Antonio Cubillo Ozie(a)s came to Australia in November 1887 and worked as a pearl diver in Broome. He was
born in July 1867, and hailed from Mindanao, Philippines. He later worked as a yardsman at the Continental
Hotel in Broome and at the Broome Shire. He married Cecelia Nganagon, a Djugun aboriginal woman from
Broome, and together had a son, Phillip.

Phillip married Dominica Fitzgerald, a mixed-race woman from Halls Creek, whose mother was an aboriginal
Kija. They had seven children, Anthony, Francis, Cecelia and Philipena. After Phillip died, Dominica re-married
and had three children, Annie, Daisy and Carim.

The narrators, Anthony Fitzgerald Ozies was Antonio’s grandson, while
Yisah is Anthony’s granddaughter.