Hello Pauline I am also new to this list and also looking for a family of Dixons that may have been in Leongatha. My grandfather, William Edward Dixon named Leongatha as his birthplace on his marriage certificate although his birth certificate shows that he was born at Rosedale (is that anywhere nearby?) in 1878. He married in 1909 so would have been a contemporary of your Peter Dixon maybe they could be related. William was the son of Edward Magnus Dixon and Annie Charlotte Dixon (nee Ross) who were married at St Mark's Church, Rosedale in 1876, Edward's occupation was given as stockman. Edward's parents were Thomas and Sarah Dixon (nee Smith) who were married at Tarraville in 1858. Do any of these folk sound familiar? Regards Helen (Canberra) ----- Original Message ----- From: ppendlebury To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:35 PM Subject: Leongatha Hi list, l am a newby to this list.My Grandparents,.Peter Verdon Dixon and Ethel Winifred Craig married in Leongatha on 11th November,1911.Ethel was staying with an Aunt down there when she met Peter.Their daughter Catherine was born there also on 18th November,1912.We have snippets of info that there was a Dixon family farm in the area.Peter was down there working on the farm.Does anyone have any info as to exactly where the farm may have been?It has been a curiousity of ours for some time.Thanking you,Pauline in Bendigo. ______________________________

Dear Peter There is an index published on the names of people mentioned in the Gippsland Times from the late 1860-1900. The Sale Historical Society has provided me with copies of entries for a small fee in the past. Regards Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Robinson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:48 PM Subject: [AVG] Sale newspapers 1860-1900 > Could SKS please let me know which newspapers would have been reporting events in the Sale/Longford/Stradbroke areas during the second half of the 19th century? > > I am off for a day's research in the State Library in a few days and this info could help quite a lot. > > Regards > > the older of the tworobbos > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Lookups are available by going to the AVG home page at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ and from there to Lookups. If the lookup that you need isn't listed there, and is a GIPPSLAND one, then it is appropriate to ask on list. > >

Hi linda, l am also interested in this one,my Grandparents were George Walter Tulloch who married Christina Gillis McIntyre.l know that they resided at Packenham during the dreadful fires of many years ago,and they were in sale for a while.In fact,Christina's mother,Mary Ann Tulloch,[circa 1928-1930ish]came out from scotland to visit her children,got ill and died here.l believe she is buried in Sale somewhere.l know that Grandpa had connections to a Produce[wheat etc l think]store in Sale.My great Uncle,Matthew McIntyre also lived down that way. l know that George's parents were Robert and Isabella Jane [McKenzie],and that the McKenzie's still have property down through Korrumburra somewhere.My Mum knows more details if anyone is interested in it.l have done some of the treeline myself.l'll be interested in your reply,thanking you,Pauline Pendlebury in Bendigo.

Hi Everyone, If there is anyone out there who has an interest in Jean Wood, who attended Woranga School (ie near Yarram/Alberton/Tarraville) in 1931, or even a particular interest in the school, if you contact me offlist you may, in the old language "learn something to your advantage". Cheers Linda

Hi Everyone, I have someone looking for biographical information on one William Tulloch, who was a blacksmith at Newry (and possibly the first blacksmith), until his retirement in 1907. There is a famous Newry 1880 photo of a group in front of the hotel (it is on the cover of the Back To book), where he is standing on the extreme left. My enquirer is actually interested in his apprentice, but would like to know a little about the Master. Thanks in advance, if anyone can help. Linda

Hi list, l am a newby to this list.My Grandparents,.Peter Verdon Dixon and Ethel Winifred Craig married in Leongatha on 11th November,1911.Ethel was staying with an Aunt down there when she met Peter.Their daughter Catherine was born there also on 18th November,1912.We have snippets of info that there was a Dixon family farm in the area.Peter was down there working on the farm.Does anyone have any info as to exactly where the farm may have been?It has been a curiousity of ours for some time.Thanking you,Pauline in Bendigo.

Rick, Linda is almost certainly correct regarding plans at the PRO, if they exist. You can contact John Waghorn on (03) 9465 1141. He is always happy to help. Eric. ----- Original Message ----- From: WHITE Richard C <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:51 PM Subject: [AVG] Post Office at Foster - Looking for Plans > Hello everyone : > > I'm new to this e-mail list and hope that you will put up with my questions and if i do things incorrectly by the rules. > > I am attempting to locate a copy of a set of original 1890 plans (or there abouts) for the Post Office at Foster. > I have been doing some research of the Walhalla P.O. which i believe is of the same design as the one constructed at Foster, with the view to producing a scale model of this very ornate and architecturally appealing structure for an upcoming project. > > The nice folk (Terry and Herbert) over at the Walhalla Board of Management suggested that I contact the Gippsland Historical Society. > So here i am. > > Would anyone be able to direct me to a source (museum, library or person) who may be able and willing to furnish a set of drawings for the 1890 era Foster Post Office? > > Thanks and best regards, > Rick > > Rick White > Wollongong, NSW > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient. > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > To read previous messages to this list, for at least the last twelve months, go to: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND/ >

Yes, you're right, Foster and Walhalla were the only two post offices in Victoria built to this design. Walhalla has the plans. But try the PRO first. The plans they have archived are themselves works of art with beautiful calligraphy and colors. The Foster PO is now the home of the accredited Foster Museum and while it has undergone some internal alterations, it is still a beautiful building and very much alive. Shirley Westaway Research Officer Foster and District Historical Society Inc.

Rick, Mr John F. Waghorn is acknowledged to be an authority on the subject of early post offices in Victoria. Walter Savige ----- Original Message ----- From: "WHITE Richard C" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:51 PM Subject: [AVG] Post Office at Foster - Looking for Plans > Hello everyone : > > I'm new to this e-mail list and hope that you will put up with my > questions and if i do things incorrectly by the rules. > > I am attempting to locate a copy of a set of original 1890 plans (or there > abouts) for the Post Office at Foster. . . .

I am FAIRLY confident that these, if they exist, are held in the public works plans at the Victorian Public Record office - along with other post offices constructed by the state government before Australian federated. I would start there, and if you draw a blank, go to the Commonwealth archives - but I think I have seen other post offices of that era in that collection. They MAY answer an e-mail from you, or there may be a friendly person on this list who goes to the PRO often who would be prepared to look, your being in NSW. Good Luck Linda At 02:51 PM 23/02/05 +1100, Richard wrote: > >I am attempting to locate a copy of a set of original 1890 plans (or there >abouts) for the Post Office at Foster.

Hello everyone : I'm new to this e-mail list and hope that you will put up with my questions and if i do things incorrectly by the rules. I am attempting to locate a copy of a set of original 1890 plans (or there abouts) for the Post Office at Foster. I have been doing some research of the Walhalla P.O. which i believe is of the same design as the one constructed at Foster, with the view to producing a scale model of this very ornate and architecturally appealing structure for an upcoming project. The nice folk (Terry and Herbert) over at the Walhalla Board of Management suggested that I contact the Gippsland Historical Society. So here i am. Would anyone be able to direct me to a source (museum, library or person) who may be able and willing to furnish a set of drawings for the 1890 era Foster Post Office? Thanks and best regards, Rick Rick White Wollongong, NSW IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient.

Hello Eric I checked with one of my colleagues who formerly lived and worked in South Gippsland, and he tells me that yes, reputedly the butter factory at Yarra Glen was moved to Stony Creek along with a couple of houses, which were used for the manager's residence and accommodation. The butter factory operated quite successfully for a time but was burnt down in the late 1930s. There is apparently more of the history in a booklet compiled for the Stony Creek township centenary. There is a former bus depot on the site now. One of the houses survives and was included in the South Gippsland Heritage Study as a place of local significance. Anne Napier ________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Tetlow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:15 PM Subject: [AVG] Yarra Glen Butter Factory > There is a story in Yarra Glen that our Butter Factory, 1890s vintage, was dismantled and moved to a town in South Gippsland. > Has anyone got any information on this. Sorry to be so vague. > > Eric Tetlow.

Hello to all that wrote about VARNEY/HASTHORPE, Was it Lorraine who originally wrote to the list? I am a direct descendant of Joseph Samuel (Jack) VARNEY & Clara/Clary CLARKSON/ MCGOWAN. Joseph Samuel VARNEY was a convict, arriving on the "Baring" in 1819. Clara was the daughter of convicts. One of two sisters to Isabella CLARKSON & James MCGOWAN. Clara and Joseph both had previous liaisons. Clara had four children to GEORGE HARVEY, and Joseph had a daughter with a MARY, (I am afraid I do not have the notes of her details and name in front of me at the moment - but will find them.) One of her stepfathers was Thomas SAUNDERSON/ SAUNDERS/ SANDERSON SANDERS. Her mother, Isabella CLARKSON had FIVE "husbands", two of whom she married. Isabella Clarkson had a total of 12 children (10 living) and 7 step-children. I have also recently been in contact with members of the HASTHORPE family and have been given extensive information from them that I previously did not have. If those of you interested, would contact me off list, I would be pleased to help, and pass you on contacts within your specific family. Regards, Wynnette ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Savige" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 9:09 PM Subject: [AVG] Re: VARNEY and HASTHORPE > Lorraine adn Ian, > > The VARNEY and/or HASTHORPE families are also referred to in "The Changing > Years" (1972) by Joyce Erbs and Marie Nation: > > p.8 - "The first land sale in Tangil took place on the 10th December, 1869 > ... Among the first settlers to arrive in the district were C. Gadd, J. > Hasthorpe and W. Varney ... There was another store and butcher shop owned > by J.Hasthorpe. He and his daughters used to load his pack-horses with meat > and take it to the miners at Walhalla. His store was later owned by Mr. > Varney." > > p.9 - "story from Delilah Espie . . . a large old place owned of 13 rooms > owned by my grandfather Jack Varney. He ran it as a hotel in the 1860-1870s > when there had been hundreds of miners, including many Chinese ..." > > Walter Savige > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ian" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:11 AM > Subject: [AVG] RE: New & posting interests. > > > Hi Lorraine, > > > > John Adams 'From These Beginnings' mentions one property owned by Joseph > > Samuel Varney between 1844 - 1851: > > "... There were two Warrigal Creek runs situated north-east of Woodside > > near > > Darriman taking up the country to Ninety Mile Beach. 'Warrigal Creek no. > > 1' > > with 'Ninety Mile Beach' run, an area of 5,171 ha was taken up by Joseph > > Samuel Varney in 1844. 'Varney's Old Run' as it was called was taken over > > in > > 1851 by Uriah Hoddinott ..." > > > > I hope this is of some assistance > > > > Cheers, > > Ian Dowling > > Darwin, NT > > [descendant of the Lang family from Tarraville] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lorraine Bower [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:21 PM > > To: [email protected] > . . . > My g x 2 grandparents were Joseph Samuel VARNEY & Clara SAUNDERS of > > Tarraville. > > > > My great grandparents were Jesse HASTHORPE & Esther VARNEY (daughter of > > Joseph & Clara) of Moe / Tangil area . . .. > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > This list is set that so, by default, replies to messages go to the whole list. Please feel free to send replies to the list where you think they would be of interest to the whole list, but if it is only personal chat back and forth, please send messages just between the parties involved. > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.1.0 - Release Date: 2/18/05 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.3.0 - Release Date: 2/21/05

There is a story in Yarra Glen that our Butter Factory, 1890s vintage, was dismantled and moved to a town in South Gippsland. Has anyone got any information on this. Sorry to be so vague. Eric Tetlow.

Hi Linda, How does one get a copy of the Journal if one lives in the big smoke. Can one get it in the Melbourne area.. Regards Lorraine Bower ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Barraclough" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 5:36 PM Subject: [AVG] Coopers Creek Hotel > Hi Everyone, > > I have just uploaded some pictures of the Copper Mine Hotel at Coopers > Creek, before and after the fire in July 1999 - just in case anyone would > like to have a peep. They are at http://kapana.blogspot.com/ > > Was up there a month or so ago, and a replica hotel has been built on the > same site, but is currently closed - I understand further developments are > awaited. > > Cheers > > Linda > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Anyone seen any good GIPPSLAND websites lately. Please feel free to > mention GIPPSLAND websites on list, or drop a note to the Listowner to > have them added to the AVG Home page at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ > >

Hello my knowledgeable friends, Anne Napier wrote >I was just the other day transcribing some notes on the Yinnar Butter >Factory, so I have cut and pasted them here! Notes are taken from "History >of Yinnar and District 1874-1974". > >"The former butter factory was established on this site in 1929 >... <snip> After a year or two, <snip> the management was taken over by >Mr Ted Keat who joined the >partnership and it became known as Stephenson, Morley and Keat Pty Ltd. KEAT !! This is not a common name. My mother-in-law was Emily KEAT, born in the 1890s at Gundowring in the Kiewa Valley. Can anyone fill me in on the family? I think Ted (Edward?) may be a brother or a cousin. Two KEAT brothers came in the 1880s and were first (I think) in the Yackandandah area as farmers, their children dispersed in adulthood. I admit I have done very little on my mother-in-law because I found perjured birth certificates as late as 1934, non-existant marriages, etc. It did not make me enthusiastic to follow the family, who, apparently had not spoken to her since about 1918. She was a bit creative with surnames, too, so I wasn't even sure that KEAT applied to her. Of course, now I know that it does apply, I'd be very interested if anyone in the Maffra/Yinnar district has any knowledge. Thank you in anticipation, and thankyou Anne for putting up your notes! regards, Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia formerly Ackerly DocuSearch

Hello Rae-Anne I was just the other day transcribing some notes on the Yinnar Butter Factory, so I have cut and pasted them here! Notes are taken from "History of Yinnar and District 1874-1974". "The former butter factory was established on this site in 1929 by three men with wide experience in the industry; T.N. Stephenson from Bairnsdale, W.F. Stephenson from Maffra and R.J. Morley from Tyers. The factory was engaged solely in the production of butter produced from cream delivered by private carriers, Teg Chessum, George McFarlane, Harry McLaverty, Ern Guy and Harry Robinson. Some farmers delivered their own supplies, chiefly in horse-drawn vehicles. After a year or two, Bill Stephenson returned to his Maffra factory and the management was taken over by Mr Ted Keat who joined the partnership and it became known as Stephenson, Morley and Keat Pty Ltd. Following the outbreak of WW2, the Nestle organization re-opened its Maffra condensery and being in urgent need of additional supplies of milk to fulfil contracts for the supply of condensed and evaporated milk for the armed services, began negotiations for the purchase of the Yinnar factory. The new company commenced business on 01.11.1940 and was known as the Yinnar Dairy Products Pty Ltd before assuming the Nestle title. The method of supply was changed from cream to whole milk, resulting in the production of butter being phased out as farmers made the change. The milk thus collected in cans was tipped, refrigerated and transported to Maffra for processing, initially in cans and later in tankers. During WW2, when petrol rationing arose, these vehicles were operated with gas producer units. From its humble beginnings when the factory produced 1,100 gallons from 15 milk suppliers, the factory reached a peak output of 37,000 gallons per day from 252 suppliers. The new operations provided quite an amount of additional employment, particularly when the company established a fleet of vehicles for the collection of milk. The staff increased to forty-two in the peak season. Four additional houses were built to accommodate employees and hostel type accommodation was provided for single seasonal workers. The roller drier plant was transferred from Maffra and installed at Yinnar. Once this plant was set up with mechanical beaters and conveyor system, it produced large quantities of mild powders over various periods. In 1959 there was a tremendous trend to bulk milk tanks on farms, so trials were conducted by installing three types of these tanks on supplier farms. After a year's trial period, it was decided, mainly due to capital cost, to move into water cooled bulk milk. This entitled a whole new system of milk collection methods and factory receival. The can trucks were now replaced by stainless steel bulk pickup road tankers and the whole factory had a face lift. The old can stages were removed; the raised floors inside were pulled out and all floors replaces at ground level. New plant with bigger pumps and large milk audit tanks were installed. Extensions to the buildings consisted of a tanker washing station, and a large gantry was erected in the yard for quick change of tankers from one prime mover to another. All petrol trucks were phased out and replaced with diesels. All farms were converted to bulk collection by 1964." The factory building still exists and has been occupied by the Art Resource Collective for the past 20 or so years. Regards Anne Napier

Peter, Better still, the information is obtainable on-line from the State Library catalogue. http://catalogue.slv.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?PAGE=bbSearch&SEQ=20050221222101&PID=10383 Walter Savige ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Tetlow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [AVG] Sale newspapers 1860-1900 > The State Library Newspaper Room has a printed list of all newspapers > on > microfilm. Or ask at the enquiry desk, they are very helpful. > > Eric. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Peter Robinson <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 1:48 PM > Subject: [AVG] Sale newspapers 1860-1900 > > >> Could SKS please let me know which newspapers would have been reporting > events in the Sale/Longford/Stradbroke areas during the second half of the > 19th century? >> >> I am off for a day's research in the State Library in a few days and this > info could help quite a lot. >> >> Regards >> >> the older of the tworobbos . . .

Lorraine adn Ian, The VARNEY and/or HASTHORPE families are also referred to in "The Changing Years" (1972) by Joyce Erbs and Marie Nation: p.8 - "The first land sale in Tangil took place on the 10th December, 1869 ... Among the first settlers to arrive in the district were C. Gadd, J. Hasthorpe and W. Varney ... There was another store and butcher shop owned by J.Hasthorpe. He and his daughters used to load his pack-horses with meat and take it to the miners at Walhalla. His store was later owned by Mr. Varney." p.9 - "story from Delilah Espie . . . a large old place owned of 13 rooms owned by my grandfather Jack Varney. He ran it as a hotel in the 1860-1870s when there had been hundreds of miners, including many Chinese ..." Walter Savige ----- Original Message ----- From: "ian" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:11 AM Subject: [AVG] RE: New & posting interests. > Hi Lorraine, > > John Adams 'From These Beginnings' mentions one property owned by Joseph > Samuel Varney between 1844 - 1851: > "... There were two Warrigal Creek runs situated north-east of Woodside > near > Darriman taking up the country to Ninety Mile Beach. 'Warrigal Creek no. > 1' > with 'Ninety Mile Beach' run, an area of 5,171 ha was taken up by Joseph > Samuel Varney in 1844. 'Varney's Old Run' as it was called was taken over > in > 1851 by Uriah Hoddinott ..." > > I hope this is of some assistance > > Cheers, > Ian Dowling > Darwin, NT > [descendant of the Lang family from Tarraville] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lorraine Bower [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:21 PM > To: [email protected] . . . My g x 2 grandparents were Joseph Samuel VARNEY & Clara SAUNDERS of > Tarraville. > > My great grandparents were Jesse HASTHORPE & Esther VARNEY (daughter of > Joseph & Clara) of Moe / Tangil area . . ..

Hello Rae-Anne, I may bew able to help you a little bit as l have a book called Yinnar 1874-1974 History of Yinnar and District. I will sit down tomorrow and write out what is says in the book about the Butter factory, but the basic is there were two Stephenson's connected with the Butter Factory. Kerry in Cranbourne [email protected] -------Original Message------- From: [email protected] Date: 02/21/05 18:47:16 To: [email protected] Subject: [AVG] Rae-Anne Vincent's family Hello, My name is Rae-Anne Vincent, I have been reading thru some of your info.. ..Now I am hoping you can assist me in my journey please. I am after any info on the Stephenson's of Bairnsdale/Archies Creek/Yinnar with the Butter factory's history. As well as anything of the Vincent's of Mount Taylor near Bairnsdale. I am after info on the Gascoigne's of Bairnsdale too please. Also My uncle John is the saddler in Bairnsdale. Gascoignes, the Gippsland Saddler. His father Albert Gascoigne, was a supervisor for the CRB. Does anyone have any tales or stories about the road gangs or road construction they can pass on please? I look forward to hearing from you. cheers. Rae-Anne. ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== Please do not post virus warnings and chain letters. Material from other lists should ONLY be reposted when it relates to Gippsland topics.