Early Settlers
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A. H. and W. Richardson were brothers who, in January 1888, founded the Northcote Leader and District Record....
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Abigail Searls was born in Rochester, New York on 18th Mary 1838. Her father died when she was only two...
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In 1835 the area that would become Melbourne belonged to Aboriginal clans who spoke two dialects of a common...
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Agnes Glew and her husband George arrived in the colony of Victoria 1852. They immediately began a family....
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Amelia Kate was born in Belfast (Port Fairy), Victoria in 1864 to James Hooper and Maria Cunningham Smith....
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Horace and Edwin Bastings arrived in Victoria in 1849 and after a period on the goldfields, established...
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Charles Bendall was born in 1816 in the Somerset town of Chewton Mendip. He began, like so many other...
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Benjamin Johnson (1865-1939) was one of Northcote’s early pioneers. He was born in the town about 1865, to...
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In 1837 Robert Hoddle surveyed the present day Preston area and its surrounds forming the Jika Jika parish....
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Captain Standish was the judge at several of the early race meetings held at the Red House, a hotel located...
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Carl A. A. Schwaebsch, known to his family as Adolph, was a Northcote councillor from 1911-1917. He belonged...
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Catherine Oliver arrived in Northcote about 1850, establishing the townships first butchers shop. By the...
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The first Chinese market gardens appeared in Northcote in 1887. The Chinese had arrived in Victoria in large...
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The Doolan brothers arrived in Preston in 1848 and soon established a blacksmiths on the west side of Plenty...
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Edmund Matthew Bond arrived in Sydney in December 1831 as a four day old infant. His father established...
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From what is known of his life, Edward Peacock with his wife by his side, devoted himself to the education of...
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Fairfield Boathouse was established in 1908 by John St Clair as a picnic, camping and refreshment room area....
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Francis Edis Beaver was one of the first councillors of Northcote, when it was known as the Borough of...
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Francis Watson established his blacksmith’s business on the corner of High Street and Robbs Parade in...
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Fred Pike (1872-1933) arrived in Preston around 1889, and established a business in a small wooden building,...
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Engineer for Northcote Council. Constructed first stormwater sewer from North Ward to the Merri Creek. Over...
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George Urquhart was an early land speculator who purchased 106 acres of land along Westgarth Street for...
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By the early 1860s John Grindrod had bought a number of blocks of land in Melbourne including one in...
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Henry Lane arrived from England in 1855 within a year had purchased eleven acres in East Preston. By 1864...
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Horace Bastings was born in Islington, London in 1831 and arrived in Northcote either in the late 1840s or...
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Isaac Barrow was born in Preston around 1860 and after a childhood spent near Kyneton returned to Preston and...
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The Clinch family were one of the first settler families in Preston in the 1850's. Mr. John Charles...
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Brache was one of a number of Victorian civil servants who selected Northcote as their home in the 1850s and...
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James Lambert (1838-1914) was a Londoner who arrived in Victoria in 1852. Coming from a family of tanners,...
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I'm now talking with Joan Clinnick of Reservoir. Joan has lived all of her life in Reservoir and in fact...
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Job Smith bought a large parcel of land just north of the Pilgrim Inn Hotel in 1854. It stretched from the...
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Johann Gottleib Arndt was a pioneer of the Preston brick industry. A German born immigrant, his brickworks...
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After obtaining a release from the Prussian military establishment in April 1857, Johann Christian Kupsch and...
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John Hawthorne Thomson was the first of four generations of Thomsons to operate as plumbers in Preston....
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John McNamara was born in Collingwood in 1859. He started his career at a oilcloth factory in Northcote...
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The Order of the Little Sisters of the Poor was founded in 1846 at Rennes by French nun Jeanne Jugan, known...
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Major Webb was one of the early landowners in the Preston area. He bought 320 acres of land from Thomas...
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George Marshall and his younger brother James Doiley Marshall ran the Marshall Brothers Co. from 1885. They...
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The first Aboriginal schools was established at Narre Narre Warren Protectorate Station in 1842. The teacher...
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Formed in England in 1837, the Aboriginal Protection Society aimed to reduce tension between settlers and...
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Moritz Heiner (Mouritz Heinor) was an early German settler who lived in Separation Street in Northcote....
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The Native Police Corps was established in 1837 by William Lonsdale to help police local Aboriginal tribes....
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Nememiah Wimble was one of Northcote's early residents. Wimble was a senior member of the Colonial Civil...
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The heritage listed “Oakover Hall” is Preston’s oldest known building and is among the largest surviving...
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Philip Gough was born in Ireland and arrived in Victoria in 1854. He found work as a farm hand. He prospered...
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Caleb Booth was born on 18 September 1820 in the English parish of Kingsclere, Hampshire to William and...
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Epping Road Board and the Shire of Jika Jika, Darebin Libraries Fact Sheet [Online], WWW Resource, Accessed...
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In 1893 the Reverend Samuel Hector Ferguson and his wife Myra arrived in Northcote to replace Duncan Fraser...
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The Howitt brothers, Richard and Godfrey, were amongst Alphington’s first residents. They purchased their...
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Richard Schlesinger was one of Northcote’s earliest residents, having built his home on land opposite...
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On the 18th November 1833 the barque Edward Coulston arrived in Sydney from Liverpool. Amongst its passengers...
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At the April 1854 session of the Annual Licensing Meeting for the District of Bourke, ex convict Charles...
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Samuel Brownlow was first mentioned in the Argus newspaper on 31 August 1854 when he was one of a number of...
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Samuel Jeffrey, one of Preston’s first settlers, was born in 1803 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
At...
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Arriving in Preston in 1875 with his wife Anna (1844-1927), Samuel Bartett purchased seven acres of land on...
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Samuel Nathan, builder of "Rosebank" in Alphington, arrived from London in 1869 on the threshold of...
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Sarah Susanna Bunbury arrived in Melbourne with her husband, retired naval captain Richard Hanmer Bunbury in...
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The Schwaebsch family arrived in Victoria in September 1849. They probably immigrated in response to the...
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Separation Street, Northcote came into existence in July 1851 when property owner Peter Macarthur sold a few...
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The first known shop in Northcote was an ironmongers operating from a tent and started by William Shade in...
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The first store in Preston was probably Woods general store on the corner of High Street and Wood Street. It...
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Andrew Clarke was one of Northcote’s most prominent residents. Son of a West Australian Governor,...
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Atop Northcote stands a massive red brick church. Before the church was built in the mid-1920s there once...
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The Tambo Park Estate near Summerhill Road in East Preston was one of the early homesteads in Preston. Set...
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Mr. Thomas T. A’Beckett was a wealthy Melbourne solicitor who, in 1852 was nominated to the legislative...
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Thomas Butler operated a daily coach between Preston and Melbourne during the the 1850s. It left Preston at...
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Thomas Beckett was one of seven children of a London pharmacist. As a young man he went to Edinburgh to...
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In around 1863 Thomas King owned a bluestone building at 756-8 Heidelberg Road, Alphington. It was one of the...
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Thomas Laidler was one of the many noted Socialists who lived in Northcote and Preston during the early...
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Thomas Smith was a prominent trade unionist and at the forefront of the campaign for the eight hour day. Born...
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Thomas William Bransgrove was one of Preston’s early settlers. Born in Tasmania and arrived in Preston...
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Thomas Mason was a well known figure in the manufacturing trade between 1854 until his retirement in the late...
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Job Smith's farm "Thornbury", which was located at the end of Smith Street near Strettle Street, was named...
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The Shepherd family can lay claim to one of Preston’s earliest settlers. In 1840 a parcel of land, bounded by...
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The mid to late 1880’s were a boom time for land speculators in Northcote, with large blocks being sold off...
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With his younger brother William, Walter was one of Northcote’s earliest shopkeepers. He established a...
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Richard Weaver operated a grocery store in High Street, Northcote in the 1860s. It was located on the east...
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Robert Whalley (1816-1891) was working as a news vendor in Creswick when his wife Joan gave birth to twin...
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Born in 1811 William Loveday was one of Northcote’s earliest settlers. He arrived in Port Phillip Bay...
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The Paterson family arrived from Scotland in the early 1860s and in 1862 established a ham and bacon curing...
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When William Shade arrived in Northcote in 1848 the town was little more than a few scattered huts with High...
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William Thomas was born in Westminster, England, to Welsh Parents in 1793. He had been a school principal in...
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The Wood family was one of Preston’s pioneer families, arriving in the district in 1850 as part of a large...
