Historical information

James Thomas Donaldson together with his family were pioneers in Kangaroo Ground from Scotland. James later bought land and built a house in Ivanhoe

Contents:
1. A Diary of James Thomas Donaldson of Kangaroo Ground and Ivanhoe, Victoria on an 1889 visit to England and Scotland & Family Letters of the 1850s, Tarcool Press 1999
2. Photocopy of photo and note of possibly Alexander Donaldson (1817-1878) who came to Australia in 1840 with his sister Isabella (1815-1877)
3. Photocopy extract County of Evelyn by John James, Reports of Collectors of Agricultural Statistics, pp95-96
4 . Photocopy of two pages from unidentified book detailing the Donaldson familyancestors
5. Newspaper clippling: Link with Historic Past by John Morgan, The Heidelberger, 18 August 1976

Other references include
EDHS_00826 Heidelberg: The Land and Its People 1838-1900 by Donald S., Garden, Melbourne University Press 1972, pp81-82
EDHS_00949 Heidelberg since 1836; A pictorial histoy, Heidelberg Historical Society 1971, p42
EDHS_01618 Kangaroo Ground; The Highland Taken, Mick Woiwod, Tarcoola Press 1994; pp1-9, 107-121
EDHS_04448 Eltham District History, Eltham Road Board, 1856-1871; Research by Keith Chappel, 1971-1974, 27 pages with references to Donaldson in Kangaroo Ground

Physical description

Book 50 pages and various other photocopies and newsclippings