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A-Pioneers-Story-Mrs-Louisa-HumphriesDownload by pppg | Oct 21, 2022 | Pioneers
From Plenty to Poverty William and Margaret Blay are my great, great, great grandparents. This story is based on the facts gleaned from years of research. Both William and Margaret were children of convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land on the... by pppg | Jul 15, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
n the 1840s my great great grandfather, his wife and five young children lived near the Barfold Gorge, in northwest Victoria. Even today, 175 years later, very few people have seen this dramatic landscape [Fig. 1]. When John Ross McNaughton died on 18 July 1885, the... by pppg | Jul 12, 2022 | Pioneers
GIPPSLAND’S ITINERANT MINISTER Edward Gifford Pryce was born on 26 August 1814 at Liverpool, Lancashire, England, the son of Edward Pryce, merchant, and his wife Eleanor, nee Gifford. He was educated for the ministry at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A.1837). On 21... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers
Though there are a number of references to William Willis being an early sexton at St. James’ Church in Melbourne he was not the first person to occupy this position. There was at least one other person there before him. Thomas Croft was the officiating sexton... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers
STUART HAMILTON on his GG Grandfather, JAMES HAMILTON At the age of 12, James came to Australia from Glasgow with his parents and seven siblings aboard The Victory. The voyage took 110 days arriving at the entrance to the Port Phillip heads at dusk where it...