by pppg | Jun 15, 2022 | Methods & Sources
Having published a book titled “Dating Family Photos 1850 – 1920”, Lenore Frost gave us some helpful information about old photographs. Early photos were the Daguerreotype, the Ambrotype, the Carte de Visite, Cabinet photos, and postcards. The... by pppg | Jun 15, 2022 | Ships
The next time you feel a bit cramped in a seat think of these poor souls. The “Lady Kennaway” a barque measuring 38 metres long, 9 metres wide and 5 metres deep arrived at Port Phillip with the following on the 6th December 1848. People: 191... by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | History, Places
On Sunday afternoon, 6 June 2010, a small group of interested persons visited the place where John Batman is assumed to have met with native chiefs at the Merri Creek, Northcote in 1835. 175th Anniversary Meeting at Merri Creek, 6 June 2010 The Port Phillip Pioneers... by pppg | Jun 15, 2022 | Miscellany
The last time Robert Barnes addressed our meeting he described the preparations for the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Collins settlement at Sorrento. Today he did an appraisal of the events which occurred in October 2003. Overall Robert feels that the... by pppg | Jun 15, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
Jeremiah Coffee was resident in the Port Phillip District in 1838 and brought with him from Ireland a reference which stated that he was “competent to embrace and discharge any agricultural situation.” It would appear that this reference was valid.... by pppg | Jun 15, 2022 | History, Places
BRIGHTON ( named after the popular Sussex watering town ) was originally a private holding, chosen in England by Henry Dendy, farmer, of Sussex, measuring 5,120 acres for a cost of 5,120 pounds. It was described as densely timbered waste lands when Dendy entered...