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Dec 5, 2017 •
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None of the Wannaeue parish maps available online by Googling WANNAEUE, COUNTY OF MORNINGTON shows this cemetery. When I started my Mornington Peninsula research in about August 2010, I asked the shir...
Dec 3, 2017 •
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JOHN BEECH AND THE BEECH TREE HOTEL AT A POINT OPPOSITE THE SPACE BETWEEN THE MELROSE DRIVE RESERVE AND THE PRESENT HENDERSON RD CORNER.
(As my additional information re the early pioneers of Tullama...
Nov 29, 2017 •
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THREE PIONEERING TULLAMARINE FAMILIES.
WHAT'S THIS GOT TO DO WITH TULLAMARINE?
This is not a good time for Victorian BDM to be offline due to scheduled maintenance!
BEECH.--On the 17th January, 1...
Nov 27, 2017 •
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Eliza Willoughby?
Whose widow would she be?
His claim as founder caused Fawkner's jealousy!
His identity in this article you will see.
ELIZA WILLOUGHBY
Her legacy lives in Mt. Eliza's name*;
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Nov 27, 2017 •
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MOONEE PONDS as used in the first decades of Victoria's permanent settlement did not mean the present suburb but "somewhere near the Moonee Moonee Chain of Ponds" (Moonee Ponds Creek.)
Today's Stra...
Nov 27, 2017 •
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While looking for early references to "Springs" near Tullamarine, I came across an 1839 article about the Port Phillip District's harbours and rivers.
PORT PHILLIP
Having discovered that the Marib...
Nov 26, 2017 •
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE HOTEL AT TULLAMARINE (1846-1861).
POSTSCRIPT. The earliest reference that I had seen to the hotel was in 1849 but that has changed as of 6:50 on 27-11-2017. HENCE THE TITLE OF TH...
Nov 24, 2017 •
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EDWARD ROW &t CO. have received instructions from James Hassell, Esq;, to sell by public auction, at his residence, GREENVALE, near Broadmeadows, adjoining the estate of Donald M'Kerchar, Esq, ON TUES...
Nov 21, 2017 •
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I knew nothing about trove and in fact nothing about computers or the pioneers of Tullamarine when Gordon Henwood told me to see John Fenton who gave me a list of a dozen names of descendants of those...
Nov 20, 2017 •
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You can't always believe what you read and Frank Wright's death notice is a prime example.
WRIGHT."”On the 22nd April, at private hospital, Darling, Frank Wright, of Strathavon, Tullamarine, husban...
Nov 19, 2017 •
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KOWARZIK "”PALMER. "”Lorraine, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Kowarzik, Tullamarine, to Eric,only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Palmer, Tullamarine.(ENGAGEMENTS. P.8, Argus, 7-2-1948.)
Both families ...
Nov 18, 2017 •
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In the early 1950's Stanley Korman had purchased three farms on the east side of Old Broadmeadows Road between Forman St, the south boundary of Broadmeadows Township, and today's Camp Hill Park. The f...
Nov 11, 2017 •
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THE LLOYDS OF TODAY'S ATTWOOD, MICKLEHAM AND TULLAMARINE AND THE WILLIAMSONS OF GREENVALE.
I owe a huge debt to Syd Lloyd and his brother, George, for contributing so much to my knowledge of a huge...
Nov 10, 2017 •
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RUDDUCK MEANS RED DUCK.
"The fourth of the Rudduck family who came to Australia, the Rev. Joseph Rudduck, had married James Hudson's sister, Hannah, and they brought their five children to Melbourne....
Nov 7, 2017 •
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In the last decade or so, the sand at Portsea's beautiful beach has completely disappeared because Jenny Warfe and her Blue Wedge coalition were ignored by both sides of politics which gave bipartisan...
Nov 5, 2017 •
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The photo was provided to me by Olive Nash, nee Simmons, daughter of Tullamarine's postmistress in the latter 1920's. Harry Nash's parents were probably wondering why he was so keen to check for mail ...
Nov 4, 2017 •
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I often refer to this map. When I left Tullamarine for Rosebud, along with several parish maps and documents such as the Tullamarine Methodist Church centenary souvenir of 1970 and the Tullamarine Pro...
Nov 1, 2017 •
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The following article was found in an attempt to find how early Sam Merrifield had resided in Tullamarine, the trove search terms used being POULTRY, TULLAMARINE.
TULLAMARINE 1935
Part of the soci...
Oct 31, 2017 •
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TULLAMARINE:BEFORE THE JETPORT, Ray Gibb, 1998.
PAGE 25-6. 1939. The (Tullamarine Progress Association) meeting was held at Mrs Green's Junction Corner instead of the school where meetings had been h...
Oct 28, 2017 •
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CHARLES GRAVES, PIONEER OF THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA.
Charles Graves and his partner, Brownlee leased the southern 4000+ acres of Jamieson's Special Survey in 1851 at 10 shillings per acre while the C...