Cheryl Baulch, who constructed the website "Together They Served", will be the speaker at our next meeting on 6 April, 2017. She will give an overview of Mount Duneed men who served in WW1 followed by the journey of five who enlisted about the same time and embarked on the same ship. Her website is a well-researched collection of the men who served in World War 1 who had some connection with Surf Coast townships and districts; men who were born in the area, went to school, lived, worked or spent their holidays in Surf Coast. Many are included in the honour rolls of various organisations and halls, but many have been overlooked. https://togethertheyserved.com/ |
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Horseshoe Bend Road at the Armstrong Creek is now open to traffic. The creek has been diverted with the new bridge further north than the old one.
In 1848 David Hill Dow sailed to the Geelong districton on the Aurora, bringing with him his wife Agnes née Lamont, and three sons, John Lamont (11 years), Robert (7 years) and Thomas Kirkland (a baby) and daughter Agnes (9 years) . He became a station overseer and a Barrabool shire councillor from 1867 to 1870. He acquired what had been Hindhaugh's "Forest Station".
Son, John Lamont Dow was born on 8 December 1837 at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. He became minister of lands, agriculture and mines in the 1886-90 Gillies-Deakin coalition. He was responsible for the introduction of land tax. He married Marion Jane Orr in 1869 and had three sons and five daughters. The eldest, David McKenzie Dow (1870-1953) was official secretary for Australia in America in 1924-31 and acting commissioner-general in 1931-38. He died in Melbourne on 16 July 1923. Further reading http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dow-john-lamont-3433 Son, Thomas Kirkland Dow was born on 4 July 1848 at Glasgow. He was an agricultural journalist working for the Leader and the Australasian after teaching in a state school near Ballarat for many years. He went overseas for the Age in 1898. He married Margaret Campbell née Keith, daughter of Andrew and Euphemia Keith of Freshwater Creek.. They had two sons and three daughters. He died at Tresco on 2 March 1918. Son Robert who was born about 1841 died on 27 September 1866 and is buried at the Mount Duneed Cemetery. His mother Agnes Lamont Dow who died on 31 December 1874 is buried with him. After the death of his wife David Dow left the district to take up a position as a station manager at Great Western, near Stawell. He married Barbara Stewart Marshall and had two more sons. After her death he married Agnes Hodge who was his widow after he died.
Joseph married Jane Hillard's sister, Margaret, on 25 March 1852 at St James Cathedral, Melbourne. Their children were:
Joseph Henry "Harry" — born 1853, married Mary Elizabeth Gillot on 20 September 1881, died 29 June 1918 at 5 Crimea Street, St Kilda aged 65 Hannah — married Johann Christian Richard Ohiff on 30 May 1881 Rebecca Elizabeth — born 1857, married William James Joseph Gallagher in 1883 Josephine Louisa — born 1859, married Robert Imray on 1 May 1882 Annie Maria — married Conrad Kollmann on 22 December 1889 Victoria — born 1862, married Ernest Castles on 19 May 1885 Robert George Hillard — born 30 June 1864 Margaret "Maggie"— born 1866 at Hawthorn, died 18 November 1901 John Frederick William — born 1868 at Kew Edna — married Alan Roberts Alfred — born 1871, died 29 July 1972 at Clifton House, Studley Park, Kew Joseph was prominent in local sporting organisations and was elected a member of the Geelong Town Council, serving from 1864 until 1966. During the 1880s he left Geelong and moved with his family to Melbourne where he went into the leather business. Margaret had a severe stroke on 6 June 1885 and died at her residence in Waltham Street, Richmond the next day, aged 53. She was buried in the Church of England section of the Boroondara Cemetery. Joseph died on 24 May 1911 at Balaclava, his daughter Rebecca Gallagher's home, aged 88. He was buried with his late wife. |
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