John Burvill

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.

John Burvill bought land on the south west corner of Torquay and Whites Roads.