John Kelly
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Background
Married to Kate who was at the Eureka Stockade on 2 December 1854.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
John Kelly was the partner of Frank Carey in the Excelsior Restaurant and Boarding House. Kelly had served six months imprisonment for selling sly-grog.[2]
He was arrested after the Eureka Stockade battle on 03 December 1854, and was released without being charged after the intervention of American Consul James Tarleton.[3]
- ... At the Police Court on Saturday, Michael Kennedy, William Develin, John Pardy, Patrick Kennedy, James Sexton, Daniel Macartney, James Ashburn, John Leadow, Herman Steinman, William Wickley, William Somerville, Jeremiah Hogan, William Avondale, Samuel Penny, Patrick Hickey, Joseph Walker, John Kelly, Cornelius Peters, William Stafford, Carl Anderson (a Swede), Patrick Meade, and Michael Gleeson, were discharged. In some of these cases there was either no evidence against the prisoners, or they were only proved guilty of living in the neighborhood of the stockade, and giving no information as to its erection. Edmund Bohen, Michael Meagher, William Galloway, James Barclay, Michael Butler, John Lynch; and Chas Doolan, were defended by Mr Dunne, and discharged. ... [4]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.