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Christopher John Tadgell

27/7/2018

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Councillor Christopher John Tadgell
In 1892 when the inspector, Sergeant Dawson,
visited Christopher John Tadgell's slaughter yard at Marshalltown he found it in a foul state. He recommended that Tadgell's license be cancelled, or the he be prosecuted for having the premises in an offensive state. Tadgell wanted a transfer of his license to a more suitable premises as the land was low-lying and impossible to drain. He had obtained land in Germantown (Torquay) Road where he carried on his trade. By the following year he was running a shop in Colac Road, Belmont and periodically renewed his slaughtering license. By 1900 he had his butchering business for sale. The following year he had re-commenced his business. 

In 1899 he was elected as a South Barwon councillor where he served until August 1902 when he was defeated by H R Winter. He then wished to be relieved of his position on the committee of management of the Belmont Recreation Reserve and was replaced by Councillor Andressen. A clearance sale was held at Ryrie Street on 17 July 1906. A mortgagee sale was held to sell the butcher's shop and residence at Belmont. By November he was selling meat in Little Malop Street, Geelong. In 1908 he was elected president of the Geelong Master Butcher's Association.
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​He married Emily Williams in 1891. They had the following children while living in Geelong:
Edith — born 1892, died 1910
Alfred Ernest — born 1893
​Percy Sidney  — born 1894, died 1959
Emily Eliza — born 1896
Florence — born 1898
​Christopher John — born 1899
Gerte May — born 1902
​Gladys Tihan — born 1907
Daisy Vic — born 1905
Arthur Keith born 1910, died 1974
Walter Leonard — born 1912

Christopher  moved to Gippsland in 1910, selling his 396 acre farm, one mile from Officer Railway Station, in 1912. In 1913 his shop in Belmont, occupied by his son, had been destroyed by fire. He died in 1938 aged 68 years at Sunbury and was buried at Fawkner Cemetery. Emily died at Camberwell on 23 January 1844 aged 73 and was buried at with him.

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from Geelong Advertiser 27 March, 1900
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from Geelong Advertiser 30 October 1901
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from Geelong Advertiser 9 January 1902
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from Geelong Advertiser 25 March 1902
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from Geelong Advertiser 13 December 1910
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from Geelong Advertiser 4 January 1905
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from Geelong Advertiser 11 July 1906
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Charles Nuttall Thorne

20/7/2018

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​Charles Nuttall, son of Thomas and Maria (née Nutall) Thorne, was born in​ Bristol in 1819. He arrived in Geelong on the Prince of Wales via Sydney in 1847. He resided at Thornehill, a property with a lodge and vineyard in Highton. Thornhill Road takes its name from him. He had married Frederica Susanna Bayly who was born in Newfoundland in Canada. They had the following children:
Thomas Walter — born about 1845 in Newfoundland, married Agnes McKellar on 18 August 1872 at St Paul's church, London, died 2 June 1924 aged 79 at Kurryala in Muston Street in Mosman NSW. Thomas rode his pony into Geelong each to attend the Church of England grammar school.
Frederica Bayly — born on 25 October 1846 in London, married George Frederick Belcher on 28 August 1875, died in 1881 at Leopold
Emily Elizabeth — born in 1848, died 1927 in Geelong
Albert Charles — born on 31 May 1850 at Newtown, married Alice Odell on 10 September 1872 at the Congregational Church in Prahran
unnamed female — born on 20 April 1852 at Barrabool Hills
Isabella Sophia — born in 1853 at Barrabool Hills, died 18 January 1908 at Meek Street, Brighton
Florence Augusta — born on 21 March 1855 at Barrabool Hills, married George Frederick Belcher on 12 April 1887 at Christ Church in Hawthorn, died in 1921 aged 66, buried in the Church of England section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery
unnamed female — born 1856 at Geelong
Thekla Julia — born in 1857, died on January 1940 aged 82 at Noble Street in Newtown
Henry Heber — born in 1861 in Melbourne, died 7 April 1883 aged 21 in Gunning in NSW
George Augustus — born 1859 at Barrabool Hills, married Alice Maude Llewelyn on 17 February 1892 at St John's Church in Toorak
Ella Tryphena — married Henry Bruce Morton on 11 November at Christ Church, South Yarra
unnamed female — born 1863 at Melbourne

Charles was described as a merchant and a banker. He was appointed a justice of peace in 1850. In 1853 he tendered his resignation as a member of the Town Council for the Kardinia ward. He was chairman of the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company which constructed and owned the railway between Geelong and Melbourne. The line was officially opened on 25 June, 1857. He was a director of the Geelong branch of the Bank of New South Wales and a member of the Geelong board of the Professional Life Assurance Company. He was a South Barwon councillor from 1850-1860.

He was on a building committee with John Highett and Edward Sandford to supervise the building of the St John's Anglican school which cost a total of £1000. The school opened on 24 April, 1854 with 33 boys and 32 girls in attendance. This building was used for the first Anglican services in Highton and was on the corner of Scenic (originally named Boundary) and Barrabool Roads.

​​He moved away from Geelong to Newcastle where he became a partner in the shipping firm of Dibbs, Thorne and Co, the manager of the Newcastle Joint Stock Bank, involved in the coal industry and chairman of the Newcastle Minmi Colliery Company. He then to South Yarra where he died on 26 June, 1864 at the age of 44 years after a long and painful illness. He was buried in the Church of England section of the St Kilda Cemetery. ​Frederica, who died on 7 December 1892 aged 70 was buried with him.
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retrieved from My Heritage
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Charles Nuttall Thorne lived at Thornehill in Thornhill Road, Highton. The first Anglican services in Highton were held in the school building on the corner of Scenic and Barrabool Roads.
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from the Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer 23 June 1853
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from The Sydney Morning Herald 14 July 1962
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from The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News 23 July 1862
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from The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser 11 February 1864
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William Walker

19/7/2018

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William Walker was born in 1846 in Grantham, England. In 1849 he migrated with his parents, maternal grandparents and sister. On 2 September 1874 he married Jane (née Clydesdale) Kishere. William and Jane had six children:
   Minnie May — born 1875
   Elizabeth Jane — born 1878
   Eleanor — born 1880
   Lily Lillian — born 1882
   Walter William — born 1884
​   Lydia — born 1886
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Walker owned "Bay View" stables in Corio Terrace next to the Geelong Coffee Palace. He had stabling for 80 horses. Wedding carriages, four in hand wagons, single and double buggies and dog carts could be hired with a competent steady driver. He also had a bus line to North Geelong.

In 1895, he built substantial bluestone stables at 327 Shannon Avenue, Newtown providing accommodation for eleven horses. He was reputed to have used stone from Foster Fyans old house "Balyang" near Princes Bridge. This building is currently for sale:
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-warehouse-vic-newtown-128780262

He acquired a bus from Cardiff which he called the Sunbeam. On the first day that the Sunbeam was in service it was drawn by four grey horses. St Augustine's Orphanage Band was taken to town and back, playing music as it went. He continued to run his bus service until November 1901.

William and Jane lived at Calder Park, Mount Duneed from 1902 to 1908. Jane died on 1 Jun 1919 aged 75 years and was buried at the Geelong Eastern Cemetery. William who died in September 1922 aged 76 was buried with her.​

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William Walker's stables in Leslie Street, Newtown which were close to the bus terminus in Aphrasia Street
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The stables at left 1927 — Photo Charles Pratt
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Outside the Fernery Hotel on the north west corner of Shannon Avenue and Aphrasia Street
Jane Clydesdale had previously married William John Slann Kishere on 23 July 1859.

​In the early morning, just before daybreak on 10 December 1871 he attempted to murder his whole family before committing suicide. The Geelong Advertiser printed a long article about the inquest on 12 December 1871.

John, who arrived in Australia on 1 January 1853 on the Countess of Elgin, had retired as publican at the Balmoral Hotel at Fyansford five weeks earlier. He had held this position for eleven years. They moved to a white painted brick cottage on the western side of the road leading to the Western Cemetery (now Minerva Road).

John and Jane had five children:
William John — born in 1861 at Fyansford, married Louisa Sweatman in 1887, died on 18 December 1932 aged 71 years at Prahran
Mary Ann — born in 1863 at Fyansford, married Alexander Miller in 1883, died in 1931
Henrietta Emily — born on 20 September 1865, married William Lawrence Trewin in 1886, died on 8 April 1935 at Glenhuntly
Robert Joseph — born in March 1867 at Geelong, died 3 days later
Edward Slann — born 1872 at Geelong, married Isabel Sarah Cottrill in 1903, died on 3 December 1947 at Geelong
  
​Jane was the daughter of John and Ann (née Marshall) Clydesdale. They were bounty immigrants aboard the ship Thomas Arbuthnot​ arriving in Port Philip on 2 October 1841. They had married in Glasgow on 7 April 1833. They brought with them Ann Morrison, Ann's daughter from a previous marriage. Jane was born on 16 August 1842; her brother John in 1845. After coming to Geelong John was soon involved in operating the Corio Livery Stables connected to the Victoria Hotel on the corner of Moorabool and  Little Myers Streets. He shifted to other locations over time to the rear of the Rock of Cashel Inn, the Union Hotel and the Red Lion in Moorabool Street.

​In September 1856 he became licensee of the Bridge Inn in Modewarre.
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from the Leader 11 December 1871
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from the Geelong Advertiser and Squatters Advocate 11 June 1847
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from Geelong Advertiser 10 October 1850
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Heather Threadgold — Past Event

17/7/2018

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William Gilbert McKellar

13/7/2018

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 William Gilbert McKellar was born in 1811 in Middlesex, England. He came to Australia at the age of 40, ​​in October 1852, on the Cossipore. He brought with him his wife Maria Esther née Jones, five sons and two daughters.

​He was a councillor and first chairman of the Shire of South Barwon. He served from 1857-1860. He was on the committee of the Chamber of Commerce from 1855 to 1861 and was chairman in 1860. ​He was a director of the Geelong branch of the Bank of New South Wales. He was on the management committee of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co. when the Geelong office was established.

He lived at Fernside, a property of 10 acres in Highton. He returned to England in May 1861 with some of his family and spent the final years of his life in England, dying at Weston-Super-Mare in January 1898 at the age of 85 years.
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Fernside
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A map in "The Early Days of Highton and Belmont" shows WG McKellar's residence on the south side of Roslyn Road near the corner of Scenic (Boundary) Road. A block opposite, running between Barrabool and Roslyn Roads, has WG McKellar's name on it.
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The Geelong office of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co built at 51 Moorabool Street in 1856. In the mid 1970s the building housed Savvas Restaurant.
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George Edward Southey

6/7/2018

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Amanda Villa
George Edward, son of George Edward and Mary (née Young) Southey, was born on 26 May 1819 at Blackheath, Kent, England. 

In 1848 he married Catherine née Bowden and had the following children:
George Edward — born 1850, married Elizabeth Allan
​Samuel Bowden — born 1853, married Maud Marie Rabling, died 1913 at Collingwood
Sidney Hiram — born 1854, married Georgina Bannerman Forsyth, died 13 January 1892 at Port Melbourne
Catherine Amanda — born 1856, died 1857 aged 17 months
Catherine, who was born in 1818 died in 1856.

George subsequently married Catherine's sister Mary in England and together with their son, Sydney, they arrived in Port Phillip in February 1859 aboard the Suffolk. They had the following children after arriving:
Clara Eliza — born 1859 in Geelong
Frances Amanda — born 1861, married James Sturman Taylor
Magdaline Jane — born 1863, died 22 April 1865 at the age of 1 year, buried in the Church of England section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery

A couple of years after George's death Mary re married Joseph Dibbs Mowbray.

​In 1853, George became the first licensee of the Geelong Hotel, a hotel which had a number of name changes. In 1860 it was named the Geelong Family Hotel, a name that lasted for only a year. In 1878 it was called Southey's Hotel, but that also lasted only a year. At some time in the 20th century it became known as the Corio Hotel. Recently, after a renovation the name was changed back to The Geelong Hotel.

The family lived at Amanda Villa in Bonsey Road, Highton. It was erected in 1854-1857 as a 5 room Georgian stone colonial building.  Later the house became known as Aringa and the present address is 5 Aringa Avenue.

​George was a South Barwon Shire councillor, serving from 1862-1867.
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George died on 22 July 1867 and was buried in the Church of England section at the Geelong Western Cemetery with his first wife Catherine and daughters Magdeline Jane and Catherine Amanda.​ His long funeral cortege had an imposing effect and the majority of businesses on the route were closed. The mayors and a number of councillors of Geelong and South Barwon as well as many of the leading tradesmen and vine growers of the town and district followed the deceased to the grave. 

Mary married Joseph Dibbs Mowbray on 20 May 1869 at Wesley Church in Melbourne. Joseph was the first head master of Ashby State School (now Geelong West Primary School). 
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from Geelong Advertiser 7 April 1864
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from Geelong Advertiser 16 December 1875
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Waurn Ponds Memorial Reserve Service — Past Event

2/7/2018

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​The Waurn Ponds Memorial Reserve Committee of Management invites everyone to the 99th anniversary of the planting of the Waurn Ponds Memorial Reserve. The annual memorial service will be held on Sunday 1st July 2018 10:30am at Waurn Ponds Memorial Reserve corner of Waurn Ponds Drive and Cochranes Road.

There will be a march before the service with the Army, Navy, Airforce Cadets and Veterans marching together. The Geelong Military Re-enactment Group will fire from the 25pounder gun.

After the service there will be a BBQ and Light Refreshments in the Waurn Ponds Hall. Ladies are asked to bring a "Plate".

If anyone has any history of the Waurn Ponds Servicemen and women we would love to hear from you?

Wreath Laying Welcome . Everyone Invited.

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