In spite of these and other discoveries, however, it was impracticable to market the gold, and James Esmond's " find " which was made on Creswick's Creek, a tributary of the Loddon, at Clunes on 1 July 1851, was the first marketable gold field.

From that time he appeared in a number of plays designed to display his drily humorous method, such as Brander Matthew's and George H. Jessop's A Gold Mine, Henry Guy Carleton's A Gilded Fool and Ambition, H. V. Esmond's When We Were Twenty-one, and others.

* Giles Romilly ( 1916 – 1967 ), British journalist, Nazi POW, Esmond's brother

Other stage roles included Mabel Vaughn in The Wilderness ( 1901 ); Lady Ernestone in Esmond's My Lady Cirtue and Wilhelmina Marr in his Billy's Little Love Affair ( both in 1903 ); and Kathie in Old Heidelberg ( 1902 and 1909 ) with George Alexander.

But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

My mother was deeply religious.

It was mother who planted the verbenas.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.

Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His mother was nudging him, but he was still falling.

His mother, Manuela " Nellie " Oaxaca, was of Aztec ancestry.

On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway in southern King George County at Belle Grove plantation, the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose " Nellie " Conway, the daughter of its owner, Francis Conway, for whom Port Conway was named.

Karl Jansky's mother, née Nellie Moreau, was of French and English descent.

The grave of Nellie Bly in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryIn 1916 Nellie was given a baby boy whose mother requested Nellie look after him and see that he become adopted.

Four-year-old Daisy went with her mother, Eleanor " Nellie " Kinzie Gordon, and her sisters, six-year-old Eleanor and one-year-old Alice, to the Chicago home of Eleanor's parents, John H. Kinzie and Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie.

Reese was born Delloreese Patricia Early in the historic Black Bottom neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan to Nellie Mitchelle, a Native American ( Cherokee ) cook, and African American steelworker Richard Thaddeus Early Delloreese's mother also had several older children, before her birth, all of whom did not live with her, hence, she lived as an only child.

Reese's mother, Nellie Mitchelle Early, died in 1949 of a cerebral hemorrhage.

The family lived above the jail and his mother, Nellie Sneed Gates, cooked for the prisoners.

Kwolek attributes her interest in science to him and an interest in fashion to her mother, Nellie Zajdel Kwolek.

If Redesdale was indeed Nellie Romilly's biological father, then Esmond ’ s mother and Jessica ’ s father were half-siblings.

What it is best remembered for, though, is Jimmy's tirades against the mediocrity of middle-class English life, personified by his hated mother Nellie Beatrice.

Eleanor " Nellie " Easton, his mother, was one of five daughters, of which four married army officers.

His mother, Elinor (" Nellie "), and his aunt, Kate, both named their firstborn sons after their famous father.

She is the mother of singer-songwriter Nellie McKay.

Her parents moved to Spokane, Washington, where her mother died two years later ; Nellie stayed in Blaine much of that time, teaching fourth grade although still in her teens.

She made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop and appeared in many Warner Bros. films, including Eyes in the Night, Yankee Doodle Dandy playing Nellie Cohan opposite James Cagney, This Is The Army playing the wife of George Murphy and the mother of Ronald Reagan, Rhapsody in Blue and Nora Prentiss.

Edna Semphroch, along with her mother Nellie, ran a coffee shop in Washington, D. C., before, during, and after the Confederate occupation of the city from 1914 to 1917.