Children
The children that are in the gold rush have to be a certain age which is 18 years old. The children that are in the gold rush found lot’s of gold. The children
can find gold by digging very deep into the ground to find gold.Because their parents moved around a lot, looking for new and richer goldfields, children would have to change schools pretty often. It usually took a while before a school was established in a new area, so often there was no schooling at all. This might sound like fun, but it made it very hard to learn to read and write, and to do arithmetic. Besides, when they weren't in school, children were expected to help their parents with household chores such as minding the younger children, shopping, fetching water up from the creek, gathering firewood, washing clothes, cooking, or taking care of horses. Often they would also be expected to help look for gold at the diggings