HANMER, Sarah

Sarah Ann Hanmer (nee McCullough) was born to London Merchant William McCullough around 1827. The strikingly beautiful Sarah Hanmer was young when she fell pregnant to accountant Frederick Ford. If we were to believe what was recorded on the Australian shipping lists, she was only fourteen years old when she went to Whitehall, Westminster to have her baby.…

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HANSFIELD, Margaret

The Mount Alexander Mail dated 19 March 1867 places Margaret Hansfield with Henrietta Byng and Sarah Hawkins in Castlemaine. Henrietta and Sarah were charged with vagrancy and sentenced to one month gaol while Margaret was discharged with a caution. She was defended by Mr Paynter. Constable costly stated that the woman was an abandoned character…

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HAWKINS, Sarah

The Mount Alexander Mail dated 19 March 1867 places Henrietta Byng and Sarah Hawkins in Castlemaine. They were charged with vagrancy and sentenced to one month gaol.   The Bendigo Advertiser newspaper of Thursday 30 May 1872 confirms that Sarah Hawkins was engaged in prostitution with other women described as ‘six notorious prostitutes’. Sarah Hawkins,…

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HENDERSON, Charlotte Adelaide

Inquest held at Ballarat  on Susan Allen 15 Feb 1857 Inquest taken at Italian Gully Ballarat Coroner George Clendenning   Jurors John Iles George Shunfield William Blackwood Thomas Burke James Petters Edwin Hall Michael Tierney William barker Murtogh Curtis Daniel Morrison Edmund Mortenson   Her death took place on the 13th inst caused by infarction…

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HYNES, Margaret

VPRS 24/PO Unit 30  Item 130 Margaret Hynes Inquest held at Ballarat on 12 Dec 1855 Jury Charles Codlin William Jacob Samuel Clapman William Stewart Benjamin Hodgson James Payne James May Jospeh Stewart x Henry Smith Luther Haymes Henry Bishop Thomas Jones all of Victoria Witness – Michael Hynes of Ballarat I was husband to…

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HOLLAND, Bridget

Bridget Holland was a witness to the inquest. She lived at Eureka in 1854.   VPRS 24/P0 Unit 23 1854/48 Item 48 Ellen Bell 13 May 1854 Inquest held at Eureka Ballarat on the body of Ellen Bell Death in a natural way Jurors Thomas Smith  Richard Laney John Thompson James Hodges Isaac Read Donald…

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HAYES, Anastasia

Anastasia Hayes was born around 1818 at Kilkenny, Ireland, the daughter of Richard Butler and Ellen (nee Baron). She married Timothy Hayes and emigrated with him and their five children to Australia arriving per the Mobile in October 1852. The family lived in a tent on the gold fields of Eureka where in 1854 Anastasia…

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