The story of St. Katherine’s Church begins on the Island of St Helena in the Atlantic ocean, where Anthony Beale was born on 3 November 1790. Anthony became Paymaster for the East India Company which then controlled the island on behalf of the British Crown. On 15 June 1814 he married Katherine Rose Young, niece […]
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Ships as street names in Diamond Creek
Although land locked Diamond Creek township does have nautical connections in twelve of its street names. Galatea Street was named by surveyor Barge when he mapped out Diamond Creek in 1867: The war ship “Galatea” carried Queen Victoria’s son, Prince Albert, on the first Royal visit to the Australian colonies in 1867. The name Galatea […]
Eltham Cemetery
The Eltham Cemetery is situated on the corner of Mount Pleasant Road and Cemetery Road, Eltham in the Shire of Nillumbik. The Eltham Cemetery Trust, established in 1858, selected the site on high ground overlooking the village of Eltham. Trustees appointed from various church and local organisations have administered and maintained the cemetery to this […]
Kangaroo Ground Pioneer Cemetery
This article reproduced here with permission was first published in [The New Local]: news and views from Hurstbridge, Nutfield, Strathewen, Arthurs Creek, Panton Hill, Wattle Glen, St Andrews, Smiths Gully, Kangaroo Ground, Cottles Bridge, Doreen and Watsons Creek Issue 1 November/December 2008 page 16. The Kangaroo Ground Cemetery along the Eltham-Yarra Glen Road is the […]
Hurst Family Cemetery
Henry Facey Hurst took over the management of the Allwood Station at Upper Diamond Creek (now Hurstbridge) for first settler Cornelius Haley in 1855. In 1856 he was joined there by his parents Frances and Robert Hurst and several of his siblings. Around 1858 Henry erected a substantial log bridge across the Diamond Creek upstream […]
Shillinglaw Farm Eltham
The Shillinglaw farm comprised lot 90 of Holloway’s 1851 Little Eltham subdivision. It was originally 30 acres in area and situated east of the Diamond Creek and north of Henry Street. Before Phillip Shillinglaw purchased the property in the 1870s the eastern part had been acquired by the Colonial Government to establish the main road […]
Samuel Cracknell (1847 – 1933) World famous light weight jockey
“Sam Cracknell was an outstanding personality in Australian Racing; a shrewd witty little man who had a racing record extending for a quarter of a century dating from 1865 – a record which was never approached by any other lightweight jockey of his day”. Source: Unknown newspaper cutting Early Life Sam was the 7th of […]
The impact of Black Saturday from a safe house in Diamond Creek
I arrived home from work, on Saturday February 7, at midday. On my way home I noticed that the temperature was already 40 degrees and that it was extremely windy. I once lived in St Andrews for eight years and I was a member of the local fire brigade. I learnt so much about bushfire behaviour […]
Nillumbik’s Fools Gold
What makes your Nillumbik home town/area unique? Who are the characters who have made it so? What sites have significance and why? During 2005 Nillumbik Shire Council and the Literary Reference Group invited members of the community to respond to these questions, to show us the history and flavour of your place – then and […]
Lade Family at Edendale Farm
I believe it likely that my great- grandmother, Mrs. Annie Lade, (nee McConchie) with her son Norman Leslie (Les), and daughter Mary (Maimie) lived at Edendale farm for a period in 1910. I base this on family stories and some minor but incomplete research. 1910, Annie Lade with Les and Maimie, moved from” The Pines”, […]