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==Background==
 
==Background==
  

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Headstone of Ann and George Duke in the Echuca Cemetery.

Background

Ann Gaynor was born on 21 November 1838 at County Meath, Ireland. She was the daughter of James Gaynor and Bridget Powderly - storekeepers and carriers in Bendigo then Woodend. Anne travelled to Australia on the William Sharples with her parents, arriving in Sydney in 1842. The family settled in Sydney for two years before travelling to Melbourne in 1844. They lived in Lonsdale Street, playing around “Collingwood Green” near St. Francis church. Anne’s brothers carried goods between Ballarat and Melbourne, and her parents kept a store at the Bendigo diggings. Anne married George Duke at Chewton, near Castlemaine, in March 1854, and they moved to Ballarat.[1]

She died 21 June 1914, while staying at the home of her daughter, Mary Johnson. Anne Duke is buried in Echuca Cemetery. [2]


Goldfields Involvement, 1854

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Art Gallery of Ballarat Collection. Gift of the King family, 2001
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Anne Duke had a tent inside the Eureka Stockade.[3] She is said to have been one of the women who sewed the stars on the Eureka Flag, and that she was inside the Eureka Stockade during the Eureka battle. Anne’s brother Thomas Gaynor is said to have helped Peter Lalor after the battle. It was said Anne hid with Mrs Parker behind the logs around the tent, and heard the bullets striking the utensils in the tent. The clothes in Ann Duke's tent were riddled with shot. [4]

Post 1854 Experiences

Ann and her husband fled after the Eureka Stockade and Ann gave birth under a spring cart on the road to Bendigo a few days later. The family later settled at Woodend, where most of here twelve children were born. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

Obituary

The many friends of Mrs. Wm. Beckwith, of Undera, will regret to hear of the death of her mother, Mrs. Ann Duke, of Echuca. Mrs. Duke was a colonist of 67 years and formerly lived at Woodend, where she was very highly-respected. She was one of the few women who were pr sent at the fight between the miners and the Government, troops in the Eureka Stockade at Ballarat.[5]

See also

George Duke

Women of Eureka

Further Reading

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

Dorothy Wickham, Women in 'Ballarat' 1851-1871: A Case Study in Agency, PhD. School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008.

Dorothy Wickham, Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women of Eureka in Journal of Australian Colonial History, 10, No, 1, 2008, pp. 99-115.

Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHSPublishing, 2009.

http://www.eurekapedia.org/Blood,_Sweat_and_Tears:_Women_at_Eureka

Clare Wright, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Text Publishing, 2013.

Dorothy Wickham, Not just a Pretty Face: Women on the Goldfields, in Pay Dirt: Ballarat & Other Gold Towns, BHSPublishing, 2019, pp. 25-36.

References

  1. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  2. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  3. Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart, Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.172.
  4. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  5. Ballarat News, 02 July 1914.

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