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Feb 27, 2021 •
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THE MANY LINKS GIVEN WILL HAVE TO BE COPIED AND PASTED INTO YOUR SEARCH BAR.
The Cape Schanck run was cut in three;
The western part being called Burrabong
After the creek in Fingal flowing south...
Jan 30, 2021 •
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This journal is written out of respect to the original inhabitants of the area, the Boon Wurrung, and those such as Carolyn Briggs and Auntie Faye who are striving to reconstruct the Boon Wurrung lang...
Nov 17, 2020 •
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HOW ERIC RUNDLE PREVENTED MY RETIREMENT.
Something strange had happened to TROVE, the main source for my research. I could only read articles o...
Oct 9, 2020 •
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I have just spent four hours trying to find the announcement of the tender being awarded because I had been looking in 1867. If published history,whether family or local, contains an error which can b...
Aug 31, 2020 •
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MORNINGTON.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
It is with the deepest regret that I have to chronicle the death of Mr. William Patterson, the late manager for five years of the Mornington Gasworks. The sad...
Aug 18, 2020 •
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DR. THOMAS CARLYLE CAMM OF SORRENTO.
I'd seen Dr Camm mentioned often by those he'd treated when they were children but it was not until I was researching the ...
Jul 4, 2020 •
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I am not writing this for Roma or her brother, because they probably already know most of the fascinating story. However the story will be of interest to descendants of the families named and former r...
Jun 20, 2020 •
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Mrs F. Kavanagh writes: - In answer to paragraph, "J.M.C.." I landed in June,'40, by the Andromache. It was the first vessel that sailed direct from Plymouth to Port Phillip, as it was then called. ...
May 31, 2020 •
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THE FOLLOWING MIGHT BE OF HELP!
Anyone writing a family history will have trouble finding much about Sid in Victorian BDM.
THE GREAT SID PATTERSON ROSE TO FAME AS A MEMBER OF THE KENSINGTON CYCLI...
May 29, 2020 •
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MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR WAS ALICE MAY KELLS, A WIDOW.
I mentioned in a post about Russell Horsburgh that old Mrs Kells lived between my place (No.25) and Russell's (No.21). She'd been a widow for abou...
May 22, 2020 •
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This journal cannot possibly include all the maps and photos related to the history of Kensington but it can serve as the one place where descendants of the early residents, those who grew up in the s...
May 14, 2020 •
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DON FARQUHAR, ROSEBUD, VICTORIA, UNSUNG HERO OF AUSTRALIA.
Don was discovered while I was researching my journal about Charles Coleman, which includes two terrific articles from trove about Don. Both...
Apr 30, 2020 •
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THIS IS THE LINK TO THE JOURNAL:
MEMBERS OF THE 1ST A.I.F. MENTIONED (USUALLY QUOTED) IN PETER FITZSIMONS' VICTORY AT VILLERS-BRETONNEUX
The surnames list under the journal has already reached cap...
Apr 10, 2020 •
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I'm not a great fan of books, especially documentaries, about war but FitzSimons has amazed me as he did with his Mutiny on the Bounty. His historical novels are better documented than most histories ...
Mar 18, 2020 •
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I will leave it up to readers to research the use of Wolfdene by the military during W.W.2 and as a tourist destination, as there is little genealogy involved.
Links will have to be copied and pasted...
Feb 26, 2020 •
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Postscript, 7-3-2020.
NEIL BROCK, A DESCENDANT OF THE EARLY PIONEER AND ELDER BROTHER OF PETER GEOFFREY BROCK, THE KING OF BATHURST, IS WORKING ON A FAMILY HISTORY AND HAS SUPPLIED ME WITH GENEALOGIC...
Jan 27, 2020 •
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While reading Jenny Barden's historical novel, THE LOST DUCHESS,her tremendous research about the latter 1500's aroused my curiosity. I checked all of her details and found that the fate of the early ...
Jan 8, 2020 •
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A PIONEER OF McCRAE WHEN IT WAS CALLED DROMANA WEST.
My post on the HISTORY OF DROMANA TO PORTSEA Facebook page about young Melbourne Brindle seeing a Rolls Royce...
Jan 3, 2020 •
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THE TERRIFIC WOODEN STATUES THAT TELL THE HISTORY OF ROSEBUD, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
TO BE INSERTED HERE:THE TEXT, VERBATIM, FROM EACH PLAQUE IN ORDER OF THE STATUES' LOCATIONS FROM MURRAY ANDERSON R...
Was a Place IN OR Near Geelong Vic Aust Named After One of Your Ancestors Also Aboriginal Vocabulary
Dec 23, 2019 •
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I thought that Beaconsfield was named because of beacons, either those lit to celebrate the separation of Victoria (Port Phillip District)from the colony of New South Wales in 1850, or those lit by Jo...