A. Eureka Shortland
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
Notes
- First White Baby Born at Eureka
- MRS. A. EUREKA WARDE, of Melbourne, celebrated her 83rd birth-day on Sunday. She is a descendant of the late Lieut. John Shortland Agent for Transport with the First Fleet to Botany Bay
- Mrs. Warde was the first white baby born at Eureka, Ballarat, and is one of its oldest surviving natives She is proud of the fact that her family, on her father's side—John James Shortland, son of Elizabeth Shortland—represents seven generations of Australian-born natives
- Besides taking a keen interest in the Welfare of the South movement, she has written short stories dealing with Early Victorian life. She has plenty of material, because even in her babyhood during the Eureka Stockade, the tent which was her parents' home at that time was riddled with bullets, and she narrowly escaped death.[1]
See also
Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case
Further Reading
Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.
References
- ↑ The Australian Women's Weekly, 03 August 1935.
External links
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