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Mr Charles Shipway, gold miner, in cricket flannels with bat

Mr Charles Shipway, gold miner, in cricket flannels with bat

1870-1875
Glass photonegative

Miner Charles Shipway was a keen cricketer who bowled for Hill End. Born Andrew Charles Bussorah Shipway (because he was born at sea aboard the Bussorah Merchant), Shipway arrived with his family in 1839. His three brothers were alluvial miners at Tambaroora in 1852 and Charles was friends with itinerant miner Mark Hammond, who first found the gold seam in Beyer and Holtermann’s Star of Hope mine in 1871.

From the Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 1871

On Wednesday the Band of Hope gave its annual picnic on tho cricket ground. All the stores were closed and many claims knocked off work to allow their men to join it. [The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 1871]