We saw these Fruit-Bats/Flying-Foxes roosting in a park in the centre of Bendigo on Anzac Day. We have been visiting the Victorian Goldfields in a search for my Great Great Great Grandfather’s grave who is apparently buried at Moliagul. Unfortunately we did not find a headstone, but we found out gold was discovered at Moliagul in the same month he left the UK bound for Australia in 1852. Although it is unlikely the news would have reached the UK by the time he left he would certainly have heard about it on his arrival in Australia three months later. In 1869 the worlds largest nugget of gold (78kg) was discovered in Moliagul and the ensuing gold rush could explain why he ended up there.
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