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Jul 25, 2017 •
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I have been researching Michael Clancy since about 1990* but mainly in connection with Solomon's Ford, and never got around to details of his family except for articles about the drowning of a son (mo...
Jul 21, 2017 •
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There were two fords in the Avondale Heights area by the time Braybrook Township, south of Clarendon St and straddling the river, had been partly surveyed. The one south of Rhonda St, which stopped Gr...
Jul 21, 2017 •
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THERE GOES ANOTHER THEORY!
I thought Michael Fox might have died in the old North Pole Hotel. I was told his residence was on the corner of Milleara Rd. and I am annoyed at myself for not having aske...
Jul 19, 2017 •
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I had thought that Big Clarke's special survey was obtained in 1841 when the British Government briefly allowed the purchase of 8 square mile blocks before protest from the authorities in Victoria res...
Jul 18, 2017 •
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The attached map shows the parishes of Tullamarine and Maribyrnong.
The map was published in 1892 when the prospect of the construction of a railway to Bulla, either along the east bank of the Salt...
Jul 16, 2017 •
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John Grant's biography in VICTORIA AND ITS METROPOLIS: PAST AND PRESENT (1888)gives more detail about John's time at Campbellfield where he planted the first vast area of wheat in Victoria and I can s...
Jul 14, 2017 •
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE COLONY OF VICTORIA.
(Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.)
In the Will of Alexander Sim, formerly of Edinburgh, in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain called Scotlan...
Jul 12, 2017 •
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Isaac Batey wrote many articles about the pioneers of the Sunbury area under his own name later on for the Sunbury newspaper. I've read them all and I've only found one mistake, in regard to David O'N...
Jul 11, 2017 •
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In the last few months there seem to have been some blank and apparently crank comments under my journals* and as my time is too precious to waste, I'm hoping the private message from rosebudtwo wasn'...
Jul 9, 2017 •
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Years ago, I researched Peter Young of Nairn for my dictionary history of Bulla, where he was one of the earliest pioneers.He later moved to a place called "Clyde". I always felt guilty that I had not...
Jul 9, 2017 •
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As my focus regarding the Purves family was primarily on the descendants of Peter Purves and Barbara (Scott) who ran Tootgarook for James, I had not concerned myself much with the family of James and ...
Jul 4, 2017 •
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PASTE LINKS INTO YOUR SEARCH BAR.
MICHAEL FOX, AND HIS SISTER, MRS BRIDGET BROWN, PIONEERS OF KEILOR, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
SOME FOX FAMILY PROPERTIES.
KEILOR VILLAGE.
On 14-6-1878, M.Fox was gra...
Jun 25, 2017 •
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FROM TOM.
Came across your interesting articles re the Springs Tullamarine/Keilor. My Wife's GG Grandfather was Samuel Fleming who arrived at Port Phillip in 1839 on the ship "Hope" from Sydney,they ...
Jun 12, 2017 •
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When W.J.T.(Big) Clarke was in his last days and his son was building Rupertswood, he was asked about his son's spending and replied that as long as the son had as much fun spending the money as he, h...
Jun 9, 2017 •
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THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF THIS JOURNAL.
By copying and pasting this link into your search bar, detailed historical detail about a tiny portion of Castlemaine near the old Gasworks site can be accesse...
May 26, 2017 •
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JAMES SANDLE FORD.
For photo and article paste this link into your search bar: https://nepeanhistoricalsociety.asn.au/james-sandle-ford/
There is plenty of information about the Sullivans, Fords and...
May 26, 2017 •
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FANTASTIC INFORMATION FROM LANCE HODGINS, SECRETARY OF THE HASTINGS AND WESTERNPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Plenty of sources state that Canadian Bay was named after three Canadian wood-getters but only ...
May 25, 2017 •
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THE SHORT ANSWER IS NO. The vigneron at Sunbury was not Ferdinand Lubecke at all; he was FELIX FREDERICK BUBECK. Too many late nights researching and writing my DICTIONARY HISTORY OF TULLAMARINE AND M...
May 24, 2017 •
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Wills was not originally Robert O'Hara Burke's deputy as explained in countless accounts of the expedition but his name is the one most often associated with Burke in references to the tragic endeavou...
May 11, 2017 •
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A society page praised the organisation of the event and the fact that these people didn't seek publicity of their good work. I thought it might be the Thomas family of Carinya on the south side of Sh...