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1 Photographs
2 Stockaders present
3 From the Leader
4 Account in the Freeman's Joounal
5 Sources

Photographs

50th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade; Michael Carroll is waving the flag

Group of Old Eureka Stockaders, united ages 2414.
Photograph number 5 appeared in the Melbourne Leader 10 December 1905 page 35
Names attributed by Ballarat Heritage Services:

Back row left to right: David Main (Morwell area); Michael Carroll (Ballarat); Carl Trompf (Maryborough); _________?; ? Menallick (Brunswick); W. Braidi (Sebastopol); W. Hanrahan (Timor); _________?; _________?
Second Back row left to right: _________?; James Lang (Bangerong); E. O'Mahoney (Warragul); _________?; Alexander 'Sandy' McLaren; _________?; _________?; A. McNair
Third Back row left to right: _________?; John Kemp (Morwell area); _________?; ; George Firmin (Morwell); _________?; Isaac Haywood (Morwell Area); Robert Batty (Havelock); _________?; _________?
Front row left to right: _________?; J. Wilburd (Bathurst, NSW); Laurence C. Holmes (Arawata); Michael Tuohy; A. Third (Bolamwel; _________?^[1]^[2]

Stockaders present

Men mentioned:

James Oddie
E. Rankin (Beeac),
A, Sturrick (Melbourne),
J. Ashburner (Armadale),
N. Batty (Havelock),
A. Third (Bairnsdale),
J. O'Brien (Bald Hills),
C. Tropmf (Maryborough),
John Haig (Berringa),
E. Jones (Newport),
J. Murphy (Ganman, N.S.W.),
H. James (Geelong),
W. Dumbrill (Albury),
C. Knight (Lal Lal),
J. Earles (Ballarat),
W. Fisher (Creswick),
Beattie (Melbourne),
A. Osborne (Melbourne),
Jas. Long (Warrnambool),
J. Kays (Melbourne),
J. Watts (Warracknabeal),
J. Wyburd (Bathurst),
G. Shields (Camperdown),
J. Stewart (Kyneton),
M. O'Mahony (Gippsland),
J. Evans (Melbourne),
T. Manhallack (Brunswick),
G. G. Firman (Morwell),
J. Richardson (Wahgunyah),
D. Maine (Morwell),
J. Madden (Geelong),
J. Kemp (Morwell),
L. Holmes (Gippsland.)

From the Leader

From the Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Saturday 3 December 1904, page 36

THE EUREKA JUBILEE.

The jubilee of the Eureka Stockade inci dent is to be celebrated at Ballarat on Saturday. The Premier announced in the Legislative Assembly recently that he would grant free passes to the survivors of the Eureka outbreak to enable them to take part in the celebration. Mr. John Hanrahan, of Warragul, describes himself as one of the survivors, and has sent in an application for a pass. In his letter he says: — "I was there from the March previous (the rebellion took place in December 1854), and lived with my parents, brothers and sister within 20 chains of the barricade that the diggers threw up to protect themselves. I had two cousins wounded there. One had two bullets in his thigh, and was killed afterwards at the No. 2 shaft of the Band of Hope by being pulled into the poppet heads. The other had a bayonet wound between the two shoulders and a cut under the left breast. He died at Collingwood two years ago of miners' disease. . . . At 10 o'clock on Sunday morning (December, 1854) I went with my sister and female cousin to look for her brother, who was wounded and taken by the police. I then counted ten or twelve dead men, charred after being killed through being laid, in or close to the stores when they were set on fire. I went with another boy to fetch back Father Smith's horse after conveying Mr. Peter Lalor out to Warrenheip when he lost his arm. I mention these incidents to convince you that I was there. I cannot refer you to any prominent men who knew me then, as they are all dead." "All dead," repeated Mr. Bent meditat ingly, as he concluded reading the letter, "Yes, they are nearly all dead, poor fellows."

The Premier signed an order authorising; the issue of a pass to Mr. Hanrahan.^[3]

Account in the Freeman's Joounal

From the Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW), Saturday 24 December 1904, page 13:

Ballarat Revisited.

AFTER AN ABSENCE OF 44 YEARS.

(By A GIPPSLAND CORRESPONDENT.)

Having received an invitation from that sterling patriot, the father of Ballarat Mr. James Oddie (who has built the memorial to Peter Lalor, the lender and dictator of the Eureka Stockade), to come to Ballarat, if possible, to participate in its fiftieth anniversary, I will give you a condensed report of my trip after an absence of 44 years. ing of the first December, I met Mr John Ballarat *£* f1?1'^ president and eecre railway f atio ^ XI *, hearti'ly welcomed. tory ot tl»c oo mm*. | m^morphosed, us .f^ii*ofAl!:iklin'(M,«ieL«™phad^ stedtn its trajrfojrX to the Stockade, /H ThS t SS it conjured up! what a host 01 ,. undOT unjust and

Brave sons --'~^~to desperatlon by tyrannical laws, go.« month for h. fleAVt^LXico § Mx 'J^es Oddie. the some res ia™TO or fa h been seVeral patr'alSvo Sd £ iUW the most prominent times Al*yo .me ah comm;Unity could r!fc10116 /received ^gracious reception from v* ind spent a most enjoyable evening ^StS ^Se H^. AlfredDenJjn, «-_. -.r- ?..!._.. ,,,v.qii /n\p ol the i^rtv i'«i

ErLrrthfkon^r ffi^is tt my Cther had invited both him and K? EdSind Barton and other Commonwealth delegates in London to a banquet at Kil laOnySunday, 4th Hot.. I *«* to St. Pat rifi CatiSral, a magnificent, building, Sed mainly through the untiring efforts XfSdtf the late Rented Bishop Moore In the afternoon thousands were to be seen making their way to the Stockade, a drag for the old pioneers and vehicles of all de Eorintiona. There were several speakers, in cluding Dr. Lnlor, son of the immortal Peter. On Monday the Mayor of Ballarat East in vited us to a Civic reception. The Mayor said he was pleased to see such a gathering. It was unique in the 'history, of the fat ate/ and ho questioned whether such an assemblage had ever been brought together before throughout the length and breadth of Austra la. The diggers, he said, had suffered tre mendous indignities in the early fifties, and had those in authority exhibited a little more, forethought the riot would never have taken place. He 'ivae pleased to =;ee the old men, and he hoped the rising generation would do as much for Victoria tvs they had done. The toast of "The Stockaders"' was pro-posed by the Mayor, and was lustily cheered by the old pioneers. Mr. James Ashburner, who was a shipmate of Mr. Peter Lalor, and was one of the number that covered him with slabs after he was shot, responded. Your correspondent also replied in reminiscent 6traiiii say;ng the fight commenced between 3 and 4 o'clock on a peaceable Sunday morning. The scarlet dye of England's troops was observed ere the God of 'day had risen. The diggers had hardly time to fall in, when a withering volley was poured from the sol diers. The d:ggors returned it. The Com mander-in-Chief. LaJlor, fell early in the figiht. There was never such valour d splayed as by the diggers, who were little better than half the num'ber of the soldiers and police com bined, the former being possessed of only rudo appliances of 'war. whereas the mlitnry had up-to-date equipment. It might not be out of place to mention (he said) that when the battle was raging.and 'when it was at its -height, the: word 'Vinegar Hill!' rang out loud nv.d shr'll and a young Ir a)\ man stepped out, and S'ng out: 'Cl'ontarf and Fontenoy!' and down came Captain Wise. The alert eye of the young Irishman could discern that the defence was liopeSess. He bounded over the flim.sv barricade, and took to the bush. Like 'Junius.' all endeavours to identify him have prove futile. At the moment Billy MeJlody, wlio had. been a lieutenant of the Californian Rangers, was active in the fray. He was afterwards Mar shal when thie- Irishmen marched at Hokitiki, West Coast of New Zealand, during the me morable Father Larkin episode. Mr. E. D. Mahoney proposed a vote of thanks to the Mayor, which was seconded by --Ir. Stewart, of Ballarat. The veterans were entertained in numerous pleasant ways by -hi-. James Oddie. Whenever Sturt-street was passed, the monument to Peter Lai or was greeted with cheer after cheer. It subsequently devolved on Mr. O'Mahony -to propose a vote of thanks to Mr. Oddie, which he. did 'with a rdHfih, remarking that his noble action in sparing no expanse to make the affair a success and their stay in tlie GoWen Cty pleasant and enjoyable, as well as endeavouring to commemorate the chivalry and noble daring o.f the r-or;od. was creditable to the broad-minded English gentleman die was.

Mr. LaJlor, whom I knew well, possessed the manners of an accomplished gentleman. On his election as loader of the miners his words were noble. He said : 'I make no pre tension to .mi'litairy knowledge. I have not presumption to assume tha chief command ,any more than any other man who means wel'l in- the cause of the diggers. However, if you appoint me your 'Comma nder-in-Ohief I shall not .shrink. I moan to do my duty as a man. I tell you., gentlemen, if I once pledge my hand: to the diggers I will neither defile it with treachery, nor render it contemptible with cowardice.' His character was strengthened by the Jradvhons. of his famous kindred. The O'La lors were princes of Dakradio, now County Down, and were of the Prian race of Ulster, and wore of the same descent as the 0Moores, princes of Loix. They afterwards held Large yossei-sions in the Barony of Sfcradbally, ltiie(-ri'e County. Their nobles were fierce in battle.^[4]

Sources

↑ THE EUREKA STOCKADE JUBILEE CELEBRATION, BALLARAT (1904, December 10). Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), p. 35. Retrieved September 13, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196716243
↑ Victorian Collections https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/59199ab7d0cea50910823900 Accessed 13 September 2022
↑ THE EUREKA JUBILEE. (1904, December 3). Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), p. 36. Retrieved September 13, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196717232
↑ Ballarat Revisited. (1904, December 24). Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), p. 13. Retrieved September 13, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111301608