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Jan 26, 2018 •
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EventDeath Event registration number17781 Registration year1898
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Family nameOVERTON Given namesWm Jos SexUnknown Father's nameOverton Thos Mother's nameMary (Lawrence) Place of b...
Jan 21, 2018 •
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SECTION 3, PARISH OF TULLAMARINE, was granted to William Vesey Leslie Foster on 27-1-1843. It consisted of 640 acres and had a one mile frontage on the western side of the road leading north to Fawkne...
Jan 20, 2018 •
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I'D ALWAYS ASSUMED THAT 21 DOUTTA GALLA AND 3 TULLAMARINE WERE KNOWN AS SPRINGS OR THE SPRINGS! Section 20 Doutta Galla, near the river, had been called Leslie Banks during Alphabetical Foster's owne...
Jan 19, 2018 •
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Sometimes I spend hours, even days, compiling information about pioneers but unless it has been published as, rather than in, a F.T.C. JOURNAL, the information can be difficult to relocate. The son's ...
Jan 18, 2018 •
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TO DO WHEN COMPUTER CRACKS THE SNAIL BARRIER.
IS THERE A CONNECTION WITH THE GEELONG JAMES NEWBERY?
I first saw mention of Cosmo some years ago in relation to a fire at Dromana and had no idea wh...
Jan 17, 2018 •
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Some historians tend to be a bit pompous in their writing but this young girl's story was a delight to read.
LIFE OF FLINDERS
It was found by chance in a Newberry search on trove and I hope that y...
Jan 15, 2018 •
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THEY STARTED THEIR MARRIED LIFE IN DROMANA!
EventDeath Event registration number14401 Registration year1911
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Family nameROWLEY Given namesRobt SexUnknown Father's nameRowley ...
Jan 15, 2018 •
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A NAME IN A LIST ISN'T MUCH GOOD FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS! YOU WON'T FIND ANY MENTION OF LOUISA SILVESTER IN ANY PUBLISHED MORNINGTON PENINSULA HISTORY.
In 1890, the Sorrento 3rd 20 travelled to Roseb...
Jan 14, 2018 •
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TROVE'S QUIRKY WAYS LED ME BACK TO MY FAVOURITE MORNINGTON PENINSULA PIONEER, S.S.CRISPO.
Trove serving me HOVER when I ordered HOVE led me to an article about the Rosebud Union footy team of 1890, w...
Jan 12, 2018 •
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The details of this will were found by chance (in the second result for a trove search for "WILLIAM BENNETT WRIGHT", limited to Victoria.)W.B.Wright most likely farmed the part of today's Keilor Park,...
Jan 5, 2018 •
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M'NAB--M'MILLAN -On the 31st October at the bride's uncle's residence, Hillside, Tullamarine by the Rev. T. Edwards, Angus, eldest son of Duncan McNab, Esq., Kinnell, Muir-street Hawthorn to Elizabeth...
Jan 4, 2018 •
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THE FARM THAT MADE ME A LOCAL HISTORIAN IN 1988.
COUNTRY.
Messrs. A.E.Gibson and Co. report having sold,on behalf of Mr.G.E.Woods (sic, Wood), his farm at Overnewton, Tullamarine, containing 114 acr...
Dec 29, 2017 •
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FRUSTRATION! (From my PIONEERS OF THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA Facebook post.)
As I had very little hope, based on no response from true locals in the past, that any useful information about the Chatfiel...
Dec 29, 2017 •
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William Chatfield, William Trueman, David Cairns and Co. would have laughed if anybody at the 1926 meeting had suggested that the area between Rosebud and Rye should be called Capel Sound. I refuse to...
Dec 20, 2017 •
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I can't sip a coffee without something to read so I was checking out trove results for Tullamarine in the 1930's when I discovered Sarah's obituary. As soon as I saw Sarah's maiden name, I suspected t...
Dec 14, 2017 •
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PAGE 19, https://vpa-web.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sunbury-South-Post-Contact-Heritage-Assessment-Context-December-2014.pdf
5.3.4 Fruit-growing
An advertisement that appeared in ...
Dec 13, 2017 •
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BROADMEADOWS ROAD DISTRICT.-Notice is hereby given, that it is deemed expedient by the Broadmeadows Road Board to MAKE a NEW ROAD through part of Section 6, parish of WOLLERT, being the continuation o...
Dec 12, 2017 •
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LINK WITH MR.GLADSTONE
Broadmeadows Farm Sale
Negotiations are almost complete for the sale of Gladstone Park, Broadmeadows. Gladstone Park is a farm of 777 acres, at present used for stock fattenin...
Dec 11, 2017 •
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The Champion Ploughing Match took place yesterday in the Royal Park, near Brunswick. The prizes, consisting of a silver cup and a plough, were carried off by two brothers named Brodie,who are in the e...
Dec 8, 2017 •
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THE MYSTERIOUS THOMAS FENBY, PIONEER OF DROMANA, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
On page 74 of Colin McLear's A DREAMTIME OF DROMANA, Thomas Ferby is listed as one of those mentioned in George McLear's account ...