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Oct 26, 2017 •
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CLEARING THEIR SELECTIONS CAUSED TWO NEIGHBOURS THEIR LIVES.
Type BALNARRING, COUNTY OF MORNINGTON in your search bar, click on the first result, and look for the Bullock and Gray grants at the south...
Oct 14, 2017 •
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Hugh Jamieson obtained the 5120 acre special survey, between Mt Martha and Dromana,extending east to Bulldog Creek Rd, in 1841 but sold it soon after to a speculator (Hughes) who became insolvent so t...
Oct 11, 2017 •
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Many sources state that Henry Dunn leased Jamieson's Special Survey between 1846 and 1851. He wasn't on his own and possibly followed his brother there. Edmund may have been there from 1844 till 1849....
Oct 4, 2017 •
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Hello ---, I'm the Joan who rang you about the re-union at Red Hill later this month. I hope I have your email correct.
As I am 83 and not keeping the best of health I thought I would send this to...
Oct 2, 2017 •
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ISAAC MARRIED A WINTER
Sep 26, 2017 •
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Pardon my use of Rosebud West to name the suburb which is now, due to historical stupidity, called Capel Sound. Before the real Capel Sound existed, when Port Phillip was called Nerm by the Boon Wurru...
Sep 23, 2017 •
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My HERITAGE WALK, DROMANA journal contains much biographical information about the pioneers and it was probably in the ARTHURS SEAT HOTEL entry that I'd found reasonable proof that Catherine Wainwrigh...
Sep 21, 2017 •
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WE TWO KINGS OF RO-OSE-BUD ARE.
My Lacco/ Durham journals mention that the relationship between the two families was due to Elizabeth Lacco and Emily Durham being sisters, as revealed by a death noti...
Sep 17, 2017 •
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I just tried a Google search to see if there was any mention of James Hearn Snr. having married Big Clarke's sister and there was no mention of the relationship in CLARKE biographies. In fact there wa...
Sep 15, 2017 •
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POSTCRIPT. The name of John Rankin's wife has never been properly recorded in Victorian birth records. I hate loose ends, and like her son James Forbes, I've struck gold. Pardon my pun, but if I didn'...
Sep 11, 2017 •
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FROM THE KEILOR ENTRY ON PAGE I-L 52 OF MY DICTIONARY HISTORY OF TULLAMARINE AND MILES AROUND.
Rosemary Davidson, librarian, had used the material given to me by descendants of Tullamarine's pioneers...
Sep 9, 2017 •
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TWO WELL-KNOWN JUDGES.
The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) Saturday 2 October 1920 p 29 Article Illustrated
McDOUGALL, DELAHEY
It is likely that these two men were relatives. Alexand...
Sep 8, 2017 •
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This journal arose from my effort to find out about Robert Dodd who had married Robert McDougall's daughter Maggie. I suspected that he was George Dodd's son. Little did I know that George had come ou...
Sep 5, 2017 •
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THE LATE MR. ROBERT
MCDOUGALL.
The remains of the late Mr. Robert
McDougall, who died at Ellora, Moonee
Ponds, on Saturday last, were buried at yester-
day in the Melbourne General Cemetery. The
...
Sep 5, 2017 •
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This is the death record of John Dunbar Tweeddale/ Tweedale.
EventDeath Event registration number2471 Registration year1897
Personal information
Family nameTWEEDALE Given namesJno Dunbar SexUnknown...
Sep 1, 2017 •
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Paste the part in bold type into your search bar to go directly to the letter about the various McCrae homesteads on page 25 of The Australasian of 23-10-1915. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/articl...
Aug 31, 2017 •
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Rosalind Peatey's PINE TREES AND BOX THORNS was a wonderful history of George and Susan Peatey and their descendants. I discovered it soon after I had started my research on the Mornington Peninsula i...
Aug 21, 2017 •
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According to Victorian BDM, Nathan Page did not die in Victoria but he certainly did. According to one report of his death, he left no family* so it would be reasonable to assume that he never married...
Aug 18, 2017 •
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N.B. The designations of three generations of J.V.A.Bruce as J.V.A.Bruce 1, 2 and 3 apply only to those in Australia. The father of John vans Agnew Bruce 1,(d. 1863), was also named John Vans Agnew Br...
Aug 7, 2017 •
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A man named William Anderson was driving
a horse and cart along the Keilor road, on the
15th. inst., when the horse, which was a young,
one, and not much accustomed to harness, got
frightened ...