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Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

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by Peter Fitzsimons


  Smythies, Capt. Raymond H., Historical records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment, now 1st Battalion the Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment), A. H. Swiss, Devonport, 1894

  Stacpoole, Henry J., Gold at Ballarat: The Ballarat East Goldfield, Its Discovery and Development, Lowden Publishing Co., Kilmore, 1971

  Stoney, Henry B., Victoria: With a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong: and remarks on the present state of the colony; including an account of the Ballaarat disturbances, and the death of Captain Wise, 40th Regiment, Smith, Elder & Co., Dublin, 1856

  Strange, Albert W. S. and Strange, B., Ballarat: The Formative Years, (self-published), Ballarat, 1982

  Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present, Vol. I, McCarron, Bird & Co., Melbourne, 1888

  Sutherland, George, Tales of the Goldfields, Walker, May and Co., Melbourne, 1880

  Suttor, W. H., Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life, Whalan, Bathurst, 1887

  Toghill, Jeff, The Great Dividing Range, Reed, Frenchs Forest, 1982

  Tom, William and Lister, John, History of the Discovery of the First Payable Gold-field (Ophir) in Australia, Western Examiner Office, 1871 (online, Cultural Collections, University of Newcastle)

  Tuckey, James Hingston, An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait: on the South Coast of New South Wales in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta, In the Years 1802-3-4, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, and J. C. Mottley, Portsmouth, 1805

  Turnbull, Clive, Australian Lives, F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1965

  Turner, Henry Gyles, Our Own Little Rebellion: the Story of the Eureka Stockade, Whitcombe & Tombs, Melbourne, 1913

  Twain, M., Following the Equator, Harper and Brothers, New York, 1925

  Van Toorn, Penny, Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006

  Westgarth, William, Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria, George Robertson and Co., Melbourne, 1888

  Whitaker, Anne-Maree, Unfinished Revolution: United Irishmen in NSW 1800-1810, Crossing Press, Sydney, 1994

  Wickham, D., Deaths at Eureka, Dorothy Wickham, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1996

  Wickham, D.; Gervasoni, D. and D’Angri, V.; The Eureka Flag: Our Starry Banner, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2000

  Wilson, J. W., The Starry Banner of Australia: An Episode in Colonial History, Brian Donaghey, Brisbane, 1963

  Withers, W. B., History of Ballarat: From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time, F. W. Niven and Co., Ballarat, 1887

  Younger, Ronald M., Australia! Australia! The Pioneer Years, Vol. I, Rigby, 1975

  Journal articles

  Cahir, David and Clark, Ian D., ‘Why should they pay money to the Queen? Aboriginal Miners and Land Claims’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2008

  Clark, Ian D., ‘You have all this place, no good have children … Derrimut: traitor, saviour, or a man of his people?’ Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 91, No. 2, December 2005

  Dickens, Charles, Household Words, Vol. 5, No. 121, 17 July 1852, Office 16, Wellington Street North, London, 1852

  Franklin, William E., ‘Governors, Miners and Institutions: The Political Legacy of Mining Frontiers in California and Victoria’, California History, Vol. 65, No. 1, March, 1986

  Hancock, Marguerite, ‘News from Jolimont: The Letters of Charles Joseph and Sophie La Trobe to their Daughter Agnes, 1845-1854’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 73, No. 2, September 2002

  Harvey, J. T., ‘Locating the Eureka Stockade: Use of a Geographical Information System (GIS) in a Historiographical Research Context: Computers and the Humanities’, Vol. 37, No. 2, May 2003

  McCrae, George Gordon, ‘Some Recollections of Melbourne in the “Forties”’, Victorian Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1912

  Molony, John, ‘Eureka and the Prerogative of the People’, Papers on Parliament, No. 42, December 2004

  Potts, Eli D., and Potts, Annette, ‘The Negro and the Australian Gold Rushes’, Pacific Historical Review, 1852-1857, Vol. 37, No. 4, November 1968

  Taylor, Greg, ‘Two Refusals of Royal Assent in Victoria‘, Sydney Law Review, Vol. 29, 2007

  Waugh, John, ‘Framing the First Victorian Constitution, 1853-5’, Monash University Law Review, Melbourne Law School, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1997

  Wright, Clare, ‘An Indelible Stain: Gifts of the Samuel Lazarus diary’, History Australia, Vol. 6, No. 2

  Newspapers and periodicals

  The Age

  The Argus

  The Austral Light

  Barrier Miner

  Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

  The Ballarat Courier

  The Ballarat Star

  The Ballarat Times: Buninyong & Creswick’s Creek Advertiser

  The British Colonist

  The British Critic: A New Review

  Cairns Post

  The Centennial Magazine

  The Courier

  The Daily News

  Daily Southern Cross

  Empire

  The Examiner (Launceston)

  Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer

  The Gold Diggers’ Advocate and Commercial Advertiser

  The Hobart Town Courier

  Illustrated Australian News

  The Illustrated London News

  The Irish Felon

  Launceston Advertiser

  The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser

  The Manchester Guardian

  The Melbourne Morning Herald and General Daily Advertiser

  Neue Oder-Zeitung

  The Observer

  Otago Witness

  The People’s Advocate

  The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News

  The Southern Cross

  The Sydney Morning Herald

  The Times

  The Washington Post

  The West Australian

  Victorian Government Gazette

  Government publications

  Gazettes

  NSW Government Gazette

  Victoria Government Gazette

  Parliamentary papers

  ‘Further Papers Relative to the Alterations in the Constitutions of the Australian Colonies’, 14 March 1853, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1853

  ‘Correspondence (and Further Papers) Relevant to the (Recent) Discovery of Gold in Australia, 1852-1856’ in Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Victoria 1851-1856, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1852-1856

  Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates (Great Britain), Third Series, Vol. IV, published by T.C., Hansard, Pater Noster Row, 1831

  Reports

  ‘Report of the Board into the Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbances at Ballarat’, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1854

  ‘Report of the Commission Appointed to Enquire into the Condition of the Goldfields of Victoria’, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1855

  ‘Report from the Select Committee upon Mr. J. F. V. Fitzgerald’s Case Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices’, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1867

  Others

  Victorian Supreme Court State Trials, March 1855. Queen v. Joseph. Queen v. Hayes. John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1855

  ‘An Act for the Better Security of the Crown and Government of the United Kingdom’, Section III, 22 April 1848, Eyre and Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty.

  Unpublished material

  Note: The Public Record Office of Victoria holds a large volume of unpublished material relevant to the Victorian goldfields 1851-1855 and in particular the Eureka Rebellion, accession details for which appear in the endnotes. Many of these records have been made avail
able online at: http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au.

  The majority of government correspondence &c. has been sourced from the government series of collected papers, published under the title(s) ‘Correspondence (and Further Correspondence) Relevant to the Discovery of Gold in Australia’ and, unpublished, from the Public Records Office of Victoria. The majority of unpublished diggers’ correspondence has been sourced from the Public Records Office of Victoria and the State Library of Victoria. Full accession details for all correspondence is to be found in the relevant endnote.

  Correspondence

  Forlonge to Barnes, SLV MS Box 111/5

  Foster to Wallace, VPRS 3219, Vol. 20

  Grant (Mrs) to Hotham, VPRS 4066, No. 4, Box 1

  Lalor to his brother Richard, SLV, AJCP, M2039

  Manning to the Secretary of the Denominational Schools Board, VPRS 61, 54/399

  McIntyre to his brother, SLV, MS 8077 Box 956/2

  Pasley to his father, ML, B1564

  Pasley to Hotham, VPRS 1189/P Unit 92, K/5413511

  Pasley to the Colonial Secretary, VPRS 1189/P, Unit 92, K54/13512

  Peters to Malmesbury, SLV, MS 7662, Box 74/3, No. 501

  Revell to Sturt, PROV VPRS, 5527/P Unit 2, Item 4

  Smyth to Hotham, VPRS 4066/P Unit 1, December, 1854, No. 3

  Sturt to Colonial Secretary, 51/1396, VPRS, 1189, Box 8I

  Diaries and journals

  Batman, John, journal, SLV, MS13181

  Huyghue, Samuel Douglas Smyth, diary, The Ballarat Riots 1854, SLV, MS 7725, Box 646/9

  Lazarus, Samuel, diary, 24 September 1853-21 January 1855, SLV, MS Box 1777/4

  McBrien, James, field book 205 - Traverse of Road from Emu Plans to Bathurst, Survey of Portion of Macquarie and Fish Rivers, 1823 (http://www.baseline.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/fieldbooks/fieldbook3.html)

  Pierson, Thomas, diary, SLV, MS 11646, Box 2178/4

  Other

  Captain Thomas’s Plan of Defense for the Government Camp, Ballarat, 27 October 1854, St. Ives Library, Sovereign Hill, Ballarat

  1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition, courtesy of the State Library of Victoria, The Sessional Papers printed by Order of the House of Lords, or Presented by Royal Command, in the Session 1854

  Ballarat Miners’ Petition to Lieutenant Sir Governor Charles Hotham, 23 October 1854, VPRS 5527 Eureka Stockade - Historical Collection P0, Unit 1

  Bentley, James, deposition, inquest into James Scobie’s murder, 7 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P0, Unit 1, Item 1

  Carter, Jeffries, evidence, State Trials, Queen v. Seekamp, VPRS 30/P, Criminal Sessions Melbourne, Unit 40, Case No. 2

  Conboy, Thomas, deposition against Albert Hurd for rioting at Bentley’s Hotel, 27 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P Unit 1, Item 7

  Evans, Gordon, deposition, 11 December 1854, trial brief for Arthur Purcell Akehurst for the murder of Henry Powell, VPRS 30/P Unit 40, Case no. 2, Criminal Sessions Melbourne

  Martin, Peter, deposition, brief for the prosecution in the trial of James and Catherine Bentley, W. Stance, and John (or Thomas) Farrell and others, VPRS 5527/P Unit 1, Item 5

  Mooney, Thomas, deposition, inquest into James Scobie’s Murder, 7 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P, Unit 1, Item 1

  Record of meeting between Lieutenant-Governor Hotham and a deputation from the diggers, led by J. B. Humffrays and George Black, 27 November 1854, VPRS 1095/P Unit 3, Bundle 1, No. 16

  Record of public meeting held near St Paul’s Church, 8 December 1854, VPRS 4066/P Unit 1, December 1854, No. 50

  Rede, Robert, Account of the Gravel Pit riots and call for martial law to be proclaimed, 30 November 1854, VPRS 1085/P Unit 8, Duplicate 162, Enclosure No. 4

  Report of meeting between Lieutenant-Governor Hotham and a deputation from the diggers, led by J. B. Humffrays and George Black, 27 November 1854, VPRS 1095/P Unit 3, Bundle 1, No. 16

  Seekamp’s press, inflammatory poster, VPRS 5527/P Unit 4, Item 1

  Statement of the jury following the inquest into James Scobie’s murder, 7 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P0, Unit 1, Item 1

  Thomas, Plan of Defense for the Government Camp, 27 October 1854, St. Ives Library, Sovereign Hill, Ballarat

  Thomas, report on the attack on the Eureka Stockade to the Major Adjutant General, 3 December 1854, VPRS 1085/P Unit 8, Duplicate 162, Enclosure 7

  Welch, Barnard, deposition, inquest into James Scobie’s murder, 7 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P0, Unit 1, Item 1

  Welsh, Benjamin, additional deposition for the inquest investigating the murder of James Scobie, 22 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P Unit 1, Item 2

  Wills, William, deposition, 11 December 1854, ‘Trial Brief for Arthur Purcell Akehurst for the Manslaughter of Henry Powell’, VPRS 30/P Unit 40, Case No. 2, Criminal Sessions Melbourne

  Wood, Thomas, deposition, 27 October 1854, ‘Depositions Taken Against Albert Hurd for Rioting at Bentley’s Hotel’, VPRS 5527/P Unit 1, Item 7

  Websites

  Australian Dictionary of Biography (http://adb.anu.edu.au/)

  Ballarat & District Genealogical Society (www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au)

  Ballarat Heritage Services (http://www.ballaratheritage.com.au/eureka/eureka.html)

  Ballarat Historical Society (http://www.ballarathistoricalsociety.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1)

  Ballarat Reform League Inc. (www.ballaratreformleague.org.au)

  Defending Victoria (http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/ross.html)

  The C. J. La Trobe Society (www.latrobesociety.org.au)

  eGold (www.egold.net.au)

  The Eureka Centre (www.eurekaballarat.com)

  Engels Internet Archive (http://www.marxists.org)

  Heretic Press - Eureka Stockade

  (http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/History/eureka.html)

  The Historic Shipping Website (www.historic-shipping.co.uk)

  Museum of Australian Democracy (www.foundingdocs.gov.au)

  Public Record Office of Victoria (www.prov.vic.gov.au)

  Public Record Office Victoria Wiki (www.wiki.prov.vic.gov.au)

  Reason in Revolt (www.reasoninrevolt.net.au)

  Ship’s Passengers Lists (Victoria) (http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide050/PROVguide050.jsp)

  SurgiCat, The Royal College of Surgeons of England

  (www.surgicat.rcseng.ac.uk)

  Soldiers at Eureka Genealogy

  (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~garter1/eureka.htm)

  Sovereign Hill/Gold Museum

  (http://www.sovereignhill.com.au/?id=gmuseum)

  Victoria Government Gazette (www.gazette.slv.vic.gov.au)

  Index of Searchable Terms

  a Beckett, Chief Justice Sir

  William

  Aboriginal people

  Batman’s ‘treaty’ with

  dispossession

  The Age

  Akehurst, Arthur

  Allen, Thomas ‘Old Waterloo’

  American War of Independence

  Amos, Assistant-Commissioner

  Gilbert

  Anderson, Henry

  Anti-Gold License Association

  Anti-Transportation League

  Appin, New South Wales

  Araminta

  The Argus

  Armstrong, Assistant-

  Commissioner David

  Arthur, George

  Ashburner, James

  Aspinall, Butler Cole

  Atherden, William

  Atkinson, Captain Richard

  Australia

  California gold rush

  Crown land and squatters

  early settlement

  exploration

  gold see

  gold growth of colony

  identification with Britain

  Irish convict uprising 1804

  Overstraiters

  republicanism

  self-government

  Separation Bill

  suffrage

  Ballarat

  Aboriginal na
me

  Adelphi Theatre

  Bath’s Hotel

  cemetery

  growth of

  land release for diggers

  London Hotel

  Star Hotel

  Ballarat Diggings

  Bakery Hill

  conditions

  ‘Golden Point’

  troops at

  women

  Ballarat Reform League

  The Ballarat Star

  Ballarat Times: Buninyong & Creswick’s Creek Advertiser

  Barkers Creek

  Barrow, Louisa

  Barry, Judge Redmond

  Bass Strait

  Bath, Thomas

  Bathurst

  Carriers Arms Inn

  Bathurst Free Press

  Batman, Eliza

  Batman, John

  Batman’s Marsh

  Battle of Vinegar Hill

  Beattie, James

  Bendigo

  army and police numbers

  Bendigo Creek

  Bendigo Petition

  Bentley, Catherine

  Bentley, James

  Black, Alfred

  Black, George

  Black, William

  Blainey, Geoffrey

  Blair, David

  Blue Mountains

  Bonwick, James

  Boonwurrun people

  Botany Bay

  Bourke, Governor

  Boyle, Felix

  Bracks, Steve

  Brady, Matt

  Brannan, Samuel

  Brentford, George

  Brien, Denis

  Broadhurst, Lieutenant

  Brown, James

  Browne, Captain

  Brownhill Diggings

  Brownhill, William

  Bruhn, Dr George Herman

  Buckley, William (Murrangurk)

  Budden, Thomas

  Bullock Creek

  Buninyong

  Burnette, Robert

  bushrangers

  Calcutta

  Californian gold rush

  reports in Australia

  Cameron, Donald

 

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