Family picnic c. 1902Image shows five men, eight women and a child formally posed, the back row standing, the front row kneeling or sitting on the grass, with a background of trees. Not all are named. Back row: Jack White (Tyabb), third from left Jack White (Balnarring), Christine White, Pat White (Balnarring), Adelaide King. Front row: third from left Mary White, Alice King (child?), Jack King
Coolart : a short historyThe Meyrick cousins were the first leaseholders of Coolart, and after they left in 1846 the lease was sold four times until 1875, when the government cancelled the lease and sold the land as freehold. Frederick Sheppard Grimwade bought the property in 1895 as a country retreat and sold it in 1907 due to ill health. Coolart had various owners until it was purchased in 1937 by Tom Luxton, chairma...
Lees/Gibbs Families collection, 1915 - 1987This collection contains: 1 birth certificate for Alfred Freeland Gibbs 20/4/1894 ; 1 passport of Miss Ruth Gibbs (born England 25/9/1883) with stamps valid for China and Russia dated from 1915 - 1926 ; 2 certificates of discharge from the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force for Alfred Freeland Gibbs 23/8/1916, 5/2/1921 ; 6 typescript copies of references for A. F. Gibbs 1918-1920 ; 1 Red C...
Bryant Family collection, 1861 - c. 2005This collection contains: 6 handwritten and 5 typed pages of genealogical information; 1 typed poem; 1 page containing 3 photocopied photographs of the Barclay/Bryant families; 2 copies of “Grant by purchase. Special lands to W.C. Bryant” document (photocopies) dated 16th August 1861