1866 to 1888

Hill End

Lie Miao Jie

Chinese Australian

Gold miners

Digitised

Hill End & Tambaroora Gathering Group

In the National Parks & Wildlife family history archives at Hill End is a book which contains records (in Chinese) of gold dust and coins sent to China between 1866 and 1888. The book apparently belonged to a Chinese, Liu Miao Jie, in Hill End and references to “elder” and “brother” were used to refer to members of his lodge.

The following is a translation of some of the notations made in that notebook:

Dispatching gold record book established in the fourth year of the reign of Tong Zhi (1865) recorded by Liu Miao Jie.

On the eighth day of the fifth month in the fifth reigning year of Tong Zhi (20 June 1866)
Sent gold dust 4dwt 5 gr via Liang Ming Zhou – a native of Cao Bian (Cao side) to bring back (to China)
On the twenty- eight day of the ninth month in the 5th year (6 October 1866) Sent gold dust 2dwt 2 gr via a native of Hu Zhou foot – Liu Ah Lin to bring back (to China)
On one of the ten days in the middle of the month (from 9 July yo 18 July 1870) Sent gold dust 2dwt exact via Guo Ying Zai of Zhu Xia Yuan (Excellent Bamboo Garden) to bring back to China
On the twenty first day of the tenth month in the ninth year (13 November 1870) Sent back gold dust 2dwt exact via Elder Liu Guan Shao – a native of Shan Xi Juao (the corner of the mountain brook) to bring back to China.
On the second day of the tenth month (28 October 1885) send gold sovereign coin 10 x 1 s each 21dwt via Sydney Tian He Store to bring back to China and deliver to family to receive.

Notebook

Sample page of the notebook belonging to Liu Miao Jie

Siobhan Campbell