Walter Thomson
Contents
Background
Walter John Thomson married Charlotte.
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
- GOLDEN WEDDING.
- MR. AND MRS W. J. THOMSON.
- Fifty years ago Mr. Walter John and Mrs. Charlotte Thomson, of 119 Hargreaves Street East, were united as man and wife, and today they celebrate the golden jubilee of their wedding. They are old residents of Bendigo, and their many friends will no doubt extend to them hearty wishes for their future good health and prosperity. Mr. Thomson is 76 years of age, and was born in Sydney. He came to Victoria from New Zealand in 1853. Diggers were already flocking to wards Castlemaine and Bendigo, and he made his way to Campbell's Creek, where he entered into alluvia mining with some success. He in turn visited Maryborough, Maldon, Middleton Greek, Kingower and Tarnagulla (then Sandy Creek). Mr. Thomson, however, did not follow mining as a means of livelihood, for in 1860 he entered the employ of the late Mr. Frank Holdsworth, butcher, Pall Mall. Later he was with the late Mr. Edmund Fletcher, butcher, Hargreaves street, and of recent years he worked under Mr. J. Nankervis and Messrs. Foggitt, Jones. Mr. Thomson can distinctly recall events that occurred in the early history of the city, and also witness ed the troops passing through Campbell's Creek at the time of the Eureka riot in Ballarat. He is the son of the late Mr. J. H. Thomson, of Edinburgh, Scotland. Mrs. Thomson is 67 years of age, and is the daughter of the late Mr. George Barlow, of Withy, Yorkshire. Good health is still enjoyed by the happy couple. There were 13 children of the union. Eleven are alive, and consist of seven sons and four daughters. Six sons are married, while the seventh assists his brother in Melbourne. The children are Walter, cabinet maker, Melbourne; Frederick, hairdresser, Melbourne; Harry, who is-at Bowes Tattersall's Club, Melbourne; Ralph, butcher, employed at Messrs. Foggitt, Jones, Bendigo; William, dairy farmer, Warrnambool; Herbert, small goods-man, Adelaide; Albert, hairdresser, Melbourne; Mrs. Worsley, Albert Park; Mrs. A. Barlow, Brunswick; and Misses Hilda and Mabel Olive, who are at home with their parents.[1]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Bendigo Independent, 2004.
References
- ↑ The Bendigo Independent, 21 April 1917.
