by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | History, Places
THE 19TH CENTURY RECLAMATION OF THE WETLANDS OF WEST MELBOURNE David Sornig is the author of ‘Blue Lake – Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp’. I haven’t as yet read the book, but I remember the Blue Lake area in the late 1950s. From Princes Pier... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Methods & Sources, Pioneers
Beverley Jacobson, who at present is the Honorary Secretary of the Port Phillip Pioneers Group, claimed membership of the group by supplying relevant proof of descendancy from her great great grandfather, Nicholas Emellen, his wife, and parents-in-law. Nicholas... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers
I am descended from a family of ‘green thumbs,’ but sadly, I didn’t inherit any of their natural talent. My 4xgreat grandfather Guy Cole was obviously an adventurous type because when he immigrated to Australia in 1849, he was 79 years old! He was baptised in 1773 at... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Places
Fleming House, Park Street, West Brunswick Owned and lived in by John Wood and Mary Weir Fleming for over 50 years, Fleming House stood on the hill at the western end of Brunswick Road and Park Street, facing Royal Park, for almost 100 years from 1868 to the... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | History
by Susie Zada It is generally believed that there were no convicts transported to the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, now the State of Victoria. However, that is not the case, and historian, Susie Zada described the different groups of convicts who did...