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Buninyong and District Community News Inc.
Fix this textMay 2007.
Fix this textReg. No. A 0034918 L
Fix this textIssue No. 329
Fix this textDistribution - 1300 copies.
Fix this textABN 97 574 052 024
Fix this textFirst Issue 26/7/1977
Fix this text'Lindersfarne.'
Fix this textBy
Fix this textRobert W. Bell.
Fix this textThis is the story of a pioneers’ journey to live in Buninyong. 1840 to 1914.
Fix this textAlthough placed in a historic context, the central character, his background, his property name and his family are all fictitious
Fix this textTart 23 of a series.
Fix this textContinued from the April 2007
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Fix this textDistrict Community News.
Fix this textFive years had passed since John
Fix this textvisited Melbourne and had been
Fix this textreceived by Charles LaTrobe. After
Fix this textthis time he returned to Geelong
Fix this textarmed with the title deed to a corner
Fix this textblock of land in the town. It was on
Fix this textthis land that John built substantial
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Fix this textJohn had originally come to
Fix this textAustralia with consignments of
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Fix this textlarger stocks, until five or six years
Fix this textafter his arrival he was chartering
Fix this textentire shiploads of merchandise.
Fix this textIn the summer of 1846 he again
Fix this texttravelled to Buninyong with his
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Fix this texthe made new friends in this rapidly
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Fix this textEventually arriving at the
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Fix this textBecause of drought and an
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Fix this textAnderson/Russell holding to the
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Fix this textto John (Jock) Winter, who had
Fix this textchanged the property name from
Fix this textWaverly to Bonshaw. Winter who
Fix this texthad been a butcher in Scotland was
Fix this texta ‘canny’ businessman, and the
Fix this textresults of his labour were very
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Fix this textlater to become Ballarat’s first
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Fix this text‘Lauderdale’, in what is now
Fix this textAlfredton. Readers may be aware
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Fix this textWinter survive to this day. Winter
Fix this textStreet in Buninyong and Ballarat,
Fix this textWinter’s Flat, The Bonshaw
Fix this textRestaurant, and in the Ballarat Old
Fix this textCemetery there is a magnificent
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Fix this textThen the Scott’s along with their
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Fix this textWarracknabeal. [The main street in
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Fix this textScott Street in Buninyong and
Fix this textScotsburn. Scott’s Parade in
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Fix this textnamed after William Scott a boot
Fix this textmaker and exporter who, of Irish
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Fix this textJohn found that there were now
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Fix this textWoolley. George Gabb had opened
Fix this textan hotel and McLachlan and his
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Fix this text[I find it fascinating that Gabb who
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Fix this textmysterious tale of a shepherd in
Fix this textMelbourne selling gold, could be
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Fix this textDr. Richard Power who had set up
Fix this texthis practice in Buninyong was
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Fix this textThomas and Somerville. [John
Fix this textLearmonth himself was a medical
Fix this textdoctor, and many later historians
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Fix this textand around Buninyong were in the
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Fix this textTo be continued ...
Fix this text© Copyright. Robert W. Bell. Buninyong.
Fix this text2004.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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