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Name	James Venture Mulligan
Born	13 February, 1837 Drumgooland, Down, Ireland
Died	24 August, 1907 (aged 70) Mount Molloy, Queensland, Australia
Cause of Death	accident
Cultural Heritage	Irish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Passenger Ship *	Curling (1860) (passenger)
Occupation or Descriptor *	butcher (1860-1873) New South Wales, Australia goldminer (1867-1876) Queensland, Australia gold discoverer (1873-1873) Queensland, Australia diarist/letter writer (1875-1875) Queensland, Australia gold discoverer (1876-1876) Queensland, Australia shop/store owner (1877-1879) Queensland, Australia prospector (1881-1907) Queensland, Australia
Key Events *	settler/indigenous contact (goldminer, 1873)
Groups *	Hann Expedition (1872) (expeditionist)
Legacies *	Mount Mulligan (Qld) (eponym) Mulligan Highway (Qld) (eponym) Mulligan River (Qld) (eponym)
Key Places *	Gympie goldfields (Qld) (goldminer, 1867) Gilberton goldfields (Qld) (goldminer, 1871) Etheridge goldfields (Qld) (goldminer, 1873) Palmer goldfields (Qld) (gold discoverer, 1873) Hodgkinson goldfields (Qld) (goldminer, 1874)

* Dates are approximate

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