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John Clinnick

30/11/2018

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John, son of John and Jane (née Adams) Clinnick, was born in Cornwall, England in 1816. He married Eleanor Lobb who was born in 1817, also in Cornwall. They travelled to Australia in 1848. Their son, Henry, was born at sea near Africa.
Their children were:
Thomas Lobb — born 1838 at St Pinnocks Cornwall England, married Elizabeth Wedmore on 18 March 1872 at Mount Moriac, died 1913 at Curlewis
John Lobb — born 1840 at Truro Cornwall England, married Margaret Henderson in 1857 at Thomastown, died 24 January 1902 at East Melbourne, buried in an unknown location in the Church of England section of the Highton Cemetery
William Henry — born 1845 at Cornwall, died 1866 at Ceres aged of 21 years
Henry — born 1848 at sea, married Isabella Caruthers Rea on 20 February 1871 at St Andrew's Manse, Geelong, died 3 September 1929 at Grovedale aged 81 years
Richard James — born 1850 at Thomastown, died 16 May 1871 at Melbourne aged 21 years
Eleanor — born 1854 at Thomastown, died 29 January 1866 at Ceres aged 12 years
Moses — born 1858 at Barrabool Hills, died 17 April 1860 at Barrabool Hills aged 18 months
Miriam — born 1860 at Barrabool, married John William Rollins on 26 January 1882 at Woodly Park Highton, died 1941 at Curlewis aged 82 years

John owned "Bassetts Farm" in Devon Road from about 1861 leased 726 acres of "Aitkenside" from the estate of P Aitken until the lease was taken over by John Cochrane in 1876. In 1873 he purchased Donald McLean's "Glendarroch" and in 1877 Lawrence Trewin's "Clifford". He continued farming with his son, John, until his death in 1894. John junior left the district in 1901.​

He was successful in many ploughing competitions and caber tossing events.

​John was a Barrabool Shire councillor from 1875-1878. He became unpopular with the councillors in September 1878 after writing to the Geelong Advertiser to ask that they not appoint a "PV" as president. PV was assumed to mean Pentonvillian and the ex-councillor would not elaborate. All steps were taken to refute the slur.

John died on 23 August 1894 and was buried in an unknown location in the Methodist section of the Highton Cemetery.​ Eleanor died the following year on 24 July and was also buried in an unknown location at the Highton Cemetery.
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Aitkenside — J.T. Collins Collection, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
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from Geelong Advertiser 1 May 1901
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from Geelong Advertiser 21 September 1878
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This old map, which is on the wall at Belmont library, shows the position of Aitkenside which is the large block originally selected by William Robertson in 1840. It stretches south to Waurn Ponds Creek
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1918

23/11/2018

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3rd July — Mrs FH Stacey of Mount Duneed was notified that her son, Frank, had been wounded for the second time.
​11 July — Corporal Edward Victor Middleton, wounded
26 August — FL Gill of Mount Duneed, wounded
27 August — Charles Harold Gogoll, son of Charles Benjamin and Fanny Louise Gogoll, of Mount Duneed, wounded (gas), 4 October killed in action. He is remembered on his parents grave at Mount Duneed.
15 April — Private Jason Doyle of Grovedale returned to Geelong on the afternoon train after three years' absence. His wound was inflicted by gunshot at Ypres; his leg and arm were affected.
29 April — Bombardier John Francis Doyle, second son of JW and LC Doyle, of Grovedale aged 28 years, died of wounds received in France after 3 years and 8 months' active service.
​E McGee and A Gallagher of Grovedale have enlisted
Mrs E Scott of Connewarre has received the news from the Defence department that her son, Lce-Cpl WJ Scott was killed in action in France on 9 August. Some little time ago she received a congratulatory letter from Sir WR Birdwood, DSO as follows: "The Army Corps Commander wishes to express his appreciation of the gallant services rendered by the undermentioned soldier, No 4916

Private WJ Scott"
​Mrs T Ellis of Mount Duneed has received a cable from the Defence Department that her son, Pte Allan Ellis, has been gassed, and is classed as "wounded, second occasion".
​December — Pte HJ Richmond of Grovedale wounded 
9 August at Blackwarry, death of Elizabeth, wife of the late John Parkes Hope, formerly of Mount Duneed.
​24 November 1918, at his residence, Mount Duneed, Benjamin Blyth, husband of the late Ann Blyth, aged 52 years​
18 December 1918, Edwin Challis, son of Harry and Sarah (née Porter) died of wounds sustained the previous day in a farm accident
Red Cross — New Registrations
Numbers 137 and 137, Mount Duneed Red Cross Sub-centre; Mrs AG White, president, straight-out giving and various efforts to be arranged.
Number 139 Freshwater Creek district Patriotic Committee; Cr W McIntyre, chairman; Mr A Milner, secretary; straight out giving
​Susannah Syrett, widow of John Syrett died on 19 October at her residence at Grovedale aged 78 years. She was buried at Mount Duneed Cemetery on 21 October.
​William Thomas, husband of Harriett Elizabeth  Berryman died on 10 October at Geelong aged 42 years. She was buried at Grovedale Cemetery on 11 October.
​Leslie Smith aged 18 of Grovedale suffered a nasty accident on 27 February while stacking hay. The fork slipped and struck his forehead. As a result he had 14 stitches inserted in a gash over his left eye.

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Studio portrait of Leslie George Ellis 4002 of Mount Duneed. He enlisted on 16 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He later served as a sergeant and was killed in action of 18 August 1918 and is buried at Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France. He was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Ellis.
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from Geelong Advertiser 24 May
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from Ripponshire Advocate 20 July 1918
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Leslie George Ellis is remembered on his parent's grave in the Church of England section of the Mount Duneed Cemetery
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Alcoa Power line removal

21/11/2018

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30 October — The first wires were removed in Mount Duneed. The pylons will be removed before Christmas.
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The first towers were removed today
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Andrew Thomas Moran

16/11/2018

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Andrew Thomas Moran was born in Wexford, Ireland about 1826. On 30 December 1858 he married Elizabeth Clarke (née Yates). Their children were:
Annie — born 1859 at Modewarre, married Edmond Joseph Brown in 1889, died 1900 at Essendon aged 41, children Malcolm, Roy and Veronica​
Margaret  — born 1861 at Modewarre, married Albert William Craven in 1886, died 1935 at Moonee Ponds
​William ​— born 1863 at Modewarre, died 1 October 1890 aged 27 years
​George ​— born 1863 at Modewarre, died 1948 at St Kilda East
Elizabeth — born 1866 at Modewarre, married Frederick John Boddy in 1885, died 1957 at Moonee Ponds
Mina — born 1868 at Mount Moriac, married Herbert Henry Washington in 1898, died 1934 at Newtown and Chilwell aged 66
Mary — born 1870 at Mount Moriac, married Cadwallader, died 1935 at Essendon aged 65 years
Jack Andrew Thomas — born 1872 at Mount Moriac, married Maud Amelia Lake in June 1898, died 1868 at Toorak aged 68 years 
​Peter ​— born 1872 at Mount Moriac, died 1872 at Modewarre aged 1 month

Mabel Mildred — born 1875 at Winchelsea, died 7 December 1915 at Shelton, Ardmillan Street, Moonee Ponds 
Henry Loftus — born 13 September 1878 at Prospect Villa, Winchelsea, married Sarah Margaret Dutton Beale on 16 February, 1904 at Moonee Ponds, died 26 May 1944 aged 65 years

He became a member of the Barrabool Road Board in 1863 and became one of the first councillors of the Shire of Barrabool serving from 1865 until 1872. In 1865 he was appointed a trustee of the Mount Moriac Cemetery. In 1882 he shifted to Winchelsea becoming the engineer at Winchelsea Shire. 

In 1882-83, important additions were made to Ingleby station, owned by George Armytage. A large woolshed and further buildings designed by A T Moran were added.
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Andrew Thomas Moran
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from Geelong Advertiser 1 October 1901

Andrew died intestate on 29 September 1901 at the age of 75 years and was buried at Winchelsea Cemetery the following day. His estate was shared among his wife, Elizabeth Clarke (née Yates), and surviving children and three grandchildren. Elizabeth died on 19 August 1902 aged 76 years and was buried with Andrew.​
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Ingleby Woolshed — JT Collins Collection, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
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John Hensley

9/11/2018

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John Hensley was a Barrabool Shire councillor, serving from 1866 until 1871, but his life in Australia began many years before he came to the Geelong district. He was born in 1821 in Bristol, England. In 1838 at the age of 17 he emigrated with his 24 year old brother, Charles, on the Pestonjee Bomanjee to South Australia. In 1852 they bought the 79 square mile property Cairnbank in the south east. A number of successful years allowed them to pay off their loan in six years and then to have a two storey Georgian mansion to be built on the station. For eighteen years he had prosperity he never expected allowing him to expand  to Pinnaroo, Mount Elgin and Bleak House stations. His brother, Charles, died on 30 April, 1878 at Cairnbank.

During this time in South Australia he had married Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (née McLean) Hay and they had several children:
Richard — born 1847
Elizabeth — born 1849, married Rev John Sinclair on 27 August 1878
Mary Harriet — born 1851, married Robert Laidlaw Fletcher on 5 June 1873, buried in an unknown location in the Mount Moriac Cemetery on 17 November 1942 ​
William Hay — born 1753, married Mary Annie Hudson in 1888 at Norwood, Adelaide
John Alexander — born 1856, married Katie McCullock​ on 21 May 1891, died 21 February 1921
Jesse Susan — born about 1859, married Robert Henry Boadle on 5 June 1888 at Cairnbank, died on 22 October 1946 at Nhill Hospital
Margaret Annie Stewart — born 1861, married George McCoy on 16 April 1885 at Ewerby Mount Moriac
Charles James — born 1863

In 1865 he moved to the Geelong district. In 1872 he was at Ewerby in Mill Road (Hendy Main Road, north of the Colac Road), Mount Moriac, a property previously owned by Benjamin Tindale, a native of Ewerby ​near Sleaford in Lincolnshire. In 1875 he bought Minter's Mount Moriac Estate of 680 acres. He eventually owned 5112 acres.

His first setback was in November 1872 with the failure of the Provincial and Suburban Bank. The directors were prosecuted for fraud. Then the pastoralists started to have their land forcibly resumed for agricultural selection. These events caused him great financial hardship.

​In 1874 he was elected a trustee of St Thomas' Church of England in Winchelsea. In 1882 he retired to a new house built in Latrobe Terrace, Geelong, leaving his son-in-law to run Ewerby. He died of bronchitis on 29 September 1891 at the age of 70 at the Free Presbyterian Manse in Great Myers Street, the residence of his son-in-law with whom he had lived for the previous two years. Mary had died the previous year on 5 January aged 66. They are both buried in the Presbyterian section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery.
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Ewerby
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Unidentified members of the Hensley and McCoy families of Cairnbank, SA — from State Library of SA
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from The Argus 24 December 1863
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John Fallon

2/11/2018

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A reconstructed slab hut

​When John Fallon purchased crown allotment 32 in the parish of Puebla about 1856 he probably had high hopes for his future. He selected 160 acres on the north west corner of Anglesea and Hendy Main Roads. He would have been expected to improve his land and the advertisement in the Geelong Advertiser in 1860 when his land was sold showed what he had achieved. He had erected a well built slab hut with three rooms, probably out of timber growing on the property, some fencing and two large water holes. He had cleared and cultivated 30 acres probably employing wood cutters to get the job done with the primitive tools available at the time. Some of the timber would have been taken to Geelong to sell to provide extra income. He would probably have made a vegetable garden containing a few fruit trees and maybe kept poultry for eggs and for eating.
 
This was probably the same John Fallon who arrived in Australia 1841. He was born about 1817 in Roscomman in Ireland. Initially he settled in Melbourne with his wife Bridget (née Hardiman). They moved around, which we know from where their five children were born.
Margaret — born in 1842 in Melbourne
Mary — born in 1844 in Geelong, died at St John of God Hospital in Ballarat aged 81​
Catherine — born in 1848 at Leigh River
John — born 1850 at Mount Moriac
Sarah — born 1853 at Waurn Ponds

By 1860 John Fallon was insolvent. His liabilities were recorded as £321/9/3 and his assets £313/17/-, the deficiency being £7/12/3. The causes of this state of affairs was firstly that during the previous 18 months, more that 20 head of working bullocks died, involving a loss of £200 and secondly that the crop on his land was of no value in consequence of destruction by cattle.

This was probably the same John Fallon who arrived in Australia 1841. He was born about 1817 in Roscomman in Ireland. Initially he settled in Melbourne with his wife Bridget (née Hardiman). They moved around, which we know from where their five children were born.
Margaret — born in 1842 in Melbourne
Mary — born in 1844 in Geelong, died at St John of God Hospital in Ballarat aged 81​
Catherine — born in 1848 at Leigh River
John — born 1850 at Mount Moriac
Sarah — born 1853 at Waurn Ponds
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John died of consumption  in 1881 at Geelong Hospital aged 64 and was buried in an unknown location at the Geelong Eastern Cemetery.​
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from Geelong Advertiser 26 July 1860
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from The Argus 30 July 1860
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