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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 | Oct 21, 2022 | History
An article in the Geelong Advertiser and Squatters’ Advocate (Vic.: 1845 – 1847) Wed 8 Jul 1846 page 1 stated the following: In the estimation of the Christian philanthropist, there is no subject more important, than the education of the young.... by pppg | Oct 21, 2022 | History, Uncategorized
Address at the General Meeting on 10 Sept 2022 DR. CHERYL GRIFFIN, FRHSV Cheryl Griffin became interested in the history of schools and teachers in Victoria as she was a teacher by profession. Her recent research, centred on teachers in the 1880s to 1920s,... by pppg | Aug 17, 2022 | History, Places
Within about three years of the founding of Melbourne in 1835, the Yarra River’s first punts emerged and were not unlike a couple of huge bullock-drays fastened together “… a dray without wheels, made water-tight by tarpaulin, which was launched through the...