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/

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.​

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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​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.​

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