holloways in Bendigo Area

[emsworth]

Searching for information about two Holloway brothers who diedin Bendigo area around 1845 working in goldfields

[giblet]

Do you have any further information on the brothers?

First names etc?

[rosball]

Taking a wild stab 

There is a will on pro-vic http://prov.vic.gov.au/ for an Alfred HOLLOWAY, gold-digger who died in 1841 (20 Mar 1841) from Geelong.   His brother John HOLLOWAY is the executor.  He left William ELLEN and Thomas ELLEN cousins and  his brother John HOLLOWAY in this colony, and a mother and 3 brothers and 3 sisters in Kent, England.

Is this a possibility?

cheers,
   Ros

OK OK  my Victorian geography is poor and I now see that Geelong is some distance from Bendigo but he could have been chasing the gold finds.

[pinefamily]

Ros, people travelled from all over the world to the gold fields in Victoria. A combination of the gold drying up, and the Californian gold rush starting was the turning point for many to take off then to the US. So Geelong is not that far from Bendigo. 

[cando]

Wasn't gold discovered at Sandhurst [later named Bendigo] in Sep 1851?

May I ask the source of your information?

Cando

[Grafe]

No goldfields in Aus in 1845. Small finds but the government hushed them up. It wasn't until Hargreaves claimed to discover gold in early 1851 that the rushes started in NSW.

Bendigo was just a little later as Cando says. The rush at Bendigo was in full swing with 20000 diggers on the field by January 1852 from 800 in December 1851. 

[sparrett]

Taking a wild stab 

There is a will on pro-vic http://prov.vic.gov.au/ for an Alfred HOLLOWAY, gold-digger who died in 1841 (20 Mar 1841) from Geelong.   His brother John HOLLOWAY is the executor.  He left William ELLEN and Thomas ELLEN cousins and  his brother John HOLLOWAY in this colony, and a mother and 3 brothers and 3 sisters in Kent, England.

Is this a possibility?

cheers,
   Ros

OK OK  my Victorian geography is poor and I now see that Geelong is some distance from Bendigo but he could have been chasing the gold finds.

A HOLLOWAY/ELLEN connection.

Death in Vic
 
HOLLOWAY John
Father  David
Mother Sarah ELLEN
Age 49
Birth Place NOTT
Year 1872
Reg Number 6215

Sue
 

[emsworth]

Thanks to all. Can now add Joseph and Robert Walker Holloway died February 1854, from extract from Bendigo Gazette. Came from Hampshire

[sparrett]

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0wwh/

This link is to a newspaper item titled "BENDIGO SINCE '51 No. I."
Bendigo Advertiser   Saturday 29 September 1888 p 3

The author looks back to earlier days in Bendigo and makes reference to a man Joseph HOLLOWAY .
I see no reference to Joseph's death or anything at all about Robert Walker HOLLOWAY.

I have not come across a newspaper called "Bendigo Gazette", but perhaps you could give more information about the nature of the report of the death of the brothers which you refer to.

These are to only two indexed BDM events I can see up to 1888 pertaining to Joseph HOLLOWAY.

A marriage

HOLLOWAY  Joseph
To BRODERICK Mary
Birth Place Not stated
Year1860
Reg  2630

A death

HOLLOWAY Joseph

Father: James
Mother: Jane
Age 27
Birth Place WIL
Year 1859
Reg Number 1906



Sue