List of purchases and gold sales |
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| Title : | List of purchases and gold sales |
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| Creator : | Fairweather family | ||
| Date of creation : | 1852, nd | ||
| Format : | Manuscript | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Donated by : | Mr D F Fairweather |
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| Description : |
Frederick Fairweather's "Expences at the Diggins" 8 May to 24 June 1852 and "Gold sold at the Diggins" 3 May to 29 May 1852. Lists all his purchases of food and supplies, and includes mention of gold and sovereigns remitted to his wife Mary at Mitcham SA. A separate sheet details equipment, food and beverages, travel costs from Melbourne to the Bendigo goldfield, 18 April 1852, and his share in a tent and goods needed, 3 May 1852.
The 1852 gold rush to Victoria left Adelaide and surrounds mainly populated by women, children, and older and sick men who could not work at the goldfields - most able-bodied men journeyed interstate to find their fortune. Frederick Fairweather's lists provide an example of the everyday requirements of a digger, and note gold and monies sent back home to his wife Mary at Mitcham, South Australia. 'Expences at the Diggins' 8 May to 24 June 1852 and 'Gold sold at the Diggins' 3 May to 29 May 1852 lists all his purchases of food and supplies, and includes mention of gold and sovereigns remitted to his wife. A separate sheet details equipment, food and beverages and travel costs from Melbourne to the Bendigo goldfield, 18 April 1852, and Fairweather's share in a tent and goods needed, 3 May 1852. |
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| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | Bendigo (Vic.) |
| Further reading : | Hocking, Geoff. Gold: a pictorial history of the Australian gold rush, Rowville, Vic: Five Mile Press, 2006, c2000 Stone, Derrick I and Sue MacKinnon. Life on the Australian goldfields, Carlton, Vic. ; [Sydney] : Methuen of Australia, [1976] |
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