Foley Family Notes

Ann Foley - see separate page

Thomas James Foley (1839 - 1897) & Elizabeth Rebecca Stamp (1840 - 1902) were married in Victoria and joined the gold rush to Walhalla. Patrick worked in the Long Tunnel Mine at one stage and met with an accident: a rope broke causing a fall that both of his legs. He was put into a dray and taken to Toongabbie, then he was taken to Melbourne. He claimed compensation from the Mining Company and won his case on the day Ned Kelly was hung.

Elizabeth Rebecca Stamp (1840 - 1902)
Eldest daughter of Frederick Stamp and Mary Ann Whichelow. She was born on January 5, 1840 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England. She arrived in Victoria on the 'Star of the South' disembarking in Melbourne on August 5, 1857.
A site detailing a genealogy of the Whichelow surname is at Heslington Genealogy
(It is not known at this stage whether the genealogy of this history is linked with this. However it is interesting to note that the name 'Selina' in this family as well as in ours)

Henry Gilbert Foley, died on 4^th June 1867, and was buried at Crinoline Reef, Connelly’s Creek. There is the story told that the family had to make his coffin because there was no undertaker in the area.

Sandra Adelaide Hogkins (nee Foley) grave at (?) Hastings, Victoria

Helen Laura Foley

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