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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.
The project took Chuck three years to complete. To be eligible for inclusion in the montage, the settler must have arrived in Victoria before 1843. [1] To obtain the photos, Chuck photographed some of the surviving settlers, borrowed negatives of others and copied them and photographed portraits and paintings of the more famous.
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.
James Ford Strachan (1810 – 14 April 1875) was a merchant, grazier and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia, and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. [1] Strachan was born in Montrose, Scotland, the fifth son of John Strachan and his wife Isobel, née Smith. [2]
This category contains people from the 1872 photographic montage by T. F. Chuck entitled "Explorers and Early Colonists of Victoria" held by the State Library of Victoria. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
In ten years the population of Victoria increased sevenfold from 76,000 to 540,000. All sorts of gold records were produced including the "richest shallow alluvial goldfield in the world" and the largest gold nugget. Victoria produced in the decade 1851–1860, twenty million ounces of gold, one third of the world's output.
Victoria 1836 Wauchope: New South Wales 1837 Bungendore: New South Wales 1837 Colo Vale: New South Wales 1837 Dandenong: Victoria Now part of the greater Melbourne metro area. 1837 Southport: Tasmania Most southern township in Australia. 1837 Yass: New South Wales 1838 Buninyong: Victoria 1838 Geelong: Victoria 1838 Gundagai: New South Wales ...
The Port Phillip Association (originally the Geelong and Dutigalla Association) [1] was formally formed in June 1835 to settle land in what would become Melbourne, which the association believed had been acquired by John Batman for the association from Wurundjeri elders after he had obtained their marks to a document, which came to be known as Batman's Treaty.