Patrick Gittins

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Gittings was born c1822 in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, and sailed to Australia on the Mangerton in 1852.[1]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Gittings came to the stockade from Creswick. He was killed at the Eureka Stockade on 3 December 1854 from gunshot wounds, aged 32 years. He possibly died in a cart while being transported to Geelong. Gittings was buried at Geelong, although there is no official record of his burial. [2]

In The News TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS. - Sir-I think that any person knowing Mr. Oddie would know he would not exaggerate about the Eureka Stockade. I wish to inform Mr. Sadlier I am the person who conveyed the bodies of Gittens and O'Neill to Ballarat Cemetery on that memorable 3rd of December, 1854, and on the body of one of those there were 10 wounds. I will let the public of the present day judge for themselves whether that was butchery or not.Yours. &c., . M. BOLGER

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According to shipping records Patrick had a cousin on the colony