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Link 2004 143 BA LLA RA T LINK Novem ber 2004- No. 14 3 PRESIDENT: SECRETA RY: Joan H unt Gwenda B ayley RESEA RCH: EDITOR: Cathie Shelton Gayle Sella rs The B alla ra t & District Genealogical Society Inc. Page 1 TH E BALLA R A T & DISTRICT GEN EALO GICAL SO CIETY IN C. P.O. Box 1809 ABN 40 041 783 778 Published February, May, Ballarat Mail Centre A0022692F (Reg. No.) August, November Vic 3354 Australia www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au ISSN 0819-7199 The Society’s Library is housed in the Australiana M em bersh ip Room, Ballarat Central Library, 178 Doveton Street North, Ballarat 3350. Single Membership :- $25.00 Australiana Room open for “members only” every Family Membership :- $35.00 Friday evening 5pm - 7pm. Overseas membership :- $25.00 Certain books from our collection can now be borrowed by members for 1 - 2 weeks, Membership year from 1st July to 30th between 6 - 7pm on Friday evenings. June (Half price after 1st Jan) Committee M em bers 2004 - 2005 President Joan Hunt - [email protected] Vice President Graeme Reynolds Secretary Gwenda Bayley - [email protected] Assistant Secretary Cheryl Briody - [email protected] Treasurer Jan Drennan Librarian Betty Slater - [email protected] Research Officer Cathie Shelton - [email protected] Publicity Officer Neva Dunstan - [email protected] Projects Officer Trina Jones - [email protected] Link Editor Gayle Sellars - [email protected] Membership Officer Jenny Colvin PROGRAM : 2004/2005 Monthly Meetings are held on 23rd November - Christmas Breakup the 4th Tuesday of each month at the Ballarat Central 22nd February - Elizabeth Dowse (Sharp-Paul). Winner of 3rd prize in the Library, Doveton Street Nth, 2003 Alexander Henderson Award with her book: “A Jackdaw’s Ballarat. 7.30pm. Gleanings: The Dowse Family of Wiltshire, England, and Wexford, Visitors are most welcome. Ireland; 15th to 20th centuries” – covering Ballarat and Buninyong. 22nd March - Lenore Frost. Dating photographs by Fashions 26th April - Scott Brown. The Exiles No meeting December and 24th May - Les Holloway. Lake Wendouree and Its Ferries January. 28th June - Betty Slater. Ballarat Genealogical Society Library 26th July. Annual General Meeting. Dr Liz Rushen – “An Insight into Researching Women in Family and Local History” DISCLAIMER The Ballarat and District Genealogical Suggested Itinerary for 2005 - to be confirmed Society Inc does not hold itself Tues 23 August - Joan Hunt on Researching in England responsible for the accuracy of Tues 27 September - Susie Zada on the Geelong Heritage Centre statements or opinions expressed by Tues 25 October - Jim Quinn on The Ballarat Chinese authors of articles published in this Tues 22 November - End of Year breakup – show and tell with members magazine. © Copyright, Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc. Page 2 CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR Regular Features Hello Readers, Christmas is upon us …. again!!! Planning for that family News from the Library 5 feast - is it going to be hot or cold? Shopping for presents— New Members 5 what to buy can be a problem with so much to choose from. Family gatherings and so more photo’s for the family WWW Genie Links 8 albums!! We are all so busy, it’s a wonder we get any time for family history. I, for one, will have to re prioritized Our Guest Speakers 10 some chores around the house. I have yet to work out how And ‘New’ to our meetings to get out of doing the basic housework but I have promised myself that my family tree will ’grow’ next year. Review 11 We have a bumper issue for you with great articles, some of Research Queries 14 which touch on the topic of Eureka, coinciding with the 150 Eureka celebrations this year. I have also included some Special Features and Articles extracts of articles from The Argus newspaper from that time, mostly written by their correspondent in Ballarat. They Women on the Diggings 4 cover a small portion of what would have been reported on and they have been researched by many of our historians, Herbert Swindells—A Reformed Character 6 but reading them gives you a very real sense of the feelings and the happenings of ‘Eureka’. The Eureka Encylopaedia 7 Our regular articles, such as News from the Library, WWW Genie Links and Research Queries (News from the PRO CHHA Expo 7 will be back next issue) continue to keep us up to date with what’s available. All in all, it’s a great read. Obituary 7 Death of Mr John O’Neill This is my last issue of Link. It’s been fun and a good learning experience. Thanks to Trina for all her help and 1854 Eureka and all that 9 advice, I appreciate it Trina. And thank you to all those who - 150 years up the family tree contributed articles, regular or for special features, it really was, and will continue to be, a team effort. Lady Teviot Seminar 10 My best wishes to Helen and Gail for next year. I know they will enjoy the experience. Bridge of Tears 11 Eureka - Extracts from The Argus 1854 12 As always, if you have an interesting story about your family history, send it along, your suggestions and ideas for 11th Australasian Congress on 14 articles are always welcome. Genealogy and Heraldry I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy Some infant Deaths registered in 15 New Year. Ballarat in 1854 Regards Gayle Contributions for February Link 2005 to be with the editor by 1st February 2005 Email address:- [email protected] Visit the Ballarat Genealogy website:- www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au Webmaster:- Daryl Povey EMAIL :- [email protected] Visit our webpage for Links to ‘Eureka’… the following can be found there. 'Deaths at Eureka '- Dorothy Wickham McINTYRE, Andrew; 1855 Letter to Scotland - a recent rediscovery Eureka Arrests and Trial Witnesses - lists by Jenny Fawcett Eureka Flag - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 12th Regiment of Foot at Eureka, 1854 - Ken Larbalestier, Sydney Ballarat Link November 2004 - No. 143 Page 3 number of dead bodies, and some of the pikes the WOMEN ON THE DIGGINGS blacksmith had made-some finished, some unfinished. Martial law was proclaimed, and for days there was no work done, and everybody was in a great state of anxiety. No light was allowed to be used after 8 o’c lock, unless in Early goldfields’ reminiscences afford excellent the case of sickness, and then only with special permit illustrations of the courage and fortitude with which from the commissioners. Things, however, soon settled women faced the discomforts and hardships of the down again, and we resumed our usual occupations.” … digger’s life. Mrs. Agnes Franks lived in what is now known as Rodier Street for fifty years, on the spot where, And a woman’s life, was it monotonous? on December 3, 1854, she recalled that she stood, terror- stricken, at the door of her father’s tent, and saw the “There was a good deal of hardship , but we just learned to beginning of the attack on the stockade. Agnes was 16 do without things, and were as happy and contented then years of age at the time of Eureka on 3 December 1854. as we are to-day, with all the conveniences we have about She told her story at the 50th anniversary of Eureka. us. I have always thought that the young diggers of the early days were splendid fellows. Numbers of them were ‘My father and his family landed in Sydney in 1849. He and my brother-in-law were on Ballarat in 1852. We came over to join them later, and arrived on the field on November 18, 1854. My mother, my sister, a younger brother, and I formed the party. My brother-in-law met us in Melbourne, and we started at once for the diggings in a dray, and were three days and two nights on the journey. My mother used to ride on the dray, but the young folks walked most of the way. It was all new and strange to us, and we found much to interest us on the way. We slept at night under the dray, and I shall never forget our first night camping out. The dray was surrounded by great forest trees, and the loneliness and stillness of it, broken now and again by strange night voices of the bush, was very weird. When we arrived we found my father had three tents in a cluster, here on the brow of the hill, where my home is still. I have resided here ever since. We had never entered a tent before, and to us who were women they looked queer places to live in, with saplings driven into the ground for bedposts and boxes for tables and chairs. We soon, however, got used to it all. Things were very disturbed when we arrived. My father and brother-in-law and their mates did not approve of the movement to resist the authorities, and frequently after tea they would go off for a stroll in the bush to escape being pestered with those who were for strife. well set-up, manly men, and kind and respectful to women. Their digger’s costume was very picturesque. Red For several nights before the stockade fight everybody or blue shirts, with a red sash or a broad leather belt round was in a state of alarm and anxiety. We slept in our the waist, with a brass snake buckle, and California felt clothes, ready to fly to a place of safety. My father was hats, with broad brims and tall crowns.
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