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[[File:Bendigo-Petition2.JPG|500px|thumb|right|''Bendigo Goldfields Petition,'' August 1853. State Library of Victoria (MS 12440]] | [[File:Bendigo-Petition2.JPG|500px|thumb|right|''Bendigo Goldfields Petition,'' August 1853. State Library of Victoria (MS 12440]] | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
| + | Most likely to be John Richard TREGEAGLE who was born on 11 October 1811 in Tregony, Cornwall. His father, Richard, was 38 and his mother, Mary, was 37 when he was born. John Richard Tregeagle married Elizabeth TOM and they had one son together. He then married Ann Trethowan and they had eight children together. He died on 28 August 1890 in South Australia. | ||
==Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854== | ==Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854== | ||
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Background
Most likely to be John Richard TREGEAGLE who was born on 11 October 1811 in Tregony, Cornwall. His father, Richard, was 38 and his mother, Mary, was 37 when he was born. John Richard Tregeagle married Elizabeth TOM and they had one son together. He then married Ann Trethowan and they had eight children together. He died on 28 August 1890 in South Australia.
Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854
Signed the 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition. Agitation of the Victorian goldfields started with the Forest Creek Monster Meeting in 1851, but what became known as the Red Ribbon Movement was centred around the Bendigo goldfields in 1853. The Anti-Gold License Association was formed at Bendigo in June 1853, led by George Thomson, Dr D.G. Jones and 'Captain' Edward Browne. The association focused its attention on the 30 shillings monthly licence fee miners were required to pay to the government. They drew up a petition outlining digger grievances and called for a reduced licence fee, improved law and order, the right to vote and the right to buy land. The petition was signed by diggers at Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine, McIvor (Heathcote), Mount Alexander (Harcourt) and other diggings. The 13 metre long petition was presented to Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe in Melbourne on the 01 August 1853, but their call for a reduction in monthly licence fees and land reform for diggers was rejected. The diggers dissatisfaction erupted into the Red Ribbon Rebellion where agitators wore red ribbons on their hats symbolising their defiance of the law and prohibitive licence fees.
Post 1854 Experiences
Possibly John Tregeagle was living in South Australia
- TREGEAGLE.—On the 28th August, at his grandson's residence, Hilton, Mr. John Tregeagle, of senile decay. A colonist of 60 years, having arrived in the ship Java in 1840; many years resident in Teatree Gully. Leaving 1 son, 4 daughters, 40 grandchildren, and 18 greatgrandchildren to mourn their loss.[1]
See also
Ballarat Reform League Inc. Monuments Project
Further Reading
References
- ↑ Adelaide Advertiser, 30 August 1890.
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