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Jan 25, 2016 •
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DICTIONARY HISTORY OF PIONEERS AND PROPERTIES ON THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA.
TO ENABLE A DECADE'S WORK TO BE COMPLETED WITHIN, HOPEFULLY, A YEAR, MOST OF WHAT I WRITE IS FROM MEMORY RATHER THAN LABOR...
Jan 25, 2016 •
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PATRICK TOMUT WEE WEE. ( Is this name fair dinkum?)
Patrick's grave in the Rye Cemetery has been restored by the Rye Historical Society which also supplied an informative plaque.
The first time I ...
Jan 23, 2016 •
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If you happen to find an early photo of post office, Rosebud, it will probably show the Roberts/Brady/McConchie post office at front left (near the present Peebles store site) with the Rudduck store, ...
Jan 6, 2016 •
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William John Ferrier called his house in the Rosebud Fishing Village "Seven" because it was on crown allotment 7 of the village, now 858 Pt. Nepean Rd, Rosebud. Rate research led me to conclude that t...
Dec 29, 2015 •
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Country Property
A.E.Gibson and Co. (in conjunction with JIH^uckrcll) report selling by auction on account of the estate of the late Mr J.M.Peck,Wannaeue, a brick villa and land, Pascoevale road, Pas...
Dec 15, 2015 •
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The first reference I saw to this pioneer was in a document detailing a loan of 128 pounds and 9 shillings in August 1878 from Captain Henry Everest Adams of Rosebud to William Edwards of Dromana. The...
Dec 14, 2015 •
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This warning has been sounded before in regard to registration of births and deaths in country areas, especially in pioneering days where churches and towns were rare. For instance, on the Mornington ...
Dec 12, 2015 •
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This journal was prompted by the similarity between L and T in old handwriting* and a rate collector's almost illegible handwriting.
(* See sample in:
How to Read 18th Century British-American Writi...
Dec 11, 2015 •
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THE HILLIS / McKEOWN / WHITE / DAVEY / AULT / McILROY / SIMPSON / BUCHER / JAMES STORY.
The title has been expanded to include the families into which the children of Robert White and Hill Hillis ma...
Dec 10, 2015 •
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Could you please put the link for the Wannaeue map in comment 1 janilye?
The Rosebud Fishing Village is not discussed here as it is the subject of another journal. Only surnames of those pioneers w...
Dec 9, 2015 •
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LOVIE.
at Lyndhurst?
THE MORDIALLOC HOUNDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AUSTRALASIAN.
The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) Saturday 21 May 1870 p 11 Article
... off in Lovie's paddock, where...
Nov 22, 2015 •
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JOSEPH WILLIAM HAZELDINE (sic) OF ROSEBUD AND DROMANA.
This journal is based on my post of August 11, 2015 on the HISTORY OF DROMANA TO PORTSEA Facebook group page, followed by many Hazledine descend...
Nov 12, 2015 •
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Royce"”Horsley,"”On 28th April, at Burwell, Neil street, by the father of the bridegroom, assisted by Rev. Wm. Williams, Arthur, second son of the Rev.J. S. H. Royce, of Sale, to Alice, second daught...
Nov 6, 2015 •
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I wrote the following as a post on the HISTORY OF DROMANA TO PORTSEA Facebook group page. Send me a F.T.C. private message if you need information referred to as being in other posts.
EARLY ROSEBUD...
Oct 6, 2015 •
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JOHN M'LIVER.
John was a pioneer of the Tootgarook area that I'm sure nobody knew about. The only thing I knew about him was that he was not Lord (or Baron) Clyde's brother but that in 1869,it was a...
Oct 5, 2015 •
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EXTRACT FROM MY PENINSULA DICTIONARY HISTORY ABANDONED IN 2011 WHEN I JOINED FAMILY TREE CIRCLES.
TRUEMAN
Lime Land Leisure gives a few details of this pioneering Tootgarook family and unfortunate...
Oct 4, 2015 •
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DROMANA BUSH NURSING HOSPITAL AND THE FAMOUS ARTHUR'S SEAT HILL CLIMB.
Godfrey Burdett Wilson died in 1919 but his widow Maria (nee Stenniken) lived on in Burdett Cottage, Heales St (Dromana) until h...
Oct 4, 2015 •
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Georgiana McCrae had been told by 1851 by Charles Latrobe that a township was planned for the coastal strip on the west of Arthurs Seat. Fear that the homestead area of the Arthur's Seat would be swal...
Oct 4, 2015 •
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THE MITCHELLS OF RYE.
NEW INSOLVENTS.
George Mitchell, of Tootgarook, county of Mornington, lime-burner. Causes of insolvency--Depression in business, and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £213 1...
Oct 4, 2015 •
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WAS THIS THE TAP ROOM ON TOOTGAROOK STATION (PETER PURVES' TOOTGAROOK HOTEL OF 1857) OR PERHAPS WILLIAM COTTIER'S FORMER TOOTGAROOK HOTEL OF 1867 ON JOHN CAMPBELL'S TOWNSHIP GRANTS?
NOTICE OF APPL...