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1 Fogarty Drovers - Another Desert Droving Trip
Bill Wilson, cattleman, is planning another big droving trip across the desert, from Bililuna to Alice Springs.
This trip was pioneered last year by Bill Wilson, Bill Waudby and Milton Willock.
Cattle from Bililuna in previous years were taken down the Canning stock route by Wally Dowling, who died "with his boots on". Stock from Bililuna…
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2 GOING family of Traverston
Status: Located.  
 
3 Gunter, Richard
Status: Located. Inquest into the death of Richard Gunter at Banks Farm, Thatcham, October 27th, 1874 
 
4 Hellyer, Henry
Stanley, Tasmania
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Swing Riots
Swing Riots
Status: Located. By 1830, the introduction of the threshing machine had inflamed the villagers of Southern England who felt their way of life was facing extinction.

THE SWING RIOTS

The Swing Riots were an agricultural phenomenon. Following years of war, high taxes and low wages, farm laborers finally snapped in 1830. These farm laborers had faced unemployment for a number of years due to the widespread introduction of the threshing machine and the policy of enclosing fields. No longer were thousands of men needed to tend the crops, a few would suffice. With fewer jobs, lower wages and no prospects of things improving for these workers the threshing machine was the final straw, the object that was to place them on the brink of starvation. The Swing Rioters smashed the threshing machines and threatened farmers who had them.

The riots were dealt with very harshly. Nine of the rioters were hung and a further 450 were transported to Australia. Amongst those were my great-great-great-grandfather Arhtur Binstead and his son George. 
 

  

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