Peter Glover

[majm]

Agh, thanks Ros,

Perhaps janglover could ask for threads to be merged.

ADD
RChat's Resources Board for Australia may be useful 

..... If anyone has any idea where I might start looking I'd really appreciate it.
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http://www.rootschat.com/forum/australia-resources-offers/

Cheers,  JM

[janglover]

Apologies for the duplication. Could you be kind enough to merge the threads as majm suggests. Thanks

[rosball]

Have you searched again for his death in Ireland Jan?   

The most likely reason for trying to contact him after all these years (and advertising in overseas papers) is that there was a considerable (?)  inheritance there for him.   Perhaps he had enough money  to return to Ireland to claim his inheritance and died there ??

regards,
   Ros

[janglover]

No luck finding a death record here for him Rosball. Although that's not unusual as lots of deaths were never registered. The search continues.....

[barryd]

If this link is to the correct Victoria Gold Mining Company it does not seem to have been very successful.

http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/victoria.htm

[janglover]

Thanks Barry,
That's a really interesting article. It really makes me think that somebody, somewhere might have been exaggerating their 'success'.

[rusted]

There was a Victoria Gold Mining Co in Bendigo. George Lansell owned several fabulously rich Gold mines in Bendigo around Victoria Hill.
Looking for mine names can be a bit of a minefield (groan) as names were used and reused all over the place. Trove might help with prospectuses meetings of shareholders etc. for large mines, but a lot of mines were only small affairs and were here and then gone with hardly a trace.

A bit more research and the actual name was the Victoria Quartz mine or Victoria Hill Quartz mine, renamed to Lansells180

[majm]

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01har/

Looks like the company was wound up back in November 1869,

Beechworth Court of Mines
Re Victoria Gold Mining Company (Registered), Gaffney’s Creek

A Dividend of 20s per pound will be payable at my office upon all debts duly proved by affidavit before the Court of Mines, held at Beechworth on the 18th instant, on Monday the 29th day of November, 1869.
Total liabilities proved    £663 16 4
Total Assets recovered   £980 12 0
…….
Victoria Government Gazette No. 60, page 1753
Friday October 29, 1869

(there were 20 shillings to the pound, so there were funds left over and these were further distributed pro rata to the shareholders after expenses paid, so the proven creditors were 'paid in full' ). 

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http://www.rootschat.com/forum/australia-resources-offers/

The Victoria Government Gazette is available via the Victoria resources board that is found via the above link.   Free to search, each to download pdf, and great search engine.

Cheers,  JM

[rusted]

Looking at the Bendigo map of the period there were at least half a dozen mines with variations of Victoria in their name, Victoria regia, Victoria Gold mining Co, Western Victoria Gold mining Co. etc etc.

Link.   http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MAIN&reset_config=true&docId=SLV_VOYAGER698057

Have a look at map 3 for an idea of the task, its the Long Gully/ Ironbark (Bendigo) area, North is at the right of the map. A little way down the left side you will see the Victoria GMCo and if you look to the right you will see lots of variations of mines with Victoria in the name.
It is an incomplete set and doesn't cover the central or Eastern part of the goldfield.

Trib on a mine means it is being worked by tributers, miners who worked someone elses mine for a direct share in anything they found rather than wages, usually when money to keep the mine running was getting tight.