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George Threlfall (engineer)
George Threlfall (1819–1897) was an Australian engineer and entrepreneur who founded the mining company that later became the Phoenix Foundry. Biography George Threlfall was born in Lancashire, England in 1819. He trained as an engineer in England before sailing for Australia in 1851. He arrived at Williamstown, Victoria where he set up an engineering business. With the discovery of gold later that year thousands of immigrants moved to Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid .... In 1852, George decided to move and set up business in Ballarat at the height of the gold rush, making and repairing picks and tools for miners and mining machinery. In 1854 this business was renamed Carter & Co in Armstrong Street, Ballarat with the addition of partners, iron-found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Foundry
The Phoenix Foundry was a company that built steam locomotives and other industrial machinery in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Ballarat, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Over 30 years they built 352 locomotives for the Victorian Railways, of 38 different designs. History The Phoenix Foundry was established in 1854 to build mining machinery and was incorporated as the Phoenix Foundry Co. Ltd. in 1870. The company was established by iron-founder William Shaw (engineer), William Shaw, moulder Robert Holden (engineer), Robert Holden, and engine-smiths Richard Carter (engineer), Richard Carter and George Threlfall (engineer), George Threlfall. The business prospered, and by November 1861 it employed 96 men, producing a wide range of products. From around 1858 the employees were working an eight-hour day while doing as much work as English workers did in ten hours. In 1871 Phoenix completed the locomotive named ''Governor Weld'' which was the first steam locomotive to op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashire was created by the Local Government Act 1972. It is administered by Lancashire County Council, based in Preston, and twelve district councils. Although Lancaster is still considered the county town, Preston is the administrative centre of the non-metropolitan county. The ceremonial county has the same boundaries except that it also includes Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, which are unitary authorities. The historic county of Lancashire is larger and includes the cities of Manchester and Liverpool as well as the Furness and Cartmel peninsulas, but excludes Bowland area of the West Riding of Yorkshire transferred to the non-metropolitan county in 1974 History Before the county During Roman times the area was part of the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williamstown, Victoria
Williamstown is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. Williamstown recorded a population of 14,407 at the 2021 census. History Indigenous history Indigenous Australians occupied the area long before maritime activities shaped the modern historical development of Williamstown. The Yalukit-willam clan of the Kulin nation were the first people to call Hobsons Bay home. They roamed the thin coastal strip from Werribee to Williamstown/Hobsons Bay. The Yalukit-willam were one clan in a language group known as the Bunurong, which included six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory. The Yalukit-willam referred to the Williamstown area as "koort-boork-boork", a term meaning "clump of she-oaks", literally "She-oak, She-oak, many." The head of the Yalikut-willam tribe at the time of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballarat
Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. Within months of Victoria History of Victoria#Separation from New South Wales, separating from the colony of New South Wales in 1851, gold was discovered near Ballarat, sparking the Victorian gold rush. Ballarat subsequently became a thriving boomtown that for a time rivalled Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, in terms of wealth and cultural influence. In 1854, following a period of civil disobedience in Ballarat over gold licenses, local miners launched an armed uprising against government forces. Known as the Eureka Rebellion, it led to the introduction of male suffrage in Australia, and as such is interpreted as the origin of democracy in Australia, Australian democracy. The rebellion's symbol, the Eureka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Gold Rushes
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and so destabilise the economy. After the California Gold Rush began in 1848, many people went there from Australia, so the New South Wales government sought approval from the British Colonial Office for the exploitation of mineral resources, and offered rewards for finding gold. History of discovery The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site he called Ophir. Hargraves had been to the Californian goldfields and had learned new gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shaw (engineer)
William Henry Shaw (18301896) was an Irish-born Australian engineer and ironfounder who founded the company that later became the Phoenix Foundry. Biography William Shaw, son of James Smith Shaw was born in Belfast, Ireland on 27 July 1830. He trained as an engineer in England before sailing for Australia in 1851. He managed the Phoenix Foundry from 1870-1896. He arrived in Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid ... in 1853.The Age (Melbourne) 25 August 1896 After mining for a short period he joined the business named Carter & Co in Armstrong Street, Ballarat in 1854 together with George Threlfall, moulder Robert Holden and engine smith Richard Carter, making and repairing picks and tools for miners and mining machinery. George Threlfall left this business in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Carter (engineer)
Richard Carter or Rich Carter may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Richard Carter (actor) (1953–2019), Australian actor * Richard Carter (musician) (fl. 1728–1757), English violinist and composer Politics and government * Richard Carter (MP for Cornwall) (1617–1668), MP for Cornwall * Richard Henry Carter (1817–1880), Virginia planter, politician and Confederate officer during the American Civil War Science * Richard Carter (histopathologist) (born 1934), British histopathologist * Rich Carter (born 1971), American chemistry professor Sports * Richard Carter (American football) (1919–2002), American football and basketball coach * Richard Carter (cricketer) (1891–1969), English cricketer * Dick Carter (1916–1969), American baseball pitcher, coach, and manager Other * Richard Carter (land agent) (), English land agent and surveyor * Richard Carter (Royal Navy officer) (died 1690), English officer in the Royal Navy * Richard B. Carter (1877–1949), American ink m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buninyong
Buninyong is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. All were preceded by Benalla and Wangaratta that were proclaimed on 7 and 11 April 1849 respectively. Gold was reported "within a mile or two of the township of Buninyong" on 12 August 1851. Gold had been reported earlier at Clunes on 25 July 1851, The major gold rush to the Ballarat region had begun. The population at the was 3,797. The name originates from an Aboriginal word also recorded as 'Buninyouang', said to mean 'man lying on his back with his knees raised', which is in reference to the shape of Mount Buninyong. European settlers named it Bunnenyong and the name later simplified to its current form. History Buninyong has an important place in history as one of the principal inla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain John Eddington
Captain John Eddington (179815 October 1873 Late Captain HM’s 1st Royals) was an English-born pioneer of the district surrounding Ballangeich, Victoria, now in the County of Villiers in Australia. Biography Captain John Eddington, together with his wife Ann Elizabeth and two sons and one daughter sailed from Greenock, Scotland, as assisted immigrants, on the ''Ariadne'' on 6 Apr 1839 arriving in Victoria (then part of the Colony of New South Wales) on 20 September 1839. Two sons had been killed in the Crimean War. Another son, Henry Graham Eddington (1837-1934) was a Shire of Warrnambool councillor (1864–65) and died at the age of 97. They settled on the Loddon River initially where the town of Eddington, Victoria is today. On Wednesday 6 February 1840 he purchased at auction 968 acres of land at Barrabool on the outskirts of Geelong just north of Waurn Ponds Creek for 18s 6d an acre. He established the Ballangeich Run in 1841.First class colonizing material: the story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Mortlake
The Shire of Mortlake was a local government area about west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1860 until 1994. History Mortlake was incorporated as a road district on 20 July 1860, and became a shire on 26 January 1864. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room. On 23 September 1994, the Shire of Mortlake was abolished, and along with the Borough of Port Fairy, the Shires of Belfast and Minhamite, parts of the Shires of Dundas, Mount Rouse, Warrnambool, and the Tower Hill Reserve, was merged into the newly created Shire of Moyne. Wards The Shire of Mortlake was divided into four ridings on 7 June 1978, each of which elected three councillors: * Ballangeich Riding * Darlington Riding * Mortlake Riding * Woorndoo Riding Towns and localities * Ballangeich * Darlington * Dundonnell * Ellerslie * Hexham * Kolora * Mortlake* * The Sisters * Woorndoo * Council seat. Population * Estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Threlfall (footballer)
George Sylvester Threlfall (11 November 1899 – 2 December 1988) was an Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...er who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Born at Warrnambool he was a son of George Sylvester and Elizabeth Jane (née Holland)Threlfall of Ballangeich. He was the grandson of George Threlfall who founded the business which later became the Phoenix Foundry. He attended St Joseph's Christian Brothers College, Warrnambool. He married Marie Kealey of Abbotsford.Table Talk (Melbourne) 18 December 1924 Engagements Notes External links * * 1899 births 1988 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players Warrnambool Football Club players {{AFL- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Threlfall
Mary Threlfall (25 December 191025 December 1996) was an Australian nurse who became matron of Greenslopes Private Hospital in Queensland, Australia. Biography Mary Threlfall MBE was born on 25 December 1910 at Colac, Victoria, Australia, the fourth child and second daughter of James Murtagh and Annie Constance (née Harney) Threlfall. She is the granddaughter of George Threlfall. She spent her childhood years at Bullock Swamp ( Warrion) near the Red Rock. She was educated at St Brendan's School at Coragulac, gaining her merit certificate in 1925, and was taught by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. After leaving school she worked for Dr Murray in Colac and then St Erin's Hospital in East Melbourne (corner of Fitzroy Street and Victoria Parade). She undertook general training at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. In 1947 she was transferred to the Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney as relieving assistant matron. In 1951 she became Director of Nursing Services at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
