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Welcome to edition 9 of The researched by Bass Valley U3A Local History Group stalwart, Western Port Times.

Geoff Guilfoyle.

A couple of book reviews on page This magazine has been 3 and the start of what will be an introduced as a rebirth of the interesting series on fishing in original Western Port Times, Western Port.

More on that next month. which was published in Happy New Year.

Grantville from 1898 until

1910.

Produced by The Waterline News, for the U3A Local History Group, based in Grantville.

The Western Port Times is a creative exercise to showcase Grantville’s history, complimenting the group’s website: www.grantvillehistory.com.au

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Inside this month’s edition: Part 3 of the Jane Hendtlass early history of the Grantville Cemetery.

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Links to other sites Group member, Grantville local, Clive Budd, Who is now also the webmaster for the new Bass Valley Historical Society website: www.bassvalleyhistoricalsociety.com.au has started a list of links you might be interested in, to other historical Associations.

If you know of any we should add to the list, please do not hesitate to let us know: Email: leader@grantvillehistory.com.au Historical Group links South Eastern Historical Association seha.org.au Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp Historical Society kooweerupswamphistory.blogspot.com.au/ Lang Lang and District Historical Society langlang.net/historical.html Leongatha and district Historical society leongathahistory.org.au Wonthagi Historical Society wonthaggihistoricalsociety.org.au/ Western Port Historical Society Inc. hwphs.org.au/ National Library of Australia Trove trove.nla.gov.au/ State Library of Victoria slv.vic.gov.au/ Grantville History grantvillehistory.com.au Inverloch Historical Society cv.vic.gov.au/organisations/inverloch-historical-society/

The Bass Valley U3A Local History Group are still looking for photos and information on places of significance to our local history.

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Books

Researching the Page 14 story this month on Western Port fishermen, prompted by an email from Robert Greaves, I thought I would follow up by finding copies of the book you can buy.

Copies are available from the Hastings-Western Port Historical Society hwphs@outlook.com Telephone: 0490 132 011 Website: www.hwphs.org.au Visit the website for details of their Museum located at corner of Marine Parade and Skinner Streets, Hastings.

Open Sundays 2.00pm to 4.00pm and Wednesdays Written by Jan Harper for the Kernot Hall 10.00am to 12 noon. The Society was established in and Reserve Committee in 2003 the book is 1973. HMAS Cerberus Museum still relevant, perhaps even more so given the recent surge in interest in local history.

President Di Moloney told us this week they have Kernot, Woodleigh and Almurta came into copies of the book available, $30.00, postage their own during the railway era, from 1910 extra according to weight and area. to 1978.

Our email address is hwphs@outlook.com if they wish to order - we will need their name, address, and Settled from 1986 onwards, life changed as suburb to determine the postage charge. milk from the dairy farms and stock raised Payment is required first before we mail out the book on properties were linked with markets and can be made direct into our bank account at the through the silver thread of the new railway Bendigo Bank Hastings (Details on request) or by line. cheque or money order to Hastings-Western Port Communities expanded as railway Historical Society, PO Box223, Hastings 3915. personnel, and the infrastructure they attracted, boosted the settlements.

While this history reflects that of Gippsland San Remo 1934 as a whole, it is unique to the area in drawing our personal lives and juxtaposing them with larger social and economic trends.

Copies are available from The Western Port Times. $30.00 plus postage, or free local delivery.

Email: leader@grantvillehistory.com.au

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The Grantville Cemetery Early History Part 3 John Dickins (1843-1883)

by Jane Hendtlass

Current view of the site of early graves in Grantville

Last month, I discussed the life of the first Chairman of the Grantville Cemetery Trust, George Francis Monks (1837-1910), and the way he contributed to the development of the Grantville timber mill, the informal burial site that was established north of the Deep Creek in 1872 and the Grantville Cemetery which was gazetted in 1874.

This month I will tell the story of John Dickins (1843-1883). He was a farmer, storekeeper and publican and lived in Grantville from 1876 until he died in 1883. John Dickins is buried in Grantville Cemetery. The Grantville Cemetery trustees appointed him as their Honorary Secretary at their first meeting on 22 June 1878i and he also took over the treasurer’s responsibilities when George Francis Monks (1837-1910) left the district in June 1879.

John Dickins was the eldest of 14 children born to John Dickins (1812-1899) and

Catherine Moloney (1816-1891).ii John Dickins snr had completed his apprenticeship as a butcher in Cold Higham, Northamptonshire, England when he immigrated to Melbourne on 2 May 1840 as a 27 year-old single, Protestant, Governmentassisted shepherd on the immigrant ship

“China”.iii He quickly reverted to his trade and became the first master slaughterman in Melbourne and established the first abattoir at Batman’s Swamp on the saltwater flats near the mouth of the Yarra River.iv Catherine Moloney arrived in Melbourne on 13 December 1839 on the “Westminster” as a 20year-old, Roman Catholic, Governmentassisted dress maker from Galway, Ireland.v On 6 June 1848, John Dickins snr married Catherine Moloney at St Francis Church in Melbourne. John Dickins jnr was born on 19 January 1843 at Batman’s Swamp and baptised on 13 March 1843 in the St Francis Church. By 1853, the family had moved to the 629-acre dairy farm in Phillips Town (Brunswick) and his parents lived there for the rest of their lives.vi In about 1869, John Dickins snr also bought 195 acres in Phillip Island but there is no evidence that he ever lived there.vii In 1871, John Dickins jnr was farming his father’s land, “Swanvale”, on Phillip Island when he married Elizabeth Ann Smith (18521899) in Lancefield in the Macedon Ranges.viii On 10 January 1872, their only child, Amelia Ellen (Millie) Dickins (1872-1947), was born in Phillip Islandix and John was elected to the Phillip Island District Road Board on 13 August 1873.x By 20 March 1875, John Dickins had decided to leave Phillip Island but on 6 May 1975 he was still growing barley and oats on “Swanvale”xi and he paid the rates on “Swanvale” to 31 December 1875.xii In 1876, John and Elizabeth Dickins moved to Grantville when John’s newly widowed sister, Margaret Piggott nee Dickins (1847-1931), moved to Phillip Island.xiii …../5

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The Grantville Cemetery Early History Part 3 John Dickins (1843-1883) continued In 1876, John Dickins bought the Crown lease on 23 acres behind Grantville (Allotment 95) from William Baker Adams Brandrick (1823- 1892) and moved to Grantville.xiv He and Elizabeth also bought 20 acres of William Brandrick’s land on the south eastern corner of the Melbourne and Jumbunna Roads in Grantville in Elizabeth Dickins’ name (Allotment 179).xv I have already discussed the way Samuel Henry Cohen (1821-1899) and Alexander Stewart (1831-1888) influenced establishment of the informal burial place on the hill above the Deep Creek on the Hurdy run which was the precursor to the Grantville Cemetery. Samuel Cohen and Alexander Stewart were also involved in the series of events which led to William Brandrick’s ownership of land in Grantville, disposal of the land to John Dickins and John Dickins’ decision to open the Grantville Hotel.xvi William Brandrick was born in Stowe, Staffordshire, England. He taught at the St Mary’s and Adult Schools in Lancashire until 1856 and he married Elizabeth Baxendale (1841-1903) in October 1859 in Bolton, Lancashire, England.xvii He worked as an Anglican lay reader among the coal miners in Wigan, Lancashire before he migrated to Victoria but he was working as a coachman when he re-married Elizabeth Baxendale in Melbourne in 1864. He took up shares in the Peninsular Gold Mining Company in 1865.xviii In that context, it is unlikely to be entirely coincidental that William Brandrick was among a group of miners from Wigan who reported discovering coal on the Hurdy Gurdy run just two weeks after Samuel Cohen took possession of the Westaway and Hurdy Gurdy runs in 1867; or that William Brandrick was granted two mineral leases on the Hurdy Gurdy run for the Wigan consortium on 30 April 1868; or that the coal mining lease on the Hurdy Gurdy run which was managed by William Brandrick was declared void on 11 August 1869; or that the Victorian migration agent in London relied on William Brandrick and his brother-in-law, Richard Baxendale (1827-1920), to help him recruit more Wigan coal miners and domestic servants to migrate to Victoria when he visited England in February 1870; or that William Brandrick returned to Victoria with the new Wigan assisted migrants on the ship “Great Britain’ in December 1870; or that William Brandrick bought land facing the eastern side of the Melbourne Road on the Westaway run and took up the Crown lease for about 86 acres of the Hurdy Gurdy run before Edmund Colbert

surveyed Grantville in 1871; or that the Crown paid William Brandrick £32 in 1873 as compensation for his prospecting for coal in 1868.xix On 4 March 1872, William Brandrick moved to Grantville, then still called Deep Creek, and established the Queensferry co-operative, feepaying school for about 20 of the local timber workers’ children. Alexander Stewart was the correspondent equivalent to Chairman of the School Committee and the school room was in a building he rented in Queensferry, presumably from Alexander Stewart. Alexander Stewart’s children also attended William Brandrick’s school.xx By June 1872, Elizabeth Brandrick had followed William to live in a house he built on six acres of his land on the eastern side of the Melbourne Road north of the Jumbunna Road cornerxxi and, by 22 February 1873, they had established a store and news agency for The Age, The Leader and The Illustrated Australian News in Deep Creek (Grantville).xxii During this period, disagreements arose between William Brandrick and Alexander Stewart relating to the school finances and William Brandrick objected to Alexander Stewart’s private purchase of 10 acres of Crown land for his stables while Samuel Cohen held the contract for managing sales of Crown lands by auction.xxiii On 18 March 1873, William Brandrick closed the school because Alexander Stewart, in his capacity of landlord of the school, gave notice to quit the building in the context of alcoholrelated complaints and allegations of indecent assault involving some of the students including Alexander Stewart’s daughter. These allegations were subsequently dismissed in a slander action before the Supreme Court with awards of £75 and one farthing respectively in damages, but Alexander Stewart advised William Brandrick to leave the district.xxiv William Brandrick took a position as an Anglican lay reader in Woodend but the publicity surrounding his slander action in 1875 made it unsustainable so he bought land and took up farming but he was declared insolvent in 1878.xxv In 1883, he was inducted as a Presbyterian missionary and worked in Poowong, Loch, Bena, Jeetho and Strezlecki until 1890.xxvi

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In August 1873, William Brandrick sold his land north of the Jumbunna Road and, by the end of 1876, most of his land had been dispersed:xxvii Alexander Stewart arranged for a so-called hawker, Henry Schűler (1836-1888), to buy William Brandrick’s store on six acres of land east of the Melbourne Road in the Grantville township (Allotment 177) on 19 August 1873 at the so-called “upset price”.

Sawyer (1833-1915) after they quit the Grantville Saw Mills.xxxvi

On 24 January 1882, Henry Schűler was living in Collingwood and working as a dealer when he was declared insolvent.xxxvii Henry Schűler died on 28 August 1888 in Preston, Melbourne.xxxviii James Scott was probably James Alison Scott (1832-1882). He ran the butcher’s shop and Jane Scott (1833-1881) became licensee of the Prince Alfred Hotel.xl On 5 January 1880, James Scott notified Victoria Police that the Kelly Gang had a spy at one of the timber By 1877, Henry Schűler also owned 20 acres mills, but after a five-day investigation, of William Brandrick’s Crown lease in the Griffiths Point Hurdy Gurdy run east of Grantville.xxx Henry Schűler continued to run the store and police probably hosted the first Grantville post office dismissed the report because when it officially opened on 1 July 1875.xxxii James Scott “is He converted the cottage and store into the Prince Alfred Hotel and sold the store and post a man of very drunken habit office business to John Dickins in 1876.

He was granted a hotel licence in 1877 and he that very little reliance can be also established a monthly sale day in the placed on what stock yards associated with the hotel. he says at any A slaughterhouse followed and, on 29 time”.xli December 1877, Henry Schűler retained xxxiii ownership of his continuing business but he transferred his hotel licence to the Letter to experienced hotelier, John Frederick Payne Victoria Police 5 May 1880 xlii (1844-1907).xxxiv

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In March 1881, James Scott advertised the followed up these developments by Prince Alfred Hotel and associated employing “George Scott” to extend their butchering business, stock yards and shop to include a second hotel, the slaughterhouse for sale. He sold the Grantville Hotel, comprising a 14-room butcher’s business but he was still weatherboard hotel with part iron and part advertising the hotel in April 1881. James wooden rooflii financed with a £400 Allison Scott died in Mooroopna on 16 April mortgage.liii xliii 1882. Jane Scott was already living in George Scott was probably the old store Ballarat about three months before keeper from Griffiths Point and business By 6 July 1881, Adolph Janssen (1837partner of the Griffiths Point publican, 1886) was running the Prince Alfred Hotel Thomas Finton Bergin (1825-1895). but an application for a further transfer of However, George Scott became insolvent licence to “Terry McMahon” was refused in when the coal fields failed in 1875 with Current view of the of early gravesand in Grantville Cemetery 1884 because of the condition of the liabilities ofsite over £1004 lost his xliv liv buildings. In 1887, Graham Brothers business. He would have known John from Melbourne owned the Prince Alfred Dickins from his Phillip Island days and he Hotel and George Dowel (1865-1950), was would have been looking for work. the licensee.xlv George Dowel’s father was John Dickins became the licensee of the Frederick John Dowel (1833-1907) who Grantville Hotel on 29 December 1877 bought 226 or 300 acres behind Grantville which was the same day that John Payne (Allotment 218) in the Hurdy Gurdy run as took up the licence for the Prince Alfred well as Lots 1 & 2 in the township.xlvi Hotel.lv In 1879, John Dickins advertised In 1876, John Dickins bought 20 acres of the Grantville Hotel for lease including the William Brandrick’s land on the south attached store and post office, large billiard eastern corner of the Melbourne and room, and coach terminus.lvi Jumbunna Roads in Grantville in Elizabeth He sold three acreslviii but he remained the Dickins’ name (Allotment 179).xlvii He also proprietor and licensee of the hotel and it is bought the Crown lease on 23 acres behind no surprise that “William Wright”, a Grantville (Allotment 95).xliii blacksmith, lived next door on the one-acre John Dickins built and opened a store on corner block (Allotment 83) reserved by the his property facing the eastern side of the Council for watering purposes in 1879.lix Melbourne Road and he replaced Henry  In 1875, John Monk (1829-1880) bought Schűler’s store and took over his post office the Crown lease for 22 acres of William xlix business in October 1876.

Brandrick’s land east of Grantville (Allotment 94?) as well as the grazing Dickins’ Store licence on 12 acres with a house on the also became Hurdy Gurdy Creek (Allotment 93) and, the terminus later, a further three acres on the northern for the first side of the Government road (Lot 8).lx commercial  In 1878, William Brandrick still owned one coach from section of his 86 acres facing the eastern Dandenong to side of the Melbourne Road in Grantville Grantville in which he leased to a carpenter, Henry December Anthony Rowland (1846-1935).lxi 1876. The In March 1877, John Dickins joined John journey of Monk and Frederick Dowel to commission a about 60 miles road through their land to Macdonald’s Track took less than which linked Lang Lang and East Gippsland. six hours with They advertised land with good roads within only one ten miles of Grantville jetty and it was true change of that it was accessible to horse and wagon. horses at However, there was little interest in their land Tooradin.l or the Grantville township and Grantville John and coaches continued to travel direct from Lang Elizabeth Lang to Grantville even when the rivers were in Dickins flood.lxii …../8

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The Grantville Cemetery Early History Part 3 John Dickins (1843-1883) continued Against all this background, the Governor in Council appointed John Dickins, Alexander Stewart, George Francis Monks, John Monk and Alfred William Selman trustees of the Grantville Cemetery and, in the absence of a separate public meeting, they were also appointed trustees for the Corinella Cemetery on 11 February 1878.lxiv On 18 April 1878, John Dickins’ appointment to the Corinella Cemetery Trust was revoked after a public meeting in Corinellalxv and, on 22 June 1878, he was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Grantville Cemetery Trust.lxvi John Dickins attended seven meetings as secretary of the Grantville Cemetery Trust and was responsible for planning, administration, communication with the Crown Lands office in relation to funding and supervising John Monk’s brother, Matthew Monk (1826-1918) who was contracted to clear and fence the cemetery.lxvii On 24 September 1879, John Dickins was also elected councillor for the Corinella Riding for the Shire of Phillip Island & Woolamai.lxviii On 4 January 1882, he was charged with allowing dancing on his licensed premiseslxvix although there were still no houses in Grantville, just two hotels and a blacksmith.lxx George Francis Monks (1837-1910) and Alfred William Selman (18331902) left the district in 1879, John Monks died in 1880lxxi and Alexander Stewart (1831-1888) was distracted by his work as a police magistrate, Justice of the Peace and Shire Councillorlxxii as well as recovering from the destructive 1878 fire at his Bass River Saw Mill in Queensferry.lxxiii John Dickins was the only active trustee remaining and he also took on the role of treasurer but, although there were four interments, there were no Trust meetings between 21 June 1879 and 6 November 1880.lxxiv Although Matthew Monk continued to maintain the cemetery, John Dickins did not witness any of the 12 known burials that took place during his tenure as secretary, he did not keep formal records of any of these interments, and he did not organise nomination of three replacement trustees until 4 December 1880. John Dickins managed his workload and caused long-term complications for the trustees by using the Grantville Hotel account system for the receipt,

payment and recording of Trust finances.lxxv On 4 February 1881, the Governor in Council appointed Isaac William Delaney (1857-1926), Frederick Augustus Nowell (1829-1910) and James Patrick Clarke (1861-1943) to fill the three vacant positions:lxxvi Isaac William Delaney was a dairy farmer on 319 acres in Jeetho.lxvii In 1881, he was appointed a magistrate in Corinellalxviii and he was elected to the Shire of Phillip Island & Woolamai in 1882.lxxix In 1891, Isaac William Delaney resigned from the Trust and he moved to Gunyah in about 1912.lxxx Frederick Augustus Nowell was a farmer and store owner on 312 acres in Fern Hill who also ran a store on 173 acres in Corinella.lxxxi In 1887, he was elected President of the Grantville & Jeetho Agricultural Society so he resigned from the Grantville Cemetery Trust. Frederick Augustus Nowell is buried in Grantville Cemetery.

James Patrick Clarke was a selector of 320 acres in Jumbunna.lxxxii In 1882, he was elected unopposed to the Shire of Phillip Island & Woolamai.lxxxiii He resigned in 1897 when he moved to Brunswick in Melbourne to work as a storeman. James Patrick Clarke died in Wonthaggi and is buried in the Grantville Cemetery.

After Alexander Stewart became Chairman of the Grantville Cemetery Trust in 1880,lxxxiv John Dickins attended only one more meeting on 11 April 1881lxxxv before he died intestate at the Grantville Hotel on 31 January 1883 from effusion of the brain and congestion of the lungs.lxxxvi On 1 February 1883, he was buried in the Grantville Cemetery in a ceremony led by an Anglican lay reader.lxxxivii

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The Grantville Cemetery Early History Part 3 John Dickins (1843-1883) continued On 16 June 1883, the Grantville Cemetery trustees nominated John Thomas Paul (18591931) to replace John Dickins as trustee and treasurer.lxxxviii John Thomas Paul was a farmer and Justice of the Peace who held the Crown lease on 297 acres (Allotment 159) south of the Bass River.lxxxix He was Deputy Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages in Grantville from 1885 to 1905.lc In 1885, he also bought 20 acres on the north east corner of the Melbourne and Jumbunna Roads from Henry Schűler. He later purchased four more Crown leases totalling 752 acres (Allotments 172, 184, 186 and 157) on the east of the Melbourne Road south of Grantville.lci On 25 June 1893, John Thomas Paul resigned his appointment as a trustee but he became their paid secretary on 10 May 1897 and he resigned as paid secretary of the Trust on 26 May 1902.xcii He is buried in Grantville Cemetery.

named after her birth-place in East St Kilda.

Elizabeth Ann Sleight aka Dickins nèe Smith died on 13 January 1899 from exhaustion following a 12-month history of stricture of the intestine.c

William Coghlan managed the Grantville Hotel and Michael Moore remained as licensee until Henry Brooke (1831-1912) took in Samuel Henryover Cohen JP January 1887.ci Henry Brooke frequently attracted the attention of the police and was charged with being drunk and using insulting words on his own premises, allowing drunk patrons on the premises and failing to keep a light on outside.cii By June 1887, William Coghlan had replaced Henry Brooke with Mary Corbett (1827-1917)ciii and, on 2 December 1887, the Grantville Cemetery trustees appointed the Grantville telegraph operator (who was employed by John Paul) in a second attempt to audit their books. However, Mary Corbett refused to cooperate and, on 7 March 1888, they had to ‘insist’ that she hand over After John Dickins died, none of the Grantville the cemetery books and funds to John Paul.civ Cemetery trustees was prepared to accept the role of honorary secretary.xciii The Trust By 4 April 1888, Mary Corbett was running the operated without a secretary or an effective Gembrook Hotel,cv William Coghlan’s sister, Chairman for another year until they employed Margaret Maria Coghlan (1867-1957), was Robert Matthew Bartlett (1857-1934) to manager and licensee of the Grantville Hotelcvi perform their administrative work including and John Paul regained control of the supervision of contractors. Matthew Monk’s Grantville Cemetery Trust accounts so that the contract to maintain the cemetery continued trustees could fulfil their statutory reporting until 1909.xciv obligations and show £8/8/2 in their account on 1 January 1889.cvii Robert Matthew Bartlett was a bootmaker who moved from Kyneton to Grantville in about 1885.xcv The Trust paid Robert Bartlett 2/6 for each meeting he attended and 2/6 for each interment he arranged until he resigned on 17 May 1890.xcvi He continued to live in Grantville until about 1894 when he moved to Outtrim and then Leongatha.

Elizabeth Dickins shared John Dickins’ assets with their daughter, Amelia Ellen Dickinsxlvii but, despite active cooperation between Elizabeth Dickins and the trustees, the Grantville Cemetery accounts remained unresolved when Elizabeth Dickins let the hotel component of her business to Michael Joseph Moore (1857-1928) at the end of 1884,xcviii and, in 1885, she sold the Grantville Hotel and the Crown lease on the 20 acres of land she inherited to William Denis Coghlan (1863-1901) who had been licensee of the Blue Post Hotel in Little Collins Street, Melbournexcix On 5 May 1886, Elizabeth Dickins married a widowed undertaker and engineer, Samuel Joseph Sleight (1854-1900), Lancefield House

The Grantville Hotel 1889-1894

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The Grantville Hotel 1889-1894

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William Coghlan married Alice Johanna Payne (1870-1945) on 13 November 1889. Alice Payne’s father was John Payne who had been licensee of the Prince Alfred Hotel from 1877 to 1879 and, on 25 November 1889, Margaret Coghlan transferred the licence for the Grantville Hotel to her new sister-inlaw.cviii In 1891, William Coghlan also bought a house and land on the western side of the Melbourne Road.cix In 1894, he sold the Grantville Hotel to William Baker Lang (1865-1939) who had succeeded him when he left the Blue Post Hotel in 1888.cx Dr Robert Hodgson Cole (1858-1939), the former City Coroner, owned the Grantville Hotel when it was destroyed by fire on 25 January 1934 and never re-opened.cxi However, the close relationship between the Grantville Cemetery Trust and the old Grantville Hotel continues through the current President, David Garry, who is the great grand-son of John Payne.

Next month I will tell you a relatively short story about Alfred William Selman who was a trustee from 18 April 1878 until he left the district by the end of 1879.

References i. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 22 June 1878. ii. New South Wales Roman Catholic Baptisms solemnised in the Parish of Melbourne in the year of 1843 No. 36807. iii. Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839–1923; New South Wales State Archives & Records, Assisted Immigrants Shipping List 1840s; Port Phillip Gazette 6 May 1840, p. 2. iv. The Port Phillip Patriot & Morning Advertiser 21 June 1848, p.

1; Port Phillip Gazette & Settlers’ Journal 5 January 1850, p. 2. v. Victoria State Records Office Assisted Passenger Lists (18391871) Record Series Number (VPRS): 14; New South Wales State Archives & Records, Assisted Immigrants Shipping List 1830s. vi. Victoria Public Records Officer Probate and Administration John Dickins File 74/348; Mount Alexander Mail 3 April 1869, p.

2. vii. Victoria Public Records Officer Probate and Administration John Dickins File 74/348. viii. Bourke Australia Marriage Registration No. 135/1871; Australasian 1 May 1875, p. 1. ix. The Age 18 January 1872, p. 2. x. Leader 23 August 1873, p. 2. xi. The Australasian 1 May 1875, p. 2; Ballarat Star 6 May 1875, p. 3. xii. Phillip Island Rates Book 1875 Vol. 2, p. 3. xiii. Victoria Public Records Officer Will of John Dickins executed 30 May 1895; Table Talk 11 April 1921, p. 11. xiv. Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2; Crown Allotment 95 Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2; Table Talk 11 April 1921, p. 11. xv. Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments C246 Sheet 1 p. 2; Crown Allotment 179 Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2; Victoria Records Office Bills of Sale 102436 Filed 1896; Phillip Island Rates Books 1875 p.12, 1877 p. 47, 1878 p. 66. xvi. The Argus 11 May 1867, p. 6; The Argus 16 February 1867, p. 6; The Argus 25 August 1869, p. 6; Town of Grantville Parish of Corinella County of Mornington L4469 23 September 1872.

xvii. Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 29 December 1856, p. 3; General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes.

London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. xviii. The Age 18 October 1865, p. 1; Great Southern Advocate 4 August 1892, p. 3. xix. The Age 28 February 1867, p. 4; The Argus 7 March 1867, p.

6; The Argus 18 March 1867, p. 4; The Age 27 June 1867, p. 1; The Age 29 September 1868, p. 4; Portland Guardian & Normanby General Adviser 24 August 1868, p. 2; The Age 14 August 1869, p. 1; Weekly Times 7 May 1870, p. 7; Ballarat Courier 30 August 1870, p. 4; Victoria Public Record Office Unassisted Passengers Index 1870; Edmund Colbert, Town of Grantville L4469, 1872; The Age 23 August 1873, p. 5; The Record & Emerald Hill & Sandridge Advertiser 14 August 1873, p. 2.; The Argus 10 June 1874, p. 1; Argus 29 October 1874, p.

10; The Herald 24 November 1875, p. 3; The Age 25 November 1875, p. 3; The Argus 25 November 1875, p. 6 The Argus 26 November 1875, p. 6; Phillip Island Rates Book 1875 Vol. 2, p.

13; Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 1; Crown Allotment X Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments Plan 246-3; Phillip Island Rates Book Vol. 2,1878, p. 66 Allotment 6 Grantville Victorian Places Monash University & University of Queensland, 2015. xx. The Age 25 November 1875, p. 3. xxi. The Record & Emerald Hill & Sandridge Advertiser 14 August 1873, p. 2; The Age 23 August 1873, p. 5. xxii. The Age 22 February 1873, p. 4. xxiii. Victoria Government 23 December 1870, p. 1891; The Age 22 February 1873, p. 8; Gippsland Times 21 June 1873, p. 4; The Age 16 July 1873, p. 4; The Age 14 November 1873, p. 4; Kyneton Observer 25 November 1875, p. 2; The Age 25 November 1875, p. 3; South Bourke & Mornington Journal 12 May 1886 p.

3; Will of Alexander Stewart, Probate Application 36/980 Supreme Court of Victoria Probate Jurisdiction filed 20 July 1888; South Bourke & Mornington Journal 21 November 1888, p. 2. xxiv. The Age 23 July 1873, p. 24; The Age 25 November 1875, p.

3; Kyneton Guardian 27 November 1875, p. 2. xxv. The Kyneton Observer 30 March 1878, p. 2. xxvi. Bendigo Advertiser 12 December 1883, p. 1; Great Southern Advocate 6 December 1889, p. 2; Great Southern Advocate 6 June 1890, p. 2. xxvii. The Age 23 August 1873, p. 5; The Argus 10 June 1874, p.

1; The Record & Emerald Hill & Sandridge Advertiser 14 August 1873, p. 2.; Phillip Island Rate Books 1875 Vol. 1 p. 12; The Herald 24 November 1875, p. 3; The Argus 26 November 1875, p.

6; Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 1; Crown Allotment X Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments Plan 246-3; Phillip Island Rates Book Vol. 2,1878, p. 66 Allotment 6; The Argus 25 November 1875, p. 6. xxviii. Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 1 of 2. xxix. Mornington / lithographed at the Department of Lands & Survey Melbourne: Dept. of Lands and Survey, [1888?] MAP RM 2755. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232096930 xxx. The Record & Emerald Hill & Sandridge Advertiser 14 August 1873, p. 2; The Age 23 August 1873, p. 5; Phillip Island Rates Books 1875 p.12, 1877 p. 47, 1878 p. 66. xxxi. The Record and Emerald Hill and Sandridge Advertiser 14 August 1873, p. 2. xxxii. Kyneton Observer 25 November 1875, p. 2; contra Grantville History with Jan Walker, Waterline News April 2018, p. 27. xxxiii. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 21 February 1877, p.

2; 25 July 1877, p. 3; 1 August 1877, p. 2; 15 May 1878, p. 2; 11 September 1878, p. 2; 2 January 1878, p. 3; The Argus 1 May 1878, p. 5. xxxiv. The Telegraph 17 July 1875, p. 5; The Herald 1 May 1876, p. 3; The Age 27 July 1877, p. 2. xxxv. The Argus 18 March 1880, p. 8. xxxvi. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 8 October 1879, p. 2; Phillip Island Rates Book 1880 p. 103. xxxvii. Victoria Government Gazette 27 January 1882, p. 202. …../11

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The Grantville Cemetery Early History Part 3 John Dickins (1843-1883) continued xxxviii. The Age 30 August 1888, p. 3. xxxix. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 28 January 1880, p.

1. vl. Phillip Island Rates Book 1880 Vol. 2, p. 103. xli. Victoria Public Records Office Kelly Historical Collection Part 1 Police Branch Memo 343. xlii. Victoria Public Records Office Kelly Historical Collection Part 1 Police Branch Memo 343. xliii. The Age 22 April 1881, p. 4; Mooroopna Australia Death Registration No. 255/1882. xliv. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 6 July 1881, p. 2; 21 December 1881, p. 2; 17 December 1884, p. 3; Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2; Crown Allotment 95 Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2. xlv. Phillip Island Rate Books 1887 Vol. 3 p. 43. xlvi. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 21 December 1887, p.

2; Phillip Island Rate Books 1887 Vol. 3, p. 43; Phillip Island Rates Book Vol. 2, 1878, p. 66. xlii. Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments C246 Sheet 1 p.

2; Crown Allotment 179 Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2; Victoria Records Office Bills of Sale 102436 Filed 1896; Phillip Island Rates Books 1875 p.12, 1877 p. 47, 1878 p. 66. xlviii. Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2; Crown Allotment 95 Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2. xlix. The Age 23 August 1873, p. 5; Victoria State Records Office Probate & Administration File 25/247 Statement of Assets and Liabilities; Leader 10 July 1875, p. 12. l. The Dandenong Journal 23 June 1932, p. 7. li.South Bourke & Mornington Journal 14 February 1877. lii. Victoria Probate Records 025/210-025/859. liii. Victoria State Records Office Probate & Administration File 25/247 John Dickins Statement of Assets and Liabilities. liv. The Age 26 January 1934, p. 7; The Argus 8 July 1875, p. 5; The Argus 14 February 1874, p. 7; The Argus 5 February 1876, p. 10; The Argus 6 October 1889, p. 12.. lv. South Bourke and Mornington Journal 2 January 1878, p. 3. lvi. The Argus 3 February 1879, p. 8; South Bourke & Mornington Journal 13 December 1882, p. 3. lvii. Leader 1 February 1879, p. 3. lviii. Phillip Island Rates Book 1879 Vol. 2, p. 84; Phillip Island Rates Book 1880 Vol. 2, p. 103. lix. South Bourke and Mornington Journal 12 November 1879, p. 3; Grand Sub-Divisional Sale at Grantville on the sea 17 April 1888; South Bourke and Mornington Journal 3 October 1877, p.

2. lx. Crown Allotment 93 Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2; The Age 23 August 1873, p. 5; Crown Allotment 192b Division of Survey & Mapping, Parish of Corinella Schedule of Allotments 2453 Sheet 1, p. 2; Leader 19 September 1874, p. 20; Phillip Island Rate Books 1875 Vol. 1. p. 12; Phillip Island Rate Books 1875 Vol. 2 p. 29; South Bourke and Mornington Journal 26 September 1877, p. 2; Phillip Island Rate Books 1878 Vol. 2 p. 66. lxi. Phillip Island Rates Book Vol. 2,.1878, p. 66. lxii. South Bourke and Mornington Journal 21 March 1877, p.

3; South Bourke and Mornington Journal 15 September 1880, p. 3; The Australasian 15 December 1888, p. 17. lxiii. Leader 17 March 1877, p. 15. lxiv. Victorian Government Gazette 15 February 1878, p. 350. xv. Victorian Government Gazette 18 April 1878, p. 856. lxvi. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 22 June 1878. lxvii. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 24 August 1878, 4 September 1878, 5 May 1900. lxviii. South Bourke and Mornington Journal 24 September 1879, p. 2. lxix. South Bourke and Mornington Journal 25 January 1882, p.

3. lxx. Devon Herald 4 November 1882, p. 1. lxxi. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 22 June 1878, 24 August 1878,4 September 1978, 24 March 1879, 4 May 1879, 21 June 1879, 6 November 1880, 4 December 1880.

lxxii. South Bourke and Mornington Journal 17 November 1880, p. 2; 8 October 1879, p. 3; The Age 20 December 1879, p. 6. lxxiii. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 20 March 1878, p. 2. lxxiv. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 22 June 1878, 24 August 1878, 4 September 1978, 24 March 1879, 4 May 1879, 21 June 1879, 6 November 1880, 4 December 1880. lxxv. Minutes of meetings of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 28 January 1888, 7 March 1888. lxxvi. Victoria Government Gazette 14 February 1881, p. 295. lxxvii. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 4 December 1880; Phillip Island Rates Books 1879 Vol. 2, p. 85, 1887 Vol. 2 p. 42. lxxviii. The Australasian 10 September 1881, p. 20. lxxix. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 19 April 1882, p. 3. lxxx. Weekly Times 7 March 1885, p. 2. lxxxi. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 4 December 1880; Phillip Island Rate Books 1881 Vol.2 p. 126, 1886 Vol. 4 p. 22, 1890 Vol. 5 p. 60, 1900 Vol. 11 p. 64. lxxxii. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 4 December 1880. lxxxiii. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 9 August 1882, p.

2. lxxxiv. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 4 December 1880; Victorian Government Gazette 4 February 1881, p. 295; The Argus 17 February 1881, p. 4.; South Bourke & Mornington Journal 21 February 1883, p, 2. lxxxv. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 11 April 1881. lxxxvi. Victoria State Records Office Probate & Administration File 25/247 John Dickins Statement of Assets and Liabilities. lxxxvii. Bass Australia Death Registration No. 83/1883. lxxxviii. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 16 June 1883. lxxxix. Phillip Island Rates Book 1887 p. 47; Great Southern Advocate 26 July 1873 p 3. xc. Victorian Government Gazette 18 September 1885, p. 2636; Victorian Government Gazette 31 May 1905, p. 1741. xci. Phillip Island Rates Book 1897 p. 64. xcii. Minutes of meetings of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 10 May 1897, 26 May 1902. xciii. Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 16 June 1883. xciv. Minutes of meetings of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 13 August 1884; 19 May 1890; Kyneton Australia Birth Registration No. 8189/1884; Minutes of meeting of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 13 May 1909. xcv. Kyneton Australia Birth Registration No. 8189/1884. xcvi. Minutes of meetings of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 13 August 1884; 19 May 1990. xcvii. Victoria Public Record Office Probate & Administration File 25/247. xcviii. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 17 December 1884, p. 3. xcix. The Age 20 June 1888, p. 4; The Age 19 November 1886, p.

3; The Argus 1 July 1887, p. 6; Phillip Island Rates Book 1893 Vol. 6, p. 24. c. Melbourne East Victoria Marriage Registration No. 2/1886; South Bourke & Mornington Journal 12 May 1886, p. 2; The Argus 11 August 1886, p. 5; Hawthorn Australia Death Registration No. 5303/1899; Asylum Records, 1862-1937. VPRS 7397-7401,7403-7407,7419-7420,7424,7430,7478-7479,74837488. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria. ci. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 23 December 1885, p.

2; 5 January 1887, p. 3; 21 September 1887, p. 2; The Argus 3 December 1912, p. 1. cii. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 16 November 1887, p.

3; 21 December 1887, p. 3; 4 January 1888, p. 3; 15 February 1888, p. 3. ciii. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 15 June 1887, p. 4.

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The Grantville Cemetery Early History Part 3 John Dickins (1843-1883) continued civ. Minutes of meetings of Grantville Cemetery Trust dated 2 December 1887, 28 January 1888, 7 March 1888. cv. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 8 April 1888, p. 2. cvi. South Bourke & Mornington Journal 4 April 1888, p. 2; South Bourke & Mornington Journal 19 September 1888, p. 2; South Bourke & Mornington Journal 12 December 1888, p. 3. cvii. Victoria Government Gazette 29 August 1890, p. 3490. cviii. The Age 30 November 1889, p. 12. cix. Phillip Island Rates Book 1891 Vol. 5, p. 92; Phillip Island Rates Book 1892 Vol. 5, p. 130; Phillip Island Rates Book 1893 Vol. 6, p. 25; Phillip Island Rates Book 1894 Vol. 6, p. 60; Phillip Island Rates Book 1895 Vol. 6, p. 97; Phillip Island Rates Book 1896 Vol. 7, p. 53. cx. Weekly Times 31 March 1888, p. 5; Phillip Island Rates Book 1894 Vol. 6, p. 65; Phillip Island Rates Book 1895 Vol. 6, p. 101; Phillip Island Rates Book 1896 Vol. 7, p. 62, 63; Phillip Island Rates Book 1897 Vol. 8, p. 61; Phillip Island Rates Book 1898 Vol. 9, p. 60; Phillip Island Rates Book 10, p. 61; Phillip Island Rates Book 1900 Vol. 11, p. 61. cxi. The Herald 25 January 1934, p. 5; The Argus 24 November 1934, p. 3. cxii. From Grantville History with Jan Walker, Waterline News April 2018, p. 27.

From Geoff Guilfoyle’s Grantville Cemetery Collection.

They Who Didn’t Return

William Denis Coghlan Husband of Alice Coghlan Died 27 February 1901 Aged 39 Hubert David William Thompson Service number: 2503 Rank: Private Unit: 8th Australian Infantry Battalion Service: Australian Imperial Force Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918 Date of Death: 25 July 1916 Age at Death: 26 Cause of Death: Killed in action (Poziers, France) Cemetery: Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers la Boisselle, Picardie, France Cecil Robert Thompson Service number: 2421 Rank: Private Unit: 37th Australian Infantry Battalion Service: Australian Imperial Force Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918 Date of Death: 23 April 1917 Age at Death: 25 Cause of Death: Killed in action (Bullecourt, France) Cemetery: Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armenti

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The Western Port Times January 2019 Our History Queensferry, the Town that Vanished

Page 13 height, flooded into houses and inundated most of Queensferry.

One woman was rescued from her perch on the kitchen table by horse and wagon.

The flood was not serious but it saturated the land with salt water rendering it useless for several years.

Libby Skidmore From “A Guide to The History and Beauty of the Bass District” Available from the Bass Valley Historical Society

Queensferry is one of the pioneer towns which grew, flourished and then disappeared. It was developed around the jetty which was another shipping port linking Western Gippsland with Melbourne. Small ships carried passengers to the western side of Western Port or directly to Melbourne.

The road to Melbourne was very difficult and often impassable, particularly in the region of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. It was cheaper and easier to go by sea.

A seaside settlement with hotels, one licensed Colonial Wine Saloon, three public halls, a store and a series of large and small houses would have confronted you a century ago.

You can see the remains of hearth stones in the paddocks.

George McGowan lived in a large two storey residence on the esplanade and held extravagant parties attended by well known guests from Melbourne.

At one party the house caught fire and was destroyed.

McGowan lived out his days in a small cottage built on the same site.

The principal cargo leaving Queensferry was timber from the Bass Hills. Much of this was sawn in the mills of Alexander Stewart who came from Morayshire in Scotland. After various experiences of colonial life in Melbourne and on the goldfields of Ballarat, he reached Queensferry in 1860, He had no money, no job, a wife www.bassvalleyhistoricalsociety.com.au and five children.

Ten years later he had become a mill owner. Bullock Remember? teams which used to drag the timber from the hills to the shore found the terrain difficult so Stewart built a wooden tram track which ran from the mill down along Queensferry Jetty road to the shore.

Some earthworks can still be seen beside the road. Stewart also built a small steamer the Tyro to transport timber.

For its first voyage he loaded it at the Queensferry jetty but the boat sat firmly and solidly on the bottom and would not move until the timber was removed and taken to Bass Landing where the Tyro was reloaded.

The mills employed 25 men and 620000 super feet of timber went out of the area each year. Much of the timber panelling in old Melbourne building came from the Bass Hills. The settlements along the coast declined as the railway line was built in the hills away from the coast.

The little ports ceased to be the centre of commerce and the people moved away. Queensferry was built on low lying ground and the last six residents were driven out when in the late 1920’s the tide rose to an abnormal

The Western Port Times January 2019 Western Port Fishermen Nice email received last month from Robert Greaves OAM.

Page 14 Families, following up Robert’s lead I came across:

The Palmer Family.

Robert Palmer, a surgeon, his wife and family emigrated in the mid 1850’s and lived first in Port Melbourne.

They then moved to the northern side of French Island and camped there for Thank You Roger. several years before moving on to Corinella Bobby Greaves (ex Lang Lang) where they bought a 100 acre block along (I am known as Bobby at Lang Lang though Bob Guys Road and some township blocks. is the usual term) Palmer Point, on French Island My maternal grandparents lived at Corinella. commemorates their sojourn there.

My mother was g born there.

Grandma Palmer was born on French Island Annie Whyatt. The "h" has disappeared from Wyatt now Grandpa Palmer was one of the last fishermen on Westernport together with his nephews the Hamiltons.

My father was born at Glen Alvie Then Pa moved to Yannathan.

That's where Vera Palmer. teacher at Lang Lang, met my father, Dudley Greaves.

Your work is much appreciated, Robert Greaves OAM

Robert’s email sent me looking for one of my favourite books: Western Port Fishermen

By Helen Hannan and Bruce Bennett.

Frederick Palmer (1831-1915) Frederick married Isabelle Tickell in 1962 at Cranbourne and they had 11 children.

Fred was a fisherman at Bass in 1868 and bought a four acre block at Corinella from the crown in July 1868.

He died at Bass. The sons, who fished at Corinella, at least for some time, were Fred, Charles, Robert and John.

Fred Palmer (1863-1944) Fred was fishing at Corinella in 1913 before moving to Welshpool.

Robert (Bob) Palmer (1867 -1951) Bob was born at Schnapper Point and married Annie Whyatt in 1908. He worked First published in 2010 this is one of the on Western Port all his life except for a most significant works ever produced on short period when he went trawling in Western Port, with chapters including.

Bass Strait. He only fitted a motor in his boat quite late in life to please his son-inAn overview of the Western Port Fishing law, Bill Howie, who refused to go out with industry. him without an engine. In 1921 he The Fishing Stations of Western Port. obtained a permit to form and plant an (Historical sketches of fishing and artificial oyster bed 2400 yards south of fishermen) Settlement Point. He fished a lot with his Flinders, Pt. Leo, Stony Point, Crib Point, brother John, their biggest haul was a Hastings, Tooradin, Corinella, Grantville, 1000 lbs of schnapper, which bought only Lang Lang, San Remo, Phillip Island, 3d a lb in the market.

Newhaven, Rhyll, Cowes and Ventnor, Bob and Annie’s daughter, Berence ran the French Island. telephone exchange at Howie’s Post Office from 1931 to 1981. When bob died at 84 The Fishing inside the bay (Oystering) he was the oldest active fisherman on Netting on Western Port Western Port.

The Fishing outside the Bay. Sharking outside the Bay. We will have more on the history of Crayfishing. fishing in Western Port next month.

Thanks Robert for setting us off on a Looking at some Corinella Fishing such a wonderful journey.

Editor

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