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Early Settlers

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  • A. H. and W. Richardson

    A. H. and W. Richardson were brothers who, in January 1888, founded the Northcote Leader and District Record....
  • Abigail Foulkes

    Abigail Searls was born in Rochester, New York on 18th Mary 1838. Her father died when she was only two...
  • Aborigines - pre-European settlement

    In 1835 the area that would become Melbourne belonged to Aboriginal clans who spoke two dialects of a common...
  • Agnes Glew - Bootmaker and early settler (1819-1911)

    Agnes Glew and her husband George arrived in the colony of Victoria 1852. They immediately began a family....
  • Amelia Kate Allchin

    Amelia Kate was born in Belfast (Port Fairy), Victoria in 1864 to James Hooper and Maria Cunningham Smith....
  • Bastings' General Store

    Horace and Edwin Bastings arrived in Victoria in 1849 and after a period on the goldfields, established...
  • Bendall Family of Northcote

    Charles Bendall was born in 1816 in the Somerset town of Chewton Mendip. He began, like so many other...
  • Benjamin Easter Johnson

    Benjamin Johnson (1865-1939) was one of Northcote’s early pioneers. He was born in the town about 1865, to...
  • Bundoora

    In 1837 Robert Hoddle surveyed the present day Preston area and its surrounds forming the Jika Jika parish....
  • Captain Frederick Charles Standish

    Captain Standish was the judge at several of the early race meetings held at the Red House, a hotel located...
  • Carl Augustus Adolph Schwaebsch

    Carl A. A. Schwaebsch, known to his family as Adolph, was a Northcote councillor from 1911-1917. He belonged...
  • Catherine Oliver - Butcher

    Catherine Oliver arrived in Northcote about 1850, establishing the townships first butchers shop. By the...
  • Chinese Market Gardens

    The first Chinese market gardens appeared in Northcote in 1887. The Chinese had arrived in Victoria in large...
  • Doolan Brothers - Blacksmiths and Wheelwrights, Preston

    The Doolan brothers arrived in Preston in 1848 and soon established a blacksmiths on the west side of Plenty...
  • Edmund Matthew Bond (1831-1901)

    Edmund Matthew Bond arrived in Sydney in December 1831 as a four day old infant. His father established...
  • Edward Peacock

    From what is known of his life, Edward Peacock with his wife by his side, devoted himself to the education of...
  • Fairfield Park Boathouse

    Fairfield Boathouse was established in 1908 by John St Clair as a picnic, camping and refreshment room area....
  • Francis Edis Beaver

    Francis Edis Beaver was one of the first councillors of Northcote, when it was known as the Borough of...
  • Francis Watson - Blacksmith

    Francis Watson established his blacksmith’s business on the corner of High Street and Robbs Parade in...
  • Frederick Pike

    Fred Pike (1872-1933) arrived in Preston around 1889, and established a business in a small wooden building,...
  • G. R. B. Steane

    Engineer for Northcote Council. Constructed first stormwater sewer from North Ward to the Merri Creek. Over...
  • George Urquhart

    George Urquhart was an early land speculator who purchased 106 acres of land along Westgarth Street for...
  • Grindrod family

    By the early 1860s John Grindrod had bought a number of blocks of land in Melbourne including one in...
  • Henry Lane

    Henry Lane arrived from England in 1855 within a year had purchased eleven acres in East Preston. By 1864...
  • Horace Bastings

    Horace Bastings was born in Islington, London in 1831 and arrived in Northcote either in the late 1840s or...
  • Isaac Barrow, Mayor of Preston 1896-7

    Isaac Barrow was born in Preston around 1860 and after a childhood spent near Kyneton returned to Preston and...
  • J.C. Clinch

    The Clinch family were one of the first settler families in Preston in the 1850's. Mr. John Charles...
  • Jacob Brache

    Brache was one of a number of Victorian civil servants who selected Northcote as their home in the 1850s and...
  • James Lambert

    James Lambert (1838-1914) was a Londoner who arrived in Victoria in 1852. Coming from a family of tanners,...
  • Joan Clinnick

    I'm now talking with Joan Clinnick of Reservoir. Joan has lived all of her life in Reservoir and in fact...
  • Job Smith

    Job Smith bought a large parcel of land just north of the Pilgrim Inn Hotel in 1854. It stretched from the...
  • Johan Gottleib Arndt

    Johann Gottleib Arndt was a pioneer of the Preston brick industry. A German born immigrant, his brickworks...
  • Johann Christian Kupsch

    After obtaining a release from the Prussian military establishment in April 1857, Johann Christian Kupsch and...
  • John Hawthorne Thomson

    John Hawthorne Thomson was the first of four generations of Thomsons to operate as plumbers in Preston....
  • John McNamara - Baker

    John McNamara was born in Collingwood in 1859. He started his career at a oilcloth factory in Northcote...
  • Little Sisters of the Poor

    The Order of the Little Sisters of the Poor was founded in 1846 at Rennes by French nun Jeanne Jugan, known...
  • Major St Lawrence Webb

    Major Webb was one of the early landowners in the Preston area. He bought 320 acres of land from Thomas...
  • Marshall Brothers Co.

    George Marshall and his younger brother James Doiley Marshall ran the Marshall Brothers Co. from 1885. They...
  • Merri Creek Aboriginal School

    The first Aboriginal schools was established at Narre Narre Warren Protectorate Station in 1842. The teacher...
  • Merri Creek Protectorate Station

    Formed in England in 1837, the Aboriginal Protection Society aimed to reduce tension between settlers and...
  • Moritz Heiner

    Moritz Heiner (Mouritz Heinor) was an early German settler who lived in Separation Street in Northcote....
  • Native Police Corps

    The Native Police Corps was established in 1837 by William Lonsdale to help police local Aboriginal tribes....
  • Nehemiah Wimble

    Nememiah Wimble was one of Northcote's early residents. Wimble was a senior member of the Colonial Civil...
  • Oakover Hall

    The heritage listed “Oakover Hall” is Preston’s oldest known building and is among the largest surviving...
  • Philip Gough

    Philip Gough was born in Ireland and arrived in Victoria in 1854. He found work as a farm hand. He prospered...
  • Reverend Caleb and Elanor Booth

    Caleb Booth was born on 18 September 1820 in the English parish of Kingsclere, Hampshire to William and...
  • Reverend Duncan Fraser

    Epping Road Board and the Shire of Jika Jika, Darebin Libraries Fact Sheet [Online], WWW Resource, Accessed...
  • Reverend Samuel Hector Ferguson

    In 1893 the Reverend Samuel Hector Ferguson and his wife Myra arrived in Northcote to replace Duncan Fraser...
  • Richard Howitt

    The Howitt brothers, Richard and Godfrey, were amongst Alphington’s first residents. They purchased their...
  • Richard Schlesinger

    Richard Schlesinger was one of Northcote’s earliest residents, having built his home on land opposite...
  • Robert Duff

    On the 18th November 1833 the barque Edward Coulston arrived in Sydney from Liverpool. Amongst its passengers...
  • Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel [1854 - ]

    At the April 1854 session of the Annual Licensing Meeting for the District of Bourke, ex convict Charles...
  • Samuel Brownlow

    Samuel Brownlow was first mentioned in the Argus newspaper on 31 August 1854 when he was one of a number of...
  • Samuel Jeffrey

    Samuel Jeffrey, one of Preston’s first settlers, was born in 1803 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. At...
  • Samuel Leakey Bartlett

    Arriving in Preston in 1875 with his wife Anna (1844-1927), Samuel Bartett purchased seven acres of land on...
  • Samuel Nathan

    Samuel Nathan, builder of "Rosebank" in Alphington, arrived from London in 1869 on the threshold of...
  • Sarah Susanna Bunbury

    Sarah Susanna Bunbury arrived in Melbourne with her husband, retired naval captain Richard Hanmer Bunbury in...
  • Schwaebsch Family of Northcote

    The Schwaebsch family arrived in Victoria in September 1849. They probably immigrated in response to the...
  • Separation Street, Northcote

    Separation Street, Northcote came into existence in July 1851 when property owner Peter Macarthur sold a few...
  • Shops and businesses of Northcote

    The first known shop in Northcote was an ironmongers operating from a tent and started by William Shade in...
  • Shops and businesses of Preston

    The first store in Preston was probably Woods general store on the corner of High Street and Wood Street. It...
  • Sir Andrew Clarke

    Andrew Clarke was one of Northcote’s most prominent residents. Son of a West Australian Governor,...
  • Sunnyside

    Atop Northcote stands a massive red brick church. Before the church was built in the mid-1920s there once...
  • Tambo Park Estate

    The Tambo Park Estate near Summerhill Road in East Preston was one of the early homesteads in Preston. Set...
  • Thomas A'Beckett

    Mr. Thomas T. A’Beckett was a wealthy Melbourne solicitor who, in 1852 was nominated to the legislative...
  • Thomas Butler

    Thomas Butler operated a daily coach between Preston and Melbourne during the the 1850s. It left Preston at...
  • Thomas George Beckett

    Thomas Beckett was one of seven children of a London pharmacist. As a young man he went to Edinburgh to...
  • Thomas King - Butcher

    In around 1863 Thomas King owned a bluestone building at 756-8 Heidelberg Road, Alphington. It was one of the...
  • Thomas Percival Laidler

    Thomas Laidler was one of the many noted Socialists who lived in Northcote and Preston during the early...
  • Thomas Smith

    Thomas Smith was a prominent trade unionist and at the forefront of the campaign for the eight hour day. Born...
  • Thomas William Bransgrove

    Thomas William Bransgrove was one of Preston’s early settlers. Born in Tasmania and arrived in Preston...
  • Thomas William Mason

    Thomas Mason was a well known figure in the manufacturing trade between 1854 until his retirement in the late...
  • Thornbury Farm

    Job Smith's farm "Thornbury", which was located at the end of Smith Street near Strettle Street, was named...
  • Timothy Shepherd

    The Shepherd family can lay claim to one of Preston’s earliest settlers. In 1840 a parcel of land, bounded by...
  • Walter S. Stott

    The mid to late 1880’s were a boom time for land speculators in Northcote, with large blocks being sold off...
  • Walter Shade

    With his younger brother William, Walter was one of Northcote’s earliest shopkeepers. He established a...
  • Weaver's Grocery Store

    Richard Weaver operated a grocery store in High Street, Northcote in the 1860s. It was located on the east...
  • Whalley Brothers

    Robert Whalley (1816-1891) was working as a news vendor in Creswick when his wife Joan gave birth to twin...
  • William Loveday (1811-1902)

    Born in 1811 William Loveday was one of Northcote’s earliest settlers. He arrived in Port Phillip Bay...
  • William Paterson

    The Paterson family arrived from Scotland in the early 1860s and in 1862 established a ham and bacon curing...
  • William Shade - Ironmonger

    When William Shade arrived in Northcote in 1848 the town was little more than a few scattered huts with High...
  • William Thomas (1793-1867)

    William Thomas was born in Westminster, England, to Welsh Parents in 1793. He had been a school principal in...
  • Wood Family's General Store

    The Wood family was one of Preston’s pioneer families, arriving in the district in 1850 as part of a large...
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