James Malcolm

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Background

Born in 1823 at Liff, Benvie, Dundee, Scotland, James Malcolm married Maria Ward in 1846. They arrived at Point Henry on 23 October 1852 aboard the ship Flora, from Liverpool. He was in Ballarat in December 1852 first digging for gold at Pennyweight. At the time of the Eureka Stockade he was in Seymour Crescent, Ballarat, and was said to have witnessed the event.[1]

He died on 17 November 1896 and is buried at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery, and has a tombstone of Carrara Marble.[2]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Malcolm James worked as a contractor in Ballarat. He built Thomas Bath's Hotel (later Craig's Hotel). He lived at 16-20 Seymour Crescent.[3]

Post 1854 Experiences

Malcolm built Baths Hotel, now Craig’s Hotel, in Lydiard Street, Ballarat. He lived at Ballarat, and was recorded on the 1855 Electoral Roll, under the electoral qualification of Miner’s Right. He was residing in Ballarat in the 1880s. [4]

IN the News

HISTORIC HOTEL SOLD: - FAMOUS BALLARAT PROPERTY.
BALLARAT, Sunday.—Craig's Hotel, the oldest and best known establishment of the kind in Ballarat, has been sold by private treaty for £30,000. Mrs. T. Newton, who has been licensee for several years, was the purchaser. The property, which has been improved on up-to-date lines, belonged to Mr. Frank Herman, of the firm of Messrs. J. J. Goller and Co., merchants, Lydiard street. The price realised for the hotel, which has a historic reputation, shows a substantial advance on the price paid for the property when it was last sold some years ago.
In the early gold digging days the old original wooden building was known as Bath's Hotel, and was the first public house to obtain a license in Ballarat. The late Mr. Thomas Bath, in later years a well known grazier, was the owner and licensee, and the contractor for its erection was the late Mr. James Malcolm, a pioneer builder of Ballarat. The poet Adam Lindsay Gordon conducted the livery stables at the rear portion of the hotel premises, and occupied a small cottage abutting. His favourite horse Cadger, whom lie rode to victory in several steeplechases, was stabled near the cottage. Reference to this racehorse is made by Gordon in his poem "How We Beat the Favourite."? In this humble little dwel ling in the hotel ground was born the only child of the poet, a girl whose early death he continuously mourned. The little girl was buried in the Ballarat old cemetery."[5]

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.


References

  1. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  2. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  3. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  4. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  5. Northern Star, 22 October 1923.

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