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Revision as of 13:49, 16 August 2013
Contents
Background
Phoebe was married to George Emmerson. [1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Phoebe Emmerson was a storekeeper on the Eureka diggings. During and after the Eureka Stockade battle she hid men in her store, in flour barrels and up chimneys. One person she hid was George Scobie, brother of James Scobie who had been murdered out the front of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel.[2]
Post 1854 Experiences
Phoebe Emmerson married George Scobie. [3]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
External links