by pppg | Jun 22, 2022 | History, Pioneers
Allan and Sarah Hines (nee Rook) The ship “Royal George” arrived at Melbourne, Port Phillip District in November 1849 bringing a bit of Cambridgeshire with it. Allan and Sarah Hines (nee Rook) with their two daughters, Elizabeth and Fanny, and...
by pppg | Jun 22, 2022 | History
The first half of 1851 was an unsettled time in the Port Phillip District. As the date for separation from New South Wales approached the newspapers carried stories about gold discoveries as well as many reports of highway robberies, forgeries, burglaries, and other...
by pppg | Jun 22, 2022 | Methods & Sources
and the Fawkner Diaries Shona Dewar has worked in the Australian Manuscript Department at the State Library of Victoria for 19 years and at present is co-ordinator of the Port Phillip Papers Digitising Project. Since the 1990’s, building renovations have...
by pppg | Jun 22, 2022 | Pioneers
The Ship’s Carpenter who Fell in Love As long as I can remember I knew that I would research my family genealogy. It was never mentioned by my parents or their families. I just knew it would be so. Like most children I met many of my relatives of both my...
by pppg | Jun 22, 2022 | Methods & Sources
We have all seen Mechanics’ Institutes dotted throughout the Victorian countryside. Christine Worthington, who is the Promotions and Publications Librarian of the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute provided some interesting history about Mechanics’...
