Difference between revisions of "Cornelius Sorrell"
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[[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-009.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-009.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
− | ordered to proceed, to Bentley’s Hotel a meeting had taken place in the Neighbourhood a crowd assembled in the front of the Hotel They were shooting and shouting, Prisoner [[Henry Westerby]] advanced to the front of the House by himself he struck the house with his clenched hand. He addressed the people, and proposed that Bentley’s House should belong to the Diggers – immediately | + | ordered to proceed, to Bentley’s Hotel a meeting had taken place in the Neighbourhood a crowd assembled in the front of the Hotel They were shooting and shouting, Prisoner [[Henry Westerby]] advanced to the front of the House by himself he struck the house with his clenched hand. He addressed the people, and proposed that Bentley’s House should belong to the Diggers – immediately]] |
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[[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-010.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-010.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> | ||
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Sworn before us at Ballarat this 27 October 1854]] | Sworn before us at Ballarat this 27 October 1854]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-020.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of [[Cornelius Sorrell]], 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | And this deponent [[Cornelius Sorrell]] on his oath saith – I am a private of the 40th Reg On Tuesday the 17th Octr. When under the Command of Lieut. Broahurst I was marched to Bentley’s [[Eureka Hotel]], I arrived there about two o’clock in the afternoon – I saw a great Crowd collected there, a portion of the number were in possession of the Hotel, the Windows were broken I saw Mr Rede Resident Commissioner]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-021.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of [[Cornelius Sorrell]], 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | with a man with no shirt standing close to the window, shortly after Captn. Evans came to Lieut. Broahurst stating it was (text deleted) I saw prisoner at the Hotel amongst the Crowd I saw the prisoner try to make the fire blaze when the police were extinguishing it he was also – breaking in the sides of the House he seized my musket and tried to take it]] | ||
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+ | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-022.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Deposition of [[Cornelius Sorrell]], 27 October 1854, p.3, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | from me he did not do so. I heard him say he could beat (?) 100 such as were there90<br/> | ||
+ | By prisoners Attorney – I never saw prisoner before. I distinctly swear to the prisoner being the man I saw endeavouring to burn the House.90<br/><br/> | ||
+ | [[Cornelius Sorrell]] 40th regiment90<br/> | ||
+ | Sworn before us at Ballarat this 27 October 1854]] | ||
==Background== | ==Background== |
Revision as of 19:15, 5 August 2017
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
Elizabeth Vickers was a child during the Eureka Stockade and reminisced: ... there was one soldier, a Corporal Sorrel, who was a Sunday School teacher, and all the time the regiment was at Ballarat he taught .' He was a nice man. ...[1]
See also
Further Reading
References
- ↑ Bendigo Independent, 16 March 1914.