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Aug 6, 2018 •
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EventDeath Event registration number453 Registration year1873
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Family nameCLARK Given namesWalter SexUnknown Father's nameWalter Mother's nameAgnes (Campbell) Place of birthARGY ...
Aug 3, 2018 •
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I call Henry "Somerville Henry" to distinguish him from Henry Gomm of Rosebud (also his brothers, William and Thomas)and their father whom I refer to as Convict Henry. When Somerville Henry claimed in...
Jul 31, 2018 •
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GRACE E. CALDWELL'S CLAIM
From NELLIE MELBA MUSEUM TIMELINE 1880-1899
1884
January 19
Nellie and baby George left Marian and returned to Melbourne (Thompson/McPherson, Melba Important Dates p3...
Jul 31, 2018 •
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John and William Devine were early settlers at Point Nepean, and Thomas, their brother died there in 1853. I am currently detailing the children of John and William (many of whom are buried at the Mel...
Jul 28, 2018 •
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WHO BUILT CLARK'S COTTAGE AT SORRENTO? AND AN UNEXPECTED BONUS RE THE LIME INDUSTRY! ALSO, GEORGE BAKER IN THE LIMELIGHT!
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Jul 27, 2018 •
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WERE CAPTAIN JAMES REID, EARLY SQUATTER NEAR MORNINGTON AND ALEXANDER BEATSON BALCOMBE WHO TOOK OVER HIS RUN, RELATED THROUGH MARR...
Jul 19, 2018 •
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I suppose there would be an Australian Dictionary of Biography article about Sir Russell Grimwade. I'd never even thought who had been responsible for bringing Cook's Cottage to Melbourne and this wou...
Jul 17, 2018 •
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PORT PHILLIP SURVEYS
I was trying to find an article about a Flinders family, which had settled first on Jamieson's Special Survey when they came to the Mornington Peninsula, when I found this exce...
Jul 16, 2018 •
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Having become aware that James Hearn may not have been the last lessee of the Mount Martha Run and that William Biggam was the lessee of the run in 1850, and that William Biggam was insolvent by 1859 ...
Jul 14, 2018 •
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This article was found in an attempt to discover the ownership of Nyora between John Thomas Smith's death in 1879 and Henry Slaney's ownership of the property from about 1905 to 1922. At least two art...
Jul 13, 2018 •
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While holidaying at Rosebud, I spent much time in the Mechanics' Institute Library on cooler days and was staggered to see a claim that John Thomas Smith was a pioneer of Mount Eliza. Having become a ...
Jul 11, 2018 •
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EventBirth Event registration number20661 Registration year1909
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Family nameTOY Given namesWalt Jno SexUnknown Father's nameGeo Mark Barnes Mother's nameEdith Augusta (Hooper) Pl...
Jul 8, 2018 •
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The little girl lost wandered off from Tyrone
And spent over four days terrified and alone,
Ignoring the shouts, "Where are you Sarah Ann Cain"
Which the searchers repeated again and again.
Mos...
Jul 8, 2018 •
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In an idle moment, I wondered when the electric telegraph had been laid through Jamieson's Special Survey en route to the Sanitary Station at Point Nepean, and with the side tracks that often lead me...
Jul 8, 2018 •
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As my main focus is to acknowledge our pioneers, I rarely indulge in themes except for the effects of the depressions of the early 1840's, 1890's and 1930's, and of wars, which resulted in men marryin...
Jul 3, 2018 •
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Coleman Crescent, north of Rosebud Secondary College, and the name of the Rosebud Sea Scouts Hall on the foreshore give a hint of the importance of Charles Coleman to the emerging suburb. "Bogies and ...
Jul 2, 2018 •
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Canadian Bay Rd, originally Boundary Rd, was part of the southern boundary of the parish of Frankston which continued along Eramosa Rd to Grant Rd at Somerville where it adjoined the the parish of Tya...
Names on the Soldiers Memorial Seat and the W W 2 Memorial at Flinders Mornington Peninsula Vic Aust
Jun 22, 2018 •
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THEY SAY you can find anything you want on the internet! Nonsense, unless somebody has put it there.
Everyone loves to claim a share of heroes and it might surprise Flinders oldtimers to discover t...
Jun 11, 2018 •
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HOW MT ELIZA STREETS AND PLACES WITHIN MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE ACQUIRED THEIR NAMES.
The following streets are in the parish of Frankston. A new journal will be required for the part of Mt Eliza i...
May 31, 2018 •
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DEATHS.
At his residence, Mary-hill, near Glasgow, on the 5th May last, in the 90th year of his age, William Peter, Esq., J.P., of Overpossil, and father of Mr. John Peter, Wagga Wagga, Murrumbidgee,...