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# Family Name First Name Ship Date Location Reference Remarks
87826Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 4 February-MMFrom Maitland diggers would turn off at Aberdeen and Scone would be the nearest township.Could not go further by dray but could by pack horses. They could travel up the upper waters of the Hunter till they reached an accessible pass to cross the range to the head waters of the Barnett.
87827Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 4 February-MMFrom Maitland to Hanging Rock estimated to be 150 miles
87878Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 7 February-MMAlready 40 men at the diggings
87962Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 11 FebruaryHanging RockMMCorrespondence from Nathan Burrows re the state of the diggings
88282Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 14 FebruaryHanging RockMMRoad to the diggings
88439Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 21 February-MM150 - 200 diggers prospecting with tin dishes. More Cradles being made at Murrurundi and other towns. Distance from Maitland by good dray road 150 miles
88465Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 25 FebruaryHanging Rock near TamworthMMAccount of the diggings. Alternate route via Paterson
88581Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 28 FebruaryMuswellbrookMMPeople (including 7 Californians) passing through Muswellbrook dailey on their way to the diggings
88663Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 3 Marchnear TamworthMMNew gold field found by 'Californian' gold prospectors Renwick and Laurie who had arrived at Hanging Rock via Raymond Terrace, Stroud, through the A.A. Companys estate to the Mountain Station and then to Nathan Burrows property which was 6 miles from Hanging Rock
88759Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 6 MarchHanging Rock near TamworthMMAccount of the exact location of the gold discovery
88923Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 13 MarchHanging RockMMRobert Wisdom giving his account of the diggings. 150 diggers at work. Rain stopped. Creek beds soon to be dry
88926Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 13 MarchHanging RockMMNuggets of gold found by Californian diggers, Germans and 'Jamaica blacks' (Robert Wisdom's account of the diggings)
88974Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 17 March-MMMany diggers leaving the Hanging Rock diggings and heading to the Peel river diggings above Dr. Jenkins station 27 miles from Tamworth
89055Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 24 March-MMPurchasers of gold
89131Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 31 MarchHanging RockMMCorrespondence re the gold field not producing very much
89904Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 22 MayPeel RiverMMLarge number of people at the diggings
89928Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 26 MayPeel RiverMMMajor Innes appointed assistant commissioner at the Peel diggings in consequence of the increasing number of diggers
89939Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 26 MayHanging RockMMCorrespondence re Hanging Rock diggings. 400 miners at the diggings
90581Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 2 JuneHanging RockMMVisited by S.A. Donaldson who proclaimed the diggings to be a success. About 300 diggers some with wives and familys.
90582Gold Discovery Hanging Rock--1852 2 JuneHanging RockMMSolid waterworn nugget of six ounces found at Hanging Rock.

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