Search Results for: JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER

1. John Sweeney and the Making of an Australian Farming Landscape:

   Written by Provenance on September 12, 2011

   …er factory and the Harvester Judgement of 1907. Abstract This paper examines settlement patterns and landscape changes in the parishes of Baulkamaugh and Katunga on the northern plains of Victoria. The memoir of one settler, John Sweeney, provides a first-hand account of the problems faced by selectors under the Land Act 1869, and a general picture of environmental changes is drawn from the selection files of his neighbours. Sweeney also provide…

2. The State Trials

   Written by Digital_Projects on December 12, 2011

   …all groups of prisoners under charge. The respective groupings are reflected in the organisation of the recognizances and depositions in the files. The groupings are summarised below: Witnesses deposing against James Beattie, John Joseph, Raffaello Carboni and John Fenwick (or Jan Vennick) were: Henry Goodenough Daniel Haggarty Thomas Atkins Andrew Peters Patrick Riley John Badcock William Revell John Donnelly Samuel Slackwell Furnell…

3. Looking for Azzopardi:

   Written by Provenance on September 22, 2011

   …into society, passing themselves off as indentured immigrants, for example.[2] This second tactic, of re-integrating into society by losing a previous identity, sometimes had immediate criminal ends. In the 1820s the swindler John Dow adopted the identity of the misled son of a minor Scottish gentleman to gull a clergyman of a small sum of money and defraud an innkeeper of his bill. He was arrested, tried in Dumfries and sentenced to transportati…

4. John Singer’s Estate

   Written by Digital_Projects on February 2, 2012

   Administration of John Singer’s estate (1873-1876)   Singers Lane, 2004: the two allotments originally selected by John Singer and then granted to Lucy Campbell are located to the right and left of the lane. Photograph by Louisa Scott, PROV Collection John Singer died suddenly without making a will. It was therefore necessary for Lucy to apply for probate and letters of administration to give her the authority to administer his est…

5. The case of Peter Mungett:

   Written by Provenance on December 6, 2012

   …pon one of the [Aboriginal, probably Wathawurrung] women’ led to a party of about 150 Aboriginal people ‘demanding redress’ for the crime of ‘abusing her person’. According to local colonist John Fawkner, the Aboriginal people seemed satisfied that the matter had been resolved to their satisfaction by sending the offender away from the community to Tasmania. See Gellibrand in TF Bride (ed.), Letters from Victorian pi…

6. Petition for Reprieve

   Written by Digital_Projects on September 7, 2011

   …rning next. 8th November 1880. NAMES RESIDENCE Richard Morgan 27 William Street Melbourne George Holden Spring Street Melbourne Edward brusack Flinders Street Melbourne Mary Anne Stuart Elizabeth Street Melbourne John McDonald Tumat N.S.W Ruth Denelly Albeny N.S.W Thomas Fitzgerald Albury N.S.W John Shaw from Meilton America William Fletcher from Boston U.S Samuel Adams from New York U.S William Hoffman from New Zealand…

7. The Crown and Kangaroo Victorian Flags

   Written by Provenance on October 29, 2012

   Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 11, 2012.ISSN 1832-2522. Copyright © John Rogers. by John Rogers John Rogers is the co-founder and president of Friends of the Cerberus, a not for profit community group campaigning to save the breastwork monitor warship, HMVS Cerberus, in Port Phillip Bay. John has heavily researched the career of Cerberus and the other vessels and men of Victoria’s colonial naval forces. With…

8. ‘New History from below’ captured within the records of the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre

   Written by Provenance on October 29, 2012

   …ncil for her Honours thesis. She is an ardent advocate for the use of local history records to tell Victorian and Australian history from a grassroots perspective. Michele’s MA thesis, ‘A forgotten “Father” of Federation: Sir John Quick 1852‑1911’ (2003), and her PhD thesis, ‘Survivors, schemes, Samaritans and shareholders: the impact of the Great Depression on Bendigo and District 1925‑1935’ (2007), both drew heavily on Bendigo and district reco…

9. The grave of Lucy and John Singer’s daughters Lucy Caroline and Agatha Singer. Courtesy of Napoleons and District Historical Society.

   Written by Digital_Projects on February 2, 2012

   The grave of Lucy and John Singer’s daughters Lucy Caroline and Agatha Singer. Courtesy of Napoleons and District Historical Society….

10. A signed photograph of Agatha Singer, daughter of Lucy and John Singer. Courtesy of Napoleons and District Historical Society.

    Written by Digital_Projects on February 2, 2012

    A signed photograph of Agatha Singer, daughter of Lucy and John Singer. Courtesy of Napoleons and District Historical Society….