Ann Crowley
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Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Ann was a barmaid at Eureka. On 20 July 1856 at St Paul’s Church of England, Ballarat, she married John Arnold Frank. He was a miner who was inside the Eureka Stockade when it was stormed on 3 December 1854. They had six children: Elizabeth b. 1858 Ballarat; John b. 1860 Ballarat (married Annie Berry in 1885); Jane b. 1862 Linton; Robert b. 1864 Linton; William b. 1867 Linton; Ellen b. 1868; and Sarah b. 1873 at Sebastopol. John Arnold Frank had been born at Nottingsley, Yorkshire. Frank died, aged 70 years, at the hospital in Clunes on 13 July 1897 and was buried with two of his children (Ellen 5 years, and Robert 41 years) in the Ballaarat New Cemetery (RCB 38).
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
Dorothy Wickham, Women in 'Ballarat' 1851-1871: A Case Study in Agency, PhD. School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008.
Dorothy Wickham, Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women of Eureka in Journal of Australian Colonial History, 10, No, 1, 2008, pp. 99-115.
Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHSPublishing, 2009.
http://www.eurekapedia.org/Blood,_Sweat_and_Tears:_Women_at_Eureka
Clare Wright, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Text Publishing, 2013.
Dorothy Wickham, Not just a Pretty Face: Women on the Goldfields, in Pay Dirt: Ballarat & Other Gold Towns, BHSPublishing, 2019, pp. 25-36.
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