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==Goldfields Involvement, 1854==
 
==Goldfields Involvement, 1854==
  
Edwin Colenso was in Ballarat for the Eureka Stockade battle, and sided with the diggers.<ref> Geelong Advertiser, 05 July 1897.</ref>  
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Edwin Colenso was in Ballarat for the [[Eureka Stockade]] battle, and sided with the diggers.<ref> Geelong Advertiser, 05 July 1897.</ref>  
  
 
==Post 1854 Experiences==
 
==Post 1854 Experiences==

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Background

Born on 09 January 1827 in Italy, Edwin Colenso was the son of Samuel May Colenso and Mary Veale Thomas. He sailed to Australia in 1848. Colenso died on 30 June 1897 at Geelong, Victoria.

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Edwin Colenso was in Ballarat for the Eureka Stockade battle, and sided with the diggers.[1]

Post 1854 Experiences

Obituary

THE LATE MR EDWIN COLENSO. Hardly a week passes without a vacancy occurring in the ranks of the old pioneers who settled early in this part of the colony, and to-day we have to mention the death of Mr Edwin Colenso, who died at his residence, Noble-street, Chilwell, on the 30th ult. Mr Colenso arrived in the bay in October, 1848, and was among the first undertakers who opened business in this town. He joined the mad rush to the diggings early in the fifties, and participated in the Ballarat riots, taking sides with the late Hon. Peter Lalor at the famous Eureka stockade. He had rather a sensational experience when returning to Geelong, having been "stuck-up" by bushrangers, robbed of his hard earned gold, and was left, in a perfectly nude state, by them lashed to a tree. He was discovered by a settler shortly after, and was released. He was employed at his trade in one workshop for 42 years, having successively served Messrs W. B. King, J. W. Hudson, and W. B. King and Sons, undertakers of Moorabool-street. Mr Colenso came from the Penzance (Cornwall) family, several of whom have distinguished themselves in the literary and scientific world, notably the late Right Rev. John William Colenso, D.D., Lord Bishop of Natal, and celebrated arithmetician, and the Rev. William Colenso, the most eminent living authority on New Zealand botany, and the first printer to set up the press in that colony for the Royal Missionary Society. Mr Edwin Colenso died at the age of 70½ years.[2]

See also

Further Reading

References

  1. Geelong Advertiser, 05 July 1897.
  2. Geelong Advertiser, 05 July 1897.

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