by jageroa | Jul 28, 2025 | Profiles
Captain Charles Hutton of Campaspe Plains Station Hutton was born in London in 1808 and joined the East India Company as a cadet in 1825. He was commissioned as an ensign in 1826, when stationed in India. In 1937, Hutton took leave and travelled to New South Wales and...
by jageroa | Jul 28, 2025 | Profiles
Judge James Donnithorne (1773–1852) was in partnership with CH Ebden during the establishment of ‘Carlshrue’ station on the Campaspe River in the Macedon Ranges. James Donnithorne (1773-1852), the son of Nicholas Donnithorne, was born and baptised in...
by jageroa | Jan 16, 2024 | Profiles
In early 1837 William Coghill was overlanding to Port Phillip District to take up land. He had an arrangement with John Hepburn and they met at the Murrumbidgee River where the sheep were depastured. about this time they met up with William Bowman who was overlanding...
by jageroa | Feb 27, 2023 | Profiles
could have prevented two massacres of Aboriginal people but chose not to. He was also a magistrate in Melbourne at the time Merriman and Harlequin were incarcerated. He was born at Blackdown House in Lodsworth, Sussex, England on 6 September 1801 to Richard Yaldwyn...
by jageroa | Feb 24, 2023 | Profiles
Henry Munro arrived in the colony in November 1834 as a man of means with introductory letters and a prestigious family background. His father was Professor Munro of Edinburgh College. The ship which brought Henry Munro to the colony also carried Mr Charles Christie,...
