by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers
For many years, I put aside my father’s papers after his death fearing that they would just resurrect his obsession about his great-grandfather Thomas Halfpenny. Until the mid 1970s dad believed Thomas was a good up-standing Melbourne Citizen but that changed... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
KIRK’S HORSE BAZAAR( Source of Image: “The Australasian Sketcher” of 4 September 1875 ) The section of Bourke Street between Elizabeth and Queen Streets in Melbourne was the location of numerous horse related businesses in the... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers
Samuel Moss Solomon (“Shlomo the Pencil Maker”); Trevor Cohen (centre); and Michael Cashmore Trevor Cohen’s family, incuding Jewish and Christian believers, is very complicated because over generations there have been continual duplications of given... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers
John Aitken of Mount Aitken (Portrait by Francis Frederic Hutton) John Aitken was a pioneer sheepbreeder and leading flockmaster in the Port Phillip District, having first arrived at Melbourne on 19 August 1835 on the “Endeavour” from Launceston,... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
RANKINS LANE, MELBOURNE(Great and 2nd Great Grand-daughters visit in 2012) Well, what a year that was! Let me introduce my story with ‘In the beginning . . .’ When Covid-19 hit the collective consciousness and the Victorian lockdown was in it’s... by pppg | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneers
Pittman’s Advertisement in Mouritz’s 1847 Directory Joseph Pittman arrived in Melbourne on 11 April 1843 on the 281 ton barque “Enmore” (Captain Henry James Ellis) from London (11 November 1842). He was met here by his brother Frederick who had...