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Revision as of 22:58, 19 December 2013

Charles A. Doudiet, watercolour on paper, 1854, watercolour, on paper.
Courtesy Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery with the assistance of many donors, 1996.

Background

Fletcher was a printer whose office was on the Main Road, not far from the Eastern Market.

Fletcher died in 1869 and was buried in the Ballaarat Old Cemetery on 9 January 1869.

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Fletcher printed 100 posters calling for diggers to meet on Bakery Hill.

The men accused of destroying the Eureka Hotel, Henry Westerby, Thomas Fletcher and Andrew McIntyre, were convicted and sentenced to our months imprisonment in November 1854, although accounts have him nowhere near the hotel. J.B. Humffray, Black and Thomas Kennedy, representing the Ballarat Reform League demanded the release of these prisoners on 27 November 1854. It was a fatal mistake, as the use of the word “demand” strengthened Governor Hotham’s resolve for control. His friend, Samuel Lazarus, was not allowed to visit him in the lock-up. [1]

Samuel Irwin's account records: "They at last picked out three scape-goats. One was McIntyre, now in comfortable circumstances in Glasgow, who had used his best endeavors to restrain the crowd at Bentley's from overt act. Another was Fletcher, a printer, whose office was on the Main road, not far on the Eastern Market side of Twentyman and Stamper's. Fletcher, from all that can be learned, was not off the Main road the day of the fire, and certainly was not farther than the Prince Albert hotel in that direction. Westerby, the third man, has been asserted to be equally innocent with Fletcher in the transaction." [2]

Post 1854 Experiences

In July 1855, with Wheeler and Evans, Fletcher started the Ballarat Trumpeter. It was published tri-weekly under the joint ownership and lasted about 12 months being the nucleus for the Ballarat Standard. [3]

Fletcher and Evans signed a Petition of householders of Ballaarat requesting the establishment of a Municipality in 1855.

See also

Sarah Hanmer

Richard Ireland

Further Reading

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


References

  1. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  2. William Bramwell Withers, History of Ballarat, 1870, p. 57.
  3. William Bramwell Withers, History of Ballarat, 1870, p. 42.

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