Lady Fairweather

EUREKA STOCKADE MEMORIES Ballarat Resident’s Link In Scotland

BALLARAT, Tuesday – An interesting link with Ballarat of the Stockade days is referred to in a letter written by Mr. A. A. C. Kerr, who is touring the United Kingdom, in a letter to a friend in Ballarat. In Renfrewshire, Mr. Kerr met Sir Walter Fairweather, whose wife, Lady Fairweather, who died last year, was born in a tent a Eureka soon after the fight at the stockade. Her father, Andrew McIntyre, was associated with Peter Lalor, and was imprisoned in Melbourne Gaol. Mr. Kerr has made a copy of the letter which McKenzie wrote to relatives in Scotland describing the fight, for presentation to Ballarat Historical Society.

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Death of Dame Margaret V Fairweather.

BALLARAT, Monday. — An interesting link with- Eureka was broken by the death at Glasgow on 4th August of Dame Margaret Eureka Melulyre Fairweather, wife of Sir Wallace Fairweather.

The "Glasgow Herald" in reporting her death, says: — Lady Fairweather was born in Australia, and was the daughter of Mr. Andy Mclntyre, of Glasgow, who was one of the pioneers in gold mining in that Dominion. He settled at Ballarat, Grenvllle County, in Victoria, where, in the fifties, trouble arose between the mining community and the authorities. This episode is believed to be one of the few occasions in the history of Australian gold mining in which bloodshed was involved. The trouble centred on Eureka Hill, where miners had erected a stockade, and it was within the enclosure, while the firing was going on, that Lady Fairweather was born. On that account Eureka was included in her name. She married Sir Wallace Fairweather included in her name. She married Sir Wallace Fairweather in 1877.

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