Philip Gay

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Henry Winkles, Sailors, Prince Regent & Canadian Gullies, 1850s, pencil on paper.
Courtesy Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased Purchased with funds from the Colin Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2004.

Background

Gay arrived in Australia in 1853, and first dug for gold at Canadian Gully. In 1855 he signed the Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case Petition giving his occupation as miner.[1]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

Gay was residing at Ballarat in the 1880s.[2]

See also

Benden Hassell

Further Reading

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


References

  1. Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2009.
  2. Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2009.

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