Llewellyn Rowlands

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Memorial to those who died as a result of the Eureka Stockade located in the Eureka Memorial Park Association. Photography: Clare Gervasoni 2013.

Background

Llewellyn Rowlands was from Wales.

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Llewellyn Rowlands was an innocent victim who was brutally murdered by the Police. He was talking to Benjamin Welch when he saw some troopers and prisoners near the St Alipius' Catholic Chapel. On going to have a closer look, he was ordered to surrender by the trooper. He refused, and "the man deliberately got off his horse and shot him through the heart". This was estimated to be "very nearly a quarter of a mile" away from the [[Eureka Stockade].

Rowlands protested that he had nothing to do with the stockade fight, was unarmed and had a licence. Alexander Tough and four other diggers gave the Commission of Enquiry a written statement on Rowland's murder. He was buried at Ballarat.

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Further Reading

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

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