Thomas Turner

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Background

Thomas Turner married Lydia Mullet in Adelaide in 1853. They had a child, Alice Marion born at Magpie, Ballarat in November 1855. It was said Lydia “went away” with the women and children to hide from the fighting. [1]

Thomas Turner died in November 1917 and is buried at Buninyong Cemetery. [2]

Gates to the Buninyong Cemetery, 2011. Photograph: Clare Gervasoni

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

According to oral history Thomas was an eyewitness at the time of Eureka. [3]

Post 1854 Experiences

Turner lived at Ballarat, and was recorded on the 1855 Electoral Roll, under the electoral qualification of Miner’s Right. [4]

Obituary

TURNER - The friends of the late Mr Thomas Turner, of Carisbrook (for merly of Black Lead), are respfectfuly invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Buninyong Cemetery. The funeral will leave the residence of his daughter, Mrs A. M. Russell, 11 Lyons street North, to-morrow (Thursday, 8th November), at 2 o'clock. [5]

See also

Further Reading

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

References

  1. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  2. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  3. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  4. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  5. <Ballarat Courier 7 November 1917.

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