Daniel Sweeney
Background
Goldfields Activities, 1854
Post Eureka Activities
Daniel Sweeney was an auctioneer at Ballarat. He was a member of the first Ballarat East Municipality.
On 22 November 1854, a meeting was held on the site of the Eureka Stockade. Daniel Sweeney was in the Chair to consider the subject of compensation to the sufferers of loss incurred by the soldiers eleven months earlier.[1]
A petition from certain persons claiming compensation for losses occasioned by the Riots at Ballarat. [2] William Adams, Thomas Allen, Thomas Bird, Edmund Burn, William Cooper, Lanty Costello, Cummins, Anne Diamond, John Donally, Patrick Donohue, Thomas Eames, John Emery, Timothy Hayes, MIchael Noonan, Daniel O'Connor, Patrick Quinane, Thomas Quinn, Martin Ryan, Matthew Ryan, John Sheahan, Daniel Sweeney, David Wallace, and William Wallace [3]
