by pppg | Jul 6, 2022 | History
The following article came to light whilst I was looking through the “Geelong Advertiser” newspaper on the Trove website. Prior to its discovery I had no knowledge whatsoever of this incident. It proves in searching Trove you never know what you may find.... by pppg | Jul 6, 2022 | Pioneers
Rabbi Moses Rintel The parents of Moses Rintel came from Eastern Europe and settled in England in the early 1800s. After spending some time in London they moved up to Edinburgh in Scotland where Moses was born about 1823. His father was Myer Moses Rintel, a... by pppg | Jul 6, 2022 | Pioneers
John Pascoe Fawkner Joy Braybrook author of “John Batman: An Inside Story of the Birth of Melbourne” has made a study of John Pascoe Fawkner, a man she feared was ‘hard to make nice.’ She describes him as being like water – he could find... by pppg | Jul 6, 2022 | Places
In 1839 land between Alexandra Parade and the Melbourne city grid was subdivided into allotments and offered for sale thus creating the first suburb outside of Melbourne. It was initially called Newtown but renamed Collingwood in 1842. In 1850 it became the Fitzroy... by pppg | Jul 6, 2022 | History
Robert Hoddlewith His Omnipresent Surveying Telescope The following are some notes on the early surveyors at Port Phillip who worked under Robert Hoddle and Robert Russell: BUTLER, Henry (Cavendish?) Danvers (Assistant Surveyor) – Had assisted Major Thomas...