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Journals (Page 13 of 36)
Aug 30, 2016 •
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The group's Facebook page features old maps, newspaper articles, aerial photos, and photos of places such as the R.A.N.depot at Somerton, the water tower at the Greenvale Sanitorium etc.
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Aug 27, 2016 •
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FROM AN EMAIL TO VALERIE WILSON O.A.M.
Just in case a Yewers descendant asks what you know about John Yewers at (the original) Donnybrook, renamed as Kalkallo Township after a new Donnybrook spran...
Aug 25, 2016 •
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A trove search for KALKALLO in the 1840's, revealed that almost every mention of Kalkallo was about the pound and COMPLAINTS, dismissals, allegations of corruption. It is almost certain that Donnybroo...
Aug 25, 2016 •
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This journal was prompted by my post on the CRAIGIEBURN HISTORICAL INTEREST GROUP'S Facebook page. Mount Fraser is indeed a spectacular monument to the Fraser family.
MOUNT FRASER, BEVERIDGE. Mount...
Jul 29, 2016 •
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WHO'D WANT TO BE A FAMILY HISTORIAN?
My great grandfather got a great write up in BROADMEADOWS A FORGOTTEN HISTORY but as I discovered while conducting rate research for my brother, a family historia...
Jul 23, 2016 •
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This journal will take years to complete but here's a start.
BASS'S STRAITS.
This morning I needed to continue the grind of the CHRONOLOGY OF BURIALS AT DROMANA, by adding biography for Mary Ann P...
Jul 19, 2016 •
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In previous journals, I have wrongly assumed that the Halfway House in which Lyndhurst Lizzie died was the one established by James McMahon on the site of the present Riviera Hotel (Melway 97 D11.) Fr...
Jul 11, 2016 •
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From my CHRONOLOGY OF BURIALS AT DROMANA (on ITELLYA'S HISTORY STORAGE BOX Facebook page due to difficulties submitting in the journal.)
24-10-1947. MISS CATHERINE COUNSEL.
COUNSEL.-Requiem Mass ...
Jul 6, 2016 •
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Hi ---. Can you tell me where Main's quarry was? was there one? Where was Main's Bridge?
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"Kerr's Almanac for 1841 lists Moonee Ponds* occupiers. They were ......., Patrick Main who built ...
Jun 25, 2016 •
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MELWAY MAP 159.
159 C9. LATROBE PDE.
The north- south section to the freeway was the western boundary of Dromana Township and originally named Burrell Rd after the family which followed the McCraes ...
Jun 17, 2016 •
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GEORGE ROBERT DAWS, A PIONEER OF DROMANA, VIC., AUST.
One of the pay to view scavengers let slip that G.R. died in 1899 so I was able to find his death notice.
DAWS."” On the 7th April, at Spence...
Jun 17, 2016 •
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Google KANGERONG, COUNTY OF MORNINGTON to access the Kangerong parish map and you will see that Charles Barnett was granted crown allotment 13 section 1, the triangular block bounded by today's freewa...
Jun 5, 2016 •
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As I have been unable to submit journals and edits for a week (and many times in the past), I have started a new Facebook group with the above title so that this information can be viewed by family tr...
Jun 3, 2016 •
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As Keryn McLear of the PIONEERS OF THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA Facebook group revealed after I submitted this journal, Godfrey Glare Wilson was not Pearl's biological father. (see below.)
descendants ...
Jun 2, 2016 •
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I'm hoping this will submit if I paste it bit by bit.
THE PIONEERING CRICHTON FAMILY OF BONEO, VIC., AUST.
(Start of a new journal yet to be submitted.)
This journal came about because of my CHRO...
May 27, 2016 •
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STOP PRESS! (Disregard any claims that do not accord with the following until they are corrected.)
William John Chadwick, father of the Rosebud pioneer of 1918 was NOT the son of William Goldsborough...
May 16, 2016 •
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ONLY NAME AND YEAR IS GIVEN. EVENTUALLY I MIGHT ADD DETAILS ABOUT SOME OF THOSE NAMED WHEN I FINISH THE CHRONOLOGY.
* ABRAMS, Pamela - 1967
* ADAMS, Robert Henry - 1937
* ADAMS, Mary Jane - 193...
May 12, 2016 •
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I've just returned from a holiday to Echuca, one of many I have enjoyed. The local historical societies may be interested in my observations. Echuca, Moama and the places on the two routes, via the Hu...
Apr 30, 2016 •
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Well, blow me down with a feather!
The Mornington Peninsula Shire has removed heritage protection from the Boyd Cottage at 62 Rosebud Pde. in Rosebud. Thanks a lot CONTEXT! The ROSEBUD FISHING VILLA...
Jan 29, 2016 •
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Unfortunately, although the names of towns, suburbs and streets can recall much of the history of an area, their origins were never officially recorded. The surveyors of townships often named streets ...