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Charles Clancy married a Miss L Beney in 1911 at the Church of England in Whittlesea. They were active members of the Whittlesea Mechanics Institute.

John Castles was born in Prahran in 1852. He learned the blacksmithing trade after which he went to Whittlesea and worked for Mr Whyte. He married his daughter Kate.

Arthur Callender was born in Hamilton in 1854 and was the eldest son of William and Harriet’s six children. He was married in Whittlesea in 1877 to a Caroline Morley and lived at Scrubby Creek.

James Bourke was born in 1835 in County Clare and married in 1860 a Katherine Mason who was born in 1836 in Tipperary Ireland. They lived in Whittlesea and raised their family. James died in 1907 in Yan Yean.

Jonathan Boadle leased land in Bundoora in the 1860’s and named his property Prospect Hill and later to Bundoora Park. He owned a blacksmith shop in Bundoora and a flour mill in Whittlesea He died tragically in 1870 while rounding stock.

Charles Blair was born in Scotland in 1836. He married in 1857 Ann Robb. They travelled to Melbourne aboard the “Annie Wilson” arriving in 1859. They settled and lived in Upper Plenty and Glenvale with their 13 children.

John Beney was born in Hampshire in 1864. He and his wife Angelina arrived in Melbourne around 1884. He opened a hardware shop on Plenty Road in Whittlesea and his family lived there till he died in 1939.

Stephen Bebb and his wife Elizabeth both were born in Montgomeryshire, Wales. They were married in St James Church Melbourne in August 1856. They from Kyneton to Whittlesea in the 1870’s where they became shopkeepers.

Richard Batten was born in 1828 in Devon. He married Mary Jane Hazard in November 1855 in St John’s Church, Heidelberg. They took up a tenancy farm in Whittlesea from 1855 and called it “Fairview” and raised 9 children.

Thomas Barker arrived in Australia from England in 1858. He was later Head master of the Whittlesea State School from 1880 till 1899.