by pppg | Feb 29, 2024 | Articles From Our Newsletter, Pioneers, Uncategorized
It is interesting how the lives of two brothers can be so different. George and William Cross Yuille are two fascinating Port Phillip Pioneers, George the older, but William the one we will start with. In 1 William Cross Yuille (1819-1894), pastoralist, was born on 28...
by pppg | Aug 13, 2023 | Pioneers, Uncategorized
Further to our last newsletter (see Life on the Yarra/Birrarung) featuring the Yarra, Valerie Farley has contributed the following pencil sketch of the Yarra drawn by Port Phillip Pioneer Charles FORREST c. 1870 with the accompanying summary: Charles was born in 1809...
by pppg | Jul 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
In advance of the ZOOM meeting, if you want to take part on your desktop or laptop computer, please download and install the Zoom ‘Desktop Client’ software onto your computer if you have not already done so: see https://zoom.us/download If you want to take part...
by pppg | Dec 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
The aim of the Port Phillip Pioneer Group’s Pioneer Profiles publications is to provide an insight into the lives of pioneers which is accessible to future members and genealogists. The Profile must primarily be about your claimed ancestor who is...
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 admin | Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
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