Robert Coombes
Background
- Robert Comombes was born at Dorsetshire, England, and arrived at Melbourne in 1854.[1]
Activity in 1854
Robert Coombes was in Ballarat in 1854.[2]
Post 1854 Activity
Robert Coombes was living in Molong at the time of his death.[3]
Obituary
- PIONEER'S DEATH
- EUREKA STOCKADE RECALLED. SYDNEY, Saturday.
- Robert Coombs, retired pioneer farmer, aged 84 years, died at Molong on Thursday night. He was born on the Tichborne Estate, in Dorsetshire, England, and arrived at Melbourne in 1854. He was at Ballarat at the time of the Eureka Stockade, and was known on the principal old goldfields of New South Wales and Victoria. When a boy he played with Sir Roger Tichborne, and was afterwards his valet.[4]
