When was melbourne settled

One of its members, John Batman sailed from Launceston to Port Phillip in May to negotiate a treaty with the Aborigines by which means he claimed large tracts of land in the Melbourne and Geelong area on behalf of the Association's members. The Batman party relocated its initial settlement from Indented Head to the Melbourne site on the Yarra River to discover that another party initiated by Launceston banker and businessman, John Pascoe Fawkner , had set up a settlement just below the Yarra Falls on 30 August Batman's treaty with the aborigines at Merri Creek, 6 June , H The resulting debate as to who was the founder of Melbourne has been carried on since the early claims of John Pascoe Fawkner to this title.

However, as A. Shaw points out in A history of the Port Phillip District: Victoria before separation , the argument stems from "confusion between the idea of establishing a pastoral settlement in the Port Phillip District and that of establishing a village or township on the site of Melbourne.

Below are a selection of resources relating to the major protagonists in the permament settlement of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales :. The demand for wool, which was the original inspiration to settle the Port Phillip region, was also the driver for the subsequent pastoral expansion into the western and northern parts of the district. This led to the dispersal of population over a wide area resulting in clashes with the local Aborigines as well as unauthorised and unregulated occupation of land.

As a way of addressing the problem, in Governor Bourke introduced a grazing licence fee and established Land Commissioners, a system which was subsequently expanded by Governor Gipps and his successors. The following sources provide a general overview and access to biographical information and records of a selection of the significant names in Victoria's pastoral history.

The following two works provide brief biographical details of the holders of pastoral runs in early Victoria together with information on names, dates and ownership of the pastoral runs themselves:. Published records, diaries and accounts of pioneer settlers and pastoralists of Port Phillip provide an insight into the challenges and difficulties they faced.

While Batman waited, he sent a small boat party upstream on to the bigger river to the east the Yarra who, on their return, reported the freshwater falls that were to give life to a city. On returning to Launceston, Batman and colleague John Wedge sketched a map of his controversial land purchase, showing a reserve for a village on the southern side of the Yarra close to the falls, near the area we know today as South Melbourne.

The land purchase was later declared null and void by the government. The Enterprize, however, had since bumped into the falls, moored on the north bank and Melbourne was born — on 30 August Fawkner eventually arrived on 16 October with his family, as passengers on the Enterprize's second visit. Batman came on 9 November. He brought his wife and seven daughters in April , and they settled at Batman's Hill. Their only son, John Charles, was born a year later.

Yes, the first settlers came looking for land. And although the government objected, events unfolded that could not be stopped. Because of the action of those from the Enterprize , the great city of Melbourne was founded. Each year the city holds events and activities to mark 30 August, and to recall the steps that made it happen. She was 18, the only white woman in Melbourne, and gave birth to a son, the first white child born in Melbourne on 29 December As servants of John Pascoe Fawkner, Mary and husband blacksmith James Gilbert were in the original party of settlers who landed from the Enterprize.

A little-known fact that kids love hearing is that Mary brought with her a cat, Melbourne's first. He's been named Gilbert, the Tassie tabby. Records show the store included two horses, pigs, sugar, poultry, dogs, trees, seeds, food, rum and 13 litres of gin!

The Falls, alternatively called the Rapids, were dynamited in the s as part of civic works to straighten the Yarra River to stop it flooding. The beginning: How it looked in , as seen from "the Falls". Source: Gordon H. Woodhouse, photographer, and Schell, Frederic B.

Melbourne had many unofficial names in its first years, including Batmania , Barebrass , Bearport , Dutergalla , Bareheep and most popularly " the Settlement ". Our Derbyshire namesake is also known for the birthplace of Thomas Cook, founder of the world-wide travel agency. The City of Melbourne flag features a white background divided into four quadrants by the red cross of St George, the patron saint of England, and inspired by the English flag.

The flag is identical to the official Coat of Arms, which itself is adopted from the common seal approved in These cantons represent the main activities on which the economy of Melbourne was based in the midth century: wool growing, cattle raising, shipping and whaling.

The flag is special, and can be seen at Enterprize Park, atop Melbourne Town Hall, on the bonnet of the Lord Mayor's official car, atop the Enterprize's mast and a few other places.

Hey, kids! Download your own flag to colour in and fly at home PDF. Wild, white man: William Buckley shown arriving at the Indented Head camp after living with local Aborigines for 32 years. If the founding of Melbourne isn't a remarkable enough story, the account of escaped convict William Buckley is almost impossible to believe. After fleeing in from Sullivan Bay, near Sorrento the first, abandoned attempt by those aboard the HMS Calcutta to establish a settlement in Victoria because of a lack of drinking water , Buckley walked anti-clockwise around Port Phillip Bay and lived with many of the 25 different clans of the Wathaurong people in Victoria's south-west for 32 years — until July when he showed at John Batman's camp at Indented Head, on the tip of the Bellarine Peninsula, wearing kangaroo skins and clutching Aboriginal weapons.

We brought him a piece of bread which he ate heartily, and told us immediately what it was Jim Gumm measured his height which was 6ft 7in. He then told us that he was William Buckley, pointing to the WB tatooed on his arm. Much of what we know about the local indigenous people comes from Buckley, who learned their language and adopted their customs.

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