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Edmund Hollingworth

29/3/2017

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from Geelong Advertiser Thursday 16 July 1903
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Hannah (called Anna née Walker) Hollingworth died on 29 April 1900 at the age of 74 years and 10 months. The funeral left her late residence "Paraparap" for the Mount Duneed Cemetery where she was buried in the Methodist section. She had been a colonist of 47 years.

​Her husband Edmund who was 81 years of age when he died on 8 July 1903, was buried with her.

​Their eighteen year old son John Allen Hollingworth, who died of a fractured skull as a result of a waggon accident on 11 August 1883 and one year old son Arthur Hollingworth were buried in an adjoining plot. Their other children were Edmund, Jonas Hobson, Joseph and Walker.​
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Hannah and Edmund lived in a wooden house on just under 80 acres (allotment 33) in Hendy Main Road, Freshwater Creek east of Loutit Bay Road (Vickerys Road)
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Fatal Street Accident

22/3/2017

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from Geelong Advertiser 5 March 1874
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About one o'clock on 31 January, 1869 Dorothy Hillard (née Graham) wife of Freshwater Creek farmer George Hillard, was killed in a dreadful accident occuring at the intersection of Moorabool and Ryrie Streets, Geelong. She was crossing Ryrie Street when a cabman named Joseph Fisher, driving very fast (about eight miles per hour), called out. In her confusion instead of running back she did the opposite. Fisher was unable to pull up and knocked down the deceased. The wheel passed over her body breaking her ribs. She was taken to the hospital immediately (in the same cab), but died a few minutes after arriving there. She was described as an elderly woman (fifty two years of age), and has had a large family, six of whom were still living at home.

It was said at the time that in Melbourne and other towns cabmen were not allowed to cross intersections of streets at more than a walk, and it would be well if the same rule was enforced in Geelong.

​Dorothy was buried in the Methodist section of the Mount Duneed Cemetery.

​George's farm at Freshwater Creek was auctioned on 10 March, 1874. He left the district and went to live with his son at Camperdown where he died on 13 July of the same year. He was buried beside his wife at Mount Duneed.

​Their Nathaniel Brown monument has sunk on one side and fallen apart.
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George Hillard's land at Freshwater Creek which was auctioned before he left the district. Section 23 is bound by Anglesea, Mount Duneed, Reservoir Roads and Bogans Lane.
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David Hill Dow

15/3/2017

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The Nathaniel Brown monument in the back row of the Methodist section of the Mount Duneed Cemetery was one of the first burials at the cemetery. Robert Dow died on 27 September 1866 aged 25 years
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.​
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John Lamont Dow
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Brearley Brothers

8/3/2017

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​In 1848 three Brearley brothers, Joseph aged 25, Sharp aged 20 and William aged 37, were transported to Australia on the Anna Maria arriving on 23 June. All were sentenced for stealing. William, who was married with six children, may have returned to England at the end of his sentence. Joseph and Sharp were successful businessmen in the tannery business in Geelong. A younger brother, John, joined them in 1854.

On 25 March 1852 Sharp married Jane Hillard at St James Cathedral, Melbourne. Jane was an Irish famine orphan who travelled on the Diadem ​in 1850 and was engaged by George Hirston of Russell Street Melbourne for twelve months for £8. Her sister Margaret, who had gone to the workhouse, came to Australia and married Joseph. They went to live on an allotment in Marshalltown where the tannery was later to be built. 

​On 21 July 1869 Thomas Adcock, mayor of the Borough of South Barwon laid the foundation stone before 200 invited guests. The architect was RS Tuffs and the contractor Martin and Dowie. At the end of the formalities James McDonald, Henry Pearce, Will Watson, Fred Routly, Alf Varg and George Quarries gave an address on behalf of the 61 other workers.

​On Sunday 9 July 1871 a tragic accident occurred when Joe Brearley junior and 17 year old cousin George Dean and two younger cousins went duck shooting at Breakwater. Dean was accidently shot in the leg when Joe shifted the loaded gun. By the time he arrived at hospital he had lost too much blood and later died. He was the second son of Joseph Dean. At almost the same time Eleanor Brearley, daughter of John Brearley broke her arm after falling off a see saw.

​Sharp became a South Barwon Shire councillor serving from 1863 until 1868, from 1879 until 1881 and from 1887 until 1891 and was mayor of the shire from 1864 to 1866. In December 1876 the partnership of Joseph and Sharp in the Australian Tannery was dissolved. It was the largest tannery in the Southern Hemisphere. Sharp purchased "Englewood" at Inverleigh. In 1880 after a clearing sale at "Englewood" 1214 acres was advertised for lease. Later that year he proposed a tannery at Western Beach fronting Victoria Terrace.

​In 1884 he left for Europe. In 1886 liquidators sold the Australian Tannery to George Brearley for £3,750. The following year the Corio Tannery was sold for £4,000 (cost £11,000). Sharp and Jane Brearley lived at Calder Park, Mount Duneed from 1887-1891. In 1888 he had a villa at Anglesea erected costing £1,000. A street in Anglesea was named after him.

​Sharp and Jane had eleven children:
Annie — born 1853, married George Burnley Appleton on 26 May 1883, died 1942
Alfred Hillard — born 1855, died 19 June 1862, buried at the Geelong Eastern Cemetery
​Geroge Ramsden Carver — born 1858, married Blanche Stoneman on 14 August 1880, died 1929 at Warrnambool
Robert Hillard ​— born 30 November 1860, married Mary Karen Peterson on 24 March 1885 at St John's Church Bairnsdale, died 1 September 1950 at Subiaco, WA
John Albert — born 1862, died 21 March 1863, buried at Geelong Eastern Cemetery
​Arthur Edward — 11 November 1863 at Connewarre, married Elizabeth Maria Tuffs on 22 November 1890,  died 25 December 1900 at "Inglenook", 3 Hope Street, Geelong West
Walter Sharp — born 29 July 1865, married Carol Waycott in 1896, died 1940
Alice Jane — born 1867 at Marshalltown, married Arthur Robert Consterdine on 23 July 1891
Adelaide Mabel — born 11 July 1868, died 29 July 1868 at Geelong, buried at Geelong Eastern Cemetery
Herbert Ernest — born 1869, died 1959
​Blanche Victoria — born 8 September 1872, died 25 October 1956 at Windsor, Victoria

​Sharp who died on 26 April 1905 at the age of 78 years at 75 Swanston Street, Geelong was buried in the Church of England section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery. Jane who died on 15 November 1913 at the age of 80 years at Mordialloc was buried with him.​
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From The Leeds Times — 24 October 1846
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Sharp Brearley — Mayor of the Borough of South Barwon, served on South Barwon Council for 9 years
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Grave of Sharp Brearley.
Buried with him are:
​Jane Brearley, his wife — died 15 November 1913
​Alfred Hillard Brearley, their son — died 19 June 1862
John Albert Brearley, their son — died 31 March 1863
​Adelaide Mabel Brearley, their daughter — died 29 July 1868

​Monument by Nathaniel Brown
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The tannery was in Jendes Lane, Marshall. This land is soon to be developed as "Keystone Business Park".
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from Geelong Advertiser 19 February 1869
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from the Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle 31 March 1885
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from the Weekly Times 15 July 1871

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
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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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Brearley brothers derelict tannery in 1930s on the south bank of the Barwon — photo Charles Pratt
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Bush Station

1/3/2017

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John Armstrong was born in 1809, the fourth child of William and Elizabeth Armstrong. He married Veronica (usually called Vair) Scott in Scotland on 27 February, 1829. In 1839 they sailed for Australia from Greenock as bounty immigrants on the barque Palmyra. They brought with them their sons, William (aged 10), Robert Grieve (aged 6), Thomas (aged 4) and John (aged 2)  and one daughter Jemima (sometimes Gemima) Scott (aged 8). Another son, Peter Brown Palmyra, was born on the voyage. He was named after the ship and its captain. Another six children were born to the couple in Australia. John and Vair were employed by Ann Drysdale of Coriyule from January 1941 to December 1844, John to plough and shepherd, Vair to cook and wash and the oldest two boys, William and Robert Grieve, to shepherd. ​They had brought livestock with them and after working hard and acquiring more sheep they settled at Bush Station which was also called River Station. John also had leased Black Forest and Allan Vale between 1850 and 1856. John became one of the best stud-masters in Victoria having come from many generations of sheep farmers in Scotland.

John suffered from diabetes and died on 17 October 1856 at the age of 47. Vair died on 13 June 1877 aged 68. They were buried in the Presbyterian section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery. In 1857 his land was subdivided and sold and the stock were sold in a separate sale. Lot 2 with the homestead on 60 acres sold for £840. ​John's 320 acre block was situated with Torquay Road on the west side, Stewarts Road to the south, Horseshoe Bend Road to the east and Burvilles Road to the north. Armstrong Creek ran through the block. Each block had access to the creek.​
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Bush station was sometimes called River Station. Section M was bound by Torquay, Burvilles, Horseshoe Bend and Stewarts Road, Mount Duneed. Stewarts Reserve is the land south of this land with the creek running through it. It remained crown land. Members of the Watherong tribe who lived on this land often walked into Geelong but returned here at night. They were quiet people who made no trouble.
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from The Star (Ballarat) 27 April 1857

​http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/armstrong-william-2900

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from The Argus 18 May 1857 — in 1861 160 acres of this land, in two lots, was for sale by John MacVean.
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Hexham Park, home of William Armstrong (son of John Armstrong) by the Hopkins River south of Hexham.
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The monument of John Armstrong in a large plot in the Presbyterian section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery. It was erected by the Geelong Free Church of which he was an elder for many years as a token of the regard in which he was held. Buried with him was his wife Vair who died on 13 June 1877 aged 68 years. Their 6th son Adam who was born on 5 November 1841 and died at Coriyule Drysdale on 8 December 1841 is also buried here.

In 1850 daughter, Jemima (née Armstrong), married John MacVean (often called McVean). Both were born is Scotland. They had eleven children, the last three being born in Cressy, which indicates the family had shifted to this area by 1865. They were both buried in the Presbyterian section of the St Kilda Cemetery. Alexander, Annie and Armstrong Poliah MacVean were buried with them.
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Armstrong and MacVean land stretched from Lake Connewarre to Thirteenth Beach. John MacVean's land (purchased on 18 July 1854) was south of Barwon Heads Road and west of Lings Road. John Armstrong's land (purchased on 21 December 1855) was north of Barwon Heads Road.
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