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From: "sboyd" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Gold at Buninyong
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 19:41:02 +1000
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Hello Carol,
It seems as though we have stirred up hornets nest, John and his brother
Thomas worked as shepherds somewhere near Buninyong, and that bit of info
was on other info that I have, so thought I would see if there was anything
about them or the gold, both later settled around the Horsham area,
Thanks for your help
Regards
Sue
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol and Michael Battishill" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Gold at Buninyong


> Hi Sue,
>
> I have a copy of Peter M. Griffiths "Three Times Blest (A History of
> Buninyong and District 1837-1901)" published by the Buninyong & District
> Historical Society in 1988 and an earlier publication "An Illustrated
> History of Buninyong" published in 1982 by the same Society.
Unfortunately,
> neither of these books mentions your John MOTT.
>
> The claim to being the first to discover gold goes to Thomas HISCOCK, a
> local blacksmith, on 8 August 1851 at a site "believed to be some hundred
> yards north of the memorial obelisk later erected on the
> Buninyong-Sebastopol Road, just east of the Buninyong Cemetery, and the
> gully running north has always been known as Hiscock's Gully".
>
> Hope I haven't dampened your enthusiasm :-) Was John MOTT a Buninyong
> resident?
>
> Good luck,
>
> Carol Battishill from Warner's Bay in New South Wales - researching George
> COLEMAN (among others) an early settler in Buninyong who 'apparently'
> arrived there after a seven year 'holiday' in VDL.
>
>
>
>
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