Pioneers of Heidelberg

The following names appear in Heidelberg: the land and its people 1838-1900 by Don Garden (1972)

“Although Heidelberg was one of the first parts of the Port Phillip District to be settled, and became important and prestigious in the early years of the colony, its history has been largely neglected. The beauty and fertility of the land and its proximity to Melbourne quickly resulted in the establishment in the 1830s and 40s of large estates by wealthy gentlemen. A romantic spot, Heidelberg became popular with picnickers and later attracted an artists’ colony. The character of the area then gradually changed as a distinct village community emerged, and market gardens began to flourish. Unlike some of the suburbs closer to Melbourne, Heidelberg eventually wilted under economic pressures from which it did not fully recover until the turn of the century. This book allows us within the larger contect of the colony’s fortunes and misfortunes, the struggle of Heidelberg the suburb to be born ” – flyleaf.

Contents: First land sales and subdivisions, gentlemen of Heidelberg and their estates and activities, infant rural community. golden fifties, decline and backwater, railway and land boom, a maturing community , the depression of the nineties.

BEAR                                     Thomas Hutchings

BEAR                                     John

BOLDEN                               Armyne 1817? – 1843

BOLDEN                               John Satterthwaite 1805? – 1892

BOLDEN                               Sandford George 1819? – 1943

CHRISTOPHER                    John c. 1821 – 1896

CLAUSEN                             George Christian

CRAWLEY                             George

CROKER                                Roger c. 1801 – 1872

DURHAM                             Robert George c. 1819 – 1873

ELLIOT                                   William Thomas

FENWICK                             Nicholas Alexander

GREAVES                             F. W.

GREAVES                             Herbert

GREAVES                             Richard

HOGUE                                 Arthur

JEFFREYS                              Joseph

KELSO                                   Alexander

LAING                                   William c. 1800 – 1891

MACMEIKAN                     John

MEINERTZHAGEN            Henry

NUTTALL                              James c. 1821 – 1888

NUTTALL                              John

NUTTALL                              William c. 1827 – 1889

PAYNE                                  Charles

PEGG                                    George

PICKERING                          A. J.

PORTER                                George Wallich – 1907

QUAYLE                                Thomas

RANK                                    William

ROCKE                                  William Henry

ROEMER                              Charles William

SHERWOOD                        George

STROTHERT                         William

TEGG                                     James

VERNER                                William

WADESON                          Edward

WADESON                          Lawrence – 1876

WARE                                    Thomas Wedge

WINGROVE                        Charles Symons c. 1819 – 1905

WIPPELL                               John Jnr.

WIPPELL                               Walker