Ballarat Hotel/ canadian Gully

[rutti tutti]

Hi all,
I am trying to locate the locality of my gggrandfathers Hotel "the Dunmow Flitch" in Ballarat. I have found the following snippets and hope they will give an indication of where he lived. He also had a corn store, probably in the same area around 1857/1858. He left in 1861.

Any help is appreciated.
Ruth


A nugget weighing 3C oz. (with about 4 oz. quartz) was found yesterday near the Dunmow Flitch Hotel, Canadian, adjacent to the spot where the first large nugget was discovered.

 A nice little nugget weighing 19 ozs was found yesterday by Walker& Millar's party of puddlers in the Old Canadian Gully, at the rear of the Dunmow Flitch Hotel. The lump was found at a shallow depth, and we hear the ground has been paying a very good average all alone.

The above committee recommended that a bridge be built over the creek between the itemerang and Dunmow Flitch Hotels, and  an embankment of about 250 feet be made from the rear of Wittkowskis house of the Last Chance Company, in order to stop the overflow of water to the Main road. His report was received and adopted, and it

[majm]

Hi there,

I am not familiar with the various hotels in Ballarat but I think the "itermerang" would actually be the Boomerang Hotel....

Sorry, I am very NSW centric and not much help when it comes to VIC ...

I think this link will help confirm Boomerang as the other hotel.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/66336254 12 Dec 1860 The Star

ADD .... For Sale Dunmow Flitch Hotel .... 24 Nov 1859, The Star .... http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/72463363

Cheers,  JM

[Jamjar]

It was on Plank Rd near Golden Point.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5690397?searchTerm=&searchLimits=l-publictag=donations

Jamjar

[Jamjar]

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&q=golden+point++ballarat&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x6ad144e3af347389:0x50579a430a0d760,Golden+Point+VIC&gl=au&ei=nyuJT--fO4TFmAXYgcnrCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ8gEwAA

Golden point

Jamjar

[Jamjar]

I think you should email this group:

http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/link0905.pdf

Jamjar

[cando]

I agree with Jamjar and I use this website
http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/

You may like to read this item about Ballarat written in 1859
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0l63/

Cheers
Cando

[rutti tutti]

Thanks - I spent a day on Trove the other day looking at articles and in particular maps from that era but do not seem to be able to find one. I am told that his hotel was on the site of Solvriegn Hill so that makes sense. i was there about 13 years ago and had no idea that i even had a ancestor from the area. I am coming over again in June so trying to find out a little more info.
Thanks
Ruth