Hugh McKenzie
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Background
Born c1831 Kilmarnock, Aryshire to Peter McKenzie and Agnes Connell.
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
According to family history McKenzie landed in Geelong and walked to Ballarat to meet up with his brother John McKenzie around 1851 or early 1852. Hugh worked in various parts of the Ballarat Goldfields and was reported to have assisted with the wounded after the battle in 1854. Family hearsay says that after the battle when the curfew was imposed, there was a woman in Hugh's tent (possibly the wife of John McKenzie) who was sick, and a light was struck up to help her. It was at this time a musket ball passed through their tent in response to breaking the curfew.
Post 1854 Experiences
Hugh lived in Ballarat and was recroded on the 1855 Electoral Roll, under the qualification of Miner's Right. He was the younger brother of John Connell McKenzie. Hugh and John were mining at Black Hill by 1856 and by 1858 Hugh was at Canadian Gully. He married Elizabeth Salisbury in Melbourne in 1858. He died on 8 September 1904 in Ballarat. Hugh and Elizabeth had seven chiuldren. He later went to the New Zealand goldfields. in the early 1860s but had no luck there. He returned to Ballarat where he worked as a land and commission agent at Lyons Chambers. in Lydiard Street. He was living in Eureka Street in 1874. [1]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Wickham, Gervasoni, Phillipson, Eureka Research Directory, notes from Rosemary McArthur
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