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Previously published by Nailsea & District Local History Society.This ebook version, © The respective authors and Nailsea & District Local HistorySociety, PO Box 1089, Nailsea BS48 2YP, has been made available in February2009, so that an individual may download and read this document, for privateresearch purposes only. It must not be reproduced or passed to a third partywithout written permission of the copyright holders
The Manfield Brothers and The Valley of the Shadow of Death.By Peter Wright from information © Dan Webb.James Samuel Manfield and his brother John Robert Manfield sons of Georgeand Sarah Manfield were baptised at Holy Trinity Church Nailsea (JSM on 15Nov 1829 & JRM on 29 Dec 1833). The family was recorded on the 1841 censusas living in Nailsea HeathGeorge Manfield 30Sarah Manfield 30James Manfield 11John Manfield 8Mary Manfield 5Frederick Manfield 2In the 1851 census a Manfield family appears in Chelvey. James and Mary arestill there as are George and Sarah but There is a James aged 21. George is 42while Sarah is 46. Allowing for the rounding of ages in the 1841 census this isquite acceptable but as neither John nor Frederick is recorded I wonder whetherthis could be another family? It seems unlikely as Mary A Manfield is fourteenwhich fits well with the earlier census.From Australia I have received the following among other information:-Stories of big finds of gold in North Eastern Victoria, brought the brothers Jamesand John Manfield to the Buckland Valley in 1854. They had been working onthe Turon in New South Wales where they had become relatively experiencedminers. Somerset born, the Manfield Brothers were glad to leave the heat of theinland plains for the cool valleys of the Victorian Alps. That year conditions onthe Buckland were dreadful. Huge bushfires, followed by torrential rains, causederosion and muddied the water, making it difficult to see specks of alluvial goldwhen panning. Disappointed the brothers climbed up Goldie's Spur to the topof Mount Buffalo. They camped at The Horn and spent some days exploring thePlateau and the Gorge. Finding no gold the Manfield boys returned to theBuckland Valley where they made enough to buy a property they called "NailseaFarm" after their birthplace near Bristol, England.Conditions were bad at the Buckland diggings. The water had cleared but lackof sanitation caused widespread sickness and fossickers named the area TheValley of the Shadow of Death. Disgruntled miners whispered of Ferdinand
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