Baden, who was reputedly the first Aboriginal person to own property in the Centre (oral communication), was the eldest child of Jessie, (referred to in the text as Allan Breaden's 'halfcaste spouse'). Jessie, also Johnson Breaden's mother, had a number of children with both Aboriginal and white men. She lived at various times with the prominent pastoralists Louis Bloomfield and Allan Breaden.

NOTE follow up the chapter on the relationship between Aboriginal women and pastroralists