Eliza Bell
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Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Eliza (Robinson) married William Walton ‘Baron’ Bell on 21 June 1855 and they produced ten children in the Creswick, Spring Hill vicinity. William was inside the Eureka Stockade when it was stormed on 3 December 1854. He was born on 18 November at CarrShield, Northumberland, the son of John Bell and Margaret (Walton). He emigrated to Australia in 1853 on the Tasmania arriving in Melbourne. He immediately started out for Ballarat and worked on the Eureka Lead making and selling mining equipment. Two of their children, John William and Leeah attended Creswick Grammar School. William Walton Bell died on 24 January 1915 at Kew. He was buried with his wife Eliza in the Creswick Cemetery (Meth, Row 1, No 4). His name was added to the tombstone on 3 December 1988, a date chosen to commemorate his involvement with Eureka.[1]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Ellery, Victoria and Its Metropolis, Volume 2, p. 240.
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