J.M. Conolly of Christmas Hills, came to Australia in 1842, and landing in Melbourne went as a manager of a station to Portland in the Western District. He then purchased a station on the Upper Goulburn, where he remained for seven years, engaged in pastoral pursuits, after which he carried on dairy farming at Essendon […]
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James Aitken
James Aitken, Epping, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1837, and landed in Brisbane, Queensland in 1865. Eighteeen months later he came to Victoria, and began living in Melbourne for a year, and at Kilmore for three months. He settled in Epping in 1868, and worked at his trade as journey-man blacksmith there until 1873, […]
Thomas A. Ahern
Ahearn, Thomas A. Epping (deceased) was born in Tipperary, Ireland in 1827, and arrived in Melbourne in March 1841. After farming for two years and paying a two years’ visit to New Zealand, he returned to Victoria, and went to the shearing on some of the principal stations up country, and settled down for a […]
Richard Bassett
Richard Bassett Upper Yarra Pioneer From Hazel Glen, Richard was born in Cornwall, England, in 1838 and coming to Australia in 1859 first went to Brunswick, where he worked at the quarries for a year, then to Darebin Creek as a farmer, and thence to Greensborough. He then selected land at Hazel Glen, where he […]