Bridget Goodwin, 1802-1827?–1899
An interesting character known by various nicknames such as Biddy the Fossicker, Bridget Goodwin worked the Buller Gorge area for gold. Hardworking, pipe-smoking gold miners were common – but almost all were men. Biddy was a rare example of a woman digger.
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Frederick Walter Gascoyne Miller, 1904–1996
In his career as a journalist, Frederick Miller wrote books about the history of Central Otago and Southland. In his younger days, in the early 1930s, he mined for gold while living in a cave with his wife and their toddler son on the banks of the Clutha River. Miller’s book There was gold in the river (1946) gives an insight into these cave-living years.
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