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Dr. Alexander Thomson (1800 [1] – 1 January 1866) was elected as the first mayor of Geelong and held the position on five occasions from 1850 to 1858. Thomson was the first settler in the area known as Belmont, a suburb of Geelong and called his homestead Kardinia, a property now listed on the Register of the National Estate.
Depiction of early Geelong as a small collection of houses and paddocks by the bay. In March 1836, three squatters, David Fisher, James Strachan, and George Russell, arrived on Caledonia and settled the area. [24] Geelong was first surveyed by Assistant Surveyor W. H. Smythe three weeks after Melbourne, and was gazetted as a town on 10 October ...
1803 – Escaped convict William Buckley living in area. 1835 – John Batman establishes base camp at Indented Head; 1838 – Geelong township surveyed, Geelong population is 545. 1839 – First sale of Geelong town allotments; 1839 – First postal mail between Geelong and Melbourne; 1840 – First issue of the Geelong Advertiser newspaper is ...
James Cowie (9 January 1809 – 14 November 1892) was an early 19th-century settler of Victoria, Australia, who became a member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Victorian Legislative Council and also served as Mayor of Geelong.
1.1 Early settlers. 1.2 Early 20th ... Area: 38.76 km 2 (15.0 sq ... As early as 1859 members of the Melbourne Hunt Club and the Geelong & District Hunt Club were ...
Fyansford is a township on the western edge of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, named after Captain Foster Fyans who came to Geelong as a Police magistrate in October, 1837. It is located at the junction of the Barwon and Moorabool rivers. At the 2016 census, Fyansford had a population of 196. [1]
The area was first settled by pastoralists in the late 1830s. [2] Wynd (1992) suggests that there was less conflict with the Wautharong traditional owners in the Barrabool Hills than further inland, but that incidents where settlers' animals were killed in the area sparked the 187 decision to send Foster Fyans as police sergeant to Geelong in 1837, followed by a thirteen-man military ...
Settled as Emu Bay, renamed in the early 1840s to Burnie after William Burnie. 1827 Oceania House, Home Island: Cocos-Keeling Islands: The islands were uninhabited prior to 1827. They became a territory of Australia in 1955. 1827 Tarago: New South Wales 1829 Clarence: Western Australia Abandoned in the early 1830s. 1829 Fremantle: Western ...