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Journals (Page 35 of 36)
Dec 5, 2011 •
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The purpose of this journal is to encourage people to share their knowledge of aboriginal words that have entered the English language as place names or in other ways, such as Yakka.(See Itellya's Sou...
Dec 5, 2011 •
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I apologise for not listing sources in most of my journals. The reason that I do not do so is that sometimes one sentence might be an amalgam of information from four or five sources. Can you even ima...
Dec 3, 2011 •
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No genealogy will be found in this journal. I could not add one detail to that provided by Neil Mansfield in his extraordinary "The David Mansfield Story". See Neil's website.
Much biological informa...
Dec 2, 2011 •
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This journal was prompted by my attempt to establish that Charles John Beaman who married Elizabeth Neil Knox was the only son of Richard Beaman and the widow of David William O'Nial who was born at t...
Dec 1, 2011 •
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Today, Thursday, 1-12-2011, the huge pine trees were cut down at 858 Pt Nepean Rd, Rosebud. Who planted them is unclear, but it was possibly George Fountain, who at one time owned number 858 and 854. ...
Nov 29, 2011 •
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I was exploring trove when I discovered the source of a mistake in the Tullamarine Methodist Church centenary booklet of 1970. (The church, which stood directly opposite 274 Melrose Drive, has been de...
Nov 29, 2011 •
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David Milburn of Keilor is officially recognised as the first irrigator in Victoria. (Victorian Year Book 1973.)
As I am about to gain access to DHOTAMA, much information will then follow but in the ...
Nov 28, 2011 •
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This journal springs from another journal entitled JOHN THOMAS SMITH AND HIS ELECTORS. Thomas Bertram was mentioned there in regard to establishing the location of Glengyle, occupied by the Guthries i...
Nov 28, 2011 •
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Hopefully the attachment will attach. It looks as if St Salvadore Alfred Case died while living in the house (once at present Nos. 14-16) that had been occupied by two of the area's early private scho...
Nov 26, 2011 •
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As I no longer have notes or maps, this journal comes entirely from memory.It is prompted by a McCracken search on Trove, the National Library of Australia's digitised collection of newspapers, and an...
Nov 22, 2011 •
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Histories about the area near Tullamarine have featured several howlers because of: vague locality names in the early days, municipal historians confining their research to their own municipality's ra...
Nov 22, 2011 •
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The website of the PORT PHILLIP PIONEERS GROUP includes articles from its newsletter. One of these articles is entitled "Port Phillip Pioneers Register" and consists of extracts from the register.
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Nov 21, 2011 •
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A newsletter article in the PORT PHILLIP PIONEERS GROUP'S website discusses Thomas Millar/Miller mentioning his property "Ringwood" and his involvement in the Port Phillip Farmer's' Society. Major New...
Nov 21, 2011 •
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Captain Ardlie is the subject of a newsletter article on the PORT PHILLIP PIONEERS GROUP'S website.The article discusses his attempts to introduce camels to Australia. He was the grantee of land (sect...
Nov 21, 2011 •
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A newsletter article on the Port Phillip Pioneers Group's website (Samuel Sherlock and William Higgins) gives much background about the Mornington Peninsula pioneer's parents. Samuel senior, a sailor,...
Nov 5, 2011 •
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Antonio Albress was a pioneer of the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia.He was a grantee of 90 acres, whose eastern boundary was over Browns Rd from Springs Lane (which is the western boundar...
Oct 28, 2011 •
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Frederick Hobley was a prominent member of the Victorian Police Force. The Chief Commissioner,who had come from Scotland Yard where forensic science was well developed,reorganised the Criminal Investi...
Sep 10, 2011 •
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If you google LACCO and BOATS, you should get an idea of the Lacco family fame in this regard. In "On the Road to Rosebud", Peter Wilson said that Fortios Lakonis was born in Kranidion, Greece in abou...
Aug 28, 2011 •
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Known as Alec Rasmussen, this highly popular teacher transferred to Tullamarine State School from Couangalt, near Gisborne in 1909.He and his wife Ellen had previously spent time at East Shelbourne an...
Aug 20, 2011 •
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William John Ferrier was a hero. Apparently suffering with an injured arm and conditions so bad that he had to lash himself to his mast, he performed a heroic rescue when the La Bella was wrecked near...