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Newsletter Volume 2 1962

A Journey in Time – A Resource for Local History

Newsletter Volume 2 1962

Newsletter Volume 2 1962

  • Chapter 1 – John Irving 1856-1894 School Teacher
  • Chapter 2 – Commercial Road State School, Morwell
  • Chapter 3 – Charles Oxtoby Gilbert 1829-1888
  • Chapter 4 – Percy Astill Gilbert 1868-1951
  • Chapter 5 – The First Page of the Morwell School Register
  • Chapter 6 – Inspectors and Inspections
  • Chapter 7 – Hotels and Houses
  • Chapter 8 – The Homes of the Settlers
  • Chapter 9 – An “Anniversary”
  • Chapter 10 – Houses of Old Morwell
  • Chapter 11 – Houses of Old Morwell (continued)
  • Chapter 12 – Moe and the Moe Swamp
  • Chapter 13 – The Haunted Hills
  • Chapter 14 – Coal
  • Chapter 15 – William Tulloch and the Open Cut Mine
  • Chapter 16 – Archibald Shaw Diary
  • Chapter 17 – The Swiss Family, Nadenbousch
  • Chapter 18 – John Barton Hoyle
  • Chapter 19 – The Porter Family
  • Chapter 20 – The First Squatters
  • Chapter 21 – Angus McMillan,1810-1865
  • Chapter 22 – McMillan’s Journeys, 1840 and 1841
  • Chapter 23 – Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, 1797-1873
  • Chapter 24 – Mapping the Gippsland Coast
  • Chapter 25 – The Wreck of the “Clonmel”
  • Chapter 26 – Minor Explorations, 1840 and 1841
  • Chapter 27 – W. Odell Raymond,1842
  • Chapter 28 – Early Settlements. Sealers and ‘Whalers
  • Chapter 29 – Squatters, 1841-1844
  • Chapter 30 – Traralgon and the Hobson Family.
  • Chapter 31 – Charles James Tyers, 1806-1870
  • Chapter 32 – The Names of Places
  • Chapter 33 – The Names of Mountains, Rivers, Lakes
  • Chapter 34 – The Names of Stations and Towns
  • Chapter 35 – Morwell and District Names
  • Chapter 36 – The Aborigines
  • Chapter 37 – Conflict with the Aborigines
  • Chapter 38 – Cooperation by the Aborigines
  • Chapter 39 – The Aborigines of Gippsland
  • Chapter 40 – Scrubby Forest Station
  • Chapter 41 – George Firmin, 1832-1912
  • Chapter 42 – Walter Firmin, 1863-1943
  • Chapter 43 – Selectors South of Morwell
  • Chapter 44 – The New Year’s Day Picnics
  • Chapter 45 – District State Schools
  • Chapter 46 – The First School~- Hazelwood Ridge State School
  • Chapter 47 – Yinnar State School
  • Chapter 48 – Morwell District Squatting Stations