Valleys of Gold: The Goldfields Story, 1851-1861, Book 1
by Brian Hodge
Cambaroora Star Publications, Penshurst, NSW
Indexed by Annette Sheen Feb 2011
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Description |
Page |
| ——–Fritz, (surname not known; baker turned miner Sofala) | 47 |
| Agnew, Rev. (Carcoar) | 48 |
| Anglican Church Sofala | 43 illus, 48 |
| Apsley Mission (Wellington) | 35, 36 |
| Arthur’s Inn, Bathurst (where Hargraves held public meeting) | 12 |
| Australian Gold Company | 12 |
| Australian, The | 22 |
| Balcombe, Tom (artist) | 43illus, 46, 48 |
| Banks, Joseph (Capt, Cook’s botanist on the Endeavour | 19 |
| Barlow, Howard (miner of California) | 47 |
| Bathurst Free Press | 12,15, 22, 27, 35, 38, 42, 48, 49, 50 |
| Battye, Captain | 31 |
| Blackfield (miner from Parramatta) | 47 |
| Blackman | 20 |
| Bligh Governor (supported by George Suttor) | 20 |
| Bloomfield, Mr (licensed to sell spirits; 1851 Sofala) | 48 |
| Blow, C. (one of a party of prospectors from Mudgee 1851) | 37, 38 |
| Bodkin, Mr (licensed to sell spirits; 1851 Sofala) | 48 |
| Boldrewood. Rolf (author of ‘A Miner’s Right) | 37 |
| Bowler, Ernest (Bathurst) | 12, 21 |
| Bowman, (Assistant Commissioner; Dec 1851 Meroo) | 41, 42 |
| Brant , Mr. (licensee of Royal Victoria Restaurant Sofala) | 48 |
| Brisbane, Governor | 20 |
| Broughton, Delves (sub commissioner) | 42 |
| Browne, T. (Sofala; author of “Robbery under Arms) | 48 |
| Brucedale (property of the Suttors at Clear Creek) | 17, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, map 31, 32, 35 |
| Buchanan, James (first clerk at Tambaroora Creek) | 38, 40 |
| Bumbo, (aboriginal – “fed by Dr Kerr’s bounty ….more than a century old”) | 18 |
| Burgess, Mr (first postmaster at Sofala ) | 47 |
| Burrendong (location of a rural property of the Suttors) | 17, 27, 42, 49, 50 |
| Carwinyan (property of J.B. Richards at Kelso) | 21 |
| Catholic Church (north side of river at Sofala) | 48 |
| Church at Ophir | 16 illus |
| Clapham (employee of Suttors) | 27 |
| Clarke, W.B. (wrote an account of all gold discoveries before 1851) | 9, 14 |
| Coffin, Robert (Yankee Whaler arrived 1854 at Turon ) | 32, 47,48 |
| Cole, S.A. (miner Dirt Holes -Tambaroora) | 38 |
| Colonial Gold Co. (Had lease of quartz veins near the junction of Lewis Ponds and Summerhill Creeks) | 25 |
| Coombing (property of M.L.C. Mr Iceley) | 12 |
| Cooper, Mr. (member of Select Committee on the police Regulation Bill 1852) | 49 |
| Cox, (Blue Mountains Road engineer) | 20, 31, 45 |
| Cox, C. (one of a party of prospectors from Mudgee 1851) | 37, 38 |
| Cox, George (“3rd son of Blue Mountains road engineer”) | 15, 17, 20, 37, 38 |
| Cox, V. (one of a party of prospectors from Mudgee 1851) | 37, 38 |
| Cruickshank, Mrs. (cousin of Hargraves at Wellington) | 11 |
| Cummings, William (neighbour of Suttors at Clear Creek; elected member for East Macquarie) | 21, 22, 37 |
| Daniel (young aboriginal employee of Dr, Kerr) | 18, 35, 36 |
| Darling, Governor | 20 |
| Davis, (owner of hotel in Sofala, Dec 1851) | 48 |
| Davison, Simpson (miner, Yuba Goldfield, California) | 9, 11,14 |
| Day, Bill (ex-convict) | 32 |
| Dunlop, Eric (wrote article in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Vol 37 | 9 |
| Ellis, Jack (goes by the name “Red”) | 5 |
| Empire | 37 |
| Entwistle, Bob (ticket of leave man) | 20 |
| Erskine, Captain R.N. (of H.M.S “Havannah”; visitor at Turon goldfields 1851 | 17, 27, 45 |
| Eschbach, William (gardener turned miner Sofala) | 47 |
| Evernden, (Bathurst magistrate) | 20 |
| Farrand, William (editor and owner of the Bathurst Free Press) | 22, 35 |
| First Turon nugget (found at Sofala “Commissioners’ Hill” in June) | 27 |
| Fitzroy, Charles (Governor) | 23, 37, 41, 42, 44, 47 |
| Francis, Charlotte (married William Henry Suttor 3rd son of George Suttor) | 21 |
| Gipps Governor (1838) | 22 |
| Glasson, W (author of “Romance of Ophir”) | 23 |
| Glasson’s mine (a copper mine at Cornish settlement nr Bathurst) | 22 |
| Great Nugget Vein Company | 36, 50 |
| Green, Charles, Henry (Assistant Commissioner at Ophir) | 24, 42, 45, 49, 50 |
| Gunther, James Rev (Mudgee) | 48 |
| Gwynn Dr. (Miner, Turon) | 40 |
| Hamilton, Walter (of Bathurst) | 5 |
| Hammond, Mark (miner, Sheep Station Point) | 5, 17 |
| Hardy, John, Richard (first Gold Commissioner at Ophir) | 23, 24, 25, 26 Illus, 31, 33 illus, 40 illus, 41- 44, 42 illus, 45, 47, 48 |
| Hardy, William (brother of John Richard Hardy) | 44 |
| Hargraves, Edward, Hammond (miner) | 9 – 14, 26, 27, 49, 50 |
| Harpur, J.J. (author of an article in the “Empire”) | 37 |
| Harris, Mr. (licensed to sell spirits; 1851 Sofala) | 48 |
| Hawkins, Mr. (Bathurst) | 12, 20, 21, 31 |
| Hector, Captain (2,000 acre grant Nth-west of Bathurst) | 9 |
| Herald | 38 |
| Hereford (Cox’s land grant & property) | 15 |
| Hodge, Harry “Mick” (uncle of author) | 5 |
| Hodge, Roley (of ’Maitland Camp’ Hill End) | 5 |
| Holroyd, A.T.(M.L.C. member for Bathurst) | 45, 49 |
| Holtermann, B.O. (photographer) | 5, 17 |
| Icely, (M.L.C) | 10, 20 |
| Illustrated London News | 27, 30 map |
| Irving, Jemmy (young aboriginal employee of Dr. Kerr) | 18, 35 |
| Johnson, William (Commissioner at Ophir & Sofala) | 25, 26, 38, 41, 42, 49 |
| Johnstone, Major (‘a key rebel’) | 20 |
| Jones, Mr (licensee of Royal Victoria Restaurant Sofala) | 48 |
| Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society | 9 (Vol 37) 11 (Vol 33) |
| Keell, C. (one of a party of prospectors from Mudgee 1851) | 37, 38 |
| Keenan (small farmer on the Upper Turon) | 32 |
| Kerr Hundred Weight | 29 map, 31, 35, 36, 39, 40, 50 |
| Kerr, Dr. W.J. (owner of Wallerwaugh property) | 18, 19, 21, 35, 36, 40 |
| Kerr, Elizabeth (wife of Dr Kerr) | 35 |
| King Essington (Assistant Commissioner Sofala 1851) | 33 illus, 41, 42, 47, 49 |
| King, (M.L.C.) | 42 |
| L’Estrange | 22 |
| Lacy (artist) | 26 illus, 39 illus, 40 illus, 53 illus |
| Lanes, Mr. (property owner) | 42 |
| Lang, Gideon (Herald correspondent to the gold fields) | 38 |
| Lang, Rev John Dunmore | 32, 47, 49 |
| Larkin (2 brothers who played a fiddle and violin) | 17 |
| Lawson, William (blue Mountains conqueror, and Commandant at Bathurst) | 15, 20 |
| Lewis, Richard (Blue Mountains road Superintendant of Cox’s expedition of 1821) | 31 |
| Lewis, W. (one of a party of prospectors from Mudgee 1851) | 37, 38 |
| Lisle, Rev. | 21 |
| Lister, (widow of Captain Lister) | 9, 10, 11, 27 |
| Lister, Captain (of the ship “The Wave of Fortune”) | 9 |
| Lister, John, Hardman, Australia, (son of Captain Lister) | 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 23, 26, 27 |
| London Illustrated Press | 27 |
| Lord, Jemmy (aboriginal in Stutchbury’s party) | 17 |
| Lorenx, Adam (musician turned miner Sofala) | 47 |
| Macdonald, Billy (aboriginal in Stutchbury’s party) | 17 |
| MacGregor, (shepherd who had been exploiting a vein of gold round Wellington) | 10 |
| Machattie, Dr. (Bathurst) | 42 |
| Mackie, Clara (wife of Hargraves) | 9 |
| Macquarie, Governor | 20 |
| Marks and Nathans (shop at Ophir) | 24 |
| Marsden, Rev. Samuel (Superintendent of Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum) | 20 |
| Mc Brien (Surveyor) | 20 |
| McLean, Harold, Commissioner 1858 | 25, 42 |
| Meyers ( storekeeper at Ophir) | 24, 25, 27, 34 illus |
| Miller, (Commissioner of Tambaroora 1852) | 42 |
| Mitchell, Thomas (Surveyor- General) | 21 |
| Mundy, Colonel ( Turon goldfields; 1851) | 17, 23, 24, 31, 32, 43 |
| Murnane, Owen (Suttors overseer) | 27 |
| O’Brien (Irish hand who attended the horses on Suttor’s Pyramul property) | 35 |
| O’Connell, Daniel (Irish lawyer and demagogue) | 21 |
| Palmer, H. A. (first Anglican preacher Sofala) | 48 |
| Parkes, (‘progressive’ colonist) | 19 |
| Peek, Samuel (associate of Hargraves) | 9 |
| Piper, (given 2,000 acre land grant by Mc Brien) | 20, 21 |
| Pirie, William (an employee of Stutchbury) | 27 |
| Pluncket, Judge | 21 |
| Post office, Sofala | 33 illus |
| Post Office, Sofala (in the tent of Assistant Commissioner King) | 47 |
| Quail, Mr. (owner of a “comfortable hotel” Sofala) | 48.49 |
| Queen Victoria Hotel, Bathurst | 48 |
| Rankin, (given 2.000 acre land grant by Mc Brien) | 20 |
| Richards, James Byrn (ex surveyor and squatter of Sofala; owner of Carwinyar) | 21, 27, 30map 31, 45, 50 |
| Richards, John (Gold Commissioner at Sofala) | 23 |
| Richards, Lewis (Blue Mountains Road Superintendent) | 31 |
| Riedel, Gott (tailor turned miner Sofala) | 47 |
| Robinson, Capt. (miner Sofala) | 50 |
| Rogers, (“two oldish men” miners Sofala) | 47 |
| Rogers, John (Assistant surveyor) | 21 |
| Rotton, Mr. (coaching service from Bathurst to Sofala) | 48 |
| Royal Hotel, Sofala | 47 |
| Rudder, Enock, William (Californian associate of Hargraves and miner Sofala) | 9, 12, 14, 26, 42, 49 |
| Sawkins, James Guy (Sofala) | 46 |
| Scott (miner, Sofala) | 49 |
| Shearer’s Arms | 31 |
| Siddens, Giles (timber merchant, Bathurst) | 22 |
| Smead (family bought Richard’s property in1860) | 27 |
| Smith, Adam (English economist) | 44 |
| Sofala’s first post office | 33 illus |
| Springfield Station (property of the Toms brothers) | 11 |
| Star of Hope (Holtermann’s) | 17 |
| Stephen, Sir Alfred (Chief Justice of N.S.W.) | 41 |
| Stutchbury, Samuel Mr (Government Geologist) | 12, 13, 17-18 illus, 22, 23, 25, 27, 35, 36, 37, 40 |
| Suttor H.M. (wrote an account in Australian Milestones of the discovery of Kerr’s Nugget) | 35, 45 |
| Suttor, John | 12, 13, 26, 27 |
| Suttor, W.H. (3rd son of George who inherited Brucedale; Parliamentarian) | 13, 17, 20, 21, 22 illus, 25, 27, 35, 45 |
| Suttor, Charlotte (“first lady of the district”) | 12, 13, 17, 21, 27, 31, 35 |
| Suttor, Elizabeth (wife of Dr. Kerr) | 19 |
| Suttor, George (aboriginal in Stutchbury’s party) | 17, 27 |
| Suttor, George (founder of Brucedale) | 19-21, illus19 |
| Suttor, William Henry II (“literate” son of William Henry) | 20 |
| Suttor’s Pyramul Property | 29 map, 35 |
| Swallow Creek (rural property of Charles, Henry Green, Assistant Commissioner) | 24 |
| Sydney Morning Herald | 12, 38 |
| Tambaroora diggings 1851 | 17, 22 |
| The Australian | 41 |
| The Empire (Sydney newspaper) | 15 |
| Great Nugget Vein Company, The | 36 |
| Guardian, The (English newspaper with article on Hargraves) | 14 |
| Thomson, Deas E. (Colonial Secretary) | 11, 12, 13, 24, 37, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 51 to 53 |
| Tom, John (brother of William and James) | 11, 14, 26 |
| Tom, “Parson” (father of the Toms brothers) | 11 |
| Tom, James (brother of John and William: of Springfield Station) | 11, 12, 14, 25, 26, 27 |
| Tom, William (brother of James and John) | 11, 12, 14 illus, 23, 26 |
| Turon (goldmines 1851) | 17, 19 |
| Union Bank (Bathurst) | 31, 35 |
| Usherwood (Englishman at Turon goldfields; 1854) | 31, 32 |
| Walford, Joseph (owner of many shops in Sofala | 48 |
| Wallerwaugh, (World’s End property of Dr Kerr) | 18, 19, 21, 35 |
| Warne, Charles Frederick | 22 |
| Watson, Rev. (Wellington) | 48 |
| Wattle Flat (where auriferous reefs were discovered) | 47 |
| Wellington Inn (owned by Mrs. Lister) | 10, 11, 27 |
| Wentworth, W.C. (on the Legislative Council) | 44 |
| Wiley, (the carrier, Louisa Creek) | 40 |
| Windeyer, Charles (Sydney’s first Lord Mayor) | 38 |
| Windeyer, Henry (miner, son of Charles and brother of John) | 38 |
| Windeyer, John (miner, son of Charles and brother of Henry) | 38 |
| Windrayne alias Saturday ( “great black leader of the day”) | 20 |
| Wirridgerie aborigines (inhabitants of the Turon area) | 17 |
| World’s End (location of rural property of Dr Kerr) | 29 map, 39,41 |
| Wright, Judith (poet) | 5 |
