Amy Cail

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Background

Amy and John Cail arrived in Melbourne on 25 August 1853 with their first child, eleven month old Agnes Amy Cail, and in September proceeded to Ballarat. Amy conducted a grocery store on the diggings while John searched for gold. x

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

According to family history Amy Cail helped hide Peter Lalor after the attack on the Eureka Stockade.

Post 1854 Experiences

After Eureka Amy and John Cail lived at Mount Rowan, where they grew vegetables to sell to miners and people in Ballarat. They sold this land in 1876, after having moved to Kamarooka near Bendigo in 1873. She is buried at Raywood Cemetery.

See also

Further Reading

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


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