Showing 4 items matching "chirnside family-history"
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Koorie Heritage TrustBook, Blackburn, Leigh, Chirnside Park : the very early days, 1987
... Chirnside Family-History... Chirnside Family-History 24 p.; ill.; 21 cm. Chirnside Park ...24 p.; ill.; 21 cm.gardiner, john-history, chirnside family-history -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.Photograph, Werribee Park Mansion, Early 1990s
Brothers homes and Andrew Chirnside, who emigrated from Scotland, built the Italianate -style mansion on their Werribee property between 1874 and 1877. They were pioneering pastoralists who foundered the Chirnside Pastoral Empire. The Victorian Government purchased the property in 1973 and it opened as a tourist attraction in 1977 run by Parks Victoria. The photograph was taken when the students from Bulla Primary School visited the property.The visit to Werribee Park Mansion was included in the students' history studies.A coloured non-digital photograph of a large double storey Italianite style mansion with an imposing lookout tower with flagpole over the main entrance. A large sweeping gravel driveway leads to the main entrance.school excursions, bulla primary schooil, werribee park mansion, thomas chirnside, andrew chirnside, parks victoria -
Clunes Museum
Book, PETER BUCKMASTER, WOOL PAST THE WINNING POST: A HISTORY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY, 1978
... WOOL PAST THE WINNING POST: A HISTORY OF THE CHIRNSIDE... OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY SOME OF WHO SETTLED ON LAND NEAR ...A BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN BY HEATHER B. RONALD OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY SOME OF WHO SETTLED ON LAND NEAR CLUNES, VICTORIA A SUMMARY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY'S MOVE TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WOOL INDUSTRY IN THE 1800'S AND ONWARDSHARDCOVER BOOK BOUND IN BLUE LFABRIC WITH A GOLD EAGLE EMBOSSED ON THE FRONT COVER, COMPLET WITH DUST COVER. THE DUSTCOVER FRONT COVER HAS A COLOUR IMAGE OF A COLONIAL HOMESTEAD IN THE BACK GROUND WITH A LOADED DRAY PULLED BY OXEN TWO FIGURES WITH BULL WHIPS AT EITHER SIDE OF THE THE ANIMALS 203 PAGESnon-fictionA BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN BY HEATHER B. RONALD OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY SOME OF WHO SETTLED ON LAND NEAR CLUNES, VICTORIA A SUMMARY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY'S MOVE TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WOOL INDUSTRY IN THE 1800'S AND ONWARDS book, chirnside family, clunes first sheep run -
Narre Warren and District Family History GroupBook, Heather B Ronald, Wool past the winning post : a history of the Chirnside family, 1978
... Wool past the winning post : a history of the Chirnside...Chirnside Family wool A history of the Chirnside family 203 ...A history of the Chirnside family203 p.; 25 cmnon-fictionA history of the Chirnside familychirnside family, wool
