Richard Allan

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Background

Allan was born in Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Andrew Allan and Catherine (nee Drummond), he came to Australia in 1851 ***not in EE*** at the age of 18 on the ship Thetis. He moved to the Ballarat Goldfields in early 1852, was moderately successful, and moved to other goldfields at Bendigo, McIVor and Castlemaine. ***. He moved to Newlyn in 1858 and started farming. He married Catherine Robertson and they had eleven children: Andrew Alexander, born in 1856 at Ballarat; Alexander Robertson, born in 1857 at Ballarat (died in 1863 at Ballarat); Richard, born in 1859 at Creswick (died in 1860, aged 11 months); Elizabeth Blaelo, born in 1860; Catherine Drummond, born in 1863 at Creswick (married Mr Mitchell; died in 1942 at Rochester); John, born in 1865 at Creswick (died in 1866, aged 4 months); Isabella, born in 1866 (died in 1868, aged 19 months); Isabella, born in 1868 at Creswick (died in 1946); David James, born in 1869 at Creswick (died in 1870); Richard Alexander, born in 1872 at Creswick (died in 1948 at Hawthorn); and James Frances, born in 1873 at Kingston. Richard Allen died on 30 November 1905 at Rochester.

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

He was in Ballarat during the storming of the Eureka Stockade and was arrested on 3 December 1854. Allan was released by the authorities without being charged. He wrote on account of the Eureka Stockade, using the name ‘Municipal Freedom’ or 'One of the Insurgents'.

Post 1854 Experiences

See also

Further Reading

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

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      • NOT in EE***

The deceased gentleman occupied a seat in the Echuca Shire Council for 15 years and was also its President. He was noted for his straightforward character and directness of speech, his honour, his unwavering independence of character, his hospitality, and his charity. A man well read and highly intelligent, his views were always sound. He took a keen interest in all public matters and to him the thanks of those living in any portion of the Echuca Shire, where the roads have been ‘cemented’ are due, as he was the first to find out the value of the swamp cement for road making purposes. His tastes were somewhat literary, and he contributed many excellent letters and articles, notable to the ‘Ballarat Star’ on the Eureka Stockade in which the deceased gentleman took