THE WATHAURUNGS
Louis N. Lane’s article “The Wathaurungs” from Investigator, Volume 23, No. 3 (September 1988) Pages 96 -109. Members can read the original from that month’s issue online. You can now also listen to a reading (more…)
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Letters from Pioneers to Governor La Trobe, 1853: No 50
Superintendent Charles Joseph La Trobe sent a circular letter to a number of early settlers in the Colony of Victoria, asking them to provide written accounts of their arrival and early activities in the district. (more…)
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1830s Geelong | 1850s Geelong | David Fisher | Latest News | Notable People | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung
Letters from Pioneers to Governor La Trobe, 1853: No 6
David Fisher of Roslin, Geelong – 21 September 1853 David Fisher’s letter is a wide-ranging firsthand account of life in the Port Phillip District soon after first European settlement. It is included in the Letters (more…)
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1830s Geelong | Barwon Heads | Indented Head | J T Gellibrand | Latest News | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Robertson
Mr J.T. Gellibrand’s Memoranda of a trip to Port Phillip in 1836.
The author of Memoranda of a trip to Port Phillip in 1836 was Joseph Tice Gellibrand, a former Attorney General in Van Diemen’s Land (VDL) and one of the 15 members of the Port Phillip (more…)
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1854: A ‘Golden’ Year for Geelong
A Society transformed by GOLD! By Harry Roberts The year 1854, just three years after Victoria became an independent Colony, was one of growth. The gold rush brought prosperity to Melbourne and the rural towns (more…)
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1830s Geelong | 1840s Geelong | 1850s Geelong | Foster Fyans | Letters | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Buckley
Letters from Victorian Pioneers to Governor La Trobe, 1853: No 18
Foster Fyans (1790-1870) played a significant role in the European settlement of Victoria and the dispossession of its Aboriginal people. This article examines a letter he wrote in 1853 about his experiences at that time. (more…)
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1830s Geelong | Barwon Heads | Indented Head | John Helder Wedge | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Torquay | Wadawurrung | William Buckley
Wedge, Thomson and William Buckley – Investigator Vol 2 No 2
This is the seventh instalment of the Investigator’s series ‘The Story of Geelong’, published in May 1967. Using John Wedge’s journals and a subsequent map of his explorations the writer takes the reader along on (more…)
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1820s Geelong | Hamilton Hume | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Hovell | You Yangs
Hume and Hovell – Investigator Vol 1 No 5.
Hume and Hovell The fifth instalment of The Story of Geelong was published in the Investigator magazine during November 1966. It covers the overland exploration undertaken by Hume & Hovell during 1824 and it provides (more…)
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1800s | David Collins | Indented Head | Lieutenant Tuckey | Port Phillip | Sullivan Bay | Swan Bay | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Buckley
Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement – Investigator Vol 1 No 4
Listen to the article (10 minutes) David Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement In the fourth issue of Investigator magazine in 1966, the Story of Geelong featured an account of the ill-fated settlement at Sullivan (more…)
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Grimes and Flemming – Investigator Vol 1 No 3
Grimes and Flemming – the Story of Geelong. In the May edition of 1966 the Investigator magazine continued its ‘Story of Geelong’ with the following account of the five week expedition to Port Phillip mounted (more…)
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1800s | George Bass | Indented Head | Matthew Flinders | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong
Flinders in the Investigator – Investigator Vol 1 No 2
Flinders in the Investigator. This article on Matthew Flinders was the second in a series called ‘The Story of Geelong’ and originally published in the first volume of the Geelong Historical Society’s magazine ‘Investigator’. It (more…)
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1800s | Lt. John Murray | Port Phillip | Swan Bay | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung
Murray in the Lady Nelson – Investigator Vol 1 No 1
The Story of Geelong. The first edition of Investigator, the Geelong Historical Society magazine, was published in September of 1965 and it included a series of articles it described as ‘the story of Geelong’. The (more…)
