Amy Cail
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Background
Amy (Williams) was born 29 March 1833 at Monmouth, Wales. She married John Cail in New Zealand in 1851. They arrived in Melbourne on 25 August 1853 with their first child, 11-month-old Agnes Amy Cail.
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
In September 1853 the Cail family proceeded to Ballarat where Amy conducted a grocery store on the diggings while John searched for gold. According to family history she helped hide Peter Lalor after the attack on the Eureka Stockade. After Eureka, Amy and John Cail lived at Mount Rowan, at the corner of Colliers Road and Forest Road, where they grew vegetables to sell to miners and people in Ballarat. They sold this land in 1876, because they had moved to Kamarooka near Bendigo in 1873. John Cail died on 23 January 1905 and was buried at Raywood. Amy died around ten years later on 15 July 1914 and was buried at Raywood. [1]
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.
References
- ↑ Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2009
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