CARETAKER’S HOUSE AT YAN YEAN by Lindsay Mann This article intends using existing Documentation to discover when the brick section of the Caretaker’s House at Yan yean Reservoir was built and occupied. Meredith Gould in her 1991 Whittlesea heritage Study speculated that the oldest or masonry section of the building known as the Caretaker’s Cottage may have been designed by...
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On the 13th June 1863 a meeting took place in the school house for the purpose of electing trustees for the land, donated by prominent local resident Thomas Wills Esq. for the building of an Anglican Church. The Chairman of this meeting was another respected resident Mr George Sherwin Esq. Within three months they had raised 230 and an architect...
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Heritage Victoria has undertaken yet another excavation site along the Plenty River and within the Plenty Gorge Park. It stemmed from historical investigations carried out as part of the Mernda Rail Extension. This dig site however was to solve the mystery of the whereabouts of the original Bridge Inn Hotel which was one of the earliest buildings constructed outside Melbourne ...
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In 2015, St Peter’s Catholic Church, Epping celebrated its 150 year old birthday. The Foundation stone of the Church was laid by Bishop Goold on the 5th November 1865. The actual opening was on 13th January 1867. It is believed to be the second oldest Victorian Catholic Church outside inner Melbourne, after Keilor. This is an early photo, possibly around...
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Len Dunn was born in Tasmania and moved to Victoria aged 21. He worked in the timber mills around Kinglake. Len was the first tractor operator employed by the Board of Works at Wallaby Creek. He was later appointed an Inspector of the Yan Yean Watershed area.
James Duffy was born in 1857 in Richmond. He married his wife Margaret Owen in Whittlesea in 1885. They had a family of ten children and were early pioneers in the Whittlesea district. James died there in 1943.
David Daniel was born in 1843 in Aberdeen. He married Harriet Gibbs, daughter of Albion and Mary Ann Gibbs of Whittlesea in May 1876 at Christ Church Whittlesea. They moved and lived in Heidelberg.
John Daniel was born in February 1837 in Cruden Bay Aberdeenshire. He married Mary Joan Gibbs, daughter of Albion and Mary Ann Gibbs of Whittlesea in May 1876 at the Royal Mail Hotel Whittlesea. His occupation was that of a house dealer. Sadly his wife Mary died in 1898 in Whittlesea.
Lancelot Coulthard and his wife Ester were from Lamplugh in Cumbria. They came out to Australia with their two sons, Henry born in 1838 and James born in 1840. Both Henry and James married and settled in Whittlesea.
Charles Cookson was the Headmaster of the Denominational School in Whittlesea around the 1860’s. His wife Ellen was the sewing mistress.