Hi Linda, Why not extend your list to include towns in other Gippsland shires. S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Barraclough" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:03 PM Subject: [AVG] Changing Town Names > Hi Everyone, > > I thought i had a pretty good list of town and locality names for > Wellington Shire, but have just come up with two (actually three) more. As > part of what I am sorting for Maffra Library/Historical Society I have > come up on a set of old maps (more to come next week, so won't tell the > full story now). > > One map in the 1908 Closer Settlement advertisement for The Heart, near > Sale. It also shows land at Cobains and "Fosterton". The Fosterton would > probably be an attempt to record the Foster association with The Heart > run, but isn't one I have struck before. I don't know if it had any local > currency or use, or was just something Closer Settlement invented to > distinguish the seven properties there. > > The other one is I was looking at a 1926 Parish of Yeerung, and realised > they had named Munro as Lowngerut. I had never heard that one, but went to > David Luxford's "Sap in their Veins", and there is was. The railway > station at Munro started as Yeerung, but was changed to Munro by 1888. > However the town appears to have been originally named Towngerut, and was > changed in the Government Gazette of 1926 to Lowngerut - did someone > notice the mistake as they were re-drawing the 1926 Yeerung Map????? > > The town did not officially become Munro until 1952. I am told there is no > mention of Towngerut/Lowngerut in "Vision and Realisation" (the schools > histories), but must find out about the Post Office. > > Anyone got any others I am missing????? The full list is at: > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/Resources/Res-ws.html > > Cheers > > Linda > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 28/07/2005 > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > This list is dedicated to matters Gippslandish - for non-Gippsland > enquires, consider subscribing to AUS-VIC >