by pppg | Jun 25, 2022 | Ships
The first indication that anything was wrong was when Lewis Pedrana, overseer of Government works at Melbourne, discovered four convicts missing on the morning of Monday, 5 February 1838. They were William Trigg (sawyer), William Lavender (bullock driver), William... by pppg | Jun 25, 2022 | History
As a Freemason and President of the Ringwood Historical Society, Russ Haines has an interest in the history of Fraternal Societies and the people who joined them. He considers that for genealogists, much can be gained by knowing if their ancestor joined a fraternal... by pppg | Jun 25, 2022 | Miscellany
( As written by my father James Henry Thompson in the 1950s. Source unknown. ) While the Elizabethan age produced many great names in history, it produced a remarkable woman who was regarded as a witch. She was Mother Shifton who was born in the reign of Henry VIII... by pppg | Jun 25, 2022 | Places
The inner Melbourne suburb of Jolimont is named after the property on which Charles Joseph La Trobe built his residence in 1839. La Trobe in turn named his property after after the Swiss country estate, near Erlach, where he and his wife Sophie de Montmollin... by pppg | Jun 25, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
John Ham was born about 1797 in England to parents who were members of the Church of England. At an early age he was sent to live with relatives in Launceston, Cornwall where he attended school and worshipped with the Wesleyans and Congregationalists. He was... by pppg | Jun 25, 2022 | History, Places
John Watts has been a teacher of visual arts for 26 years at Sacred Heart College in Geelong. His expertise as a photographer and his love of history caused him to initiate the idea of co-writing a story of the school for its 150th anniversary.* The school’s...