Historical information
MELTON’S STREETS Heritage Week 2014 What’s in a Name?
Alphabetical List
Aboriginal place names, Early Family Names and landowners, Agricultural, Shop and Commercial premises, Places and Events
Melton & District Historical Society Street Naming Project 1972 – c 1998
Suburb Name – KURUNJANG - Kirkton, 1972, Brookfield, West, 1988 Melton and Town Centre - A joint collaboration with the Shire of Melton and Subdivision Developers
ARNOLD Court – Family house - Arnolds Creek
ALKEMADE Drive Family – Lime kilns Coimadia
ALEXANDRA Street 1902 – Corination of King Edward VII and Queen
Alexandra
AVIATOR Place Event, location of plane crash – Jimmy Melrose 1936
Adina ?Annibee - Anniba? Agricultural
Avon court .. ..
BAKERY Square - Location of Jongebloed shop, bakehouse and stables
BALUK Place Aboriginal
BARLEYCORN Place Agricultural
BILLING Place Name of Jimmy Melrose Uncle Noel Pemberton Billing
BLACKWOOD Drive - Alexander Blackwood 1860c Registrar
BARRIES Road C. E. Barrie “Darlingsford” farmer 1911, chaff mill owner
BROOKLYN Road Staughton family residence. 1875 – Dismantled c 193?
CAHILL Drive Family - Glenville Dairy
CAMERON Court Family
Canopus Place ?
CANALLAN Drive Early Surveyor
CAMPBELL Court Aviation – Melrose passenger 6th July 1936
CARBERRY Drive Michael, early landowner family
CAREW Court Edward and Michael. Royal Hotel. Vera (Carew) Forran
Singer - Opera
CASEY Court Family
CASHIN Court Family
CHEVIOT Court Agriculture, breed of sheep
CHESNEY Road was re named ( Minns Road being duplicated c 1973)
CHRISTINA Crescent Christina McPherson, daughter of James and Mary
Mary McPherson. Died 1955 aged 85 years
COLLYER Close a deleted street (parallel to Yuille) re-used
CORRIEDALE Road Breed of sheep
CORR Court Teacher at first school, landowner
CROXTON Court Name of the Hornbuckle and Knox family home
DALEY Court - William Daley and family 1865 Bootmaker High Street
DARLINGSFORD Boulevard - Name of early homestead Thomas B Darling 1853
DJERRIWARRH Court - Parish County of Bourke - very early map.
DODEMAIDE Place Early land owners - Melton Football Team had 6 brothers
playing c 1924
DONALD Court McPherson family 6 generations in Melton in 1936
DOUGAL Court
DUNCAN Court .. ..
DUNVEGAN Circuit Home of the McPherson family, castle Isle of Skye
Name of bluestone house Smith Street (now at Willows)
EMIL Court Jongebloed family
EXELL Avenue Farming family Melton Sth- Closer Settlement 1907
EXFORD Road Exe former name of the Werribee river
FARMER Court Name of early postmistress
FERRIS Road John Ferris Farmer
HANNAH Close First name of Hannah Watts – midwife
HAYBALE Place Agricultural
HELDER Court Early surveyor J Helder Wedge map
HEWSON Street Winston Hewson Shire Engineer – check title c 1960
HENRY Street Township map c 1860
HESTON Street Heston Phoenix – C.J. Melrose plane
HILDEGARDE Court Jimmy Melrose’s mothers name
HOMESTEAD Close
HORNBUCKLE Cres Farmers. Three members of family - Shire Presidents
HURLEY Street Farmers
IAIN Court Descendent of James and Mary McPherson
JAMES MELROSE Drive Name appears on 2013 Melton information map
JANG Place KURUN – jang
KIRKTON Drive Name of the McPherson family home Toolern Vale Road
KIRWIN Street Michael early landowners (deleted for freeway construction)
KILPATRICKS Road Deleted when Barries Road was extended across Station Rd
KOROROIT Court Early map, Parish of Kororoit. Creek name
KNOX Circuit Family – Hornbuckle “Croxton Park”
KURRUNJANG Drive Aboriginal name for people of the red earth – Suburb name
Lara Place ?
LLOYD Court Garage owners High Street. Laura lived to 100 years D 1955
LUBY Court John Luby – Crown Grant Land Title
LITTLE Court
MANNING Avenue Richard, hotel owner 1891
MARGARET Drive McPherson family
McDONALD Street Melton South family name
McKENZIE Street Township c1860
MORROW Street Early name
MOWBRAY Crescent Name of English Melton, popularly believed origin of Melton
MYERS Court Early setters c 1866 Crown Grant Land Title
NIMMO Street Early name
NIXON Street Name submitted by Mary nee Nixon Collins c1985
OLDERSHAW Road Early builder
PALMERSTON Street Early township map c 1860
PEART Court Early name
PENNYROYAL Avenue Plant growing by the creek. Early name used for the
Toolern Toolam Creek
PINKERTON Street Family name and early street map
PINNACLE Crescent Agricultural - type of wheat
PHOENIX Circuit C.J. Melrose Phoenix Heston Plane 2013 map
PRATT Family
PRIOR Court
PYKE Place Brothers – early settlement 1838
RADFORD Court Land owners and business operators. Former Royal Hotel
Grocer High Street demolished 1970
RAGLAN Court Hotel 19th century Lord Raglan
RALEIGHS Road Oliver Reierson family (Norweigen) Shopkeeper –
Dressmakers
RIDDELL Drive (misspelt Riddle) Resident and land owner
RODERICK Road McPherson family – a re occurring name
ROLLAND Court Jones family
ROSS Court Daniel. Landowner. Agnes Ross music teacher
RUSSELL Court Robert. Early land surveyor of Melton 1853
RYAN Court Family early landowner. Member of the 1862 Road Board
SHEBLER Place Augustus early Melton resident – Golden Fleece Hotel
SHEEPFOLD Court Farming
SHERWIN Court Sherwin Street earliest Township map– became Golf course
SMITH Street Early township map.
STRATHULLOH Circuit Strathtulloh Homestead.
STAUGHTON Street Family – LARGE land owners
Strachan ?
SWANEY Court Marie Swaney earlier resident of Strathtulloh.
SUTHERLAND Family name
TOOLERN Street TOOLAM – TOOLERN Creek
TULLIDGE St Road marked on 1861 map
UNITT Street Early Township c 1860
WALLACE Square Cr Jack Wallace 5 terms as President 46 years unopposed
WATTS Court Hannah Watts – midwife, cottage hospital
WALSINGHAM Name of house of Minns family. From Walsingham
Norfolk England
WESTLEY Place Name of Jimmy Melrose Percival Gull Plane
WESTLAKE Drive Early resident
WHICKHAM Street Family Name Melton South
WILSON Road Albert, Melton South
YUILLE Street William Cross, early landowner, Rockbank run
Physical description
Zoomed in section of Melton Streets including Church and High Street
