HI all, I am a new person to the list. 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. I am excitedly awaiting the arrival of the copy of Joseph Samuel VARNEY ticket of leave, which he received in 1825. Is there any way of finding out the addresses of families from the 1800's in Tarraville. I feel inclined to make a trip down to have a look see but need to know where to look before I go. Regards Lorraine Bower in Melbourne.

Try the PRO first, Lorraine.

Hi Lorraine, I am interested in the history of your HASTHORPE forebears. As you are possibly aware, in about 1905 a number of Gippsland families (including members of the Hasthorpe, Vary, Graham and Savige families) journeyed by ship to the Northern Rivers District of New South Wales, selected land there and became "latter-day-pioneers" in the (then primitive) region. Some members of those families returned to Gippsland in about 1919, while others remained. I have transcribed a diary written by my uncle Garfield Savige in which he makes a number of references to several members of the Hasthorpe family including Joe, Reg and Milton. I am happy to let you have a copy of parts of the diary if you wish. Walter Savige ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorraine Bower" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 3:51 PM Subject: [AVG] New & posting interests. > HI all, > I am a new person to the list. > > 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 . . .

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] Subject: New & posting interests. HI all, I am a new person to the list. 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. I am excitedly awaiting the arrival of the copy of Joseph Samuel VARNEY ticket of leave, which he received in 1825. Is there any way of finding out the addresses of families from the 1800's in Tarraville. I feel inclined to make a trip down to have a look see but need to know where to look before I go. Regards Lorraine Bower in Melbourne. ______________________________

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 Lorraine Here are some suggestions for information about early settlers in the Tarraville district. Firstly, the Gippsland Regional Maritime Museum in nearby Port Albert has a very informative website http://yarrampa.customer.netspace.net.au/pamm.html which includes links to other pages of interest. The museum has quite a few books for sale. They also have a huge volume called "Clonmel to Federation" which is a database of all the known residents of the area pre-1901. For example, it lists a person and their dates of BDM, arrival in area, what they did, and references to any known sources of information about them. You cannot purchase this volume, but the staff will gladly do lookups for a small fee. The Museum's phone/fax number is (03) 5183 2520. "Touring Around Tarraville" by Yarram & District Historical Society is a small booklet which shows a map of the town (there are nowadays VERY FEW buildings left) and describes who lived where and what they did. Just glancing through my copy, I don't see any of the names you mention, so it could be that your ancestors did not live in the actual township. The Port Albert Conservation Study (1982) by Graeme Butler lists all of the historic buildings and sites in the area (including Tarraville) in a reasonable amount of detail. I don't believe that the study area went as far as Warrigal Creek though. It also provides a good overview of the post-contact history of the region and how it came to be settled etc. I believe that there are only a handful of copies of this book left and that it can be purchased from the Gippsland Regional Maritime Museum in Port Albert. By the way, Warrigal Creek homestead still exists today. The Visitor Information Centre in Yarram (located in the beautiful old courthouse) also has quite a few books for sale. Their phone number is (03) 5182 6553. Some of these include: In Memorium - In Memory of Those Who Died and are Buried In The Alberton Cemetery in the Year of Federation 1901. $6 A Guide to Cemeteries In The Yarram District $3.50 Touring Around Tarraville $6 Glimpses of Yarram Yarram & District in the Year of Federation 1901 $12 "Down the Street" Yarram Yarram 1893 - 1993 $7 Tarraville's Queen of Song (Ada Crossley) by Margery Missen $6 Notes on Gippsland History by Rev George Cox - Edited by John D Adams - Vol IV Gippsland in the 1840s $10 Notes on Gippsland History by Rev George Cox - Edited by John D Adams - Vol III The Alberton District 1842-3 $10 Discover Historic Tarraville $6 There is also a local genealogy society. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ausygs/ They too have quite a lot of these books for sale, and also CDs & fiche etc. Also surname interests and a list of early settlers. The web page for the Yarram & Dist Historical Society is http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ydhs/ It includes links to lots of things, including publications and also the Alberton Cemetery. Hope all this is of some help to you. Regards, Anne Napier