SMITH, Mary

On 11 October 1856 Sergeant Caulkin at the Moliagul Courts informed in the matter relating to Mary Smith. Smith was charged with keeping a disorderly tent in which a number of men had been present. The matter was dismissed on the basis that there was no offence in keeping a disorderly tent. On the same…

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SMITH, Maria

Maria Smith was the wife of John Smith a gold digger living at Campbell’s Creek.   VPRS 24 / p box 24 Unit 128  Campbell’s Creek Eliza Smith  accidental death by drowning on morning of 13 December 1854 Jurors John Palmer William Cooper Benjamin Rough Nicholas Ogier Bennet Jones John Spiers Henry Pridith Alexander McKenzie…

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SMITH, Eliza (child)

VPRS 24 / p box 24 Unit 128  Campbell’s Creek Eliza Smith  accidental death by drowning on morning of 13 December 1854 Jurors John Palmer William Cooper Benjamin Rough Nicholas Ogier Bennet Jones John Spiers Henry Pridith Alexander McKenzie Anthony Boden John Croaks William Smith  all of Campbell’s Creek Witness Maria Smith wife of John…

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STEELE, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Steele was the mother of Barbara and witness at the inquest.   VPRS 24/PO Box 38  Item 152 Barbara Steele Monkey Gully, Black Hill, 4 October 1856 About 5 weeks old Soffocated, overlain Jurors Samuel Hall Martin Quin Alexander McInnes John Fraser Alexander McAllister Alexander Chambers Robert Day Patrick McCarthy James Johnston Robert Williams…

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STEELE, Barbara (child)

VPRS 24/P0 Box 38  Item 152 Barbara Steele Monkey Gully, Black Hill, 4 October 1856 About 5 weeks old Soffocated, overlain Jurors Samuel Hall Martin Quin Alexander McInnes John Fraser Alexander McAllister Alexander Chambers Robert Day Patrick McCarthy James Johnston Robert Williams William White Bernard Neale  all of Victoria Witness Peter Steele Shoemaker Some weeks…

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SIMMONDS, Emma (child)

VPRS 24/PO Unit 37 Item 32 32/1856 Emma Simmonds  Aged 7 months 11 March 1856 Death from natural causes accelerated by an infection of the lungs – on Monday the tenth inst accelerated by medicines accidentally administered to the deceased but which were made up by and directed from another person. Jurors Henry Prosser John…

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SKINNER, Sarah

VPRS 24/PO Unit 23 1854/55 Item 55  Sarah Skinner       25 May 1854 Sarah Skinner Inquest held at Eureka Ballarat Death in a natural way Jurors Thomas Hancock Joseph Penhallurick Thomas Wilson Benjamin Vercoe Thomas Isaac William Sabatta John Tregonning John Oates William Wilson John May X Daniel Loader Frances Osley  ‘good and…

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