Search Results for: James Ballantyne

1. Murder of James Scobie

   Written by Digital_Projects on December 12, 2011

   Documents Clicking on an image will open up a document in the PROV wiki in a new window. We encourage you to join the wiki and add your comments to the document discussion page using the contribute link. The events that unfolded on the night of 6 October 1854 only served to heighten the tension that was felt on the goldfields. James Scobie’s death and the manner in which the authorities dealt with the administration of justice…

2. Goldfields Settler or Frontier Rogue?

   Written by Provenance on August 31, 2012

   …oup of people and a commensurate absence of individual life stories. This article, drawing on trial records held at Public Record Office Victoria, aims to redress this impersonal approach by providing a biographical sketch of James Acoy, the Castlemaine court interpreter, businessman, miner and settler who was imprisoned for corruption in 1869. It argues that Acoy’s imprisonment had its antecedence in events surrounding the collection of a…

3. The case of Peter Mungett:

   Written by Provenance on December 6, 2012

   …wing details of convictions for 1856 and 1857, PROV, VPRS 264/P0, Unit 5 Further corroboration that Mungett’s country was the Bacchus Marsh region may be inferred from an inquest held into the death of Jimmy/Jemmy or James Mungett in April 1859, who is listed as being of the ‘Bacchus Marsh tribe of Aborigines’. name=”_ednref16″>16 The relationship between James Mungett and Peter Mungett is unclear, but it is pr…

4. The State Trials

   Written by Digital_Projects on December 12, 2011

   …osed against small groups of prisoners under charge. The respective groupings are reflected in the organisation of the recognizances and depositions in the files. The groupings are summarised below: Witnesses deposing against James Beattie, John Joseph, Raffaello Carboni and John Fenwick (or Jan Vennick) were: Henry Goodenough Daniel Haggarty Thomas Atkins Andrew Peters Patrick Riley John Badcock William Revell John Donnelly Samuel Sla…

5. Looking for Azzopardi:

   Written by Provenance on September 22, 2011

   …iew of their relatives. If they crossed the will of the state, what is then known about their lives reflects the interests of officialdom. For example, it is not clear what crime he had committed in County Down that propelled James McKinney to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania): the records did not need to record that sort of information and so sometimes they did not do so. They did record his description in some detail, the better to hunt him do…

6. Little Latrobe Street and the Historical Significance of Melbourne’s Laneways

   Written by Provenance on September 22, 2011

   …treet numbers were listed with some consistency. Where there is no information listed in the Table, there was no entry in the rate book or directory.   STREET NUMBERS YEAR 22 24 26 28 30 32 1865             Occupant James McNamara, saddler     Charles Long Louis Kolling John Wheelhouse Owner James Flanagan     Agent Agent Mr Ledgeworth Built Structures 5-roomed brick house     3-roomed brick house   3-roomed brick house 1870    …

7. Thomas Joshua Jackson (Of ‘Young and Jackson’s Hotel’)

   Written by Provenance on September 22, 2011

   …tégé of Henry Young senior and former landlord of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Prahran, had died in 1877. He apparently left no will or property. Sarah Cavanagh brought into the marriage with Jackson her sixteen-year-old son, James. Until the time of his marriage, Jackson most likely had lived at the Elsternwick, Sparrow’s and Princes Bridge hotels in turn. Once married, there was an imperative to find a place of his own and by 1879 he had…

8. Murder of James Scobie from Doudiet Sketchbook – courtesy of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

   Written by Digital_Projects on August 29, 2011

   Murder of James Scobie…

9. Burning of Bentley’s Hotel

   Written by Digital_Projects on December 12, 2011

   Documents Clicking on an image will open up a document on the PROV wiki in a new window. We encourage you to join the wiki and add your comments to the document discussion page using the contributelink.   Disconcerted at the miscarriage of justice in the inquest and magisterial hearing into James Scobie’s murder, a large group of miners assembled on 17 October 1854 outside James Bentley’s hotel, both to demonstrate…

10. Petition for Reprieve

    Written by Digital_Projects on September 7, 2011

    …from Boston U.S Samuel Adams from New York U.S William Hoffman from New Zealand Gustaf Rosengrew 21 Lonsdale St West Mrs Johnston Lygon St Carlton Mrs Monica McNabe Lonsdale St 42 Margret reid Lonsdale St 41 Mr James Corbett Beechworth John Wright Gippsland [not readable-] 21 Lonsdale St West W.A Lasslett John River E. Preston Esq. John J Monovan Lonsdale St East M Monovan Lonsdale St East [End of page 1] VPRS…