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Feb 5, 2012 •
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Jackson's Hill (from Dalkeith,near the turn off to Mornington) to The Briars, is named after Phyllis Jackson (nee Vale)and her husband, Herbert A.Jackson. She was a noted equestrian and brought out an...
Feb 4, 2012 •
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EMAIL TO IAN KENDALL.
I found your website when I was looking for something else. You've put a lot of work into it; well done!
I mainly looked at Melbourne's north west, whose history I have been re...
Feb 3, 2012 •
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EXCERPT FROM "EARLY LANDOWNERS: PARISH OF DOUTTA GALLA.
SHARP’S “HILLSIDE” AND CROTTY’S “BROOMFIELD”.
SECTION 20 and 21.
The north and south boundaries of both are indicated by Sharps Rd. and ...
Feb 3, 2012 •
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PARR
With the Nash and Wright families, the Parrs were mainstays of the Tullamarine Methodist Church. The family also gave great service to the Keilor Shire Council with James Henry serving as Presid...
Feb 3, 2012 •
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Beryl Patullo wrote a comment which I have inserted here, to be kept in mind when reading the journal, in the interest of accuracy.
HI Itellya `Correction needed. William Papworth died in 1893 after ...
Feb 2, 2012 •
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ENTRY IN DHOTAMA.
REDDAN
(Compiled by Luke Reddan, grandson of Michael Simon Reddan on 11-1-1997.)
John Reddan travelled to Australia on the ?Arabia? which arrived in Melbourne in October 1860. He ...
Feb 2, 2012 •
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QUINLAN
The Quinlans were involved in Airport West and along Oaklands Rd. as well as in Tullamarine.
Keilor’s rate record of 1900-1 has a memo at the end of the section listing ratepayers north of M...
Feb 2, 2012 •
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ENTRY IN DHOTAMA.
PIGDON
James Pigdon was a man with a sense of humour. A tale related to me by the late Bob Blackwell appears under BLACKWELL in the B volume but I will give the gist of it here. Bo...
Feb 2, 2012 •
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ENTRY IN DHOTAMA.
PETER
The Bulla parish map shows that section 9 was lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the Glenara Estate. It seems to have been granted to C.Taylor and it later came into the possession of Wal...
Feb 2, 2012 •
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PECK
John Murray Peck came from the town of Lebanon, near the Mascoma River in New Hampshire, U.S.A. With Freeman Cobb and two other young Yankees he set up the famous Cobb and Co. coachline to Mt. A...
Feb 2, 2012 •
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ENTRY IN DHOTAMA.
PEACHEY
A native of Cambridgeshire, STEPHEN PEACHEY married in England before sailing from Southampton on 1-3-1854 for Melbourne. Going straight to Box Forest (see Pascoe), he al...
Feb 2, 2012 •
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PATULLO
DAVID PATULLO was one of the pioneers of the Bulla area and had even earlier connections with the area north of Somerton where the name of Patullos Lane reminds us of pioneers who were obviou...
Feb 1, 2012 •
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Cooper's Hill Drive was once known as Black St (after Neil Black, the Western District squatter granted* the 777 acre part of Gladstone Park north of Koonalda Rd)but was renamed because of confusion w...
Feb 1, 2012 •
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DEATH AT BERTRAM'S FORD.
They were leading a horse that they'd sold to McRae
Who lived near St Albans, over Keilor way;
Will Mansfield was driving, his son sitting near;
Stephen Hill,leading...
Jan 31, 2012 •
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These two men have been mentioned before in my journals but I wish to pay tribute to their dedication to our history and willingness to take on huge projects. John accomplished the huge task of scanni...
Jan 31, 2012 •
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The list of surnames in a journal indicates that one of them might belong to your family. The rhymes journal at the moment has a surname list for only the first couple of pages and the complete list w...
Jan 29, 2012 •
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As local histories ignore details not pertaining to the area of discussion, Lime Land Leisure and On the Road to Rosebud focused mainly on Edward Hobson being on Kangerong and moving to the Tootgarook...
Jan 19, 2012 •
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The following poems were written by yours truly in 1989. Background notes will be written in italics.
DEATH AT BERTRAM'S FORD. See the MANSFIELD journal.
This poem appears in the MANSFIELD JOURNAL...
Jan 18, 2012 •
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The McNabs were among the earliest pioneers of Tullamarine and are still there over 160 years later. At the time of writing (1:30 a.m.), I'm unsure whether anyone is doing a family history but I have ...
Jan 13, 2012 •
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FAMILY CONNECTIONS.
My apologies that many family connections have not been detailed but thanks to Janilye, I may now have time to finish this work. Some family connections from Moorooduc parish wi...