Charles Ferguson
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Background
Ferguson was born in Ohio in 1832. When he was 18 he went to the California gold-fields, where he spent two years. He arrived in Sydney in July 1852 aboard the Don Juan from San Fransisco, then sailed on the Shusan to Melbourne. He spent time on the diggings at Ballarat, Ovens, Bendigo, Beechworth and McIvor.
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
[William Murrell]], corporal of the 40th, was at the Eureka on the 03 December 1854 and saw Ferguson twenty years inside the stockade. Murrell ordered Ferguson to join the other prisoners. [1] Ferguson described himself as having been seized on his way to visit a friend, and detained by the rioters against his will. [2]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
Ferguson, Charles D. The Experiences Of A Forty Niner During Thirty Four Years Residence In California and Australia.
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