Mary Barnett

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Background

EUREKA SURVIVOR DEAD – Mrs Mary Abigail Barnett, 84, the widow of Thomas Barnett, died at Ballarat last Friday. She arrived in Ballarat with her parents before the Eureka Stockade in 1854, and while the fight was one she was placed, with other children, in a hole for shelter. Her husband gave the art gallery the sword carried by Captain Wise when he was shot dead in the fight. It was a souvenired at the time by George Bentley, a soldier, who handed it to Mr Barnett. The eldest son of Mr Tom Barrett, who manages a business and daughter is the wife of Mr J. Keith, President of Ballarat Benevolent Home Committee and Secretary of the Caledonian Society. [1]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

See also

Thomas Barnett

Further Reading

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


References

  1. Daylesford Advocate, 14 November 1930.

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