Ghosts of the Goldfields Index

Ghosts of the Goldfields: Pioneer Diggers and settlers on the Turon

By Henry H. Neary

Originally printed Sydney: Merritt, 1940

Reprinted 1983

Indexed by Matt Hall

 

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Pages
A.J.S. Bank  at Sunny Corner 31
Alluvial Digger, The 183
Anderson ,(miner), Mount David 27
Anderson, (station owner), Macquarie River 22
Arrow Family, Mount David 30
Aubery, Edward, Mrs 140
Bailey Family 58,105
Baker, Wattle Flat 23
Bathurst Courthouse  and Gaol, The Old 158
Bathurst, Entrance to 77,79
Beath, R. (pub) Church Hill 115
Bell, Mrs, (hotel) Stewart Town 134
Bell’s Creek 21
Benyon, William (farmer) Bigga 153
Big Oakey 18
Bloomer, (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Blue Duck, The 19,20
Boon, (police constable), Sunny Corner 34
Botrill Family, Wattle Flat 163
Bow, John (bushranger) 153,154
Boyle, Bartholomew 57
Bragg, (butcher) 134
Brailey, Wattle flat 119
Brideson, Commissioner (district magistrate) 140
Bright, Bill (warder), Bathurst Jail 41
Bright, David (miner) 41
Bright, John (miner), Wattle Flat 40
Bright’s House, home of John Bright, Wattle Flat 40
Broad, Luther 64
Brockwell, (miner), Big Oakey 18
Brooks 58
Broughton, Right Rev. Dr. William Grant, D.D. 124,125
Brown, Fred (time-keeper), Sunny Corner 36
Bryant , Albert (butcher), Sunny Corner 34
Bryant, Walter (butcher), Sunny Corner 34
Burke, (bushranger) 150,153
Busby, Dr., Bathurst 154
Butler, Boyd & Co., The Little Marvel 29
Butters, R. (miner), Surface Hill 15
Byers, Hill End 25
 Caledonia, The 17
Campbell 153
Campbell, Dr. 152
Campbell, W., Whalen’s Hill 18
Candrick Family, Wattle Flat 163
Candrick, Tom, known as Tom the Roadman 142
Capheratta 17
Carmichael 58
Carr, G.E. (hotel), Sunny Corner 34
Carroll, Michael, Hoolahan’s Farm 23
Chair, Dudley de, Sir  (N.S.W. Governor) 128
Charleston, K. Mr. (manager), Sunny Corner Mine 31
Charlton, (mine manager), Sunny Corner 36
Chow Flat 21
Clarke, G., Red Bank 19
Cleland, John ,Reverend (Presbyterian Minister) 127
Clyne, Dan, M.L.A. 45,46,48,57
Clyne, Mrs 57
Codrington, Constable 86-89
Codrington, Mrs 88
Codrington, Robert 88
Codrington, The Shooting of 86,88
Collits 152
Commercial Bank, Sunny Corner 34
Conolly & Parker, (butchers) Mount David 30
Conolly, Reverend Father 125
Constable Nelson Monument 155
Coobang Mick 150
Corbett, Father (Parish Priest) Wattle Flat 122
Corney, James, Crudine 50
Cortis, Dr. ( parliamentarian) 130
Cougherty, John (miner) Ironbarks 133
Cox, Red Bank 19
Coyle, Pat (driver, Cobb & Co) 39
Coyle, Pat, Mrs 39
Coyle, Tom (driver, Cobb & Co) 39
Coyle, W.T., The Hon. Judge, Sofala 39,45,46,47
 Crawford Home, The 40
Crawford, Charley (miner), The Caledonia, The Frenchman 17,18
Crawford, Charley, Wattle Flat 40
Crawford, Eliza, Wattle Flat 40
Crawford, Jack, Wattle Flat 40
Crawford, Sam (miner), The Caledonia 17
Crawford, Sam, Wattle Flat 40
Crick, W.P. 130
Crozier, David (miner), Mount David 27
Crozier, Lennox (miner), The Little Marvel 29
Cummings, C.  (store), Mount David 30
Cummings, Mrs 39
Cuthbert, D. (store), Mount David 30
Dacey (hotel) Wattle Flat 141
Dalveen (bye-election candidate) 130
Dam Creek 24
Davidson, Davie (miner), Reilly’s Creek 17
Dawn 184
Dawson, Tom 115
Day, Bill “Bill the Blacksmith” (shop) Sofala 163-167
Daylight Creek 36
De Clanet’s Hotel, Bathurst 151
Dean, Senator (politician), Wyagdon 45
Deason, (miner), Donolly, Vic. 26
Deaton, John 107
Deep Lead, The 20
Dein Family, Wattle Flat 163
Dein, A.K. Senator 46,162
Derome, Adam 106
 Diggers’ Arms, The 114
Doctor Curr’s Nugget, Louisa Creek 25
Donnelly (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Douglas (baker)  Wattle Flat 119
Drake, (builder of first Pacific blast furnace), Sunny Corner 35
Draper, (hotel), Sunny Corner 34
Dreamland of Memories 182
Dunlop 58
Dunn (hotel) Wattle Flat 141
Dunn, Charlie (boxer), Wattle Flat 43
Dunn, John (bushranger) 151
Eccles, John, Wattle Flat 23
Eccles, Old Man 85
Eggleston 58
Eldridge, Bert,( hotel, butcher’s shop, blacksmith’s), Wattle Flat 39
Eldridge, G., Uncle Tom 19
Eldridge, J., Uncle Tom 19
Eldridge, Waddell, Mini & Brockwell (miners), Big Oakey 18
Emmett, Joe (miner), Gilmore’s Lead 21
Enterprise Hotel, Mount David 30
Euston, Felix (miner) Wattle Flat 66
Evans, (manager), Sunny Corner 36
Eyres, (manager), Sunny Corner 36
Fagan, Sergeant (policeman), Sofala 89
Felthouse Family, Mount David 30
Fisher, Doctor, Hill End 64
Fitzgerald Family, Mount David 30
Fitzgerald, (teacher) Mount David School 29
Fitzgerald, Dan 42
Fitzgerald, Tom 42
Flynn, Jack, (baker), Sunny Corner 34
Fogarty, Jim (boxer), Wattle Flat 43,44,45
Foley, Larry (boxer),Turon 43,44
Fordyce, Alexander (bushranger) 153,154
Foster (hotel) Wattle Flat 141
Foster Brothers 85
Foster, F.J. (politician), Wattle Flat 45,46,48,131
Foster, G., Solitary Flat 20
Foster, John (miner), Red Bank 19
 Frenchman, The 18
Gaffney, Mrs 25
Gaffney, Paddy (miner), Crawford Creek 24
Game,  Philip, Sir (N.S.W. Governor) 40,128
Gardiner, (baker), Sunny Corner 34
Gardiner, Frank (bushranger) 149,151,152,153
Garrett, Tom 90-93
Gellard (miner), Gilmore’s Lead 21
Gentles, (manager), Sunny Corner 36
Gibbon Family, Mount David 30
Gilbert, Johnny (bushranger) 149,150,151,152
Giles, Edward 141
 Giles, Sergeant (police station) Sofala 139
Gilmore (miner), Gilmore’s Lead & Sofala 21
Goddard, Joe (boxer), Tamberoora 43
Golden Spud, The 23
Grater (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Great Nameless Nugget, Ballarat, Victoria 26
Green Gully 60
Green Man 24
Gregor, J., Reverend (Presbyterian Minister) 127
Grice (miner), Gilmore’s Lead 21
Grimwood’s (store), Wattle Flat 14,119,163
Guard, Ned (store, hotel) 24
Gylmandyke 33
Hackett, Mick 114
Hales A.G. “Smiler” (mining editor “Sunday Times”) 131
Hall, Ben (bushranger) 149,150-152
Hall, Edgar (manager), Sunny Corner 36
Halloran (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Halloran, Aubrey, Wattle Flat 42
Hargraves, E.H. (miner) 53
Hatfield (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Havenham, Frank (hotel), Sunny Corner 34
Havenham, Harry, (band conductor), Sunny Corner 34
Hawke 58
Herriett, Bill (miner), Jews’ Creek 20
Hickenbotham, George 141
Hickenbotham, Walter (horse trainer), Wattle Flat 42,43
Highfield farm 60
Hill, Tom (bullock-team driver) 39,124
Hodges 58
Hodges, (miner), Surface Hill 15
Hodges, Bill (shepherd) 105
Hodges, Charley 71
Hodges, Jack (butcher) Wattle Flat 104-5
Holes, Senior Constable 152
Hollis (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Holman, (post office), Sunny Corner 34
Holman, Joe, old time whip of Sunny Corner line 32
Holman, Joseph (mail contractor), Sunny Corner 34
Holterman’s Nugget 25,26
Homes Brothers (miners), Capheratta 17
Hoolahan  (hotel), Wattle Flat 141
Hoolahan, Jack (politician) 45
Hoolahan, Michael, Hoolahan’s Farm 22
Hope Family, Mount David 30
How Family, Mount David 30
Hume, John (teacher), Wattle Flat 117
Hung, Ah (miner), Wattle Flat 41
Hurley, William, M.P. (general manager), Sunny Corner 36
Hutchins, John, (manager) Mount David 29
Hyland (hotel), Wattle Flat 141
Ireland, M.J.,  Mrs (Ireland’s house &  store) 39
Jack the Frenchman, (miner), Uncle Tom 19
Jarvie, Major & Company, Big Oakey 18
Jews’ Creek 20
Johnnie Mack’s Pub 141
Johnston 58
Johnston, Constable (police station) Sofala 139,140
Kearns, Constable (police station) Ilford 156
Keddle, Major 64
Keeley Brothers, Red Bank 19
Keightly 152,153
Kelly 151
Kessey, James (hotel), Mount David 30
Knight, Hamilton, M.L.A., Green Gully 45,46,47,49
Kum Tow, Donolly, Victoria 26
Lamond, Jimmy (boxer), Sunny Corner 35
Lamont & Co. (Americans) 36
Lang,  John Dunmore, Dr. (Presbyterian Minister) 127
Lannigan, Mick (miner), The Little Marvel 29
 Last Giant Gum, The 188
Laton, (time-keeper), Sunny Corner 35
Laylor, Peter, Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Vic. 55
Lester, George 108-109
Lester, Mary 108-109
Lewis Ponds, Summer Hill Creek 53
Lister, John, (miner) 53
Little Oakey 15,19,20
Lonsdale 131
Lowe, Jock, a colorful personality of early Wattle Flat, (builder) 67,68,69,117,122
Lowry (bushranger) 153
Lowry, H. Reverend 67
Lowry, Mary, “Mother Felix” (prospector & miner) Wattle Flat 60-67
Macdonald, Mrs. (newspaper editor), Sunny Corner 35
Machattee, Dr. , Bathurst 144,154
Mackie (telegraph boy) Wattle Flat 119
Macpeak, Red Bank 19
Maloney (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Maloney, Bill (mail coach driver) Wattle Flat 119
Mann, C., Uncle Tom 19
Manns , Henry (bushranger) 153
Marsden, Bishop (First Anglican Bishop of Bathurst) 121,122,123
Martin (hotel) Wattle Flat 141
Martin Family, Mount David 30
Martin, Ben (jackaroo) 92
Martin, W.H. (manager of Mount David Mine) 28,29
McAtamney, J. (hotel) Wattle Flat 129,141
McCarthy, Dan, hotel, Church Hill 115
McCarthy’s (pub) Church Hill 114,115,117
McDonahoe, Andrew (hotel) 141
McDonald, Johnny (butcher), Sunny Corner 34
McDougal, Constable (police station) Sofala 139,140
McGlone, Detective 153
McKenney, J. & Son (miners), Whalen’s Hill 18
McKenny, Bright’s House, Wattle Flat 41
McKenzie, Angus (miner), Little Oakey 15
McMinn Family 151
McPhail (schoolteacher), Sunny Corner 34
Meltons Sheep Station 82
Memories 186
Methodist Church building 119
Meyer (store) Summer Hill Creek 53
Middle Creek 18
Miller,  Wattle Flat 23
Milltown Hotel 131
Mini, (miner), Big Oakey 18
Mitchell’s Creek 33
Moorhouse (post office & store) Wattle Flat 117
Moran (schoolmaster), Sunny Corner 34
Morgan, (mine owner), Sunny Corner 35
Morgan, Dan (bushranger) 149,153
Morgan, Thomas (Miner), Surface Hill 15
Morning 175
Morris (hotel) Wattle Flat 141
Mount David Mine 27,28
Mount David School 29
Mount Kate 21
Moyle & Reilly, (mine owners), Little Oakey 19
Moyle, Grandfather (Mine Manager), Skid Hollow 18
Moyle, Jack (miner), Spring Creek 17
Murphy, Jack 71
Murray, Charles (hotel), Sunny Corner 34
Murray, J., Sunny Corner 37
Musgrave Park 60
Musgrave, Mrs. 84, 100, 101
Musgrave, William a.k.a. Thompson, Bill 98-101
My Mother 179
Myring (manager), Big Oakey 18
Nancarrow Family (bee-farmers) 60
Nancarrow, Richard (bee-farmer), Wyagdon 59
Neary, Walter (carrier) 143
Nelson, Constable 151
Nevada 36
Night 173
Nuggety Hill 19
O’Brian (hotel), Wattle Flat 141
O’Brien, Harry, Surface Hill 17
O’Connor, Dan (boxer), Sunny Corner 35
O’Donahoe, Andrew (builder), Wattle Flat 141
O’Donnell, Christy 71
O’Grady, (doctor), Sunny Corner 35
O’Meally (bushranger) 150,153
O’Neill Family, Mount David 30
Oakey Creek 24
Oakey Ridge 111
Oates, (miner), Donolly, Vic. 26
Old Bathurst 178
 Old Bush Track, The 187
Outlaw Joe (bushranger) Wattle Flat 158,159
Oxenham, Harry 144
Oxenham, Humphrey 42
Paddy Lackey Mine, North of Sunny Corner 37
Palmer, H.A. Reverend (minister) Sofala 125
Paul, W.H. 130
Pechey, A. J. ( farmer & bye-election candidate) 130
Pedrotta (gun shop) Bathurst 150
Peisley, Jack (bushranger) 151,153
Peterson (bee-farmer), Wattle Flat 58,59
Peterson, (German carpenter), Sofala 38
Pickering, Reverend (Methodist Minister) Wattle Flat 119
Pidding, Tom (hotel) Church Hill 115
Pierce, John, (Manager) Mount David 29
Piper, Piper’s Creek 22
Piper’s Creek 22
Pittendrigh, Stiles &Twine, designers & builders 119
Poe, San (bushranger) Sofala, Tamberoora 154
Poet, Miss (schoolteacher), Sunny Corner 34
Polding, Right Rev. Dr. John Bede, O.S.B., D.D. (Catholic Bishop) 125,126
Post Office Hotel, locally known as Johnnie Mack’s Pub, Wattle Flat 141
Press Family, Mount David 30
Presswick, Maggie (nurse-girl) Sofala 39
Preston, Constable (police station) Ilford 156,157
Price, Jim (police constable) Sunny Corner 34
Prime (miner), Gilmore’s Lead 21
Prospect Inn, The 115
Pyvis, Constable (police station)Sofala 157
Quinlan (station-hand) Wangaratta 153
Quinn, Rt. Rev. Dr., First Catholic Bishop of Bathurst 120,122
Ray, Hamilton (hotel) Wattle Flat 129
Red Bank 19
Reilly & Moyle, (mine owners), Little Oakey 19
Reilly (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Reilly Family (miners), Middle Creek 18
Reilly’s Creek 17
Roberts, (hotel), Sunny Corner 34
Roberts, G.J. (bye-election candidate) 130
Roseby, Detective 157
Ross, Alex (bushranger) 154
Ross, Charles (bushranger) 154
Royal Hotel, Sofala 39
Royal Hotel, Wattle Flat 141
Rushton, Robert, Wattle Flat 23
Rushton, Tom, Wattle Flat 23
Ryan, Albert 119
 School Creek, The 188
Scott Brothers, Sunny Corner 33
Scott, Andrew (Ireland’s house & store) 39
Semple, Hon. Robert (Minister for Public Works & Railways in NZ) 45,46,48,162
Sewell Family, Mount David 30
Sewell, Harry (baker), Mount David 30
Shadows of the Old Church 185
Shadows of the Past 177
Sharp Family, Mount David 30
Shaw, Harry, (manager), The Little Marvel 29
Shaw’s Gully 24
Sheep Station Point 51
Silver King 36
Sisters  of St. Joseph (school) Wattle Flat 122
Skid Hollow 18
Slippery Jack,(bushranger) & capture of 154,155,156,157
Smeed, “Genial Jack” 39
Smeed, John, Sofala 38,39,122
Smith (bye-election candidate) 130
Smith (hotel) Wattle Flat 141
Smythe, K. ,Reverend (Presbyterian Minister) 127
Snape, (hotel), Sunny Corner 34
Sofala Police Station 139
Sofala, Commissioners’ Hill 140
Sofala, The Footbridge at 137
Solitary Flat 19
Spring Creek 17
St. George, (doctor), Sunny Corner 35
Stevens Family, Mount David 30
Stevens, J. (store), Mount David 30
Stevenson, Henry 154
Stevenson, Senior Sergeant 153
Stewart Family, Mount David 30
Stewart, Henry  (Ireland’s house & store) 39
Storey, J. & Son (Miners), Capheratta 17,
Storey, Joe 80
Storey, Mrs., Wattle Flat 23
Storeys 58
Sunny Corner 36
Sunny Corner Band 32
Surface Hill 15,16
Sutcliffe, William a.k.a. “Holy Billy” 119
Sutton, (carpenter) Wattle Flat 40
Suttor,  J.B. 84, 113,122,145
Suttor, F. B. (parliamentarian) 130,131
Suttor, J.B. Mrs 124
 Swimming Pool, The 188
Taylor (hotel) Wattle Flat 141
The Little Marvel 29
Therry, Reverend Father 125
Thompson, A.G. (solicitor) 131
Thompson, Bill a.k.a. Musgrave, William 98-101
Thunderbolt  (bushranger) Uralla 149,153
Tilly, Aaron (miner), Surface Hill 15
Titus, Jack (boxer), Sunny Corner 35
Tomkinson, (post office), Sunny Corner 34
Tonkin, (free trade member) 131
Trewrenic, (mine manager), Sunny Corner 36
Turon Gold Fields, The 182
Turon River, The Iron Structure over 137
Uncle Tom 19
Vane, Johnny (bushranger) 150,153
Vardy (hotel) Cook’s Vale Creek, near Goulburn 153
Varley, Hotelier, Sunny Corner 33
Vaughan, Charles 124
Vidler (Miner), Surface Hill 15
Village of Mount David 27
Waddell, (miner), Big Oakey 18
Walker, Constable 153
Walters, (postmaster), Wattle Flat 40,119
Waters (hotel) Church Hill 114
Wattle Flat Amateur Dramatic Club 1893 168
Wattle Flat Catholic Church 120,121
Wattle Flat Church of England 121
Wattle Flat Cricketers, early nineties 169
Wattle Flat Methodist Church 119
Wattle Flat Post Office 117
Wattle Flat Public School 116,117
Wattle Flat, The Convent 121
Webb, Paddy (politician) 50
Weinhardts, (hotel), Sunny Corner 34
Welcome Nugget, Ballarat, Victoria 26
Welcome Stranger, Donolly, Victoria 26
Whalen’s Hill 18
Where Fond Memories Stray 172
White, A. (brick maker) Wyagdon 122
White, Alex 57,58,104,144
White, Granny 57
Wide-Awake, The Arrest of (bushranger) 154,157,158
Wiedersehn, (manager) Mount David 27
Wilde (hotel) Wattle Flat 141
Wilkinson, Sunny Corner 37
Williams (miner), Williams’ Claim 17
Williams (teacher) Wattle Flat 117
Williams, “Slogger”, Hoolahan’s Farm 22
Williams, Bill “Slogger” (boxer), Wattle Flat 43
Williams’ Claim, Casey’s Hill 17
Willow Glen 60
Wilson 58
Wilson, (tradesman), Sofala 39
Wilson, Jim 100
Winter, W.H. “Billy”, (cornet player, furnace builder), Sunny Corner 34, 36
Winters, (mine owner), Sunny Corner 35
Woodgate, (mine manager), Sunny Corner 36
Wright, Sergeant (police station) Sunny Corner 34,156,157
Wyagdon Hill 161
Young, W.W. (railway engine driver) (hotel) 131