by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | Places
SHIPPING NEWS – NOTICE TO MARINERS The following notice to mariners has been transmitted to Lloyd’s by the Harbour-Master at Melbourne, Port Phillip:- After the 1st of August, 1840, a plain stationary light will be shown from sunset to sunrise from a... by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | Pioneers
A Founding Mother of Melbourne Whilst researching the migration of people across Bass Strait, Barbara Hamilton-Arnold realised how little we know about our founding “Mothers”. Firstly, Mrs. Catherine Batman, wife of John Batman’s brother, Henry,... by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | Pioneers
When Capt. John Martin Ardlie HEICS signed the Loyal Address to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867 he gave his date of arrival in the colony as August 1841. However he may not have reached Melbourne until early the following month as it was on 7 September 1841 that the... by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | History
We arrived in Melbourne on 17 March, 1853. The women and children were not allowed to land until the next day, as there were riots in the streets between the Orange and the Greens. Father got an empty cottage (4 rooms) in Lonsdale Street a few doors from Elizabeth... by pppg | Jun 14, 2022 | Pioneers
Samuel McMillan had been stockman, drover, shepherd, coachman, bush-mailman, horse breaker, hotel proprietor and farmer and had many tales to tell. He went with his parents to a station at “Devil’s River”, now Delatite River, near Mansfield, when he... by pppg | Jun 13, 2022 | Pioneers
The wonders of the internet, as an aid to family history research, never ceases to amaze me! Recently I entered my Port Phillip Pioneer ancestor’s name into the search engine, Google, and the name appeared as one of a list of Port Phillip District residents, on...