Benjamin Benton
Benjamin Benton was the first son of Benjamin John Benton and Eleanor Gwalter.
He was born in England in 1839 and his mother died the following year, at about the same time as....more
Charles Adams
Charles Adams was born in 1870, the son of James Smith and Evelyn (Robinson) Adams and in 1897 he married Abigail Hutchinson. They lived in...more
Adams Family
Dr James Smith Adams was born in Gloustershire c.1817, and after practising as a Surgeon, he died from a tumour at Fitzroy in 1887 aged 69 years. He was buried...more
Jane Baxter
Jane, the third of Martha and Benjamin Baxter’s nine children, was born in a...more
Benjamin John Benton
Benjamin John Benton, born in Essex England, brought his family to Australia aboard the “Elizabeth”, arriving in...more
The Dunn Family
Henry Dunn was born in 1808, the son of Charles and Thomasina (Hooper) Dunn.
He was a farmer and grazier, and a very early pioneer of the ...more
William Grover
William Grover was born in Ealing Middlesex England in 1824 and married Elizabeth Dale in 1845. William arrived in Victoria in 1852, he and Elizabeth had eight children, five had...more
The Hirons Family
Mary Hirons, with children Annie (13), Jane (4), Thomas (5) and Jesse (1), followed her husband William, already established in Mornington as a Brick maker, to Australia aboard “Blackheath” from South Africa in...more
Amy Grant
Amy Grant, only and beloved daughter of Lewis Alexander and Amy Grant, died on 23 June, 1894. While not a lot is known ...more
Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams was born in 1815 in Dorset England and left England to travel to Australia, accompanied by his brother Charles in the....more
Thomas Coxhell
Thomas Coxhell was an early pioneer, who was born in Middlesex, England in 1825....more
Joseph Edward Worrell
Joseph Edward Austin Downward Worrell was born in Mornington in September 1862, the eldest child of Joseph and Margaret (Downward) Worrell...more
Kate Stachan
Kate was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1832, the second eldest daughter of the very Reverend John Armstrong and his wife Ellen...more
Stanley Parsons
Stan Parsons was born in Lifton, Devonshire, England, to Amos and Ann Parsons, in 1850.
As a young man, he travelled to Australia...more
William Cobb
William Frederick Cobb was only 18 years of age when he died on the 7th September 1864 at Schnapper Point (Mornington)...more
Downward Family
The Downward family have lived on the Mornington peninsula for the past 160 years. During that time the family has made a remarkable contribution to the life of...more
James Allison
James Allison was born in Fifeshire, Scotland in 1829, the son of James and...more
Clara Hanna Allison
Clara Hannah Heginbotham was born in Tyabb in 1866.
Clara married David Allison in...more
William Parkinson Wilson
William Parkinson Wilson (1826-1874), professor of mathematics, was born at Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, and baptized on...more
The Bates Family
Alfred Edward Bates was born in 1850, in Manchester, England, son of Mr. Robert Jackson Bates, a leading cotton manufacturer in the...more
Richard Shotton
Richard Shotton arrived in the colony in 1856, describing himself as “a native of London, and a...more
Richard Baines Bridge
Richard Bridge was born in Sussex England in 1831, the son of a Church of England Clergyman, and he arrived...more
Capt. Edward Hudson Blake
Edward Hudson Blake (Capt.) was born in 1810, and was the son of Robert and Ann (Higgins) Blake formerly of Triermore County Meath, Ireland...more
The Wood Family
James Wood, an early pioneer of Mt. Eliza, was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England in 1814. He arrived with his family in Mt. Eliza in the mid 1850’s...more
George Stone
George Stone’s parents, Charles and Mary Stone, arrived from England in 1857, aboard the “James Fernie”. They lived in Brighton, where George was born in 1858...more
