Biography of anastasia hayes
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Anastasia Hayes
Background
Born Anastasia Butler in 1817 at Castle, County Kilkenny, Ireland, her parents were Richard Butler and Ellen Baron. Surviving the Irish potato famine[1] Anastasia married Timothy Hayes.[2]. Anastasia and Timothy namn and their five children arrived at Melbourne on 05 October 1852 on the Mobile.
Anastasia and Timothy Hayes lived close the the Eureka Diggings. The site of their tent was in King Street close to Victoria Street. [3]
She died at her son's residence at Ballarat on 06 April 1892, aged 74 years. [4]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Anastasia Hayes was a teacher at the St Alipius Catholic Primary School in 1854.[5]
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HAYES, Anastasia
Anastasia was born around 1818 in Kilkenny, Ireland. She married Timothy Hayes and immigrated with him and their five children to Australia, arriving in October 1852. The family lived in a tent on the gold fields of Eureka where in 1854 Anastasia taught at St Alipius Catholic school. Anastasia quickly gained a reputation as a ‘firebrand’. With two other women she was thought to have sewn the Eureka flag.
She attended Lalor when his arm was amputated in Father Smyth’s tent and threw it down a shaft. Anastasia Hayes reported that she saw the battle and ‘afterwards I saw many of the wounded , and did all that lay in my power to alleviate their sufferings. The sight was one that touched me very much and I shall never forget it. Many of the poor fellows were besmeared with blood and writhing in agony from the wound’.
She died on 6 April 1892 aged 74 years and was buried in the Ballarat Old Cemetery, E2 Section 26 Row 2 Grave 7
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DOROTHY WICKHAM
Anastasia Hayes was born around 1818 at Kilkenny, Ireland, the daughter of Richard Butler and Ellen (nee Baron). She married Timothy Hayes and emigrated with him and their five children to Australia arriving per the Mobile in October 1852. The family lived in a tent on the gold fields of Eureka where in 1854 Anastasia taught at St Alipius Catholic school. Their daughter Ellen was baptised at St Alipius 3 July 1854 at which time her father was described as a gold miner. The sponsors to her baptism were the Reverend Matthew Downing and Bridget Farrell.
Anastasia quickly gained a reputation as a ‘firebrand’. She attended Lalor when his arm was amputated in Fr Smyth’s house, and threw the arm down a shaft. Johannes Gregorius supposedly later recovered it for burial. Late last century, after Anastasia’s death, the following was published: “Afterwards I saw many of the wounded, and I did all that lay in my power to alleviate their sufferings. The sight was