Hello Peter, The following "Johns" were in mining accidents in or near Creswick, Johns, J. 1868/01/27. Injured. Ballarat District. 1869 index of accidents, no other details yet. at Hard Hills, Grand Trunk Mine. Details in the Clunes & Creswick Advertiser. Johns, John. 1908/06/19. Injured. Ballarat District. Hit by a piece of quartz. Creswick, Portuguese Sluicing Company, Details in the Clunes & Creswick Advertiser. Johns, John**. 1885/12/07. Killed. 45 Y. O. Married. Ballarat District. Fall of earth, £10 Funeral expenses + £70 compensation paid. Clunes, Bute & Downes Amalgamated Company. Annual Report Secretary Mines, accident No.97 -- Inquest No. 1885/1471** -- Clunes Museum -- Family 6 Johns, Thomas. 1886/01/25. Injured. 49 Y. O. Ballarat District. Crushed thumb. Creswick. Details in the Clunes & Creswick Advertiser. Johns, Zacharias. 1856/00/00. Killed. Ballarat District. Fall into shaft. Inquest No. 1856/673 Hope these are a help. Dave in Ballarat At 12:19 PM 12/08/2005, Peter Thomas wrote: >I'd be interested to know if there are any references to the JOHNS >family, who mined in Creswick from 1859 to 1921. > > >Peter THOMAS >Darwin, AUSTRALIA ><pmthomas@bigpond.com> > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ron and Jeannie Lister [mailto:RonJeannieLister@paradise.net.nz] >Sent: Friday, 12 August 2005 5:47 AM >To: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Creswick Miners Union > > >Dear Samantha, > My grandfather, Arthur Harpley Bradfield, appears to have been >heavily involved with organising a monument of some sort to be erected >in Creswick >to honour W. G. Spence. I have just had a look through copies of some >of >his notes and letters and he has written a lot about the conditions in >the mines that led to the formation of the Creswick Miners Association >and later unions. ... I will type these notes up and send if you would >like. There are several pages so I won't put them to the general list >unless listers requests them. Cheers, Jeannie. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "samm menzies" <sammtoocann@yahoo.com.au> >To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 1:45 PM >Subject: Creswick Miners Union > >I am looking for information about the Creswick Miners Association (1870 >-c 1883) which later, following a number of amalgamations became the >Australasian Coal and Shale Employees Federation. A relative John >SAMPSON along with a Mr W G Spence were the leaders of the Union in it's >original form. ... > > Regards > > Samantha Menzies > > > > > >==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this mailing list send the word 'unsubscribe' in >the body of a message to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L-request@rootsweb.com