MINE MANAGERS OF BENDIGO & BEYOND

 

Whilst the focus of this research has always been to identify and name the Mine Managers of Bendigo & District, this database has been expanded to include some Mine Managers from areas other than Bendigo.  I have done this because I’ve found that sometimes Managers moved from mining district to mining district and crossed over mining areas.  The main focus is still the Bendigo area.  I have separated the entries with the Bendigo & District entries at the front and the others following on in a second section. This is by no means a complete list but a continuing effort to record as many Bendigo Mine Managers as possible and to link them with the mines they worked in. 

 

There is no one place where this information is held or to be found - it is the results of many searches through local records of all descriptions and from family certificates and information from historians and researchers.  The names are shown as they are reported in various publications.

I have attempted to document as many Bendigo and District Mine Managers as possible over the past ten years. They are not easy to find and I have taken information to date from various sources. I have by no means covered all of the Bendigo and district Mine Managers but have documented over 1,000 names to date.  Whilst I recognise that not all mine managers were of Cornish extraction, it is true that in Bendigo at least, a large proportion of mine managers were of Cornish birth or Cornish parentage and this needs to be acknowledged. I originally published the details in A4 booklet form so that others can see the results of my research to date.  My aim with the project is to provide the names of the managers, with the names of the mines they were in charge of (if at all possible) and the time spans I have been able to ascertain from various records.

 I am no longer producing the printed book versions of the database as the cost involved in printing small runs of non-commercial publications is far too prohibitive for the self publisher.  I have instead placed the updated mine managers database on cd and in March 2010 it will be available as part of the purchase of the Cornish Pioneers of Bendigo DVD which will be produced and made available through the Cornish Association of Bendigo & District Inc. 

Records have been taken from existing Mine Managers Report Books, Betty Jackman's Bendigo Advertiser Birth, Death & Marriage Notices books, Personal records from Noelene Wild, Annals of Bendigo, Personal contributors, Bendigo and district directories, Local school registers, Bendigo Rate notices and any source which was able to give names of mine managers and the mines they were attached to.

  • I thank the people who have taken the trouble to pass on information as they came across it and those people who have willingly given data relating to their own family histories. This project is an ongoing one and I'm sure there are many more mine managers from this area yet to be uncovered. If you have any information to add to the database it would be very much appreciated so that I can fulfil my commitment to document as many of these managers as possible. I welcome further input and can be contacted at :



serendip61@hotmail.com

or drop me a line at
PO Box 121
Eaglehawk, Vic. 3556
Australia.

 

 

 

Last updated: 8th November 2009