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Jan 13, 2012 •
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A special thank you to Janilye for a tip that will save me thousands of hours!
JAMES ROBERTSON, WHICH ONE?
(Extract from “Dictionary History of Tullamarine and Miles Around”.)
ROBERTSON
This su...
Jan 12, 2012 •
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Artists left a valuable historical legacy in the days before photography developed. The "Australia Sketcher" artists were kept busy recording images of places, such as a view of Mt Martha and Safety B...
Jan 11, 2012 •
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I know that I haven't finished listing the Kangerong grantees and their allotments etc, etc but I'm sort of like a dog with a bone when there's a mystery to solve. And I've solved it. I suggested a li...
Jan 10, 2012 •
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I must confess I was being naughty with the second part of the title. Although the owner of Barnes' honey had a holiday house in Rosebud, the product had nothing to do with Tubbarubba. I was imagining...
Jan 10, 2012 •
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ITELLYA DON'T LIKE MYSTERIES
AND READS EVERY HISTORY BOARD HE SEES.
THINGS THAT SEEM LIKE COINCIDENCE
FIT TOGETHER, MAKING SENSE.
Entering the Rosebud West Bowling Club for a Rosebud Rockers da...
Jan 7, 2012 •
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GRANTEES NEAR RED HILL.
N.B. All grantees will be mentioned in the RED HILL PIONEERS journal with quite extensive detail from various sources, even about those of whom I know nothing at the moment. ...
Jan 7, 2012 •
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See comment 2 under GRANTEES NEAR RED HILL.
There were many meetings of Railway Leagues to discuss ways of persuading the Government to come to the party.
Trove is a digitised record produced by t...
Jan 6, 2012 •
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The map, which I'll enlarge when my computer genius sons next visit, covers the area shown on Melway maps 159-161,171 and 190-1. (Incidentally, while working this out, I discovered Tar Barrel Corner...
Jan 5, 2012 •
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All details about the grantees and early occupants of land, such as Kensington Park, will be found in my Kensington Pioneers journal. The main reason for this journal is to attach a map showing the cr...
Jan 4, 2012 •
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I'm happy that Jan asked me about Tar Barrel Corner because if she hadn't I might have forgotten that I had ever started writing PENINSULA DICTIONARY HISTORY, which I haven't even touched since I wrot...
Jan 4, 2012 •
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The attached map shows Kensington as it was in about 1882. John Rankin's house stands in splendid isolation at the corner of what were known as Raleigh's Punt road (Macaulay Rd; the name also applied ...
Dec 30, 2011 •
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As I could only list a small proportion of the surnames included in the Journal, THE OAKLANDS HUNT (1), they are listed below in the order of first appearance. There is no known connection between the...
Dec 23, 2011 •
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This journal covers the Keilor area. Other areas will be covered in The Oaklands Hunt (2) etc, with areas specified in the title.
This organisation was founded in 1888 and there is an excellent his...
Dec 19, 2011 •
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Those who have read JOHN THOMAS SMITH AND HIS ELECTORS would have seen a reference to the Rev. John Reid receiving a letter of encouragement and donations to further his mission after visiting the Gou...
Dec 14, 2011 •
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Dr John Blair will be discussed at the end of this journal. One source stated that he was William Allison Blair's son and I must confess that I had similar thoughts when I found out about his involvem...
Dec 12, 2011 •
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I'm taking the easy way out here to save myself a couple of hours adding bits to journals in which many of the following have been mentioned.
Henry Eldridge (See Hotels near Tullamarine- The Sir Jo...
Dec 12, 2011 •
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The Wells family is thought of in association with Frankston but many people would be unaware that Henry Cadby Wells was a much earlier pioneer near the Heads. All the details are on the web in THE WE...
Dec 12, 2011 •
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While looking for information about Frank Stone, I came across Alistair's website. I found it very enjoyable to read. It could provide interesting background information for family historians whose an...
Dec 10, 2011 •
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Researchers beware! Many squatters mentioned in correspondence to the Governor in early days and described as being in the WESTERNPORT DISTRICT were nowhere near the Mornington Peninsula or Gippsland ...
Dec 8, 2011 •
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This journal was prompted by an email from a doctor, whom I am helping with his thesis, in which I was asked what Jan Hutchinson had to do with the price of fish.(Another Aussie saying!)In short, Jan ...