Italy
A number of Italian speakers from Northern Italy and the Italian speaking Swiss Canton of Ticino arrived in Australia in search of gold. Many of these immigrants first settled at Jim Crow (Daylesford) where around 10 percent of the population spoke Italian in the late 1950s. Raffaello Carboni was used to translate the message of the Ballarat Reform League to non-English speaking residents of Ballarat. He wrote the only eye-witness account of Eureka.[1]
Joseph Barberis, born Genoa
Antonio Capuano, born Aversa, Naples
Raffaello Carboni, born Urbino
Gerald Hamilton, born Italy
Antonio Polinelli, born Bergamo, Lombardia
Francis Romeo, born Corsica to Italian parents
Henry Wise, born Italy
References
- ↑ Eureka - A Multicultural Event by Dorothy Wickham and Clare Gervasoni, http://www.ballaratheritage.com.au/articles/nationalities.html, accessed 27 March 2013.
