that toured England in the 1860s.  On Boxing Day 1866 he thrilled the crowd at the MCG, with the unusual feat of running 100 yards backwards in 14 seconds. A memorial site recognising his connection to Apsley is located inside the cemetery gates.

Jimmy Tarpot became a highly respected and much sort after Wool Classer in the Apsley District, as well as being employed by the local station owners and settlers, season after season he classed wool at the large Wool Store owned by WT Hoare in Apsley.

William Ruth in his award winning Essay in the Victorian Centenary Essay competition in 1951 states "It sometimes happened, during Tarpot's temporary absence from the shed, that one of his workmates would remove a fleece from one of the bins and replace it with a similar one of only slightly lesser quality. Jimmy was never 'taken in'; one glace was sufficient for him to detect the attempt deception, and without comment he would quietly restore the fleeces to their original places".