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Jul 24, 2014 •
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Is it worth $40 million dollars (perhaps half as much again)to change the heart of a community? The Rosebud Fishing Village was Rosebud, the jetty being built roughly in the middle of it. The school w...
Jul 20, 2014 •
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This journal was prompted by Bezza sending me the information in italics. Mr Fenwick was probably managing the farm for Helen Melville. Thomas Steuart Gladstone was cousin of the prime minister. Stewa...
Jul 18, 2014 •
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ZICHY-WOINARSKI seemed out of place. There were plenty of Cape Verde Islanders, Chinese and Maoris involved in the early history of the Southern Peninsula but no New Aussies with a name like Zichy-Woi...
Jul 17, 2014 •
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The Dryden family pioneered the area near Hanging Rock before Tom Wills thought of the game that became known as Aussie Rules. When surveys had been completed, leases on squatting runs were cancelled,...
Jul 11, 2014 •
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Gowrie or Gowrie Park was the southern half (320 acres) of section 5,Will Will Rook.
It fronted Hilton St, a government road,which the Oaklands Hunt apparently called Glenroy road.* The Morley St h...
Jul 11, 2014 •
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N.B. Gibb family genealogy (plentiful on trove) is only included here where it affects the occupancy of Meadowbank.
1848.
P.2,The Melbourne Argus, 3-3-1848. At a sale of crown land on Wednesday...
Jul 10, 2014 •
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MRS. KATE ROBERTSON
Mrs Kate Robertson widow of the late Mr John Coupar Robertson formerly of Gowrie Park Campbellfield who died at her home in Coburg on January 3 had a long association with the Cob...
Jul 10, 2014 •
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There is plenty of information about the relationship between the Gibbs of Meadowbank and Robertsons of Gowrie Park. Alexander Coupar Gibb's uncle,James Gibb, a blacksmith, and James Robertson had bot...
Jul 8, 2014 •
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WISEMAN—WISEMAN. — On the 24th August, 1910,at St. Matthew's Church of England, Glenroy, by the Rev. E. V. Wade, Arthur Ernest, youngest son of the late Albert Wiseman, of Glenroy, to Alice, youngest ...
Jul 5, 2014 •
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THE MELBOURNE, ESSENDON, and KILMORE RAILWAY COMPANY.
To he incorporated by Act of Parliament, limiting the liability of Shareholders.
Capital, £60,000,(With power to increase to £200,000,)In 5,00...
Jul 3, 2014 •
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On the 1st inst., at his residence, Thorngrove, Sydney-road, James Hearn, Esq., aged forty-six years: an old colonist, much respected ; leaving a widow and large family to deplore the loss of an affec...
Jun 30, 2014 •
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See my journal-OH, THE FARMERS AND THE HUNTERS SHOULD BE FRIENDS (MELBOURNE OUTSKIRTS, VIC., AUST.) WHO DUNN IT?
WHAT A STRANGE NAME FOR AN ORGANIZATION!
I came across this notice while researchi...
Jun 29, 2014 •
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After purchasing three lots of the section 13 subdivision,if William Trotman and his wife Kezia lived at
Tullamarine,however it was not for long as they moved to Springvale.By 1867, Mrs. Trotman was...
Jun 29, 2014 •
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Gray's hill was described by the late Wally Mansfield a quarter of a century ago as the eastward climb up Mansfields Rd, Tullamarine, from Deep Creek. This meant little at the time because I had not y...
Jun 26, 2014 •
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Research into Barbiston and William Grant, and then a "Hopetoun,Tullamarine" search led me to the man who changed his name. As I have spent countless hours trying to rediscover articles previously rea...
Jun 25, 2014 •
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CLEARING SALE at "PRESTON PARK," TULLAMARINE (4 Miles from Essendon Railway Station).
McPHAlL, ANDERSON, and Co. (in conjunction with MACARTHUR and MACLEOD) have been instructed by Messrs. E. and A. ...
Jun 24, 2014 •
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On Argus 75 years.
The "Gentleman of Newmarket," possibly Victoria's best-known stockyard expert,died at Yea yesterday morning.
He was Mr. C. Peter Blom, who reported the Newmarket stock sales for ...
Jun 20, 2014 •
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It was in a few typed pages that came into my hands somehow. I read it about a quarter of a century ago but while chasing some information about the Keilor Road Board asking the Bulla Road Board to us...
Jun 20, 2014 •
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18.
Valuable Farm and Buildings. Deep Creek, about l8 Miles from Town.
To Speculators, Trustees, Farmers, and Others. FRASER and COHEN have received Instructions from the mortga...
Jun 17, 2014 •
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Samuel Lazarus, who registered the death of Sidney Jim (buried in the Will Will Rook cemetery) was the second teacher, after John Cassidy, at the Seafield National School in Tullamarine,according to t...