Women of Eureka - Softcover

Johnson, Laurel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0646248677 ISBN 13: 9780646248677

Publisher: Historic Montrose Cottage and Eureka Museum, 1995

Synopsis

John Alexander and his wife Annie left their home in Montrose, Scotland 1853 for the goldfields of Ballarat. They were actively prospecting for alluvial gold during the time of the Eureka Stockade rebellion. A stonemason by trade, John Alexander built one of the first miner's masonry cottages on the goldfields (c1856). It is a tribute to his skill that Montrose stands today - not more than nine hundred metres from the site of the original stockade - as the only remaining cottage of its kind. It has been awarded the highest classification by the National Trust of Australia and is included on the National Heritage listing. Montrose Cottage is a well-known point of interest for visitors to Ballarat. Its present owners - Laurel and Graeme Johnson - give guided tours of the cottage and adjoining museum at 111 Eureka Street, Ballarat. Visitors to the cottage and museum will experience a rare insight into the life and often hard times of the men and women who forged the backbone of a new nation. "Women of Eureka" is an integral part of an exhibition created to coincide with the 140th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade Rebellion. The unprecedented response to the "Women of Eureka" has brought forward many descendants who have shared letters, photographs, diary entries, family folklore and precious memories with us, so that we might cast a brighter lantern on the lives of the people who made our history golden. WOMEN of EUREKA who are Named in the Book: Annie Alexander, Elizabeth Benjamin, Bridget Callinan, Martha Clendinning, Jane Cuming, Anne Diamond, Anne Duke, Mary Faulds, Elizabeth Goodenough, Anna Harrington, Anastasia Hayes, Bridget Hynes, Catherine Kelly, Alicia Lalor, Catherine McLaren, Eliza Perrin, Nancy Quinane, Phoebe Stobie, Clara Marie Seekamp, Mrs Thomas, Patience Wearne, Anastasia Withers, Ellen Francis Young.

Edition details

• Publisher: Historic Montrose Cottage and Eureka Museum
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0646248677
• ISBN 13: 9780646248677
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English