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From 1860 to 1865 a George SHOEMACK/SHOMACK/SHUMACK appears in extracts from the Creswick & Clunes Avertiser and in the Creswick Court Registers. In 1860 he was recovering costs of fencing materials he had sold and from mid-1861 he was a miner. In an extract from January 1862 he was in the Creswick Warden's Court as the secretary of two mining companies. It is likely that he was the brother of Amos SHOMACK who was also on the Creswick goldfields at this time.
Creswick Petty Sessions Fri 18 Jul 1860
George SHOMACK v Stewart PEEBLES
Summons issued 9 Jul
Claiming £7-5-6 for Posts and nails sold and delivered.
Order for amount also 2/6 costs - in default warrant of distress in default 14 days imprisonment.
GA Amos JP JD Moore JP
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 20 Jul 1860 p2
Creswick Police Court Fri 13 Jul 1860
(Before Alex. Lewers and J.D. Moore Esqrs., J.P.s.)
Cause List
G. SHOEMACK v Stewart PEEBLES. - Claim £7.5.6d for posts and rails. Order for the amount and 2s 6d costs.
Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 19 Apr 1861
George SHOMACK v William BRIEN
Nature of Cause: Claiming £16-17/- for goods sold and delivered.
Decision: Order for Complainant £16-17/- plus 12/6 costs, in default of distress, 12 days.
Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 19 Apr 1861
George SHOMACK v John RYAN
Nature of Cause: Claiming £1-19-6 for goods sold and delivered.
Decision: Order for Complainant £1-19-6 plus 12/6 costs, in default of distress, 4 days.
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 23 Apr 1861 page 2
Creswick Police Court Cause List
George SHOEMACK v William BRIEN. - Claim £6.17s for posts and rails. Order for the amount and 2/6 costs.
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Friday 3 May 1861 p2
CRESWICK COUNTY COURT
George SHOEMACK v KIDD and McMASTER. Struck out.
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Friday 24 May 1861 p3
(Reapeated 29 May 1861 p3)
NOTICE
If JOHN CARNES does not come and re-
lease the goods that he left with George
SHOMACK they will be sold, within seven
days from this date, to pay expenses.
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Friday 26 Jul 1861 p3
Mining News
LONG POINT.- A quartz claim has been taken up by AMBROSE and party, 24 men, 500 feet by 700 feet.
EMU REEF - The Hit or Miss Company, SHOEMACK and party, 14 men, have taken up a claim to the south of Graham and party, 500 feet by 700 feet.
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Tuesday 14 Jan 1862 p2
WARDEN'S COURT Friday 10 Jan 1862
(Before CC DOWLING, Esq., Warden)
Thomas ARMSTRONG and another v Patrick LOOBY and party.- Application to be put in possession of two men's ground in a claim known as the Victor Emmanuel, Bald Hills.
George SHOEMACK, the secretary to the company, on behalf of himself and his party stated that they did not object - Application granted.
Thomas ARMSTRONG and party v Thomas JONES and party (the Who Would Have Thought It Co) - Application for 4000 superficial feet at the Bald Hills.
Geo. SHOEMACK, who is also secretary to the latter Company, made a similar declaration to the one in the previous case, and the application was granted.
Creswick Petty Sessions Court Tuesday 1 Apr 1862
Thomas ROWELL v George SHOMACK
Claiming £19-19-0 for goods sold and delivered. Order from court for £19-19-0 and 2/6 costs in default, 1 month. [VPRS 1387 Petty Sessions Registers 1860-1966 Vol 2]
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Tuesday 8 April 1862 p2
CRESWICK POLICE COURT Friday 4 Apr 1862 Cause List
Thos ROWELL v George SHOEMACK
Claim £19 19s 6d for timber supplied to a mining Company at the Bald Hills. Defendant stated that he was willing to pay his part, but the others refused.
Order for the amount, and 2s 6d costs.
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 27 May 1862 p2
MINING NEWS
The Who would have Thought It claim, abandoned by SHOEMACK and party, has been taken up by WEIGARD and party, who, for the present, will not work the shaft, but intend to mine merely part of the ground.
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 27 May 1862 p2
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 27 May 1862 p2
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 27 May 1862 p2
Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers Tuesday 8 Jul 1862
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 8 Aug 1862 p2
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Wednesday 16 Sep 1863 p2
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 25 Jan 1864
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Monday 24 Apr 1865
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Monday 24 Apr 1865
Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Monday 10 Oct 1865
WARDEN'S COURT Friday 23 May 1862
(Before CC DOWLING, Esq., Warden)
John WEIGARD and party v SHOEMACK and party
Application for claim No. 803, known as the "Who would have Thought It" claim, Bald Hills.
Defendant, who was in court, did not object to the granting of the ground. The costs of the shaft, £17 14s, had not yet been paid in full. Applicant replied that his party did not want the shaft, but they were willing to pay for it should they require it on a future occasion.
His Worship intimated that the ground was abandoned and forfeited, and granted the application.
WARDEN'S COURT Friday 23 May 1862
(Before CC DOWLING, Esq., Warden)
Patrick BURKE and party v SHOEMACK and party
Application for claim No. 894, known as the Victor Emanuel, Bald Hills.
John SHOEMACK, on being sworn, admitted that the claim has been abandoned since the 24th March, and is not protected.
Application granted.
CRESWICK POLICE COURT Tuesday 8 Jul 1862
(Before C.C. DOWLING, Esq., P.M.)
There were no police cases.
Cause List
SHOEMACK v CAMPBELL - No appearance. Struck out.
George SHOMACK v Patrick CAMPBELL
Claiming £6-0-0 for goods sold and delivered. Struck out. CC DOWLING PM
COURT OF MINES Thursday 7 Aug 1862
(Before his Honor Judge Clarke)
The Court of Mines was opened by his Honor Judge Clarke at 10.40 a.m.
Five cases were set down for hearing.
SHOEMACK v McKENZIE. Settled.
The court, at 10.50 a.m., adjourned till Saturday, at 11 a.m.
The County Court then opened, his Honor being willing to proceed with the business on hand, provided plaintiffs and defendants were in attendance.
CRESWICK WARDEN'S COURT Tuesday 15 Sep 1863
(Before CC DOWLING, Esq., Warden)
John TAIT and party v CARTER and party
Application for a water race at Cobbler's Gully. Mr BURTON for plaintiffs, Mr McPARLAND for the defendants.
John TAIT, miner, sworn - Plaintiffs finished a race in Cobbler's Gully about the the end of May or beginning of June; they did not use it and abandoned it. They went 200 yards higher up. I took possession about the end of June. They never gave me notice until last Friday. CARTER spoke to me after I made the application, and told me he wanted possession of the race again.
John TOWLER sworn - Know the race cut by CARTER about three months ago. Live close by. TAIT has been in occupation since. After they had finished, SHOEMACK and ANTONIO said that the race would not answer their purpose, and left it.
John ROYCRAFT sworn - Produce the mining register. Number 238, dam and race at Cobbler's Gully, was registered on 19th June 1863, by LR CARTER, CH REIS, and George FRAZER. On the 15th July FRAZER transferred to ANTONIO, and on the 13th July REIS to SHOEMACK. On the 19th June LR CARTER applied to have the race and claim No. 1364 protested. The claim was reserved on the 18th July. The race is not under protection.
LR CARTER sworn - Know the race in question. We never gave it up. It was not abandoned. I cut nearly 1000 feet of it. ANTONIO and SHOEMACK gave TAIT leave to use the storm water, because he was hard up. The dam is in connection with the waterright. (Plan produced.) I was cutting the race from Opossum Gully three days previous to TAIT making the application. The race was only finished yesterday. We had it in reserve for a month, and subsequently renewed it. We have only two sluice heads. I was at work on the race on the 7th, 8th, and 9th September.
George SHOEMACK and Francisco ANTONIO confirmed the evidence of the previous witness, and added that TAIT about six weeks ago received permission to use the storm water until they (the defendants) would use it themselves.
The Warden intimated that as, according to evidence, defendants had been at work at the water race until yesterday, they did not require protection. He found that the race was not abandoned, and refused the application. £2 2s costs to be paid by applicants.
Shoemack and party was mentioned in the Mining News for Grahams Hill.
CRESWICK POLICE COURT Friday 21 Apr 1865
(Before CC DOWLING Esq., PM)
Cause List
G SHUMACK v Thomas TANNELL
The complainant did not appear. Mr Hockley for the defendant. Struck out with £1.1s costs.
Mining Intelligence
CRESWICK WEEKLY MINING REPORT
Hit or Miss Co., 16 oz 7 dwt 12 gr.
CRESWICK WEEKLY MINING REPORT
RED STREAK
Company: Hit or Miss, Men: 12, 29oz 0 dwt 12 gr.