Goldfields

Castlemaine Petitions: Petitioners for a Castlemaine Municipality & Petitioners against the Chinese Residence Licence Compiled by Clare Gervasoni & Dorothy Wickham The two 1850s petitions made by the people of Mount Alexander to the Governor of Victoria, reproduced on the following pages are interesting sources of names for those tracing their family history in the Castlemaine district. They also form a fascinating aspect of Australian goldfields history.