by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | History
From the Scottish Highlands to Australia – Bernie McPhee Tells How His Family Fared The situation on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in December 1850 was so dire that a meeting was held at Portree, to discuss what could be done to improve the lot of the population. A... by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | Places
Figure 1. Landing at Melbourne on North Bank of Yarra River 1840 (Source: Watercolour by W. F. E. Liardet, State Library of Victoria) When my great great grandfather John Ross McNaughton arrived in Melbourne in January 1839 he was employed by Thomas Watt,... by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | Places
First Post Office at Melbourne 1841 (Source: Watercolour by W. F. E. Liardet, State Library of Victoria) Bullock team and cart on a dirt road, small wooden Post Office building with shingled roof, tents, established house belonging to John Batman in the distance.... by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | History, Miscellany
An Historian’s Point of View In a ‘meandering’ talk Paul de Serville discussed the attitude of the’immigrants’ who arrived in Victoria during the gold rush, towards the Port Phillip Pioneers or ‘settlers,’ and the treatment of... by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | History
A trivia question in the “Herald-Sun” Melbourne newspaper on 21 November 2014 asked “In the 1860’s a proposal was put to Queen Victoria to combine sections of which two (present day Australian) States to create a Colony called... by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | Pioneers
Many of the pioneers of the Port Phillip time are claimed by our members, many are not. Jan Brooks noticed an obituary in “The Age” Melbourne newspaper in December 2014 for Sir Christopher Staughton who called himself “a fifth generation...