Anne Duke b.

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Anne Duke was one of the women who sewed the miners' flag used in the Eureka Stockade. She was nine months pregnant at the time and was present in person during the battle.
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seamstress, was born in County Meath, Ireland, second youngest daughter of James and Bridget Gaynor. She came to Australia with her family on the bounty emigrant ship William Sharples , arriving at Sydney in 1842. A few years later the family moved to Melbourne then successively to Bendigo, Ballarat and Woodend following the gold rushes. Anne Gaynor married George Duke at Forest Creek (Castlemaine) in March 1854. Nine months pregnant, she helped Anastasia Withers (and possibly Anastasia Hayes) sew the miners’ flag used in the diggers’ battle at Eureka Stockade. She was present in person during the battle, being recorded as dodging bullets behind a trunk in the Duke tent. Hastily fleeing Ballarat for her parents’ farm after the miners’ defeat, her first child was born en route a few days later, on 13 December 1854.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1995
Last updated:
2011

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