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Christmas Breakup — Past Event

25/11/2017

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The next meeting of the Mount Duneed History Group is at 7:30 on Thursday 7 December. This will be the Christmas breakup. Participants are asked to bring something old to talk about or a plate of supper.
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William Bickers

17/11/2017

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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 Hannah Oxley on 11 September 1837.

He formed a relationship with 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 in 1845 in Hobart, died in 1875 aged 31 years at Mitiamo in Victoria https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197550835?searchTerm=%22mitiamo%20murder%22%20%22william%20bickers%22​
Jane — born on 16 January 1846 in Hobart, married John Theodore Brown on 16 April 1870 in Fitzroy, died on 6 September aged 37 years 1884 in Melbourne
Alfred — born on 28 January 1848 in Hobart, married Isabella Bryan, died on 2 June 1917 at Warracknabeal
Ellen — born on 13 May 1850 in Hobart, married Thomas Ellis on 12 January 1870, died on 19 August 1945 aged 95 years at Mount Duneed, buried in the Church of England section of the Mount Duneed Cemetery
George — born in 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, died in 1931 aged 78 years at Bendigo
Maria — born in 1865 in Geelong, married James Woodhead in 1876
Francis — born in 1858 in Connewarre, married Eliza O'Hare in 1885, died on 4 October 1928 at Colac
Rebecca — born in 1861 at Connewarre, married John Theodore Brown in 1885 in Victoria, died in 1911
Elizabeth — born in 1863 in Connewarre, married Samuel Henry Johnson in 1882, died on 3 August 1948 aged 84 years at Connewarre, buried in the Church of England section of the Geelong eastern Cemetery
Martha — born 1866 in Connewrre, married Andrew Condie in 1884, died on 28 May 1958 aged 92 years at Geelong, buried in the Presbyterian section of the Geelong Western Public Cemetery
Harriet​ — born in 1869 in Mount Duneed, married Henry Frederick Neville in 1891 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.​
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from Geelong Advertiser 17 September 1904
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from Geelong Advertiser 21 June 1869
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from Geelong Advertiser 14 October 1905
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Land once owned by William Bickers was near the south west corner of Horseshoe Bend and McCanns Roads. Thomsons Creek was once known as Bream Creek.
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1867

10/11/2017

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St Wilfrids Church was used as a school until the state school was built in 1878

​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. 
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from the Leader 24 August
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from Geelong Advertiser 30 October

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​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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from Mount Alexander Mail 13 February
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full report in Ballarat Star 13 August page 2
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from Geelong Advertiser 26 June
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from Mount Alexander Mail 25 April
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from Geelong Advertiser 16 April

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Judge Brewer's residence, at Connewarre, was withdrawn from sale as the price offered did not reach expectations, although brisk competition took place to nearly £1000.
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Judge Brewer's farm was on the corner of Tannery and Sparrovale Roads and had a frontage to Brearleys Lane.

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from Geelong Advertiser 30 August
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

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John Richards

3/11/2017

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Land sold by John Richards is on the corner of Bluestone School and Blackrock Roads, Connewarre
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
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from Geelong Advertiser 10 February 1890




John farmed land at Connewarre from the late 1850s until his death. He died on 2 August 1882 and was buried in the Church of England section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery. He died intestate and was survived by his widow, Louisa, and four children — Joseph, John, ​William and Elizabeth.
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Mount Duneed Recreation Reserve

2/11/2017

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PictureThis map shows the original owners of land bounded by Russells Road in the north, Ghazeepore Road in the west, Mount Duneed Road in the south and Williams Road in the east
A trust was formed at a public meeting at the state school to manage the Mount Duneed Recreation Reserve in 1909. As soon as this was gazetted £10 was received from the Lands Department for fencing and improvements. This was conditional that the sum of £5 be contributed by locals.
The members of the Committee of Management elected were:
George Williams
James Rainford
David McLaren Whitelaw
August Forster
Patrick Feehan
Robert Preston
​Alfred Gilbert White
​The regulations for the reserve were decided on and were printed on cloth.
​The recreation reserve in Russells Road originally stretched to Williams Road. The rifle range was situated in the south west area, shooting towards the east. Preliminary meetings were held during 1900 to establish a rifle club. The range was opened on 5 January 1901. A block was fenced off for the Wesleyan church. The remains of the church, which was destroyed in the 1944 fire, are still visible to the east of the entrance gate. The cemetery is situated on this reserve in Williams Road. To the south of the cemetery land was reserved for a Presbyterian church and manse. This church was never built and the land was later sold. The Mount Duneed Pony Club, which was founded in 1985, uses the reserve. Cricket is played on Saturdays on the oval.

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from Geelong Advertiser 2 January 1901
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Photo taken with permission from Geelong Heritage Centre
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The funds which were held by the committee were spent on fencing materials which were bought from SH Fagg. The business traded as Fagg Bros after the death of Samuel Hadley Fagg in August 1909 — document contributed by Leanne Fagg
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Looking from the east this low area in the west of the reserve looks like the crater of the volcano
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The east end of the reserve looking from the cemetery
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