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,...
by jageroa | Jan 29, 2022 | Profiles
George Hamilton was in charge of Henry Howey’s overlanding expedition that crossed the Murray River in the vicinity of the crossing place in mid-1837. They crossed 3,000 sheep losing twelve to drowning plus floated across two wagons, one of which carried the men...
by Felicity McDonald | Jul 8, 2021 | Profiles
Merriman was a Pallanganmiddang man of the Waywurru or Waveroo people. His father was Hone.ne.ap, a respected Waywurru Elder, known as King Billy of the Barwidgee. GA Robinson recorded Merriman’s real name as Min.nup and noted in his journal that he was born in 1823...
by Felicity McDonald | Jul 4, 2021 | Profiles
Oil Painting by Alfred William Eustace, possibly near Beechworth or Bright c1880 In 1837 William Bowman took up Sutton Grange Station at Mount Alexander close to present-day Castlemaine and had as his neighbour, William Henry Yaldwin of Barfold station near Kyneton....
