Harriet Perrin
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Both Harriet Perrin and her husband Charles were said to be at Eureka.
Family
Harriet was married to Charles Perrin, who was a baker in Main Road (then known as Plank Road).
Post 1854 Experiences
After the Eureka Riots of 1854 Harriet and Charles resided at Navigators.
Obituary
Another of the early pioneers, Mrs Harriet Perrin, relict of the late Mr Charles Perrin, died on Monday morning at the advanced age of 98 years. The deceased was a widow and landed in Victoria two days before Black Thursday. At the time of the Eureka riot, with her late husband, she was carrying on a business of a bakery and store in Plank road. Afterwards they removed to Navigators. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon to the Ballarat Old Cemetery. Several beautiful wreaths were sent as tributes, including one form Mr J. Wilson, Mrs and Mrs B. Challis, C. Tierney and family, and others. The coffin bearers were Messrs T. Carbury, J. Wilson, W. N. Symons, F. Sebo. The pall bearers were Messrs A. Halliday, E. Kelly, J. Rix, E. Morris. Mr. J. Cambridge (Church of Christ) conducted the service at the graveside. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Hugh Evans and Son.[1]
Harriet's husband predeceased her, with his death in 1888.
The Friends of the late Mr CHARLES PERRIN, farmer, are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Ballarat Old Cemetery. The funeral will leave his late residence, Pound Creek, near Mount Buninyong, This Day (Tuesday), the 11th inst., at half-past 11 a.m.<The Ballarat Star, Tuesday 11 September 1888, p. 3.</ref>
She is buried together with Ernest (10 months old who died on 15 August 1864) in Grave 21, Section 4, Row 1.
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
Dorothy Wickham, Women in 'Ballarat' 1851-1871: A Case Study in Agency, PhD. School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008.
Dorothy Wickham, Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women of Eureka in Journal of Australian Colonial History, 10, No, 1, 2008, pp. 99-115.
Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHSPublishing, 2009.
http://www.eurekapedia.org/Blood,_Sweat_and_Tears:_Women_at_Eureka
Clare Wright, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Text Publishing, 2013.
Dorothy Wickham, Not just a Pretty Face: Women on the Goldfields, in Pay Dirt: Ballarat & Other Gold Towns, BHSPublishing, 2019, pp. 25-36.
References
- ↑ Transcribed by Chrissy Stancliffe from the Ballarat Courier, 16 May 1923, p. 10.
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