Kieron O'Connell

Benjamin Gould of Viol Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Benjamin Gould.

Elizabeth Taylor, Rule, Gould. Now, going from memory..... Elizabeth Taylor, born about 1850 at Dublin, victoria (now Port Fairy). married Joseph Rule at Bunninyong, Vic.. He was killed in an accident on a hand trolly that was hit by a train. Elizabeth, with several kids, was offered the rail gatekeepers hut at Violettown, Vic. She had 2 or 3 more kids before marrying Benjamin Gold, a hawker and property owner. She had around 12 kids in all. Auntie Amy can remember meeting her when she was around 12yo in Preston ( I think). She was in the home of the Pascoe family (one of her daughters) She died around 1934. The widow Rule married Ben Gould, who came from England under the name of Goldburg - married under the name of Gold. He was a Kelly sympathiser and the hawker that Ned Kelly got supplies from at Younghusbands station. One of Ned Kelly's letters referred to Elizabeth as "The Widow of the Hawker Gould". Ned Kelly was at a races meeting while the troopers were out in the mountains looking for him. He was later invited to Gould's home for dinner. Elizabeth was pregnant at the time and Ned gave her some money to buy a pram for the baby. The pram was later lost when in rolled down the bank and into the river with the baby inside. Two of her young sons jumped in and saved the baby but the pram was lost. One of her kids that was born 'between husbands' was Louisa Rule who's father was a sailor named "William Love". She in turn had at least one child before marrying Benjamin Rammage of Violettown. This was Eliza May Rule, my G.x1 grandmother. Family legend has it that Ben Rammage fathered Walter Harold Rule in 1902 ( I noticed that Eliza May Rules birth date is wrong... should be 1888.)... Walter was known as Ben Moore.....Eliza May married John George Moore and had their first child, Irene Evelin before marrying. My Grandmother was one of their daughters "Ida Olive Moore". Francis Heach - known as Harry Heach was an employer of Ned Kelly at 'Heach and Docendorf, timber merchants. Also tried to get part of the reward for capturing Kelly as he supplied information to the police. I got that from a book 'recolections of a victorian police officer', I think the author was called ? Stanton. He married Matilda Margaret Faithfull/Moore. There is a plaque to his memory in the Anglican Cathederal at Wangaratta. He was said to have left a large sum of money to that church. Hope this is of some help to you....