The Moore Home in Geeelong
207 Little Malop Street Geelong. Ellen’s family bought the property at 207 Little Malop Street Geelong in 1854 as there are rate notices paid to Geelong City Council from 1854 to 1873.
There is a sale notice in the Geelong Advertiser July 26, 1875.
Some money for Ellen in 1873
This tiny piece of information from the Geelong Advertiser 1873 makes me wonder about Ellen. Did she have a business in Geelong ? How much money did her uncle leave her ?
After Eureka
It is very challenging to grapple with the grief the Moore family felt after losing their son and brother and as a researcher I have found it difficult to find out much about the family between 1854 and 1868 when Patsy ( Patrick, Ellen’s brother) selected land at Carpendeit near Camperdown.
The Eulogy published in The Advocate October 14, 1911 when Patsy died that states :
Patrick Moore afterwards followed the occupation of carrier going twice to New Zealand and continued his occupation successfully for some years.
Many Irish miners left Ballarat after Eureka for the Otago goldfields south of Dunedin and for the West Coast to places like Greymouth, Ross, Hokitika in the 1860s. Patsy may have joined them or may have just worked on the ships that moved between New Zealand and Australia.
The Monster Petition 1891 signed by Ellen Moore in Geelong
In September 1891 Isabella and Vida Goldstein travelled across Victoria on trains collecting signatures for a Monster Petition asking for Votes for Women.
James Munro the then Premier said he would support the petition if it could be proven that women wanted it. 33, 000 women signed the petition within six weeks without mobile phones or the internet. The petition was 260 metres long and 200 mm wide.
I felt so proud to find Ellen’s signature there. At the time she was living at
Mc Connell Street, West Geelong.
Ellen’s commitment to universal franchise fits with her brother Thaddeus who died at Eureka and her being part of the radical women’s organisations in Ballarat who were asking for votes for women in 1854.
The signatures can be found on the Victorian Parliament website. 1891 Monster Womans’ Petition database.