by pppg | Jun 15, 2022 | History, Methods & Sources
On 2 March 1841 a census of all of New South Wales was held. For collection and statistical purposes the Port Phillip District was divided into the counties of Bourke, Grant and Normanby and the Police Commissioner’s Districts of Western Port and Portland Bay....
by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | History, Places
Treaty Memorial Site, Merri Creek, Northcote An interesting find was made by workers clearing undergrowth and willow trees from the banks of the Merri Creek in mid-July. A 45 square centimetre concrete block was found during works by the City of Darebin which now...
by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | History
From the early days of Melbourne until around 1900, the area known recently as the Casselden Place Archaeology Project was a residential area albeit an impoverished one and commonly referred to as the Red Light District of Melbourne. The cottages found in the area...
by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | Pioneers
Georgiana Huntly Gordon was an illegitimate child of Jane Graham and George Gordon, who was the Marquis of Huntly, and later 5th Duke of Gordon, in Scotland. She was born on 15th March 1804, and had an aristocratic upbringing. Well educated at a convent in London, she...
by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | Pioneers
“IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE” (A Narrative of the Pioneering Experiences of Patrick Costello 1841-1856) After leaving Captain Hepburn, I went to Melbourne. The streets of the Metropolis were laid out, but not made, and they presented a very...
by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | Pioneers
CHURCH OF ENGLAND MINISTER John Davies Mereweather was born in 1816, the son and only child of John Mereweather, gentleman, of St. James’, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England and his second wife Anna Maria Davies. John Mereweather already had a son and two...
