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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
| + | Elizabeth Wilson was the daughter of Isabella (McNee) and the sister of Mary Chalmers. Elizabeth, was born around 1828 at Bo’ness, Linlithgowshire, [[Scotland]]. Elizabeth's husband ran a store opposite the [[Eureka Stockade]] on a site subsequently occupied by the smoke room of the bacon factory in Eureka Street. On the 1841 census Elizabeth was living with her mother Isabella and stepfather Robert Graham. Her sister, Mary McNee, married Robert Chalmers. Mary and Robert Chalmers immigrated on the [[Europa]] with their children Isabella and Annie.<ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref> | ||
==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ||
| + | Elizabeth Wilson was alleged to have been inside the [[Eureka Stockade]] and actively participating. She helped to load guns for her husband, when soldiers attacked. Elizabeth Wilson’s grandson recalled that | ||
| + | She was wild and she used to load his gun and she kept the bullets etc in the shop. She kept supplying that to him. During the battle he ran away and left her, but she was in the stockade area still …. Elizabeth hid the insurgents and possibly saved one from death or being arrested. “All of a sudden one of the miners raced up to her. … The miner said, ‘Look Maam, where can I hide?’” He apparently knew her. She replied, “Right where you stand.” With that she hit him on the shoulder and knocked him down. … She stepped over him, pulled up her hoop skirt, and stood over him. <ref> Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2009 </ref><ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref> | ||
==Post 1854 Experiences== | ==Post 1854 Experiences== | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
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Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. ''The Eureka Encyclopaedia'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004. | Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. ''The Eureka Encyclopaedia'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004. | ||
| − | + | Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999. | |
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| + | Dorothy Wickham, Women in 'Ballarat' 1851-1871: A Case Study in Agency, PhD. School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008. | ||
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| + | Dorothy Wickham, Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women of Eureka in ''Journal of Australian Colonial History'', 10, No, 1, 2008, pp. 99-115. | ||
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| + | Dorothy Wickham, ''Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854'', BHSPublishing, 2009. | ||
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| + | http://www.eurekapedia.org/Blood,_Sweat_and_Tears:_Women_at_Eureka | ||
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| + | Clare Wright, ''The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka'', Text Publishing, 2013. | ||
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| + | Dorothy Wickham, Not just a Pretty Face: Women on the Goldfields, in ''Pay Dirt: Ballarat & Other Gold Towns'', BHSPublishing, 2019, pp. 25-36. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Latest revision as of 16:49, 10 August 2020
Contents
Background
Elizabeth Wilson was the daughter of Isabella (McNee) and the sister of Mary Chalmers. Elizabeth, was born around 1828 at Bo’ness, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Elizabeth's husband ran a store opposite the Eureka Stockade on a site subsequently occupied by the smoke room of the bacon factory in Eureka Street. On the 1841 census Elizabeth was living with her mother Isabella and stepfather Robert Graham. Her sister, Mary McNee, married Robert Chalmers. Mary and Robert Chalmers immigrated on the Europa with their children Isabella and Annie.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Elizabeth Wilson was alleged to have been inside the Eureka Stockade and actively participating. She helped to load guns for her husband, when soldiers attacked. Elizabeth Wilson’s grandson recalled that She was wild and she used to load his gun and she kept the bullets etc in the shop. She kept supplying that to him. During the battle he ran away and left her, but she was in the stockade area still …. Elizabeth hid the insurgents and possibly saved one from death or being arrested. “All of a sudden one of the miners raced up to her. … The miner said, ‘Look Maam, where can I hide?’” He apparently knew her. She replied, “Right where you stand.” With that she hit him on the shoulder and knocked him down. … She stepped over him, pulled up her hoop skirt, and stood over him. [2][3]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
Dorothy Wickham, Women in 'Ballarat' 1851-1871: A Case Study in Agency, PhD. School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008.
Dorothy Wickham, Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women of Eureka in Journal of Australian Colonial History, 10, No, 1, 2008, pp. 99-115.
Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHSPublishing, 2009.
http://www.eurekapedia.org/Blood,_Sweat_and_Tears:_Women_at_Eureka
Clare Wright, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Text Publishing, 2013.
Dorothy Wickham, Not just a Pretty Face: Women on the Goldfields, in Pay Dirt: Ballarat & Other Gold Towns, BHSPublishing, 2019, pp. 25-36.
References
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2009
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
