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’... by pppg | Jun 21, 2022 | History
A meeting was held in Melbourne on 3 August 1853 to consider what was believed to be a very general feeling being manifested for a re-union of the Colonists of the “olden time.” At this preliminary meeting chaired by the Town Clerk, William Kerr, it was... by pppg | Jun 21, 2022 | History, Pioneers
M.L.A. for Geelong, Premier of Victoria Peter Mansfield outlines the Career of Sir Graham Berry Born in Twickenham, near London in 1822, Graham Berry became an apprentice draper after completing his primary school education. He married Harriet Blencowe around 1848 in...