by pppg | Jul 15, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
n the 1840s my great great grandfather, his wife and five young children lived near the Barfold Gorge, in northwest Victoria. Even today, 175 years later, very few people have seen this dramatic landscape [Fig. 1]. When John Ross McNaughton died on 18 July 1885, the...
by pppg | Jul 13, 2022 | History, Places
Having observed and measured the rainfall resulting from short sharp storms this year I was reminded of stories of earlier floods in Elizabeth Street. These effectively followed a watercourse running into the Yarra. Those best known were in 1862, 1882 and in...
by pppg | Jul 12, 2022 | Pioneers
GIPPSLAND’S ITINERANT MINISTER Edward Gifford Pryce was born on 26 August 1814 at Liverpool, Lancashire, England, the son of Edward Pryce, merchant, and his wife Eleanor, nee Gifford. He was educated for the ministry at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A.1837). On 21...
by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers
Though there are a number of references to William Willis being an early sexton at St. James’ Church in Melbourne he was not the first person to occupy this position. There was at least one other person there before him. Thomas Croft was the officiating sexton...
by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Places
Plan of Old Melbourne Cemetery c1920 Showing Gravestones( Source: Isaac Selby’s “Memorial History of Melbourne” ) Plans to redevelop the Queen Victoria Market have been placed in doubt following Heritage Victoria’s decision not to grant a...
