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83770
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 4 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Townspeople of Maitland offering reward for any person who find a remunerative gold field in any locality benefitting Maitland
83852
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 7 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Estimated that nearly 20 drays and carts and about a hundred men passed over the long Bridge at Maitland en route for the Ophir diggings. Mostly townsmen from Maitland and Morpeth and a few small settlers from the neighbourhood
83853
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 7 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Three of the Maitland police left for the diggings. Salaries of the police raised 1s to 3s 3d. Per day
83854
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 7 June
Place: Scone
Source: MM
Details: Townspeople of Scone leaving for the gold fields some properly equipped others on horse back. No credit given in the town. Provisions expensive and scanty
83860
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 7 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Four miners absconding from A.A. Company in Newcastle apprehended near Singleton and returned to Newcastle
83863
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 7 June
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: William Nicholson's correspondence advising against departing for the gold fields
83900
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 11 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Robert Ballard just returned to Maitland from the Ophir gold diggings giving his account
83983
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 14 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Road from Maitland alive with drays and men on their way to the Ophir gold diggins
83984
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 14 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Heavy rain around Singleton Scone and Murrurundi made the roads so heavy that drays were stuck fast in twos and threes
83987
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 14 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: A party consisting entirely of California diggers reported to be searching for gold in the districts nearby Maitland
83988
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 14 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Seven or eight carts and drays with six men on each passed over the Long Bridge in the previous week on the way to the Ophir diggings.
84013
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 18 June
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Mr. Fenwick and a party of 12 men leave for the gold diggings
84050
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 21 June
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Steven Gunter well known in Maitland as running a shell boat on the river. Sent letter to MM of his experiences on the gold field at Ophir
84062
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 21 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Some of the diggers from the Ophir fields beginning to return to Maitland
84063
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 21 June
Place: Scone
Source: MM
Details: Winter weather in Scone. Town deserted as many have left for the diggings
84108
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 25 June
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: The Route to the Diggings
84418
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 16 July
Place: Stroud
Source: MM
Details: Australian Agricultural Company raised the shepherds pay and allowed them double ration of grocery however many still leaving for the gold diggins
84582
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 23 July
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: By regulatoins of 23 May 1851, the fee of thirty shillings payable monthly in advance for every license
84973
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 13 August
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Gold reported to have been found at Wyong Creek about 14 miles from the township of Wollombi. 60 or 70 people digging for gold
85020
Surname: Gold Discovery
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 16 August
Place: Found gold in the vicinity of Barraba and Oakey Creek
Source: MM
Details: Two claims made for the reward for finding gold in a vicinity advantageous to Maitland - T.S. Hall and Henry A. Duncomb