Newspaper - Article on the Bendigo Goldfields 1850s - Joseph Harrison, September 2020

Historical information

Joseph Harrison was born in York in the UK about 1810. At the age of twenty, the farm labourer appeared in the Lancaster Quarters Session and was convicted of stealing nineteen sovereigns. He was sentanced to hard labout in Van Dieman's Land in 1832. The article describes the hard life his family had on the Bendigo Goldfields, and his run-ins with the law.

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Bendigo Monthly full page article entitled 'I'm the bloody man the doctor ordered' - A life in the Day (Series).

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