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.
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.