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[[File:IMGP6012-wiki.jpg|800px|thumb|right|''Memorial to those who died as a result of the [[Eureka Stockade]] located in the [[Eureka Stockade Memorial Gardens]].'' Photography: Clare Gervasoni 2013.]]
 
[[File:IMGP6012-wiki.jpg|800px|thumb|right|''Memorial to those who died as a result of the [[Eureka Stockade]] located in the [[Eureka Stockade Memorial Gardens]].'' Photography: Clare Gervasoni 2013.]]
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[[File:GILL ST - Unlucky digger that never returned - 1967.122-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|Samuel Thomas Gill, ''Unlucky digger that never returned,''watercolour and gum arabic on paper. <br>Art Gallery of Ballarat, gift of Mr. Tony Hamilton and Miss. S.E. Hamilton, 1967.]]
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The number of people killed as the result of the [[Eureka Stockade]] is not known exactly. There is the possibility that some wounded diggers escaped to the bush and died alone. Other contemporary statements mention the death of a woman.
  
The number of people killed as the result of the [[Eureka Stockade]] is not exactly known. There is the possibility that some wounded diggers escaped to the bush and died alone. Other contemporary statements mention the death of a woman.
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==Eureka Deaths==
 
 
The following is a list of known deaths at the result of the [Eureka Stockade] battle.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The following are known Eureka deaths.
 
The following are known Eureka deaths.
  
[[Felix Boyle]] <ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Felix Boyle]] <ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Captain J. W. Thomas, List of Casualties, 3 December 1854</ref>
  
[[James Brown]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[James Brown]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
 
[[Alfred Bryant]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[Alfred Bryant]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[George Clifton]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[George Clifton]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[John Crowe]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[John Crowe]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[John Diamond]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[John Diamond]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[George Donaghey]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[George Donaghey]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
 
[[William Emmermann]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[William Emmermann]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[Fenton]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Fenton]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Patrick Gittings]]
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[[Patrick Gittings]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Patrick Gittins]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Samuel Green]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Samuel Green]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[John Hafele]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
 
 
[[John Hafele]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
  
 
[[John Hall]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[John Hall]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[Happy Jack]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Happy Jack]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
 
Thomas Henfield<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
Thomas Henfield<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[John Hynes]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[John Hynes]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Robert Julien]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Robert Julien]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
 
[[George Littlehales]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[George Littlehales]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[Edward McGlynn]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Edward McGlynn]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Thaddeus Moore]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Thaddeus Moore]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Michael Mullins]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Michael Mullins]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Thomas O'Neill]]
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[[Thomas O'Neill]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Thomas O'Neil]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Thomas Parker]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[Thomas Parker]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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A Portugese <ref>Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998</ref>
  
 
[[Henry Powell]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[Henry Powell]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[Edward Quin]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Edward Quin]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
 
[[William Quinlan]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[William Quinlan]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[John Robertson]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[John Robertson]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Michael Roney]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Michael Roney]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Captain J. W. Thomas, List of Casualties, 3 December 1854</ref>
  
[[Charles Ross]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Charles Ross]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
 
[[Llewellyn Rowlands]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[Llewellyn Rowlands]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
  
[[Edward Thonen]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Edward Thonen]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855</ref>
  
[[Joseph Wall]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[Joseph Wall]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Captain J. W. Thomas, List of Casualties, 3 December 1854</ref>
  
[[William Webb]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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[[William Webb]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Captain J. W. Thomas, List of Casualties, 3 December 1854</ref>
  
 
[[Henry Wise]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
 
[[Henry Wise]]<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.</ref>
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==Reinterments==
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''The Miner and Star'' newspaper also reported that bodies were exhumed and re-interred.
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THE EUREKA VICTIMS:- A request has been made to the Trustees of the Cemetery to have the bodies of those of the Eureka victims who were interred apart from the spot where the monument now stands, exhumed and removed to that part of the Cemetery. The request has been favorably received, and we believe the bodies - which are those of Captain Ross, Thonen, the Lemonade Seller, James Brown and "Tom the Blacksmith" will be removed very shortly and placed beside their fallen victims over whose remains the Eureka Monument now stands. <ref>''The Miner and Star'', 4 December 1857</ref>
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The following is a list of known deaths at the result of the [Eureka Stockade] battle.
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THE EUREKA VICTIMS:-
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On Tuesday morning, about 7 o'clock the bodies of Captain Ross, James Brown, Thonen the lemonade seller, and Tom the blacksmith who fell at the Eureka Stockade and had been buried apart from the others, were removed from the grave and placed in that containing the bodies of the others who lost their lives on the memorable 3rd of December. The removal took place in the presence of Mr Superintendent Foster, Mr Salmon, trustees of the cemetery and Mr Lessman. The coffins were in excellent preservation. We understand that no procession will take place on Thursday next, the anniversary of the Eureka affair, but the grave of the fallen will be decorated with chaplets and flowers. <ref>Ballarat Star, 2 December 1857</ref>
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==Wounded and Since Recovered==
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[[Peter Lalor]]
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[[Patrick Hanafin]]
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[[Michael Hanley]]
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[[Michael O'Neil]]
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[[Thomas Callinan]]
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[[Patrick Callinan]]
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[[Francis Symmons]]
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[[James Warner]]
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[[Luke Sheehan]]
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[[Michael Morrison]]
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[[Dennis Dynan]]
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[[William Williams]]
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== Also See ==
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[[James Farrant]]
  
  
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== References ==
 
== References ==
 
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Revision as of 22:56, 16 April 2018

Memorial to those who died as a result of the Eureka Stockade located in the Eureka Stockade Memorial Gardens. Photography: Clare Gervasoni 2013.
Samuel Thomas Gill, Unlucky digger that never returned,watercolour and gum arabic on paper.
Art Gallery of Ballarat, gift of Mr. Tony Hamilton and Miss. S.E. Hamilton, 1967.

The number of people killed as the result of the Eureka Stockade is not known exactly. There is the possibility that some wounded diggers escaped to the bush and died alone. Other contemporary statements mention the death of a woman.

Eureka Deaths

The following are known Eureka deaths.

Felix Boyle [1]

James Brown[2]

Alfred Bryant[3]

George Clifton[4]

John Crowe[5]

John Diamond[6]

George Donaghey[7]

William Emmermann[8]

Fenton[9]

Patrick Gittings[10]

Samuel Green[11]

John Hafele[12]

John Hall[13]

Happy Jack[14]

Thomas Henfield[15]

John Hynes[16]

Robert Julien[17]

George Littlehales[18]

Edward McGlynn[19]

Thaddeus Moore[20]

Michael Mullins[21]

Thomas O'Neill[22]

Thomas Parker[23]

A Portugese [24]

Henry Powell[25]

Edward Quin[26]

William Quinlan[27]

John Robertson[28]

Michael Roney[29]

Charles Ross[30]

Llewellyn Rowlands[31]

Edward Thonen[32]

Joseph Wall[33]

William Webb[34]

Henry Wise[35]


Reinterments

The Miner and Star newspaper also reported that bodies were exhumed and re-interred.

THE EUREKA VICTIMS:- A request has been made to the Trustees of the Cemetery to have the bodies of those of the Eureka victims who were interred apart from the spot where the monument now stands, exhumed and removed to that part of the Cemetery. The request has been favorably received, and we believe the bodies - which are those of Captain Ross, Thonen, the Lemonade Seller, James Brown and "Tom the Blacksmith" will be removed very shortly and placed beside their fallen victims over whose remains the Eureka Monument now stands. [36]

The following is a list of known deaths at the result of the [Eureka Stockade] battle.


THE EUREKA VICTIMS:-

On Tuesday morning, about 7 o'clock the bodies of Captain Ross, James Brown, Thonen the lemonade seller, and Tom the blacksmith who fell at the Eureka Stockade and had been buried apart from the others, were removed from the grave and placed in that containing the bodies of the others who lost their lives on the memorable 3rd of December. The removal took place in the presence of Mr Superintendent Foster, Mr Salmon, trustees of the cemetery and Mr Lessman. The coffins were in excellent preservation. We understand that no procession will take place on Thursday next, the anniversary of the Eureka affair, but the grave of the fallen will be decorated with chaplets and flowers. [37]

Wounded and Since Recovered

Peter Lalor

Patrick Hanafin

Michael Hanley

Michael O'Neil

Thomas Callinan

Patrick Callinan

Francis Symmons

James Warner

Luke Sheehan

Michael Morrison

Dennis Dynan

William Williams


Also See

James Farrant



References

  1. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Captain J. W. Thomas, List of Casualties, 3 December 1854
  2. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  3. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  4. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  5. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  6. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  7. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  8. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  9. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  10. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  11. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  12. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  13. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  14. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  15. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  16. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  17. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  18. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  19. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  20. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  21. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  22. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  23. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  24. Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998
  25. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  26. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  27. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  28. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  29. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Captain J. W. Thomas, List of Casualties, 3 December 1854
  30. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  31. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  32. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Ballarat Heritage Services, Eureka Reminiscences, 1998, Peter Lalor's List, 1855
  33. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Captain J. W. Thomas, List of Casualties, 3 December 1854
  34. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996, Captain J. W. Thomas, List of Casualties, 3 December 1854
  35. Dorothy Wickham, Deaths at Eureka, 1996.
  36. The Miner and Star, 4 December 1857
  37. Ballarat Star, 2 December 1857

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