Samuel Valentine
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History
Samuel G. Valentine worked his passage to Australia on the "Royal Charter in 1856. He worked on the Ballarat goldfields before his appointment at the Ballarat Cattleyards i 1864. Soon after he became a Stock and Station agent for Fisken and Gibson. By 1891 the letterheard is Fisken & Valentine & Co., and by 1901 it had become S.G. Valentine and Co.[1]
He was narried to Emma. He wrote over 60 letters giving insight into Ballarat from the 1850s to 1920s.
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- ↑ National Library of Australia, MS 9627
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--C.K.Gervasoni 13:28, 29 August 2026 (EST)