William Cranston Murray
William was born in Brunswick, in 1857, to William and Jane Murray.
William’s father had come out from Scotland....more
James Dawson Kerr
James Dawson Kerr was born in Glasgow in 1829, son of William and Elizabeth (Dawson) Kerr.
In March 1853 James and his wife Jane arrived in Australia aboard....more
Dorothea Stamp
Dorothea Stamp and her sister Anna Ashton were proprietors of a small school for the young ladies of the town, among their pupils.... more
Jenkins Family
Adam Jenkins and wife Mary (neé Campbell), from Dunoon Scotland, arrived in Melbourne, in January 1857, aboard the “Merrie England”.
Travelling with them was their son John, aged 18 years, daughter Margaret, aged .... more
John Rodd
Adam Jenkins and wife Mary (neé Campbell), from Dunoon Scotland, arrived in Melbourne, in January 1857, aboard the “Merrie England”.
Travelling with them was their son John, aged 18 years, daughter Margaret, aged .... more
Andrew McLellan
Andrew McLellan was born in Stirlingshire Scotland in 1799, and after becoming widowed in 1843, he became the sole breadwinner and carer for his four small children, James, Janet, Agnes and Alexander. In 1852 the family boarded the ship “Ticonderoga” .... more
Sherlock Family
Samuel Sherlock was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1836, and was four years old when he came to Victoria with his family. He moved to Rye with his sister and her husband in 1848... more
John Connell
John Connell was born in the Westernport district in 1850, twin brother to William and one of eight children born to Anthony and Mary Ann Connell.
John’s father, Anthony, had arrived in Australia in 1840... more
John McRae
John McRae was born in Scotland and married Agnes McLellan in 1857.
Agnes, her father Andrew McLellan and her brothers and sisters were quarantined at Point Nepean aboard the fever ship the “Ticonderoga” in 1852... more
James McLellan
James was born in 1832, in Stirlingshire Scotland, the eldest child of Andrew and Margaret McLellan.
He arrived in Australia in 1852 with his father, his brother Alexander and sisters Janet and Agnes, on the fever ship “Ticonderoga”... more
Jane Alston
Jane Alston was born in Bulla Victoria, to David and Agnes (Paton) Patullo in 1851.
She married William Alston, from Edinburgh Scotland, in 1876... more
James Noble
James Noble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1853, the son of Robert and Margaret Noble.
He arrived in Victoria in 1877, at the age of 24, and made for the goldfields to make his fortune.
He later met Emma Farley, who had been born in Dunolly, in 1864... more
Rev. James Caldwell
James Caldwell was born in Northern Ireland and arrived in Australia in 1860.
In 1874 he became minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church which before that had been served by visiting clergy.... more
William Miller Irvine
William Irvine was a native of Scotland who arrived with his wife Margaret in New South Wales in 1853.
They moved onto Victoria where they tried their luck in the diggings at Daylesford and Castlemaine, and also spent a short time in New Zealand... more
Robert Olley Snr.
Robert Olley was born in Trimingham Norfolk on the 11th December 1829, son of John and Sophia (Banyard) Olley, and he arrived in Australia aboard the “Mahomet Shah” in 1848... more
Charles (Chas) Wilson
Charles Wilson was born at Tuerong in 1867, the ninth child of John Bowman and Agnes Eliza Wilson.
On the 25th February 1892, at the age of 25 years, he married Georgina Absalom... more
Robert Turner
Robert Turner arrived in Sydney in 1854, from Scotland.
In 1860 he married Ellen O’Donnell in Newcastle, N.S.W.
Ellen had arrived in 1855, as a young fourteen year old girl, with her brother Richard, and his family... more
John Bowman Wilson
John Bowman Wilson was born in Tasmania on the 10th of October, 1830, and arrived in Victoria in 1857 with his wife Agnes and family, to try his luck on the Castlemaine goldfields... more
Helen Miller Delamare
Helen Miller McLeod was born in Berwick, Scotland on 6 October 1837, to Alexander and Mary McLeod.
She arrived in Melbourne in 1860, and was working as a maid servant, in Orrong Road, Toorak... more
Archibald Cook
Archibald Cook was a successful business man who owned the Victorian Ferry Service.
His daughter, Elizabeth, married Gib Barrett, and they built a new home which they called ‘Arran’, on the corner of Alfred and Albert Street... more
James Firth
James Firth left the Orkney Isles in 1846. His travels took him to Canada, and then onto Western Australia, and he was also working in Port Adelaide and Whyalla, building and repairing wharves... more
William Firth
William Firth arrived in Victoria at the age of sixteen, to join his two brothers, James and John.
The three of them went to try their luck on the goldfields without much success... more
John & Catherine Firth
John Firth arrived in Victoria to join his brothers James and William in the early 1850’s.The Firth Brothers had... more
The Campbell Clan
Catherine Campbell (neé Jenkins) was born in 1832, in Dunoon, Scotland.
She and her husband, John Campbell, arrived in Australia in January 1857, aboard the ship “Merrie England”... more
