"First Families" linked to Casterton on the Glenelg River
Glenelg Shire, South-Western Victoria, Australia
This page contains a growing list of individuals and family groups with a link to the rural settlement of Casterton and its surrounding area near the junction of the Wannon & Glenelg Rivers in south-western Victoria, Australia. This area, referred to as "Australia Felix" by surveyor and explorer Major Thomas MITCHELL in 1836, was first settled permanently by the HENTY brothers in 1837 when they moved inland from Portland on the south coast and occupied the Pastoral Runs of "Connell's Run", "Merino Downs", "Muntham" & "Sandford".
Additional names, family groups, corrections, events, stories or images linked to the Casterton area
that may assist in the development of these pages will be welcomed.
Please click to email Daryl Povey
28 March 2008
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- ALLEN, Charles Edward 1833-1912 & Mary BRODIE 1851-1913
- BAXTER, George 1833-1900 & Sarah BOWLER 1832-1894
- COCHRANE, Robert 1848-1926 & Alice "Alvie" Jane GILL 1862-1955
- CUE, Thomas 1850-1920
- CUSSEN, John Finn 1853-1922 & Eliza Jane SHOOBRIDGE 1854-1921
- DUNTON, James Bennett 1855-1923 & Mary McDONALD 1855-1945
- EDWARDS, Maurice Henry 1831-1904 & Eleanor Ann LAMBOURN 1838-1914
- GASPERINO, Anthony 1835-1910 & Hannah HOURIGAN 1839-1912
- GRANT, John Scott 1822-1879 & Ann KILPATRICK 1826-1903
- GRINHAM, Israel 1836-1893 & Margery McNEIL 1839-1904
- HANDLEY, Elijah Coldicott 1823-1860 & Frances "Fanny" JAY
- HENTY Brothers (settled "Merino Downs" in 1837)
- HUMPHRIES, Charles 1815-1898 & Caroline SAMPSON 1827-1912
- ILLINGWORTH, John 1836-1915 & Sarah Jane CULLIFORD 1836-1923
- JAMES, Henry Cottenham 1831-1898 & Helen WAYTE 1837-1923
- JEFFREYS, Thomas 1829-1903 & Mary Ann GOMERY 1829-1897
- McCOMBE, Samuel 1841-1929 & Sarah Elizabeth HUMPHRIES
- McEACHERN, Hugh 1776-1863 & Mary Maragret STEWART 1780-1834 & Mary Ann CAMPBELL 1794-1882
- McINTYRE, John 1817-1888 & Mary McKAY 1823-1923
- McKINLAY, Alexander 1810-1846 & Mary KIRBY 1824-?
- McLEAN, Malcolm 1840-1873 & Margaret Ross MORRISON 1846-1925
- NEVILL, William Henry 1854-1926 & Honora DAVIS 1855-1930
- ROWAN, John 1841-1920 & Annie Louisa WILLIAMS 1849-1892
- SCHOLFIELD, William 1844-1896 & Agnes BENSON 1850-1918
- SEALEY, George 1829-1909 & Mary GREENHAM 1834-1915
- SMITH, George William "Bombay" 1813-1892 (1st Shire Secretary) & Ellen TEASDALE 1824-1895
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