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John William Prowse

25/1/2019

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John William, son of John and Agnes (née Howe) Prowse, was born in 1878 at Weering. By 1890 his parents had taken up farming at Layard.

John became a Barrabool Shire councillor in 1916 and served until 1950 including six terms as president in 1923, 1926, 1929, 1932, 1937 and 1946.

He married Mary Hammond in 1902. They had the following children at Mount Moriac:
Margaret Agnes — born 1902
Dorothy Irene — born 1904
John William Garnard — born 1906, died 17 August 1985 aged 79, buried in the Church of England section of the Mount Moriac Cemetery​
Alma Milford — born 1908

Mary died on 19 October 1918 and was buried in the Church of Engl​and section of the Mount Moriac Cemetery. John died on 30 October 1951 at Geelong and was buried with Mary.

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from The Age 31 October 1951
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from Geelong Advertiser 22 October 1918
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William Danger

23/8/2017

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William, son of William and Elisabeth (née Marshall) Danger, was born in 1816 in Cambridgeshire, England. In 1839 he married Catherine Duxson née Bradley, who was born about 1808, at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. They had the following children in Newton, Cambridgeshire:
​Stephen — born about 1840, married Lucy Ann Knight, died 1928 at Newtown
William — born about 1842, died 15 December 1899
Samuel — born 1846 at Newton Cambridgeshire, married Susannah Broughton on 22 April 1867 at Christ Church, Geelong, died 18 October 1880
Mary — born in 1846, married Charles Henry Smith, died in 1940
​Elizabeth Catherine ​— ​born 11 March 1849, married Robert Ellis, died 22 May 1937 in Geelong
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William Danger died intestate on 24 December 1871. His estate of £341 was divided among his five surviving children by the administrator, his son William. Samuel's share seems to have been inherited by his wife Susannah.
William died of sunstroke at Gherang Gherang on 24 December 187l at the age of 55 years and was buried in the Church of England section of the Mount Moriac Cemetery. Catherine, who died on 1 June 1882 was buried next to him.
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The grave of William and Catherine Duxson Danger at Mount Moriac Cemetery. Their headstone is surrounded by a wrought iron fence. Son, William was buried in an adjoining enclosure to the south. Son, Samuel and his son Robert William are buried in the next enclosure to the south.

When son William, who was unmarried, died on 15 December 1899 aged 57 he left his estate to his surviving siblings, brother ​Stephen Danger of Geelong, and sisters ​Mary Smith of Geelong and ​Elizabeth Catherine Ellis of Germantown in equal parts.
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Distribution son William's estate by executor Charles Henry Smith to his brother and sisters.
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Land owned by William at the time of his death on the corner of Layard and Dangers Roads on which was erected a two roomed weatherboard house. It was fenced and heavily timbered.
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Modewarre Avenue of Honour and War Memorials

18/4/2017

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​The Avenue of Honour at Modewarre consists of an avenue of 33 mature Cypress trees on the western side of Cape Otway Road outside the Modewarre Memorial Hall and School buildings. It is the only surviving intact Avenue of Honour in the Surf Coast Shire. The plaques on the trees were unveiled on Anzac Day 2015.
It was dedicated to the following soldiers (the number corresponding to the tree dedicated in their honour):
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  1. Lieutenant General Sir William Birdwood
  2. Thomas H Matthews (Vic.)
  3. George Fishburn
  4. Norman L Woods
  5. John T Larcombe (Jack)
  6. William A Kelly (Bill)
  7. Sydney J Abbott
  8. Henry W Purnell
  9. Richard F Hunt
  10. Jack C Wallis
  11. Clarie P Matthews
  12. Sydney G Black
  13. Roy L Hunter
  14. Angus J Stewart (Jim)
  15. John W Matthews
  16. Ernie E Black
  17. George Thomas Hunter (Tom)
  18. Jacob Deppeler
  19. Stanley E Matthews
  20. William C Cutts
  21. Godfrey Deppeler
  22. Allan E Matthews
  23. William J Dawson (Bill)
  24. Jack H Beckman
  25. Charles T Harris
  26. Edgar R Simpson
  27. Edward P Hendy
  28. Francis G Robinson
  29. William McAdam
  30. William Clark
  31. Clarence E Batson
  32. Henry S Dentry
  33. ​Albert Jacka (Bert)
Full details about these men are on the Together They Served website:
https://togethertheyserved.com/modewarre-names-3/


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Modewarre Memorial Hall in Cape Otway Road, Modewarre
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PictureHarold Loone sho served with the RAAF after enlisting in May 1941 was overlooked.
The unveiling of the memorial plaque commemorating the World War 2 servicemen of Modewarre and district took place on Anzac Day 2017.  It remembers the following men:
​George Abbott
Norman S Abbott
Clive Alford
William Batson
Lindsay E Brown
Alan C Lowndes
Kenneth V Noble
Peter S Dennis
Andrew J Deppeler
William E Earl
Reginald CA Fedley
Arthur S Hovey
Bernard J Hovey
Jonathan C Hosford
Alexander T Lamont
Henry E Lugg
Norman R Lugg
Oscar C Lugg
Trevor S McNamara
Stephen A McPadden
David E McPhee
Noel J Matthews
Victor A Matthews
Charles E Membery
John W Noble
David K Park
Eric W Price
Roy A Rosewarn
Russell J Stewart
Eric K Wilsher
Bruce Wilson
Robert A Wilson
Albert E Wilson




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Bible Christian Chapel, Modewarre

23/11/2016

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The former Bible Christian Siloam Chapel built in 1858 in Considines Road Modewarre, is the earliest known Bible Christian Chapel in Victoria, and only one of three known surviving former Bible Christian Chapels in the state. The Bible Christian Church was brought to South Australia through emigrant Cornish miners, and soon spread to Victoria. The Modewarre church became a centre for temperance lectures in the district with speakers from the Geelong Band of Hope. 1 January 1902 saw the re union of the five separate and competing sections of the Methodist Church throughout the Commonwealth of Australia. The parent body, the Wesleyan Methodists were joined with the Primitive Methodists, United Methodist Free Churches, Bible Christians and the New Connexion to form "The Methodist Church of Australasia".

The Band of Hope was founded in United Kingdom in 1847 and established in Australia by 1860 during a time when excessive drinking among adults was common, adding to the problems of poor living conditions and health, and maltreatment of children and child mortality. Alcohol was freely available to children. The organisation had a policy of education particularly with the young. Many Bands of Hope were associated with Churches and Sunday Schools. The Band of Hope targeted children of parents who wanted their children to be educated and have a secure future. It was seen by many adults as a way to develop self-reliant working men who could use temperance as a route to self improvement.

To encourage children to join and remain members, groups held annual outings, tea meetings, offered music lessons, established orchestras and produced newspapers whose content promoted temperance. Meetings began with a temperance hymn, prayers and the chairman's speech, this was followed by music, recitations, readings and pledge signing.

Queen Victoria became patron in 1897, the Jubilee year, and several celebrations were held. In some ways it could be said that the success of the Band of Hope caused its own decline. As alcohol misuse became less of a problem and as legislation improved there seemed to be less need to work so fervently in this area.

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Band of Hope members card 1870
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Layard

12/10/2016

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Looking south from Taylors Road — The remains of the rail line to Wensleydale where it crosses the creek. Two posts are all that is left of the bridge.

​​As you travel along Cape Otway Road towards Winchelsea you might notice three roads not far from each other on the left side — Raglan, Lyons and Cambridge Streets. Panmure and Russell Streets run parallel to Cape Otway Road. Mary Synot and brother Simon ran a store. Permanent fresh water was available from the swamp however this swamp dried up in 1902 and eighteen residents partitioned the Winchelsea Shire council to further excavate it.
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​The township of Layard, as it was then known, was planned by the government and sold in the 1860s mainly to speculative buyers. It was near the southern boundary of the Parish of Modewarre, close to the neighbouring Parish of Gherang Gherang.

​In 1891 a railway station was opened on a short branch line eleven miles long diverging from the Colac line about half a mile from Moriac station and running in a south-westerly direction​towards Wensleydale. It passed through the properties of Henry Larcombe, William Crutch and George McConachy, then after the township of ​Layard through two miles of John Rout Hopkins' land (Wormbete) and after that through the properties of Thomas Hunter, Mrs Mary Field and the Wormbete Wattle Company's selection, finally stopping in about the centre of this company's property. It was uncultivated land, and was only used for sheep grazing and for most of the way it was uncleared, the surface being partly hidden by a mass of fallen timber. There are sixteen bridges in the short line, the largest of which is 83 feet in length, situated about half a mile from the junction with the main line. This line provided plenty of jobs with about 220 men working on the line while about 150 men were employed in the forest in cutting and carting timber for the work. This line, known as the Saddle Line, attracted much ​criticism as the stations were not in the centres of populated areas but it was in the centre of a forest and trucks full of wood kept the Geelong industries supplied. There was also gravel at Gherang to move. The end of the line was within a few miles of Aireys Inlet and it was envisaged that during summer coaches would connect with
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The bridge may have once looked like this
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from Geelong Advertiser 19 May 1894
Wensleydale. As a passenger service it was sadly not up to scratch. The Age reported that passengers could travel in the guards van, but not in comfort: "It is no exaggeration to say that a journey to Wensleydale by train would kill a delicate woman". Coal was first discovered in the area in 1856 by Wesley Anderson. It was loaded onto the rail trucks at Wensleydale. When the line closed coal was transported to Geelong in trucks, mainly to the power station in North Geelong and also loaded at Winchelsea station to go to Melbourne, Ballarat, Bendigo and Western District centres. When the mine closed in 1957 and the mine was flooded to create a lake and is used for water skiing.
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About a quarter of a mile from Layard station on the Moriac side were railway gates. John O'Donnell was the gatekeeper. Close to the gates was a house which was left open for the accommodation of rail travellers. This line was hoped would be the beginning of a line to Lorne. The line had very few passengers and closed about 1948 after train frequency was down to one per fortnight.
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Russell Street, looking south west from Raglan Street. The road reserve is not cleared from Lyons Street to Cambridge Street
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The old bluestone school at Modewarre is just up the Cape Otway Road near the corner of Considines Road. On the opposite corner of Considines and Batsons Roads Henry Lawrence operated a store and post office from 1861 which he upgraded in bluestone in 1864. The store was replaced by Lawrence's son, George, in about 1900, after the earlier building had been destroyed by fire in 1899. This building survives at Modewarre today.
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Modewarre - unveiling of ww1 Avenue of honour plaques

21/4/2015

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Modewarre Memorial Hall Cape Otway Road, starting at 12:15 Anzac Day.
The Unveiling of plaques for 33 WW1 servicemen (including Australia's first Victoria Cross recipient, Captain Albert Jacka, who lived nearby at Layard); a short history of the Avenue of Honour by noted historian Roger Southern; a demonstration by the Geelong Military Re-enactment Group; and a display of WW1 artefacts, memorabilia and the servicemen's registration papers.
Family, friends and community are invited to attend.
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