This information is taken from
"Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip" Billis & Kenyon 1974.
Many of the leases below are now part of suburban Melbourne and Geelong.
See
map of some of the Geelong area leaseholds in Maps of Victoria.
Read
more information about some of the properties.
|
Owner of Lease |
Biographical dates |
Family information |
Pastoral Leases, Port
Phillip |
Thomson, Alexander Dr. |
b. 1800 Aberdeen
d. Jan 1886 Victoria |
m. Barbara Dalyrmple
Mayor, Melbourne
MLC 1852-4
MLA 1856-61 |
1836 Kardinia, Barwon Falls |
1836 Indented Head |
1836 Bream or Thomson's Creek |
1840-50 boiling down establishment |
1843-7 E. of Station Peak/ Mowyong |
1848 Avon or Molly Plains |
1852-Nov 1855 with William Armstrong |
Armstrong, John |
d.1857 |
Not
known |
1850 onwards Black Forest |
1851-53 River Station |
Sep1854-May1857 Allan vale or Sinclairs |
with William Thomson 1847-8 |
Armstrong, Thomas |
b.Roxburgh 1818 |
m. Diana Bell, daughter of
William Bell |
1841 Beechwood with William
Bell 1840-70 Gulf Station, No.2 |
Mar.1851-Aug.1854Kadnook |
Armstrong, William JP |
b. Scotland |
Not
known |
Jan1838 onwards River Station |
1838-Jan51 River Station with Dr. Alex
Thompson |
1841-50 Bream Creek |
1847-50 Black Forest |
Mar 1846-52 Avon and Molly Plais |
1848-52 Werribee Plains |
1852 Black Forest Run |
Bell, William |
Not known |
Not known |
Apr 1848 Kadnook; Mar1851
with Thos. Armstrong; 1840-44 Gulf Station No2 with Thos.
Armstrong; 1870 Gulf Station No 2. |
Bell, John |
b.1821
Dumfries d.1876 Bell Park, Victoria |
m. Margaret Chirnside |
1842-Nov50 Watch Hill / Pollock's Station, with
John Calvert |
1842 Irrewarra/Korangamite with John
Calvert |
1850-Aug 1854 Watch Hill / Pollock's Station |
Jan-Sept 1853 Wirmbirchip |
Jan1853-June1858 Lake Bolac |
Aug 1854-Aug1864 Mt. Mercer ,
Warrambeen -
lease cancelled 1864 |
?1863? Bell
Park, Geelong |
Bell, James |
b 1829 Dornock,
Dumfries
d 1877 Victoria |
m. Mary Singer |
Mar 1860 - Jun 1867 Golf Hill
East |
Messrs. Bell |
John, James, William? |
1855-70 Gulf Station No 1 |
Calvert, John |
b1811
d.1869 |
m. Jane Murray 1849 |
1840-1 Leigh Creek |
1840-45 Lake Colac |
1842 Irrewarra / Korangamite with John
Bell |
1850-54 Dreeit / Corangamite |
1850-62 Irrewarra |
1854-1866 Watch Hill with John Bell |
?1863? Morongo, Ballarat Road, Bell Post Hill |
Sutherland, Joseph |
b1800 Laing, Sutherlandshire
d.1875 |
Not known |
1836 near Geelong 1836 Opposite Golf
Hill 1844-50Moranding with Rob Sutherland (br)
1842-3 Sutherland's Creek with D. MacKenzie |
Sutherland, Robert |
d.1888 England |
Not
known |
1838 onwards Murrable |
1843-46 Rich Avon |
1857-70 Konongwootong West with Joseph
Sutherland |
Murray, Andrew John |
b.1821
Edinburgh
arr. Mar
1837
d. 1889 Toorak |
Not
known |
1836-37 Colac, St.Leonards (bet.
Inverleigh and Barwon Park) with Hugh Murray |
1838 onwards Wool Wool |
1838-1867 Irrewillipe + others in
Colac vicinity |
Murray, Hugh J.P. |
b.
Scotland
arr. Sept 1837
d.
1869 |
m. Elizabeth? Anne? Young 1841 |
1837 onwards Warrion, Sept. 1837
Barongarook Dec 1843 - June 1868 Illimnyte
Dec 1854 - May 1870 Gnoora Reef |
Murray, William |
|
m. Isa Mary Carruthers? |
1843-60 Darraweitguim, Wallan Wallan |
Howitson, John |
James/Lewis
Howatson relation? Howatson |
1846-47 Western Port
District |
Horton, William
Peters |
Member
of Horton family connected with Bells and Armstrongs? |
1845-46 William Tell Hotel,
Elizabeth St. 1842-46 Western Port
District |
Russell, George |
Robert
Carstairs Bell m. Margaret Hester Russell of Golf
Hill See Bells
in Victoria |
Jan 1861 Golf Hill; May
1862 Upper Leigh (Golf Hill) |