Comings and goings in my goldfields house
National Trust property B5401, No 14 Doveton Street, was first known as Allotment 10, Section 5 (10/5), in the Parish of Castlemaine – a standard quarter-acre block, sold by Crown Grant in 1856 for £60, to Richard Living.
The City of Castlemaine Architectural and Historical Survey of 1979 (AHS) correctly records Living’s purchase in item 74. Then, imaginary information starts to seep in: Living is reported as keeping his wife company in 1860, and doing so in his own house. This was not the case.
The Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry confirms his
