Caroline Avenue Named for Caroline McBride. Caroline and her husband James had seven children, five daughters and two sons. Surveyed by: Lynne and Eileen on 29 March 2021 McBride Street James and Caroline McBride arrived in Cockatoo in 1903. They bought land in what was then known as Main Street. They lived in a guest… Read More
Pakenham Street Signage
June 25, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Governors of Victoria cluster Dallas Brooks Place General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, GCMG, KCB, KCVO, DSO, KStJ (22 August 1896 – 22 March 1966) was a British military commander who went on to become the 19th and longest-serving governor of Victoria.Surveyed by: Lynne on 29 May 2011 Gobbo Place Sir James Augustine Gobbo, AC,… Read More
Narre Warren North street signage
December 8, 2021 by Leave a Comment
a’Beckett Road and Old a’Beckett Road William Arthur Callander a’Beckett MLC, JP (1833-1901) son of Victoria’s first Chief Justice, Sir William a’Beckett, built The Grange in Narre Warren North in the 1860s. The Grange was well built with spacious formal gardens on all sides. The family coat of arms was inserted in the stained glass… Read More
Emerald Street signage
October 13, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Kilvington Drive Trevor Basil Kilvington (1905-1977) was an inaugural member of the Berwick-Pakenham Historical Society, and an inaugural member of the Berwick Bush Nursing Hospital Auxiliary. He was also a member of the Akoonah Park Committee of Management which was formed in 1952. Together with George and Olive Rae he established the Berwick and District… Read More
Bushranger Cluster Cranbourne East
November 23, 2019 by Leave a Comment
A cluster of streets in Cranbourne East immortalises many of our bushrangers. Black Caesar DriveJohn Black Caesar (c1763-1796) was Australia’s first bushranger. Sentenced to transportation for 7 years at Kent, England in 1786, he arrived at Botany Bay on the First Fleet. Donohoe StreetJohn (Jack) Donohoe (c1806-1830) was born in Dublin and sentenced to transportation… Read More
Harkaway Street Signage
November 17, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Hessel Road These two signs are approximately 100 paces apart on Ernst Wanke Road at Harkaway. Which one is right? Jacob William Hessel commenced teaching at the Harkaway Lutheran School in 1862. When the school was taken over by the Victorian Education Department in 1876, Jacob Hessel became the first teacher of Harkaway State School…. Read More
Endeavour Hills
February 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Conceived during the bicentenary of Cook’s discovery of the east coast of Australia, Endeavour Hills narrowly missed being called Piney Ridge or Pine Hills and was named in honour of James Cook and the crew and scientists aboard HMS Endeavour. Endeavour Hills was proclaimed as a suburb on 28 October 1974. Consequently, many streets in… Read More
Cranbourne Street Signage
October 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Bushranger Cluster: Cranbourne East see separate page Singers Cluster: Cranbourne East A small group of streets in Cranbourne East remembers Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra. Surveyed: 17 Jan 2017 by Lynne Joseph Banks Crescent Naturalist/Botanist aboard James Cook’s Endeavour. Surveyed: 20 Jun 2012 by Rex Cyril Beechey Lane Cyril Lewis Beechey was born in 1911. He loved… Read More
Beaconsfield Street Signage
June 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Janet Bowman Boulevard Janet Bowman was born Janet (Jessie) Watt in Forfarshire, Scotland in 1810. She married David Bowman also from Forfarshire in 1828 and the couple and their two children, Alexander and William arrived in Port Phillip in 1840. The family first settled in Collingwood then moved to Darebin Creek, Lysterfield and finally to Cardinia… Read More
Lynbrook Street Signage
February 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Lynbrook streets memorialise a number of Australian writers. D’arcy Niland Crescent Australian novelist and short story writer, perhaps best known for The Shiralee, the story of an Australian swagman and his four year old daughter. Melway Map Ref: 129 C2 Surveyed on: 22 Sep 2011 by Lynne Ethel Turner Place Australian novelist and children’s writer, perhaps best known… Read More