Lancelot Costello

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Background

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

The following statement was declared before John O'Shannassy, J.P. On 26 December 1854:

I, Patrick Quinane, if the Eureka, Ballaarat, in the Colony of Victoria, gold digger, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on Sunday morning, the third day of December instant, my tent with all the property therein, of the value of £601, was set fire to and consumed or destroyed immediately after the attack of the military and police on the stockade of the Eureka aforesaid, on the said third day of December, and I further solemnly and sincerely declare that I did not leave my tent until I heard orders given to have the tents burned. I further solemnly and sincerely declare that


See also

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

Riot at Ballarat appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballarat together with the evidence taken by the board laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the lieutenant Governor and ordered by the Council to be printed 21st November, 1854.

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