History of Warrnambool interviews
HeritageWorks History Interviews
A series of interviews for Breakfast with Jeremy Lee on ABC South West Victoria with members of Warrnambool Heritageworks.
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This episode was aired 3.12.18. Jeremy speaks with Pat Varley about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
H3 Andrew Kerr
Birth: Markinch, Fife, Scotland, c 1827
Marriage: to Ann Wycherley, née Ward, 1879, at Koroit Street, Warrnambool.
On the 9 July 1856 Andrew Kerr was appointed as Town Surveyor on the Warrnambool Council for 30 years. Prior to this, he was of the City Surveyor’s Office in Melbourne.
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This episode was aired 25.2.19. Jeremy speaks with Janet Macdonald about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
Bostock Family 6 members.
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This episode was aired 13.8.18. Jeremy speaks with Pat Varley about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
J6 Charles Scoborio
Birth: bap 2 December 1827, Mevagissey Cornwell
Marriage: Elizabeth BROADLICK
Remembered by Scoborio Reserve and 40 yrs curator at the Warrnambool Botanic Gardens
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This episode was aired 23.7.18. Jeremy speaks with Ray Welsford about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
B 19 Thomas Slattery (named Dean James on the Pioneer Board)
Birth: 1807 Limerick, Ireland
First permanent Catholic Priest in Warrnambool
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This episode was aired 27.8.18 Jeremy speaks with Elizabeth O’Callaghan about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
G3 George Lance
Birth: Baptised 2 October 1831
Marriage: Sarah Jane WATERS
Secretary and librarian of the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute and Art Gallery
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This episode was aired 16.7.18. Jeremy speaks with Glenys Phillpot about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
I22 George Le Couteur
Birth: 18 July 1828 on the Island of Jersey
Marriage: Frances RIDGWAY
Came to Portland 1852. Started work from 12 or 13 yrs old. Went to sea at 14 1/2. Worked in Warrnambool as a lighterman
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This episode was aired 25.6.18. Jeremy speaks with Glenys Phillpot about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
I21 Henry David Stewart
Birth: bap 24 October 1837 Launceston Tasmania
Marriage:
m1 1860 to Jane Simpson
m2 1865 to Sarah King
Came to Warrnambool as a 9 year old child. Foreman at Jones and Co. Trade in Building, agriculture machinery.
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This episode was aired 30.4.18. Jeremy speaks with Ray Welsford about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
E16 Henry Foster
Birth: 1 October 1819, Dowsby, Lincolnshire, England
Marriage: Agnes Kirk
Took up St Mary’s Run at Wangoom 16 thousand Acres. All of the modern city of Warrnambool
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This episode was aired 4.6.18. Jeremy speaks with Mike Roach about James Henry Phillips a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
H15 Henry Phillips (Undertaker)
Henry was born at West Down, Devonshire, England, and baptized on 21 April 1821 Marriage: to Elizabeth POPE. On arrival in Australia in 1849, Henry and his family settled in Port Fairy. Henry Phillips and Christopher Beattie formed a partnership as undertakers to be known as Beattie & Phillips
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This episode was aired 7.1.19. Jeremy speaks with Elizabeth O’Callaghan about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
F3 James Astley Bromfield
Birth: 6 February 1823 Netherton, Worcester
Marriage:
1. 29 June 1854 Adelaide SA Grace Bennett
2. 27 March 1866 Jessie Lockhart Robertson
Chemist Timor Street then Liebig Street.
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This episode was aired 4.6.18. Jeremy speaks with Elizabeth O’Callaghan about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
B15 James McKain Archibald Jobe MEEK
Birth: 15 June 1815 at Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Christened 3 July 1815. Marriage: 15 June 1843 at St Luke’s Church, Liverpool, NSW, to Julia Ann Craig.
Calligrapher - In 1858 he was given the management of the West Coast Fishing Company, with headquarters in Warrnambool
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This episode was aired 25.18.18. Jeremy speaks with Ray Welsford about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
J19 James Stewart Butters
Birth: 19February 1832, in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland
Marriage:
1. Helen Ellen SPANKIE,
2. Matilda O’NEILL.
3. Agnes Stewart HATTERMAN
Opened a drapery business in Warrnambool. Mayor of Melbourne. Member of parliament. Founder of Victoria Club
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This episode was aired 23.4.18 and Jeremy Lee speaks with Glenys Phillpot about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
I6 John Shanks Jenkins
Birth: in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, on 21 May, 1834
Marriage: to Emma WRIGHT
In 1859, appointed town surveyor of Belfast. Timber merchant, Building Contractor, Agricultural implement and machine maker.
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This episode was aired 14.5.18. Jeremy speaks with Glenys Phillpot about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
C14 Joseph Aberline
Birth: in Oswestry, County Salop, England. 10 Dec.1809.
Marriage: to Martha WILLIAMS
One way subsidised passage to Australia. Mrs Aberline ‘owned the first chair in Warrnambool’. Bought land in Timor Street the ‘country lot in Wangoom, three chain road’
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This episode was aired 28.5.18. Jeremy speaks with Elizabeth O’Callaghan about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
G2 Joseph Patrick Archibald
Birth: 18 November 1831 in Dublin
Marriage:
1. 9 January 1854 to Charlotte Jane Madden
2. 1873 to Annie Theresa O’Mullane
The family lived in a stone cottage in Kepler Street opposite St Joseph’s Catholic Presbytery.
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This episode was aired 20.8.18. Jeremy speaks with Janet Macdonald about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
E7 Lemuel Bolden
Birth: c 1816 from age at death
Married Henrietta Travers
Late 1840 the Bolden’s took up most of the country on the West side of the Hopkins River
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This episode was aired 7.5.18. Jeremy speaks with Janet Macdonald about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
E20 Octavius Fredrick William Palmer
Birth: Christened 28 August 1833, Finsbury St Luke, Old Street, London
Marriage: 1867 to Rachel Emily Doveton
Warrnambool Estate on Hopkins River. Supplied meat to Melbourne. Credited to introducing Romney Marsh sheep to the district. Accomplished horseman
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This episode was aired 2.7.18. Jeremy speaks with Mike Roach about a member of Warrnambool Cemetery Trades and Occupations with Mike Roach
K12 Peter Adam. This episode was aired 19.11.18 and Jeremy Lee speaks with Janet Macdonald about a letter connecting Peter Adam to the Pioneer Board. Written in October 1st 1907. This letter written to Edward Vidler explains about himself and payment to be included on the board
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This episode was aired 2.7.18. Jeremy speaks with Ray Welsford about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
F9 Peter Teulon Beamish
Birth: 11 January 1824, Cork, Ireland
Marriage: 1856 at Mortlake to Isabella Mary Bews
A link with the early history of Victoria and particularly of the Church of England
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This episode was aired 10.12.18. Jeremy speaks with Elizabeth O’Callaghan about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
K13 Richard Bennett
Birth: Richard was born on 1 March 1828 & baptised at St John’s Church, Hackney
Marriage: Elizabeth Nicholson
Came to Port Fairy 1846. Nephew Eliza Rutledge. Managed properties in Victoria & NSW
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This episode was aired 6.8.18. Jeremy speaks with Elizabeth O’Callaghan about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
I19 Richard Carey
Birth: 1834 Cork, Ireland
Marriage: 1864 to Bridget Kelly
Boatman and Warrnambool Lighthouse Keeper
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This episode was aired 17.12.18. Jeremy speaks with Pat Varley about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
B13 Richard Osborne
Birth: 15 November 1825 NSW
Marriage: 28 March 1854 to Eliza Plummer
Father of Warrnambool Press. Proprietor of Examiner Warrnambool first newspaper
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This episode was aired 9.7.18. Jeremy speaks with Janet Macdonald about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
B11 William Bateman (Jnr)
Birth: 1830 Wibsey, Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Marriage:
1. Jane McDowell.
2. Hannah O’Connor.
Bateman’s Penny legal tender in Warrnambool
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This episode was aired 14.1.19. Jeremy Lee speaks with Janet Macdonald about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
B3 William Kuchs
Birth: Siersdorf, Prussia, 22 Sep 1825
Marriage: Sibilla Leyendecker
Employed by Kramon & Dixon as a tailor. Baker in Timor Street then Liebig Street
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This episode was aired 30.7.18. Jeremy speaks with Glenys Phillpot about a member of Warrnambool Pioneers Board.
K1 William Norman
Birth: 1829 Great Neston, Cheshire, England
Marriage: 19 March 1854 Eliza Augusta Bower
William was a Plumber, Paperhanger and Painter in his old shop opposite the Rising Sun Hotel in Timor Street in 1864
O1 Warrnambool Cemetery
This episode was aired 11.12.18. Jeremy Lee speaks from ABC South West Victoria to Mike Roach about the Warrnambool Cemetery. Focusing on Trades and unusual occupations
02 Tower Hill.
This episode was aired 04.2.19 and Jeremy Lee from ABC South West Victoria speaks with Glenys Phillpot about Tower Hill
Fascinating discussion about the volcano. We live on a volcanic plain. First erupted about 32,000 year ago. Von Guerard painting
03 Restoration of the Warrnambool Pioneers Board. This episode was aired 16.4.18 and Jeremy Lee from ABC South West Victoria speaks with Ray Welsford, Janet Macdonald and Glenys Phillpot about the history of the Warrnambool Pioneers Board and it’s restoration.
04 History of the Board. This episode was aired 15.4.19 and Jeremy Lee from ABC South West Victoria speaks with Glenys Phillpot. This episode is about the history of the board and its creation
05 Changing of the CBD. This episode was aired 25.4.19 and Jeremy Lee from ABC South West Victoria speaks with Janet Macdonald. This episode is about the changing of the CBD
06 Lake Pertobe. This episode was aired 25.4.19 and Jeremy Lee from ABC South West Victoria speaks with Janet Macdonald. History of Lake Pertobe