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Feb 9, 2017 •
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LAWRENCE WADESON.
Our Heidelberg correspondent writes : "”
General regret was expressed here on Sun
day forenoon when a messenger arrived from
Dromana with the sad intelligence that Mr.
Lawrence ...
Feb 2, 2017 •
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Donald attended the Keilor school and knew the area,its pioneers and the coach drivers who passed through intimately. He became a pupil teacher at the school in 1876, and soon moved into journalism. S...
Jan 27, 2017 •
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I am often asked to recommend a suitable book to research a particular pioneer and sadly, often there isn't one. Any books offering information will be mentioned in my journal. There are two photos of...
Jan 23, 2017 •
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I found a 1887 marriage notice last night which I was going to add to my dictionary history of Bulla but my internet was playing up, and it would not submit. I'd copied my research onto a word documen...
Jan 23, 2017 •
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THE MYSTERIOUS PATERNAL GREAT GRANDFATHER OF JUDITH MAVIS COCK AND HER SISTER.
When I was talking to Ken Bucher today and mentioned that Susan Peatey was the midwife at the birth of Rose Bucher at Ro...
Jan 14, 2017 •
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Mr Eddie Bowring. of Red Hill,"biked" it to Melbourne on Tuesday and put up a record, doing the return trip in a little over three hours." (P.2, Mornington Standard, 26-4-1902.)
This article was di...
Dec 15, 2016 •
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OBITUARY.
MRS. WILLIAM CHADWICK
The death took place on Friday evening
last of Mrs. Amelia Chadwick, relict of
the late Mr. Wm. Chadwick, for many
years the owner and licensee of the Far-
mers' ...
Dec 9, 2016 •
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Henry William Wilson who married Thamer Burdett was the subject of one of my earliest journals as itellya on family tree circles. I speculated that he may have been related to Sarah Wilson, who was a ...
Nov 22, 2016 •
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ROSEBUD'S THREE "SEEKERS". (From my post on the HISTORY OF DROMANA TO PORTSEA Facebook page.)
1.Judith Mavis Cock, born in 1943, spent her first six summers on Fort Lacco's grant, c/a 20 Rosebud Fish...
Nov 20, 2016 •
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Judith Mavis Cock, daughter of William Alexander Cock and Hazel, nee Durham,was born in Essendon in 1943 while her father was overseas performing the war service for which he was awarded the Distingui...
Nov 6, 2016 •
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Tubbarubba, a gold mining area between Dromana and Bittern was called Tubbarubbarel by the Boon-wurrung. It was in trying to find a trove result about the Birch family where a third spelling of the na...
Nov 4, 2016 •
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LUCKY DROMANA KIDS IN THE 1890'S.
In my research for burials at Dromana cemetery, I am often tempted to open results that do not mention the cemetery. I'm glad I opened this one because Fred Mellor w...
Oct 31, 2016 •
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There was not one mention of the Kidgells in Colin McLear's A DREAMTIME OF DROMANA so why were William and Henrietta buried at Dromana? I wouldn't bother to ask this question on the HISTORY OF DROMANA...
Oct 29, 2016 •
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Larry's given name was often given as Lawrence but I have decided to accept, as the correct version, the spelling inscribed on the two adjacent gravestones at Dromana Cemetery.
I have stated countl...
Oct 13, 2016 •
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ALF DOWNWARD, HIS SON-IN-LAW, WILFRED PITT, AND THOSE HISTORIC REDWOOD GUMS AT THE END OF DOWNWARD ST, MORNINGTON.
Wilfred Pitt probably grew up on Tuerong Park, as I've just discovered. When Joan Do...
Oct 11, 2016 •
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GERALD HOUGHTON RICHARDSON, FIRST MANAGER OF ROSEBUD'S NATIONAL BANK IN 1946.
Did he stay long enough for anyone to remember him and Mona?
Family Notices
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)...
Oct 9, 2016 •
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RED HILL REUNION OCTOBER 2017.
The last reunion in March 2015 was well-attended despite many people having prior commitments, the Prossor clan being rather reunioned-out and the Rosebud High School a...
Oct 7, 2016 •
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FATHER HORACE TUCKER, VICAR OF CHRIST CHURCH, SOUTH YARRA. It's a bit of a stretch to say that Father Tucker was a pioneer of the Mornington Peninsula but he was the reason that the Boyington lad play...
Sep 6, 2016 •
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YET ANOTHER CONNECTION BETWEEN TULLAMARINE AND THE PENINSULA. When I was writing my DICTIONARY HISTORY OF TULLAMARINE AND MILES AROUND (pages D 86-7) in about 1990, I had no idea where Jamieson's Surv...
Sep 2, 2016 •
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Having been unable to insert new information into the existing journal or break this journal into parts (pre 1900 etc.), I decided to copy the existing journal into a word document. This is now (12-4-...