by pppg | Feb 17, 2025 | Articles From Our Newsletter, History
Address at the PPPG General Meeting on 9 November 2024 by Dr Fred Cahir When Dr. Fred Cahir, Professor of Australian History at the Federation University of Australia addressed the P.P.P.G. meeting, he talked about how thousands of colonists were rescued by Aboriginal...
by pppg | Feb 17, 2025 | Articles From Our Newsletter, History, Pioneers, Uncategorized
“On a delightful spring day in August,1864, Mrs John Duff was alone with her three children Jane Cooper, aged 7 years, Isaac Cooper, 9, and their step-brother, Frank Duff, 4, in their cosy little shepherd’s home of bulloak slabs with its gumbark roof and floor...
by pppg | Jan 2, 2025 | Methods & Sources
To assist members with their research into their ancestors and and early Melbourne we have proved in two parts the Chronicles of Early Melbourne by Edmund Finn or ‘Garryowen’. It is a series of personal recollections and anecdotes covering the period 1835...
by pppg | Oct 23, 2024 | Articles From Our Newsletter, History, Pioneers, Places
Watson and Hunter were a powerful Scottish pastoral company formed in Edinburgh in 1838. It had wealthy and aristocratic backers including the Marquis of Ailsa the chief of Clan Kennedy. The Watsons were famous cattle breeders and perfected the breed Aberdeen Angas a...
by pppg | Oct 23, 2024 | Articles From Our Newsletter, Pioneers, Ships
Some members of the Port Phillip Pioneer Group have embarked on a Magical Mystery Tour and are trying to track those people who arrived on the ship Andromache on 26 June 1840 and to give some substance to their memory. The majority of the Bounty passengers are listed...
