Private Louis (Joe) Murdoch Murray, 8th Light Horse Regiment, WW1. Joe enlisted 15/01/1915 and embarked for overseas on 07/05/1915. He served at Gallipoli and in France where he was badly wounded at the battle of Ypres in 1917. After returning from the war he took up farming on land donated to him by the Austin family. However, he never fully recovered either physically or mentally from his war service and lost his farm in the Depression. He spent his final years in an Old Soldiers Home in Frankston. He is buried in Melbourne.murray, 8th light horse regiment, ww1, gallipoli, ypres, austin, old soldiers home - frankston, melbourne.

Edward and MaryAnn Rowley were pioneer settlers at Lake Bolac, taking up land in 1862. Their children were Sarah, Elizabeth, Maryanne, Deborah, Emily, Ellen, Eliza, Emma, Martha and Edward. The change-over station for stage coaches, including Cobb and C., and paddocks for resting horses, were on their property. The farm was later bought by J.T. Murray. The family are interred in the Lake Bolac Cemetery.lake bolac, rowley, pioneer settlers, 1862, murray, cobb and co.

Made by Internee at Camp 3 tatura & used by children as part of a farm scene.Handmade wooden Toy model of a dog kennel, roof painted dark red, sides and base, greendog kennel, beck k, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, toys, general

Made by internee camp 3 Tatura. Used by the children as part of a model farm yard scene.Handmade wooden model of a dog, painted black & white, base painted green.model dog, toys, k beck

THE MILL HOUSE- Albert Street, Tatura.|Reilly®s Flour Mill operated in Tatura from 1880 to 1965. The mill was demolished in 1966. James Reilly emigrated from County Cork, Ireland, spent two years on a family farm at Fitzroy, another two years at a mill at Kilmore, and then to Murchison to build a mill. Some of his family came to Tatura to build a mill. The house was built for members of the family to live in at various times. After the mill was demolished the house remained as a residence on about the only hill in Tatura. In the late 1970®s, early 1980®s a doctor added several upstairs rooms, then in the late 1990®s the house was used as a bed and breakfast. It is now a private residenceColoured photo taken Sept. 2004.mill house, albert street, tatura, photography, photograph, slides, film

Reunion in Nov. 10th. 2001 of boys brought out to Australia from the U.K. in the 1950's by the Presbyterian Church, to the Dhurringile Training Farm at Dhurringile Mansion.photograph, people

The driver of the horse team is William Fentham who came out from England with about 10 shillings in his pocket in 1918, just after the war and subsequently established a dairy farm at Stanhope South and became involved, with his team of horses in helping to construct the Waranga Basin about 1920.

Made by Mrs Noel (Lizzie) Morton, the donor's mother on their farm "Wanera" at Benjeroop on the Murray River. It was stitched with a treadle machine. Her sister Flora MacDonald did the running stitch and provided the silk backing. The squares were sent as samples from a firm called "Fred Hesse" who advertised in the Melbourne papers "Be smart and dressy In a suit by Fred Hesse". The buyer chose a sample and then sent it back with measurements and received a "mail order" suit.A small knee rug made from suiting samples machine stitched together. It is backed with black silk fabric and finished with a running stitch of orange wool oversewn with black wool thread.farming quilting quilting - history, wanera benjeroop, farming, quilting, quilting - history

Margaret Ellen Holloway married William Hugh Hooke in 1892. Margaret is the daughter of James Charles Holloway and Mary Bennett. She was born in 1864 in Indigo,via Rutherglen at the gold lead. Her father James came out from Somerset England with a large family group to settle in the North East of Victoria and to try their fortune at gold mining. The Holloway’s and their descendants then went on to farm in the district including Rutherglen, Chiltern, Springhurst, Barnawartha and Browns Plains. Black and white portrait photograph of Mrs Hooke nee Margaret Ellen Hollowayhooke family, holloway family, margaret holloway

Margaret Ellen Holloway was born in 1864 at Indigo via Rutherglen. She married William Hugh Hooke in 1892. Their children were : Allan b 1893, Ida Mary b 1895, Normal b 1896 KIA 1916 WW1, Maxwell b 1902 and Violet b 1904. The orchard that Margaret is photographed in is the family orchard and farm belonging to relatives being the Mills and Holloway families. The orchard was south of Barnawartha. Photograph of Mrs Hooke (nee Holloway) in an orchard.Written on back: "Mrs Hooke nee Holloway"hooke family, holloway family, margaret holloway, margaret hooke

Mr Blaickie an Uncle of Mr S.W. McDonald, Local ResidentBlack and white photograph, mounted on grey cardboard, of Blackies Traction Engine and Threshing Machines - 16 Men in photo - child sitting on wheel- Bags of chaff in Foreground - Tree covered hill in background.On back of photo: "Blaikies Traction Engine & Thresher. Taken Porepunkah 1900 early. Blaikies were Uncles of Mr [illeg] McDonald. A Mr Blackies on engine"agriculture, threshing, blackie, traction engine, farm equipment