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| − | [[File:1996.59 - Doudiet - Eureka Riot 17th Octobe-wikir.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|Charles A. Doudiet, '' watercolour on paper,'' 1854, watercolour, on paper. <br>Courtesy Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery with the assistance of many donors, 1996.]] | + | There were two other men named [[Andrew McIntyre]]. One wrote a letter to his brother-in-law, A. C. KERR. This Andrew McIntyre was married to Margaret KERR. He said in his letter he was arrested, charged and gaoled for three months, for his association with the burning of the [[Eureka Hotel]]. |
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| − | Andrew McIntyre sailed to Australia on the Success in 1852. He married Christina. <ref>Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. ''The Eureka Encyclopaedia'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.</ref>
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| | + | This Andrew McIntyre was married to Christina Wanton (sometimes Winton) on Nov 17 1851 in Kirkaldy Fife [[Scotland]] and came to Australia on the [[Success]] in 1852. Their eldest son James was born on the ship. According to the shipping manifest he was 21 years of age in 1852 (born c1831), an agricultural labourer, from Fifeshire, [[Scotland]]. He was going to work for the [[Clyde Company]]. With him were Christine, aged 23 years, a housekeeper, also from Fifeshire, and they had been engaged back in Scotland. Her infant son was born on board.<ref>Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923, Immigrants per the ship Success. </ref> |
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| − | McIntyre was associated with [[Peter Lalor]], and was said to have been involved in the burning of the [[Eureka Hotel]]. He was arrested with [[Thomas Fletcher]] on 21 October 1854 and committed for trial at Geelong on 6 November 1854.<ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref> | + | This couple Andrew and Christina then had a daughter, Jane McIntyre, in Geelong in 1854, and then in Ballarat East they produced Thomas in 1855 and Magdalene in 1857. They then moved to Ercildoune, Learmonth and had Christina in 1859, Margaret in 1860 and Andrew in 1861. |
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| | + | By 1854 Andrew McIntyre was a miner at Ballarat. He is often confused with another man of the same name who was arrested for the burning of the [[Eureka Hotel]], and still another whose wife was also named Christine. |
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| − | The men accused of destroying the Eureka Hotel, [[Henry Westerby]], [[Thomas Fletcher]] and [[Andrew McIntyre]], were convicted and sentenced to gaol on 20 November 1854. [[J.B. Humffray]], Black and Kennedy, representing the [[Ballarat Reform League]] demanded the release of these prisoners on 27 November. It was a fatal mistake, as the use of the word “demand” strengthened Governor Hotham’s resolve for control.<ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref>
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| − | | + | [[File:Ercildoune 2 1866 SLV.JPG|500px|thumb|right|Ercildoune 1866, State Library of Victoria.]] |
| − | McIntyre was imprisoned for three months in Melbourne goal for riotous behaviour prior to the [[Eureka Stockade]] battle, namely for his part in the burning of Bentley’s [[Eureka Hotel]]. The Argus newspaper concluded that by sentencing the men, the law had been upheld, but the Government had been disgraced.<ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref>
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| − | It was said that McIntyre did his best to restrain the diggers at Bentley’s. [[Gilbert Amos]] spoke on Mcintyre’s behalf, but McIntyre was sentenced to three months imprisonment. Amos testified that McIntyre had done all he could to save property in the hotel.<ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref>
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| − | :Oct 21, [[Andrew McIntyre]] , Committed for trial Geelong 26 Nov.
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| − | :Oct 21, [[Thomas Fletcher]], Committed for trial Geelong, 26 Nov.
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| − | :Oct 26, [[Henry Westerby]], Committed for trial Melbourne, 15th Nov.
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| − | :Oct 26, [[Manestra Flatow]], discharged
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| − | :Oct 26, [[Samuel Butler]], discharged
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| − | :Oct 26, [[Albert Hurd]], Committed for trial Melbourne 15th Nov. On bail
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| − | :Oct 27, [[John Balderston]], discharged
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| − | :Oct 27, [[George McIntosh]], discharged
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| − | :Oct 27, [[Charles Stewart]], discharged
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| − | :Oct 27, [[John van Der Byl]], discharged<ref>PROV, VPRS 1189, Unit 153, File J54 12-469.</ref>
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| − | :PUBLIC MEETING ON BAKERY HILL Pursuant to public notice, a large and numerous public meeting was held on [[Bakery Hill]], on the 22nd instant. At about 12 o'clock groups of men, twelve or twelve in number, might be seen in different directions, between the camp and the Hill, eagerly discussing together, and by their gesticulation and passionate manner, it was clear there was a question of some grave import which engrossed their attention. By degrees they began to move slowly along towards the Bakery, and the swarming bills gave notice that a monster meeting was immediately to be held. From every point of the compass, one might have seen groups of men comning eagerly up, and by two o'clock, the time appointed to meet, there could not have been less than fifteen thousand men on the spot. When the different speakers ascended the platform prepared for the occasion. After some preliminary arrangements, and a desultory conversation between the different gentlemen who were to address the meeting, the gentlemen of the press were requested to come forward and take a seat. On these gentlemen making their appearance, three cheers were given for the Ballarat Times, and three groans for the Argus, and loud and long were the shouts of indignation raised against the once popular journal, after which the proceedings of the day were commenced by Mr. H. T. Holyoake's proposing the following resolution :
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| − | :"That we the Diggers of Ballarat in public meeting assembled, viewing the late demonstration of public feeling as arising from the mal-administration of the law, and sympathising with Messrs M'Intyre and Fletcher, who stand committed for trial at Geelong on the 26th instant, on are bar of aiding and abetting in the wilful destruction of the [[Eureka Hotel]], feel it our duty to subscribe the necessary funds to secure the best counsel and defraying the general expenses of the trial." This was seconded by Dr. Levison, and unanimously adopted by the meeting. | |
| − | :The second resolution, proposed by Mr. Kennedy, and seconded by Mr. Alexander Tough, was also unanimously adopted. "That this meeting looks with feelings of indignation at the daily violation of the personal liberty of the sub jest, and hereby express their unqualified condemnation of the manner in which the laws are enforced at Ballarat." The third resolution was moved by Mr. Humffray, and seconded by Mr. Sylvester. ''That this meeting is of the opinion that if the laws has been fully and impartially carried out, the burning down of Bentley's hotel would not have occurred, and the entire responsibility rests with the Camp Officials; and that this meeting pledges itself to support the Committee in all their endeavors to obtain the fullest investigation into all the facts connected with the late enquiry into the murder of [[James Scobie]], and to petition for the immediate removal of all Camp officials who have acted so unconstitutionally in the matter."
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| − | :The object of the meeting being to sympathise with those who were alleged to have been unjustifiably committed for trial by the Ballarat Bench, and to raise funds for their defence in a court of law, the different speakers--the movers and seconders of the resolutions-spoke long to some purpose. It was an observable feature that the speaker who most condemned the present government, and insinuated the possibility at a future day, of a better one, was the most vehemently cheered, and evidently the most appreciated. Whenever the speaker (as some of them did) dwelt with tender enthusiasm upon the English Government and British Constitution , a perceptible ennui and lassitude seemed to pervade the meeting. On hearing "the oft-told tale," however, some of the spectators evinced their sympathy on the spot with the object of the meeting by handling in their subscriptions for the defence of the two contmitted for trial; and for those who came unprepared to do so, stores were named over the diggings, at which they might leave their subscriptions at their convenience. At the close of the proceedings it was announced that the Committee would meet at the Star Inn, [[Red Hill]] Flat, for the purpose of taking down in writing the testimony of M'Intyre's witnesses, relative to the burning of the [[Eureka Hotel]], in order, as many of them could not go to town, to have their depositions read before the Judicial bench at [[Geelong]]. All of these (some half-dozen or so) tended in a stronger or lesser degree to exonerate the prisoner. At the close of the business it was found that theparties had not sufficient for the present emergency, when one young gentleman, Mr. Vern, came forward and magnanimously offered to lend the Committee the sum of £100, which was grate fully accepted, and the Committee adjourned.<ref>Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser, 11 November 1854.</ref>
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| − | [[Andrew McIntyre]]
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| − | [[Richard Ireland]]
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| − | [[Alexander Tough]]
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| − | [[Frederick Vern]]
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| − | Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. ''The Eureka Encyclopaedia'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
| + | Andrew McIntyre tragically died aged 34 in 1864 on Christmas Eve. He drowned trying to retrieve a duck he’d shot for Christmas dinner. The Coroner's Report contains notes from the interview with his wife Christina. After her husband's death Christina was left to raise and care for seven children. On her death certificate she is described as a nurse. It is thought that she became a storekeeper and midwife at Weatherboard (near Ercildoune/Learmonth and Addington. She died at her son's residence where she had been living. According to family history her son Andrew was in the habit of taking his mother a cup of tea in the morning, and on entering her room he found that she was dead, having died an hour earlier. Christina died in 18 July 1902. She had been 50 years in Victoria at the time of her death. They are both buried at Learmonth Cemetery, Presbyterian Section 3, Grave 67.<ref>Family history notes and research Ian McBurney, 2022.</ref> |
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There were two other men named Andrew McIntyre. One wrote a letter to his brother-in-law, A. C. KERR. This Andrew McIntyre was married to Margaret KERR. He said in his letter he was arrested, charged and gaoled for three months, for his association with the burning of the Eureka Hotel.
The Success Manifest showing entries for McIntyre
Background
This Andrew McIntyre was married to Christina Wanton (sometimes Winton) on Nov 17 1851 in Kirkaldy Fife Scotland and came to Australia on the Success in 1852. Their eldest son James was born on the ship. According to the shipping manifest he was 21 years of age in 1852 (born c1831), an agricultural labourer, from Fifeshire, Scotland. He was going to work for the Clyde Company. With him were Christine, aged 23 years, a housekeeper, also from Fifeshire, and they had been engaged back in Scotland. Her infant son was born on board.[1]
This couple Andrew and Christina then had a daughter, Jane McIntyre, in Geelong in 1854, and then in Ballarat East they produced Thomas in 1855 and Magdalene in 1857. They then moved to Ercildoune, Learmonth and had Christina in 1859, Margaret in 1860 and Andrew in 1861.
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
By 1854 Andrew McIntyre was a miner at Ballarat. He is often confused with another man of the same name who was arrested for the burning of the Eureka Hotel, and still another whose wife was also named Christine.
Post 1854
Ercildoune 1866, State Library of Victoria.
Andrew McIntyre tragically died aged 34 in 1864 on Christmas Eve. He drowned trying to retrieve a duck he’d shot for Christmas dinner. The Coroner's Report contains notes from the interview with his wife Christina. After her husband's death Christina was left to raise and care for seven children. On her death certificate she is described as a nurse. It is thought that she became a storekeeper and midwife at Weatherboard (near Ercildoune/Learmonth and Addington. She died at her son's residence where she had been living. According to family history her son Andrew was in the habit of taking his mother a cup of tea in the morning, and on entering her room he found that she was dead, having died an hour earlier. Christina died in 18 July 1902. She had been 50 years in Victoria at the time of her death. They are both buried at Learmonth Cemetery, Presbyterian Section 3, Grave 67.[2]
References
- ↑ Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923, Immigrants per the ship Success.
- ↑ Family history notes and research Ian McBurney, 2022.
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