Thomas Bell
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Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
Mrs Bell (formerly Chapman) attended the 50th Anniversay of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat.[1]
Family
- Mrs. Thomas Bell, 87, who arrived in Ballarat in 1853, died to-day. As a girl of 18 she was married to her first husband, Mr. John Chapman. They spent their honeymoon in a log hut inside the Eureka Stockade on the occasion of the battle between the diggers and the soldiers. Up to the day of her death Mrs Bell had a lively recollection of the soldiers' bullets thudding into a rampart formed of bags of flour, behind Which she was crouching for safety.[2]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
