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From: "Lorraine Purcell" <>
Subject: [NSW-ORANGEBATHURST-L] Native Dog Creek
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:34:42 +1100

I am hoping someone in the group may be able to help me. We are fossickers
who go camping in the Oberon area. Recently we were at the fossicking area
on Hopes Creek, just near Native Dog Creek, just south of Essington, and
south east of Rockley This area had been worked ever since the 1860's when
there was a riot between the Chinese and the Europeans on the goldfields.
There are three graves on the property and someone has put some names on
them about 15 years ago. They are in the name of Anne Rooke (d 1881 or 4) ,
baby Rooke (d.1884) and Robert Francis Williams,(d.1880). The paint is
beginning to disintergrate so is hard to read. I have not been able to find
out anything about the people, who they were etc, as they do not seem to be
listed in the BDM CD Roms, and there is very little in the Oberon Library on
the area. I have some articles about the riot from newspaper clippings from
the Oberon newspaper and thats about all. Can anyone assist my search for
knowledge about these people or about the diggings in the area generally?
Many thanks...........Lorraine from sunny Sydney.

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