Free Settler or Felon Search Result

94659

Surname: Gold discovery

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 22 September

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: The consequences of gold discovery in England

95296

Surname: Gold Discovery

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 9 October

Place: East Maitland and Raymond Terrace

Source: MM

Details: William Patey Peek of the Union Store. Advertisement to prudent housekeepers to purchase goods before prices increase due to the gold rush

95371

Surname: Gold Discovery

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 13 October

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: Description of the fastest route from Maitland to the Turon gold diggings

87826

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 4 February

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: From Maitland diggers would turn off at Aberdeen and Scone would be the nearest township.Could not go further by dray but could by pack horses. They could travel up the upper waters of the Hunter till they reached an accessible pass to cross the range to the head waters of the Barnett.

87827

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 4 February

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: From Maitland to Hanging Rock estimated to be 150 miles

87878

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 7 February

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: Already 40 men at the diggings

87962

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 11 February

Place: Hanging Rock

Source: MM

Details: Correspondence from Nathan Burrows re the state of the diggings

88282

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 14 February

Place: Hanging Rock

Source: MM

Details: Road to the diggings

88439

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 21 February

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: 150 - 200 diggers prospecting with tin dishes. More Cradles being made at Murrurundi and other towns. Distance from Maitland by good dray road 150 miles

88465

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 25 February

Place: Hanging Rock near Tamworth

Source: MM

Details: Account of the diggings. Alternate route via Paterson

88581

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 28 February

Place: Muswellbrook

Source: MM

Details: People (including 7 Californians) passing through Muswellbrook dailey on their way to the diggings

88663

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 3 March

Place: near Tamworth

Source: MM

Details: New gold field found by 'Californian' gold prospectors Renwick and Laurie who had arrived at Hanging Rock via Raymond Terrace, Stroud, through the A.A. Companys estate to the Mountain Station and then to Nathan Burrows property which was 6 miles from Hanging Rock

88759

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 6 March

Place: Hanging Rock near Tamworth

Source: MM

Details: Account of the exact location of the gold discovery

88923

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 13 March

Place: Hanging Rock

Source: MM

Details: Robert Wisdom giving his account of the diggings. 150 diggers at work. Rain stopped. Creek beds soon to be dry

88926

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 13 March

Place: Hanging Rock

Source: MM

Details: Nuggets of gold found by Californian diggers, Germans and 'Jamaica blacks' (Robert Wisdom's account of the diggings)

88974

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 17 March

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: Many diggers leaving the Hanging Rock diggings and heading to the Peel river diggings above Dr. Jenkins station 27 miles from Tamworth

89055

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 24 March

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: Purchasers of gold

89131

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 31 March

Place: Hanging Rock

Source: MM

Details: Correspondence re the gold field not producing very much

89904

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 22 May

Place: Peel River

Source: MM

Details: Large number of people at the diggings

89928

Surname: Gold Discovery Hanging Rock

First Name: -

Ship: -

Date: 1852 26 May

Place: Peel River

Source: MM

Details: Major Innes appointed assistant commissioner at the Peel diggings in consequence of the increasing number of diggers