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Julia would have been living with her mother, [[Sarah Hanmer]] during the Eureka days, and is belived to have assisted in [[James McGill]]'s  daring post Eureka Stockade escape to Smeaton wearing women's clothes supplied by Julia's mother.
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Julia would have been living with her mother, [[Sarah Hanmer]] during the Eureka days, and is believed to have assisted in [[James McGill]]'s  daring post Eureka Stockade escape to Smeaton wearing women's clothes supplied by Julia's mother.
  
 
==Post 1854 Experiences==
 
==Post 1854 Experiences==

Latest revision as of 16:44, 31 March 2013

Julia and William Surplice, Courtesy Lorraine Brownlie.

Background

Julia Ford Hanmer was born in 1840 at Whitehall, Westminster. The daughter of Ballarat actress Sarah Hanmer and accountant Frederick Ford, her parents never married.[1] When Julia's mother married Comedian Henry Augustus Leicester Hanmer in 1844 the young child became known as Julia Ford Hanmer. [3]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Julia would have been living with her mother, Sarah Hanmer during the Eureka days, and is believed to have assisted in James McGill's daring post Eureka Stockade escape to Smeaton wearing women's clothes supplied by Julia's mother.

Post 1854 Experiences

She married William Surplice on 08 December 1856 at Ballarat. William and Julia's son, Arthur Stanley Lowe Surplice was born on 14 June 1859 at Ballarat (married Emily Jane Grant daughter Of Capt John Grant Bega. Died 10/9/1906, Waverley).[2]

Further details on Julia's life are given on the William Surplice page.

See also

Sarah Hanmer

William Surplice

Further Reading

References

  1. Notes from Lorraine May Brownlie nee Surplice emailed to 'Eurekapedia' on 25 March 2013.
  2. Notes from Lorraine May Brownlie nee Surplice emailed to 'Eurekapedia' on 25 March 2013.

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