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Thomas Lang was residing at Ballarat when he signed the [[Benden Hassell]] Petition in 1856. <ref>Wickham, Dorothy, ''Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.</ref>
 
Thomas Lang was residing at Ballarat when he signed the [[Benden Hassell]] Petition in 1856. <ref>Wickham, Dorothy, ''Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.</ref>
  
His wife, Matilda Lang was born in Paisley on 11 December 1819. She married nurseryman Thomas Lang on 27 July 1840. Lang was in Ballarat in 1854. His wife Matilda arrived in the Colony with their five children on the Star of the East in September 1855. Matilda and their children proceeded straight to Ballarat. She opened a school to supplement the family income and perhaps to teach her own children. In 1864 with around 80 pupils the school was closed. She was on the founding committee of the Ballarat Female Refuge in 1867, the first such institution on the Australian goldfields. The family moved to Melbourne in 1870. Matilda died in her 95th year and was buried at Boroondara.<ref>Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHS Publishing, 2009, p. 203.</ref>
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His wife, Matilda Lang was born in Paisley on 11 December 1819. She married nurseryman Thomas Lang on 27 July 1840. Lang was in Ballarat in 1854. His wife Matilda arrived in the Colony with their five children on the Star of the East in September 1855. Matilda and their children proceeded straight to Ballarat. She opened a school to supplement the family income and perhaps to teach her own children. In 1864 with around 80 pupils the school was closed. She was on the founding committee of the Ballarat Female Refuge in 1867, the first such institution on the Australian goldfields. The family moved to Melbourne in 1870. Matilda died in her 95th year and was buried at Boroondara.<ref>Dorothy Wickham, ''Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854'', BHS Publishing, 2009, p. 203.</ref>
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Latest revision as of 20:04, 21 September 2020

Background

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

Thomas Lang was residing at Ballarat when he signed the Benden Hassell Petition in 1856. [1]

His wife, Matilda Lang was born in Paisley on 11 December 1819. She married nurseryman Thomas Lang on 27 July 1840. Lang was in Ballarat in 1854. His wife Matilda arrived in the Colony with their five children on the Star of the East in September 1855. Matilda and their children proceeded straight to Ballarat. She opened a school to supplement the family income and perhaps to teach her own children. In 1864 with around 80 pupils the school was closed. She was on the founding committee of the Ballarat Female Refuge in 1867, the first such institution on the Australian goldfields. The family moved to Melbourne in 1870. Matilda died in her 95th year and was buried at Boroondara.[2]

See also

Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case

Further Reading

Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.


References

  1. Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.
  2. Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHS Publishing, 2009, p. 203.

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