Please email me with any information, comments, corrections or additional information on the pioneers of the above districts in south-western Victoria or your contact details if you wish to be included in the list below.

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Daryl Povey

Name & Address
Area / Names of Interest
Email
Valerie ANDERSON OWENS, POVEY
Glen ANGUS
ph 04 1105 7547
ANGUS, DEARSLEY, HUTCHINSON
Webpage : gangus39.tribalpages.com/
Peter ANNETT ANNETT, OSBORN, VINEN, WHEELER, WILLIAMS
Annett Web Page
Cliff BETHUNE BETHUNE
Webpage - http://members.tripod.com/~bethunec/
Rita BROWN
27 Hazel St Cockatoo VIC 3781
ph: 0419 548 304
CORNFORD, WHITE
Colin BUCKLE BUCKLE Ph: 0419 999 327
Casterton Historical Society
Secretary:
PO Box 48, Casterton, VIC 3311, Australia.
Webpage : Casteron Historical Society Casterton Historical Society
Kylie Campbell
Researching BOWEN, DONEHUE, HARE, KOHN & PARRY.
Rae Clarke
65 Heywood Street,
Ringwood, Vic. 3134
Researching BALL, McRAE, ALBERT, EVANS, KIPPING, SMITH, JARRAD, DEVEREUX, MURRELL, from Digby, Merino, Casterton & Starthdownie.
Geoff Corner
Canberra
All Digby history. Names - BARKER, BURGESS, FARLEY, McCALLUM
Webpage : Vern McCallum Photo Collection
Dawn Dare
Wittlesea, Vic
ALBERT / HERBERT, MILLSTEAD, McDONALD, McRAE, SMITH
Robert G. Eldridge
189 Reservoir Road,
Cardiff NSW 2285
Names - ELDRIDGE
Ruth Farmer SHARPE, HOWARTH
Ken Fitzgerald Sec.
Coleraine Historical Society
PO Box 39, Coleraine, VIC 3315
David Grant Christopher and Mary COULSON of Merino.
Christoff and Mary NOLTE of Tahara.
John Scott GRANT and Ann KILPATRICK of Sandford.
Elijah EASTICK of Merino.
William Henry and Elizabeth BLACKBURN of Merino
Michael Greenham
Dartmoor Museum,
Dartmoor, VIC 3304
Ph: 03-5528 1435
Historic photographs, general history of the area
Terry Guthridge
Melbourne
GUTHRIDGE
Hamilton History Centre
PO Box 816,
Hamilton, Vic 3300
Phone: 03-5572 4933 - Fax: 03-5572 4933
Hamilton History Centre Webpage
South Western Victoria War History Webpage (Missing in Action)
Doug Hille
Geelong
Matthew CARTER, a blacksmith with connections to Harrow, Bahgallah & Casterton, was also involved in horse racing, being an owner & handicapper. His son Matthew was also a blacksmith & a jockey. Another son John Robert CARTER was also a blacksmith. Philip MARTIN, a Cobb & Co driver with links to Harrow and Casterton who spent his later years working at the Hamilton hospital. Philip's father in law was Cornelius O'REILLY who worked on Nareen & Koolomert who is buried in the Tarrayoukyan cemetery.
Horsham Historical Society
PO Box 1113,
Horsham, VIC 3402
Webpage - http://www.vicnet.net.au/~hhs/
Jean Hosking MONTGOMERY (Coleraine)
Alan Jarrad
42A Appin Street
Wangaratta, Victoria 3677
Australia
JARRAD, COX, TUFFNELL, MURRELL, HUMPHRIES, BALL, BULL, MURTAGH (Coleraine), BAWDEN (Coleraine) & JARRETT (Coleraine)
Pam Jennings MELDRUM
Phil McCallum BARKER, BEST, FARLEY, McCALLUM
Vern McCallum
45 Fergusons Road,
Allestree via Portland, VIC 3305
Ph:03-5529 2280
Historic Photographs, etc..
Webpage : Vern McCallum Photo Collection
Libby McMillan McEACHERN, McGUINNESS, McMILLAN, McDONALD
Jeni Martin HAWORTH, HETHERINGTON
Kylie Malcolm
Melbourne
BURGESS, MALCOLM
Beryl O'Gorman
Melbourne
Hotspur names - WELLNER & NICHOLSON. Merino names - WILSON, BURRELL, HOLLARD, GOODE, BRIDGMAN, STRUTH, MCSWAIN, STEPHENSON, DAVIS, KOHNE. Beryl also has a great interest in the local history of the area and in recording oral history.
Webpage : www.wordweavers.net
Barbara O'Neil BEST, BRAME, LEWIS, McSHEEHY - Casterton, Merino, Pleasant Valley, Sandford and other areas of south west Victoria.
Webpage : www.FamilyQuest.bndon.com
Elaine A Pattle Researching Ann Harris my G.G.Grandmother, her brother Joseph Joyce & daughters Lucy Harriet [Smith] & Emily Sarah Harris, from the Digby-Merino area.
Portland History House
PO Box 152, Cliff St,
Portland VIC, 3305
South-west Victorian Historical & Genealogical records and information
Ph:
03-5522 2266
Daryl & Erica Povey
17 Norman St,
Ballarat, Vic 3350
Carapook, Casterton, Digby, Hotspur, Merino, Sandford, Strathdownie (Glenelg & Wannon Disrict) history & families.
Names - BLAESING / BLESING, BRINDLEY, BRUNTON, BURGESS, COBB, COOPER, DAVIES, FOXALL, HISCOCK, KEY, LIVINGSTONE, MENZEL, MOULDEN, POVEY, SEMMLER, SPRIGGS, SWIFT, SYPOTT, TOWNSEND, WAGLAND.
Daryl Povey
Yvonne Pratt
Melbourne
ALLARDICE, BRUNTON, etc..
Lynne Price
Hamilton
PRICE, CONDON, BUCKLE, LEWIS AND ANY ASSOCIATED FAMILIES
Ellen Searle
29 Evan St.,
Mittagong, NSW 2575
OUTTRAM Ph:
02-4871 2813
Victoria Spicer
Geelong, Victoria
mob 0437 000 816
COSTELLO / DEVEREUX / THOMPSON
Ruth Stirling
Melbourne
BURGESS, HISCOCK, SIMKIN Ph:
03-9699 7225
Dale Watts
GIBBS, HILL - Hotspur, Merino.

updated 2014
Robyn Weymouth, Melbourne
BYASS, Portland, Merino Downs
Debra Vaughan,
Unit 8 of 14 Stevedore Street,
Williamstown, VIC 3016
Names: BEESON, BOYES, CAHILL, CARMICHAEL, DAVID, DOLMAN, EVANS, HUXLEY, JENKINS-VICKERY, MCDONALD, MCMILLAN, MOYLAN, NASH, SIMMISTER, SMITH, WOMBWELL.
Locations: Bolwarra, Carapook, Casterton, Chetwynd, Cockatoo Valley, Digby, Edenhope, Geelong, Henty, Hotspur, Merino, Mt Gambier, Natimuk, Nhill, Paschendale, Portland, Sandford, Smokey River, Strathdownie (Glenelg & Wannon District), history & families.
Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies
Webpage - http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~wvahs/


Byaduk . Carapook . Casterton . Dartmoor . Digby . Hotspur . Merino & Henty . Sandford . Strathdownie . Wando Vale

Compiled by Daryl Povey

Casterton & District Historical Society