Cockatoo Street Signage

Cockatoo VIC 3781, Australia

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 house named Fernholme, from here they ran the guest house, a general store and a post office, James being Cockatoo’s first post master.
Surveyed by: Lynne and Eileen on 29 March 2021

References:
1 – Cockatoo: voices from the past. Cockatoo History & Heritage Group 2019.

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