Family reflects on its historic link

Updated November 5 2012 - 11:49am, first published December 3 2004 - 1:44pm
RELATIVE: The great-grandson of Anastasia Hayes, Des Morrish, at her grave site at the Old Ballarat Cemetery yesterday.
RELATIVE: The great-grandson of Anastasia Hayes, Des Morrish, at her grave site at the Old Ballarat Cemetery yesterday.

DES and Sadie Morrish have a lot to reflect on during this December.
Mr Morrish is the great-grandson of Anastasia Hayes, whose family helped hide rebel leader Peter Lalor after the Eureka Stockade battle.
Mr Morrish and his wife are also celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary with a family barbecue in Ballarat today, but the visit here could be their last.
"I have been looking forward to this because it's probably my last time round," he said.
Now in their 80s, the couple has visited Ballarat a number of times.
Mrs Morrish spotted Anastasia's grave in the Old Ballarat Cemetery, and the family paid for a new headstone.
After attending the dawn commemoration yesterday they laid a wreath on the grave.
The Morrish family, from Dandenong, were just some of the 160 people who took a tour of the graves at the Old Ballarat Cemetery yesterday afternoon.
Tour co-ordinator Neva Dunstan said the annual tours had benefited from the Eureka 150 events in Ballarat.
She said last year's tours of the graves of those who died at Eureka in 1854 failed to generate interest.
"This year's been extremely successful, people have been so interested," she said.
Another tour of the Eureka graves will operate at the cemetery in Macarthur St today between 11am and 1.45pm. Contact 0409 791 888 for more information.

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