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... by pppg | Jul 3, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
Mack’s Hotel, on Corio Terrace ca. 1875 The first liquor to be served in a public house in Geelong, the second largest city in the state of Victoria, was on April Fool’s Day, 1839. The name of Geelong’s first publican was Andrew Macnaughton.... by pppg | Jul 3, 2022 | Pioneers
James Backhouse and George Washington Walker sailed from St. Katherine’s Dock in London, England on 3 September 1831 bound for Australia. Also aboard the 236 ton barque “Science”headed to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land were a group of over... by pppg | Jul 3, 2022 | Pioneers
Historian Ada Ackerly chose the stories of three women associated with Williamstown who left a legacy to society. Isabella Dalgarno from Scotland was a vocal temperance crusader. She sailed the seas with her master mariner husband Joseph firstly on... by pppg | Jul 1, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
The Victorian town of Trawalla, east of Beaufort and 41 km west of Ballarat, is named after an aboriginal word meaning ‘much rain.’ It was in this area that the “Trawallo” pastoral run was begun about 1838 by Robert Hamilton, James McGregor... by pppg | Jul 1, 2022 | Methods & Sources, Pioneers
A valuable source of information about the early settlement of Victoria is a collection of letters written by the early settlers themselves and published as “Letters from Victorian Pioneers” in 1898. Most of these letters were written in response to a...