by Cemetery Admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Stories
BCO-JAB-1-105-53 Sarah Bell was born at Scarsdale, Victoria, and trained as a nurse at the Ballarat District hospital for three years. During World War One she enlisted at the age of 33 into the 1st Australian General Hospital. Her next of kin was her mother Mary Bell...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Stories
Mary Morrison was living in Ballarat at the time she signed the Women’s Petition. She was born in 1863 in a small gold-mining settlement not far from Ballarat and close by father worked at the diggings at Dolly’s Creek. Due to ill health as a miner, he was...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Stories
BCO-HX-04-1-105-11-04 Mary Sutton married Richard Henry Sutton who founded a music firm in a tent on the Ballarat goldfield in 1854. After a short stint as a miner he had found that playing a homemade concertina in his tent at night attracted crowds and he...
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