GEDDES, Janet
How 60-year-old Janet Geddes came to be a resident of the Ballarat Female Refuge (for single mothers) is largely unexplained. However a clue can be found in the correspondence records. Geddes had had a long association with the Refuge, having been employed at Grant Street as a servant in 1874. A previous pregnancy had seen…
Read MoreGOLDSMITH, Mary Abigail
Mary Abigail was born in 1847 in Brighton, England to James Goldsmith and his first wife, Jane Barber. She came to Victoria on the Dutch ship the Six Sisters (Zes Gezusters) in January 1853 with her father James, his second wife Ann, and her two brothers Samuel and James. After a short stay in Geelong they travelled to Ballarat,…
Read MoreGURR, Hester
Hester’s child Lydia Hester Gurr drowned. Hester was witness to the inquest. VPRS 24/PO Box 48 1857/100 Item 100 Lydia Hester Gurr 23 July 1857 at Cabbage Tree Hill Creek, Creswick Accidentally drowned in a water hole on same day and there are not any marks of violence on her body. Jurors Edward Deeming?…
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VPRS 24/PO Box 48 1857/100 Item 100 Lydia Hester Gurr 23 July 1857 at Cabbage Tree Hill Creek, Creswick Accidentally drowned in a water hole on same day and there are not any marks of violence on her body. Jurors Edward Deeming? Thomas James xxx William Keen James Muir Henry Grenfeld xxx William Bowell Williaam…
Read MoreGULLAN, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Gullan was a witness at the inquest on a child named Elizabeth Ann Rose aged about two years supposed to have met her death by drowning 5 October 1853 W A Heise – coroner Accidental death by drowning In verification of which we sign our names and acknowledge our seals as follows Foreman…
Read MoreGOLDSTRAW, Matilda
See Matilda Broadbent, Matilda Dixie
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