Harrietville Gold Mining Document. Victoria, Australia.

I found this interesting document with some victoria stamps used as revenue.
I would like to know what the rate 13/4,10/- ,9/2 or 8/4 stands for.
Also cannot decipher the first 3 jobs under how employed , the forth is miner.

1st job is foreman

Tx, 1 down, 2 to go.

Fabulous! codex.
We need better scans of the "how employed"
(up closer)

I would like to know what the rate 13/4,10/- ,9/2 or 8/4 stands for

= Rate of Pay in pounds /shillings /pence = £/s/ d
So 13/4 would be 13 shillings and 4pence per week 24 days per day

Ergo: 8 shillings and 4d (8/4) for 24 days = £10

20 shillings to a pound (£), 12 pence to a shilling (1/-)

The purchasing power of £10 in 1892 was the equivalent of £174 in 1977 and £746 in 2006.


http://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/...ietville-vic

Thanks for the info and the link.
Here is a zoom for the 2 "how employed" to identify.

Interesting. There are two "Beckton", two "Chalmers" and two "Bibby" on this list. Are they brothers? Father and sons? Struggling with the job titles though.

The stylized "m" in miner is similar to the first letter in Mr. Dickinson's job description. I'm wondering if it might be "night" something.

Inspired, and got it! Night do, i.e. Night Foreman. One more to go...

Sorry, do. short for ditto

Thanks Jenny and tim, well spoted.
The 3rd one almost look like lieutenant, but is not that.

Lieutenant as in Foreman's Lietunant i.e. his deputy? Mainly because that's what it looked like to me too.

Possible,and there are 3 of them, lets see if others agree.

I thought that too, but still find it hard to put it into context. I don't recall British miners ever using this term.

I don't believe it's lieutenant, because the last letter does not resemble a "t", which the writer was quite clear about. I'm wondering if the first letter isn't perhaps a "T". There's a similar first letter in "T" Clemons (cheque #596), which is signed on the right as "Thos Clemons", followed by the initials "TC". I also think the last 3 letters are "man".

Another possibility for the first letter is "J" as in John Bibby (cheque #597).

Maybe something like timberman?

Looks like a few of those miners and their families ended up in Harrietville Cemetery. The link below describes the people with headstones at this cemetery. (Images can be obtained for free by emailing the site owner). There are quite a few surnames mentioned (Beckton, Bibby,Gow, Clemens......).
That word has got me confused too. The last part looks like it could be foreman. Could it be Secondforeman in abbreviated form... "Sec'dforeman" or some other level below foreman?

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~a...ietville.htm