Patrick Ryan

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Background

Patrick O'Donnell Ryan was born at Windsor. He died in 1927 aged 97, and was buried at Rookwood Cemetery.[1]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

Ryan was residing at Ballarat when he signed the Benden Hassell Petition in 1856. [2]

Obituary

A EUREKA PIONEER NONAGENARIAN'S DEATH
OLD SYDNEY, when there were no union, when the harbor waters covered the streets where the tram now run at Circular Quay, and when the site of the present Sydney Town Hall was a cemetery, is recalled by the death of Mr. Patrick O'Donnell Ryan. 97. This occurred on Friday at the residence of his daughter, Bankstown Road, Regent's Park. Born at Windsor, deceased was the son of an early settler who had worked on maintenance of the Blue Mountain road a few years after It was constructed. A wood-cutter at the age of 16, Mr. Ryan for some years cut wood for fuel to the then small settlement. The wood was cut in the paddocks of what are now Annandale, Stanmore, Newtown and Randwick.
HYDE PARK RACECOURSE Deceased remembered when bullock teams camped in George Street, near the present site of the G.P.O., and when horse races were held in Hyde Park. With the gold discoveries in Victoria, he took the boat to Melbourne, and walked with a male to the dig-gings. One of the diggers concerned in the insurrection at the Eureka Stockade, he was not present at the actual battle. Striking gold, the partners took over £3000 worth of gold out of one shaft. Deceased had a fund of stories of the diggings. He had actually seen diggers light their pipe, with five pound notes. When gold was the only mean of barter, he saw them, with their pockets weighted down with perhaps forty ounces of "dust."
BAILED UP Leaving the diggings, deceased went to England, and when he returned had an unsuccessful venture in hotel-keeping. Going to Armidale district, he took up land. On of his experiences was to be bailed up by Thunderbolt, the bushranger, who robbed him of £30 on the Uralla-Armidale road. Associated with the Armidale Agricultural Society, he was a foundaton member, but retired many years ago. The late Mr. Ryan is survived by two son and a daughter The internment took place in Rookwood Cemetery on Saturday.[3]

See also

Abodes

Armidale, New South Wales

Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case

Further Reading

Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.

References

  1. The Sydney Daily Labour, 03 January 1927.
  2. Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.
  3. The Sydney Daily Labour, 03 January 1927.

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