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From: "Mark Hodges" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Newtown when established
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 08:15:55 +1000
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Thanks Gary

Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Kent" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 1:36 PM
Subject: RE: [GEELONG] Newtown when established


> Hi Karen, as understand it the Eastern Markets were near the top end
of
> Bourke Street, Melbourne CBD, where the Southern Cross Hotel is now.
This
> is only a mile or 2 from Fitzroy/Collingwood (Newtown) but they were
> certainly very distinct areas. Your best course of action is to
contact
> the Woady Yalloak Historical Society, (as suggested by another
> correspondent) and see what you can discover about the origins of that
> Newtown.
>
> Please let me know if I can ever help further. Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hodges [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, 30 June 2001 11:37 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Newtown when established
>
>
> Hi Gary
>
> Thankyou for the information on Newtown. I didn't know about Fitzroy.
I
> am not from Victoria and wonder if you might be able to give me a
rough
> idea of the Suburb's Boundary. Our family was supposed to have owned
> land in Melb. near the markets and I think the eastern markets were
near
> Fitzroy. Although I don't think this is the Newtown that I am after in
> 1845.
> They had a son born June 1845 at Woady Yalloak near Ballarat area and
> when the child was baptised two months later in August at St Mary's
> Geelong their abode was Newtown. I always thought this was Newtown
> Geelong but and now wondering if it was Newtown near Ballarat.
>
> Karen
>
> > Hi Karen,
> >
> > You may also be interested to know that Newtown was also the
original
> name
> > for Melbourne's suburbs of Fitzroy/Collingwood - the history of
> Fitzroy
> > (1989) gives exact boundaries. It was known as Newtown as early as
> 1839.
> >
> > I note that a place called Newtown, referred to in the 1968
Victorian
> > Municipal Directory as an old mining township, existed in the old
> Grenville
> > Shire. This is I think the Newtown you mention in the Woady Yalloak
> area.
> > If the town was established as a mining settlement, it would not
have
> been
> > in existence by 1845. Unfortunately I do not have readily available
> to me a
> > history of the district that would give further details.
> >
> > As I understand it from Gladys Seaton's History of Newtown and
> Chilwell,
> > titled "Model Borough", the Geelong Newtown was first referred to
by
> this
> > name in 1840.
> >
> > I hope the above helps.
> >
> > Gary Kent
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Hodges [mailto:]
> > Sent: Friday, 29 June 2001 9:20 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: [GEELONG] Newtown when established
> >
> >
> > There are two Newtown's in Victoria and I was wondering if anyone
> knows
> > if both were established by 1845 please?One is part of Geelong City
> the
> > other is located in the west of the state near woady yallock.
> >
> > TIA Karen
> >
> >
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