Creswick is a small community located 20 kilometres north west of Ballarat in the Golden Triangle area of Victoria, Australia. At the height of the Goldrush, the population was over 20,000 and many people passed through, staying but a short time before moving on to 'greener pastures'
The Coroner attending most (but not all) of these inquests was William Baxter Lees, a local pharmacist.