The Burville family were of French descent. They have been traced back to France to about 1600 when the family name was "de Burville".  As Hugenots, they fled to England for religious and political reasons where they settled in Kent. In the 1850s members of the family migrated to Australia. Burvilles Road, Mount Duneed is named after the Burville family who lived along the road, and remained there until the land was sold as a crematorium and cemetery.

John Burvill, son of John Burvill and Eliza née Wale, bought the land on the corner of Torquay Road and Whites Road in 1854. Fourteen acres of this land was sold to Robert Broughton in 1876. He was a  teacher and superintendent of the Grovedale Methodist Sunday School for thirty-six years.
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​John married Mary Ann Radford in 1862. It was in this generation that the name changed to Burville. They had the following children:
Louisa — born 1863
Laura — born 1864
​Annie Maria — born 1865, died 1937
Eliza — born and died 1866
Arthur — born 1867, died 1927 at Ballarat
Charles William — born 1869, died 1870
Frederick — born 1870, died 1871
Rosina — born 1871, died 1871
Walter — born 1872, died 1946
Alice — born 1873, married August Hartwich, died 1958
John — born 1875, died 1876
Mary Isabel — born 1877
​Alfred John — born 1879, died 1927

​John died on 23 August 1902 at his residence at Mount Duneed at the age of 70 years and was buried in the Methodist section of the Mount Duneed Cemetery with Laura, Mary and Annie and his mother Eliza who had married Robert Andrews.

William Bickers, son of Francis and Mary (née Peddan) Bickers, was born at Thirsk Yorkshire England in 1815. Information on the internet suggests he came to Australia on 28 April 1832 as a convict transported on the Lord William Bentinck.

​He married Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas and Jane (née Pickett) Beechey. Jane was reputed to be the daughter of Samuel Pickett who came with the First Fleet on the ​Charlotte  and Mary Ann Thompson who was transported on the First Fleet ship Lady Juliana.

​William and Mary Ann came to the Mount Duneed area in the late 1850s. They had 11 children:
​William — born 1845 in Hobart, died 1875 in Victoria
Jane — born 1846 in Hobart, married John Teodore Brown on 16 April 1870 in Fitzroy, died in 1884 in Melbourne
Alfred — born 1848 in Hobart, married Isabella Bryan, died in 1917 at Warracknabeal
Ellen — born 13 May 1850 in Hobart, married Thomas Ellis on 12 January 1870, died 19 August 1945 at Mount Duneed
George — born 1853 in Germantown, married Annie Garvie Tawse in 1882. Annie died on 21 July 1889 and is buried in an unknown location at Mount Duneed Cemetery
Maria — born 1865 in Geelong, married James Woodhead in 1876
Francis — born 1858 in Connewarre, married Eliza O'Hare in 1885
Rebecca — born 1861 in Connewarre, married John Teodore Brown in 1885 in Victoria
Elizabeth — born 1863 in Connewarre, married Samuel Henry Johnson in 1882
Martha — born 1866 in Connewrre, married Andrew Condie in 1884, died on 28 May 1958
Harriet​ — born 1869 in Mount Duneed, married Henry Frederick Neville in 1891

​William died on 19 June 1869 at Mount Duneed aged 54 and was buried in the Church of England section of the Mount Duneed Cemetery. Mary Ann died on 9 April 1914 at Rupanyup.

​On 27 January 1867 Harold Humphrey of Connewarre had a fatal accident. He fell from his wagon and was run over by the wheel. He left his widow, Hester, destitute. A tea meeting was held on 15 February at Mount Duneed Church School to raise funds to support the family.

​In March the Gazette named the following men to be trustees of land set aside for Wesleyan Church purposes at Mount Duneed:
John Parkes Hope
​James Daltan
William Trewen
Robert Preston
​Thomas Fiveash

​In August Sons of Temperance held a public meeting at Mount Duneed. A requisition was signed for the formation of a division at Mount Duneed. Among them were Messrs Hope, Landale, Abercrombie and Angus.

​In October a farmer named Thomas Caldwell, who lived at Mount Duneed, met his death through a tree which he was cutting, falling upon him, and striking him upon the head. He left a widow and two children.

​Bonfires were planned at Mounts Moriac and Duneed to celebrate the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh's to Victoria.

​A boy in the employ of Mr Trewin, farmer, of Mount Duneed, was drowned in a waterhole in that locality. 

​Arthur Streeton was born on 8 April at Clifford

Burials at Mount Duneed​
Jane Hill — 22 February
​Louisa Palmer — 15 March
Ellen Fuller — 25 March​
Ellen Brown — 26 March, aged 2 years
​Mary Eady — 20 April
Mary Humphrey — 3 May
​John Land — 14 May, aged 37 years
​Joseph Southall —  7 July
Stephen Cain — 29 July, aged 56 years
Charles Roulier — 9 December 1867

Burials at Germantown
Mary Kubial — 6 March, aged 6 years
​Amalie Schulz — 10 April, aged 2 years
Martha Betts — 23 April
Gottlieb Alwegge — 13 June, aged 36 years
Johann Hannasky — 21 June
​Anna Petzke — 20 October, aged 23 years
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Burials at Freshwater Creek
Maria Louise Kubiel — died 6 March aged 6 years
​Johann Gottfried Robert Liebhard — 16 July aged 21
​Adolph Gustav Schmidt — 27 January aged 83, husband of Margaret

John, son of Samuel and Sarah Richards, was christened at All Saints Church in West Bromwich, Stafford in England on 9 March 1823. He married Louisa née Drayton in 1851 at Oyer in London. Louisa was born in Somerset in 1827. They migrated to Australia aboard the Lady MacNaughton, sailing from London via Plymount on 26 June 1851 and arriving in Adelaide on 23 September and on to Melbourne, berthing on 22 October. Later the same year they arrived in Geelong.​

John and Louisa's children were:
Samuel James — baptised in Geelong on 2 March 1852, died in Geelong in 1856 aged 4 years
Joseph — born in 1854 at Geelong, died in August 1882 aged 28, buried on 14 August 1882 in the Church of England section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery
John — born in 1856 at Geelong, married Elizabeth Snider, died on 24 July 1916 aged 59 years, buried in the Methodist section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery
Mary Ann — born in 1858 at Connewarre, died in 1881 aged 23 at Carlton
William — born on 25 July 1859 at Connewarre, married Isabella White on 24 July 1882 at the Wesleyan Parsonage in Emerald Hill, died on 17 July 1910 aged 51 at Kew, buried in the Methodist section of the Kew Cemetery 
Samuel James — died in 1856 aged 4 ?
Elizabeth (Betsy) — born in 1862 at Connewarre, married George Henry Burge on 1 January 1885, married Samuel Lewis in 1890, died on 25 April 1944 aged 82, buried in the Methodist section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery
Susan — born on 8 July 1866, died on 20 July 1866, buried on private property in Connewarre
​George Henry — born in September 1866 at Connewarre, died on 15 November 1868 aged 14 months at Geelong