Elizabeth Amies

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Katholisch Kapelle aus den Gravel Pit Lunis 3u Ballarat Januav 1854 by William Strutt. State Library of Victoria Collection (H12532)

Background

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

Mary Ellen Murray used to tell the story of, and point to, where the Murray humpy was on the Eureka Diggings. She was born there on 19 June 1853. She told where the Morning Star mine was in Eureka Street and pointed out where her very dear friend Elizabeth Ann Amies was born on 6 June 1853. According to Mary Ellen Murray she was born on Eureka, and her friend Elizabeth Amies was born on the next field (the next gold diggings) to Eureka. They were born only 12 or so days apart. They were great friends for many years. Mary Murray was one of the sponsors at the baptism of the son of Catherine (Quinn) and John Small, Thomas Small, who was baptised at St Alipius on 7 February 1856.


“Mrs J. Benjamin 12 Eddy Street writes: - I have read in Saturday’s courier that Mrs Jones of Burnbank St says that she was born in 1853 and was 11 months old at the time of the riot. I was born in June 1853 and was 18 months old at the time of the riot, so I think I can claim to be the oldest female born in Ballarat. I have lived here continuously all my life.”[1]

See also

Further Reading

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


References

  1. Ballarat Courier

External links



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