George Braybook
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Background
George Braybrook was living at Barkers Creek when he signed the Victorian Goldfields petition. At the time he had buried his wife and youngest son at Pennyweight Flat in that year [1853]. By 1854 he went to Ballarat where the sinking was deeper and money wasn't coming in, but the government were 'digger hunting'. [1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854
George Braybook igned the 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition. Agitation of the Victorian goldfields started with the Forest Creek Monster Meeting in 1851, but what became known as the Red Ribbon Movement was centred around the Bendigo goldfields in 1853. The Anti-Gold License Association was formed at Bendigo in June 1853, led by George Thomson, Dr D.G. Jones and 'Captain' Edward Browne. The association focused its attention on the 30 shillings monthly licence fee miners were required to pay to the government. They drew up a petition outlining digger grievances and called for a reduced licence fee, improved law and order, the right to vote and the right to buy land. The petition was signed by diggers at Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine, McIvor (Heathcote), Mount Alexander (Harcourt) and other diggings. The 13 metre long petition was presented to Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe in Melbourne on the 01 August 1853, but their call for a reduction in monthly licence fees and land reform for diggers was rejected. The diggers dissatisfaction erupted into the Red Ribbon Rebellion where agitators wore red ribbons on their hats symbolising their defiance of the law and prohibitive licence fees.
George Braybrook was mining at Barkers Creek near Castlemaine. His wife and baby died there and both are buried at the little cemetery at Pennyweight Flat. George left and went to Ballarat in late 1853.[2]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Ballarat Reform League Inc. Monuments Project
Further Reading
References
- ↑ comment by descendant Glenn Alan Braybrook on https://www.facebook.com/notes/castlemaine-history-group/bendigo-goldfields-petition-1853/608032102568295/, accessed 11 March 2020.
- ↑ Glen Alan Braybrook, Facebook, 2 February 2020
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