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Early Settlers
Early Settlers
Abigail Foulkes
Agnes Glew - Bootmaker and early settler (1819-1911)
A. H. and W. Richardson
Amelia Kate Allchin
Bendall Family of Northcote
Benjamin Easter Johnson
Captain Frederick Charles Standish
Carl Augustus Adolph Schwaebsch
Catherine Oliver - Butcher
Edmund Matthew Bond
Francis Edis Beaver
Frederick Pike
George Robert Bowen Steane
Grindrod family
Henry Lane
Horace Bastings
Isaac Barrow
Jacob Brache
James Lambert
J.C. Clinch
Job Smith's Thornbury House
Johann Christian Kupsch
Johan Gottleib Arndt
John Hawthorne Thomson
John McNamara - Baker
Major St Lawrence Webb
Marshall Brothers Co.
Moritz Heiner
Nehemiah Wimble
Philip Gough
Reverend Caleb and Elanor Booth
Reverend Duncan Fraser
Reverend Samuel Hector Ferguson
Richard Howitt
Richard Schlesinger
Robert Duff
Samuel Brownlow
Samuel Jeffrey
Samuel Leakey Bartlett
Sarah Susanna Bunbury
Schwaebsch Family of Northcote
Sir Andrew Clarke
Tambo Park Estate
Thomas A'Beckett
Thomas Butler
Thomas George Beckett
Thomas Percival Laidler
Thomas Smith
Thomas William Bransgrove
Thomas William Mason
Timothy Shepherd
Walter Shade
Whalley Brothers
William Loveday
William Paterson
William Shade - Ironmonger
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