http://www.eurekapedia.org/index.php?title=J._Devonshire&feed=atom&action=historyJ. Devonshire - Revision history2024-03-28T10:35:24ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.1http://www.eurekapedia.org/index.php?title=J._Devonshire&diff=29871&oldid=prevDottigee16: Created page with "''Bendigo Goldfields Petition,'' August 1853. State Library of Victoria (MS 12440 ==Background== ==Goldfields Involvement, 1..."2021-03-06T06:50:44Z<p>Created page with "<a href="/File:Bendigo-Petition2.JPG" title="File:Bendigo-Petition2.JPG">500px|thumb|right|''Bendigo Goldfields Petition,'' August 1853. State Library of Victoria (MS 12440</a> ==Background== ==Goldfields Involvement, 1..."</p>
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==Background==<br />
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==Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854==<br />
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Signed 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.<br />
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==Post 1854 Experiences==<br />
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==See also==<br />
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[[Bendigo Goldfields Petition]]<br />
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[[Ballarat Reform League Inc. Monuments Project]]<br />
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https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/family-matters/collections/did-you-ancestor-sign-the-bendigo-goldfields-petition/<br />
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