Eliza Perrin
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Background
Eliza Hobson was born in Cheshire, England in 1829. In 1851, she married John Perrin in West Yorkshire, just months before he sailed to the goldfields to seek his fortune. A year later, and with her young baby daughter at her side, she decided to join her husband. Upon arrival in Australia after a journey of 147 days, Eliza learned that John was at the Ballarat diggings.[1]
They were eventually reunited, but Eliza found that she could not reply on her husband for support as he was a drunkard and constantly travelling to follow the next gold rush. In order to survive, Eliza went into business in Ballarat with a refreshment house and store. In later years, she and John established a butcher’s shop in Bungaree.[2]
Although they had a difficult relationship, John and Eliza had two more children in the mid-1850s. When their marriage broke down completely in the late 1850s, Eliza was not able to legally separate from him because the Divorce Act had yet to be passed in Australia. She cohabited with John Robson and hadfour children with him. [3]
Eliza died in 1869, and is buried in the Ballaarat Old Cemetery.[4]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ http://goldmuseumballarat.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/eliza-perrin-an-ordinary-woman-of-the-goldfields/
- ↑ http://goldmuseumballarat.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/eliza-perrin-an-ordinary-woman-of-the-goldfields/
- ↑ http://goldmuseumballarat.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/eliza-perrin-an-ordinary-woman-of-the-goldfields/
- ↑ http://goldmuseumballarat.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/eliza-perrin-an-ordinary-woman-of-the-goldfields/
External links
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