Did your family emigrate to Australia during the 1850’s?

Did your family emigrate to Australia during the 1850’s? If they did they were probably in search of gold!

The goldrush of the 1850s in Australia was an inducement that attracted many who were seeking their fortune in a foreign land.
The discovery of gold in Australia was big news in England. In fact so great was the attraction that ‘panoramass’ were created to give people some idea of what life was like on the goldfields of Melbourne!

But remember, this poster is from 1853 and what they knew about Australia and the ‘digger’ needs to be considered within the context of the period, and what they considered as entertaining!