Thomas Featherstone

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Background

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

A miner who signed the Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case Petition in 1855. [1]

Thomas Featherston, aged 50, attempted suicide this morning by hanging, but was cut down and resuscitated by Constable Brennan. and is now in the gaol hospital. The alleged cause of the hanging is loss in, mining speculations.[2]

Obituary

Thomas Featherstone, a diamond drill assistant at Allendale, has been found dead in the hut of a man named Bergin, where they and a man named Heggarty had been drinking together over night. An inquest is to be held.[3]

See also

Benden Hassell

U. Brennan

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. Bendigo Advertiser, 9 February 1885.
  3. Bendigo Advertiser, 02 July 1885.

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