John Tregeagle
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Background
Most likely to be John Richard TREGEAGLE who was born on 11 October 1811 in Tregony, Cornwall. His father, Richard, was 38 and his mother, Mary (Mayne), was 37 when he was born. John Richard TREGEAGLE married Elizabeth TOM in Tregony, Cornwall, on 6 August 1831 when he was 19 years old. His wife Elizabeth passed away on 6 February 1832 at the age of 22.
He then married Ann Trethowan. When Ann Trethowan was born on 21 April 1805 in Truro, Cornwall, her father, William, was 36, and her mother, Mary, was 31. She married John Richard TREGEAGLE on 16 February 1833 in Ruan Lanihorne, Cornwall. They had eight children in 15 years. She died on 27 April 1886 in Teatree Gully, South Australia, having lived a long life of 81 years. He died on 28 August 1890 in South Australia.
Children of John Richard Tregeagle and Ann Trethowan.
Elizabeth was born in October 1833 in Tregony, Cornwall; William Trethowan was born on 6 December 1834 in Tregony, Cornwall; Mary Jane was born on 25 September 1835 in Tregony, Cornwall; Richard was born on 14 October 1839 in Tregony, Cornwall; Elizabeth was born on 12 October 1843 in Teatree Gully, South Australia; Ann was born on 29 July 1847, Teatree Gully, South Australia; Harriet was born on 27 June 1849 in Teatree Gully, South Australia
Elizabeth passed away in 1840 in South Australia at the age of 7; while John and Ann's son, Richard Tregeagle, passed away on 13 August 1866 in Teatree Gully, South Australia, at the age of 26.
Thomas Gooding married Elizabeth (2) TREGEAGLE on 30 August 1863. Elizabeth GOODING passed away on 21 October 1928 in Dimboola, Victoria, at the age of 85. They had been married 65 years.
Their son John passed away on 5 August 1859 in Melbourne, Victoria, at the age of 26. [1]
Ann Trethowan
Her sister Jane died in March 1838 in Ruan Lanihorne, Cornwall, when Ann was 32 years old. Her sister Elizabeth died on 5 November 1844 in Adelaide, South Australia, when Ann was 39 years old. Her mother Mary passed away in January 1851 in Redruth, Cornwall, at the age of 77. Her brother Nicholas died on 21 July 1877 in Teatree Gully, South Australia, when Ann was 72 years old.[2]
Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854
Signed the 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition. This signature had previously been transcribed as Tregeague. Agitation of the Victorian goldfields started with the Forest Creek Monster Meeting in 1851, but what became known as the Red Ribbon Movement was centred around the Bendigo goldfields in 1853. The Anti-Gold License Association was formed at Bendigo in June 1853, led by George Thomson, Dr D.G. Jones and 'Captain' Edward Browne. The association focused its attention on the 30 shillings monthly licence fee miners were required to pay to the government. They drew up a petition outlining digger grievances and called for a reduced licence fee, improved law and order, the right to vote and the right to buy land. The petition was signed by diggers at Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine, McIvor (Heathcote), Mount Alexander (Harcourt) and other diggings. The 13 metre long petition was presented to Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe in Melbourne on the 01 August 1853, but their call for a reduction in monthly licence fees and land reform for diggers was rejected. The diggers dissatisfaction erupted into the Red Ribbon Rebellion where agitators wore red ribbons on their hats symbolising their defiance of the law and prohibitive licence fees.[3]
Post 1854 Experiences
Possibly John Tregeagle was living in South Australia
- TREGEAGLE.—On the 28th August, at his grandson's residence, Hilton, Mr. John Tregeagle, of senile decay. A colonist of 60 years, having arrived in the ship Java in 1840; many years resident in Teatree Gully. Leaving 1 son, 4 daughters, 40 grandchildren, and 18 greatgrandchildren to mourn their loss.[4]
See also
Ballarat Reform League Inc. Monuments Project
Further Reading
References
- ↑ 5 August 1859 • Shipwreck, 'Admella', Adelaide, to, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/87852255/person/48579799666/story
- ↑ Bruce Gow - thank you for your local knowledge and deciphering this signature.
- ↑ Adelaide Advertiser, 30 August 1890.
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