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[[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-003.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Official form on blue paper - evidence - [[Gordon Evans]] - inspector police, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/>
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Be it remembered, that on 27th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four from Gordon Evans of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Inspector of Police personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Gordon Evans shall fail in the condition indorsed.<br/>
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Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me<br/>
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==Background==
 
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==Further Reading==
 
==Further Reading==
  
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. ''The Eureka Encyclopaedia'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
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Revision as of 18:49, 5 August 2017

"Official form on blue paper - evidence - Gordon Evans - inspector police, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90
Be it remembered, that on 27th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four from Gordon Evans of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Inspector of Police personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Gordon Evans shall fail in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me
E.P.S.Sturt JP

Background

Gordon Evans was an Inspector of Police. He married Lucy Ann Govett in May 1855.

In 1885 Gordon Evans died in South Melbourne of stroke.

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Evans was a witness examined during the report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the riot at Ballarat, and the burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel. [1]

Post 1854 Experiences

In 1855 Evans was transferred to Carlsruhe.

See also

Eureka Hotel

Police

Evelyn Sturt

Further Reading

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


References

  1. Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.

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