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Jan 18, 2014 •
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I no longer have my cubic metre of notes compiled from hundreds of sources,which were used in the writing of my DICTIONARY HISTORY OF TULLAMARINE AND MILES AROUND. Thus,most of what I write comes from...
Jan 17, 2014 •
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My Keilor Historical Society journal is fairly lengthy so I had no idea where to look for my mention of the Clippertons when Patricia's private message arrived. My mind immediately went to a title doc...
Jan 16, 2014 •
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Having just used the D volume of my DICTIONARY HISTORY OF TULLAMARINE AND MILES AROUND for an entry in my DICTIONARY HISTORY OF BULLA, I decided to have a quick look at what I'd written about 23 years...
Jan 12, 2014 •
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Owen Connor and Patrick Phelan were partners in a firm of spirit merchants and pioneers of Keilor. I have mentioned them in previous journals. Patrick Phelan was a member of parliament who became inso...
Jan 11, 2014 •
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I have not seen the plan referred to in the article, but as I know exactly which roads are involved,I feel duty-bound to reveal this information in case a researcher,perhaps from the Keilor Historical...
Jan 5, 2014 •
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An excellent history of Flemington by Marcus Breen, borrowed from the Newmarket Library when I was researching my EARLY LANDOWNERS:PARISH OF DOUTTA GALLA in the 1990's, examines the rival claims of Ja...
Jan 3, 2014 •
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Information about Bulla's schoolteacher from about 1885 who was teaching at Trentham by 1893 and owned a property at Eltham where he became a Justice of the Peace can be found in the GILSENAN entry in...
Jan 2, 2014 •
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The failed North Melbourne to Essendon railway, built by Hugh Glass and Peter McCracken and others, closed in 1864 and the government's slowness to purchase the line was probably responsible for the "...
Jan 1, 2014 •
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In a history of Essendon's historic houses, or historical origins of street names in the Essendon area,probably written by Lenore Frost,it was stated that James Hearn was the son-in -law of William Jo...
Dec 27, 2013 •
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I found this fantastic description while trying to work out when Jessie Sheppard was replaced on Crowe's Hill by Thomas Crinnion. It has some unknowns (Mr Lincolne)and spelling errors (the occupant of...
Dec 22, 2013 •
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PIONEERS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE.)
Bold type indicates a major mention. I wanted to include these names under appropriate chapter heading in the CONTENTS below to better indicate their location given...
Dec 16, 2013 •
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This has been posted on Facebook after two tries here.(16-12-2013.)
POSTSCRIPT, 16-8-2019.
I WONDER IF GRAHAM BICKFORD KNEW HER?
Yes he did! See AN INTERVIEW WITH GRAHAM BICKFORD at end.
MORES...
Dec 16, 2013 •
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Firstly,apologies for having wrongly written this wonderful woman's name as Isobel for so long. It was the discovery of the correct spelling that led to my breakthrough. She has been variously describ...
Dec 13, 2013 •
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I am helping one of my people from my Family History Group of the Breakfast
Point Probus Club with their family history.
James McGRATH butcher died on 21 Feb 1865 aged 37 years. His place of buria...
Dec 11, 2013 •
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See the EADIE entry in my journal DICTIONARY HISTORY OF BULLA. Combined with information from Ian William Symonds' BULLA BULLA, it will provide much information about this fascinating family that has ...
Dec 6, 2013 •
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Gordon Connor was born in 1899. His father was a bootmaker at Moonee Ponds and had married a daughter of Charles Nash of Tullamarine*. One of the many stories that Gordon told me was used in my book W...
Dec 6, 2013 •
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The following article was discovered because I was trying to find if there was a link between George Dodd of Keilor and Thomas Coffey of Bulla and had done a DELAHEY, KEILOR search on trove. Despite t...
Dec 1, 2013 •
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John Kerr built a fine mansion called Kerrsland at the north end of the Glenroy Estate on Pasture Hill,which with Bayview Farm to the south,he had bought from the Donald Kennedy Estate in 1874. Kerr w...
Nov 29, 2013 •
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See my journal THE DUNDONALD ESTATE NEAR BROADMEADOWS TOWNSHIP whose farms will not be discussed here. My aim in this journal is to specify the location of each farm (Melway and crown allotment detail...
Nov 29, 2013 •
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Broadmeadows Township,bounded by Hackett St,Kenny St,Lyons St and the Moonee Ponds Creek/Forman St at Melway 6 A7 started to lose its name in 1872 when the failed Essendon private railway was extended...