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:The Friends of the late CORNELIUS PETERS are respectfully invited to follow the remains to the Local Cemetery. The cortege will leave his late residence. Scarsdale, on Tuesday, at 3 p.m. ANDREW VEITCH Undertaker Smythesdale.<ref>Ballarat Star, 08 June 1891.</ref>
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 22:45, 7 June 2016

Background

Cornelius (or Charles) Peters was born at Heemstede, Netherlands, the son of Cornelius Peters. He married Jane Cannervan at Ballarat, and they had seven children. Cornelius Peters died at Scarsdale in June 1891, and was buried at Smythesdale Cemetery on 09 June 1891.[1]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Peters was arrested on 03 December, after the Eureka Stockade battle. He was later released without being charged.[2]

... At the Police Court on Saturday, Michael Kennedy, William Develin, John Pardy, Patrick Kennedy, James Sexton, Daniel Macartney, James Ashburn, John Leadow, Herman Steinman, William Wickley, William Somerville, Jeremiah Hogan, William Avondale, Samuel Penny, Patrick Hickey, Joseph Walker, John Kelly, Cornelius Peters, William Stafford, Carl Anderson (a Swede), Patrick Meade, and Michael Gleeson, were discharged. In some of these cases there was either no evidence against the prisoners, or they were only proved guilty of living in the neighborhood of the stockade, and giving no information as to its erection. Edmund Bohen, Michael Meagher, William Galloway, James Barclay, Michael Butler, John Lynch; and Chas Doolan, were defended by Mr Dunne, and discharged. ... [3]

Cornelius Peters gave evidence in support of Jan Vennik at the State Treason Trials.[4]

Post 1854 Experiences

Cornelius Peters was living at Scarsdale at the time of his death.[5]

Obituary

Deaths. ... Peters —At his residence, Scarsdale, on the 7th June, Cornelius Peters; aged 63 years.[6]


The Friends of the late CORNELIUS PETERS are respectfully invited to follow the remains to the Local Cemetery. The cortege will leave his late residence. Scarsdale, on Tuesday, at 3 p.m. ANDREW VEITCH Undertaker Smythesdale.[7]

See also

Jan Vennik

Further Reading

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


References

  1. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  2. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  3. The Argus, 12 December 1854.
  4. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  5. Ballarat Star, 08 June 1891.
  6. Ballarat Star, 08 June 1891.
  7. Ballarat Star, 08 June 1891.

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