James Ethersay
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Background
Mr Ethersay established a cemetery in the Ballarat area when, prior to the gold rushes of 1851, he accepted fees to inter bodies around the site of the present Ballaarat Old Cemetery. Two burials were registered in 1847 and one in 1850. The Humffray Street Burying Ground and the Eureka Street Burial Ground are mentioned in Ethersay’s register but it is difficult to locate precisely the sites of these early burial grounds. By 1854 more burials were recorded in Ethersay’s register whilst in 1855, with the great influx of people because of the official discovery of gold during the early 1850s, the numbers of burials escalated.
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
Ethersay was sexton of the Ballarat Cemetery residing at Ballarat when he signed the Benden Hassell Petition. [1]
See also
Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case
Further Reading
Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.
References
- ↑ Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.