BURRITT, Joseph Augustin Campbell (1850 - 1928)

Engine Driver
Ballarat School of Mines (1890-1)

Joseph Burritt

Joseph Burritt was born in 1850. He studied mining at the Ballarat School of Mines (SMB), taking subjects such as Mining Management.

Living in Skipton Street, Joseph Burritt was in close proximity to the New Kohinor Gold Mine which was located on the junction of Skipton and Sebastopol streets in Ballarat. Burritt worked as an engine-driver at the mind, and his descendants can remember being sent to the mine with a billy of lunch for him.

Joseph Burritt died on 5 June 1928.

New Kohinoor Survey, 1907.(Cat. No. 3603)





















Joseph Burritt's SMB notebook, 1891.(Cat. No. 9672)









This biography prepared by Clare Gervasoni, July 2009 (with thanks to Ruth Sharp)


Image caption (Right): Joseph Burritt

Image caption (Left): New Kohinoor Lease Survey, by surveyor Robert David & Son, 1907.

Image caption (lower right):Joseph Burritt's SMB notebook, 1891.(Cat. No. 9672)