John Batman

John Batman

male, deceased (1839)
Explorer of Australia, Black Line, January 21, Port Phillip Bay, PortPhillipAssociation, Westernport…Port Phillip
John Batman (born 21 January 1801 - 5 May 1839) was an Australian farmer and businessman who was one of the first settlers of the Melbourne area...
John Helder Wedge

John Helder Wedge

male, deceased (1872)
Perth, Tasmania, indigenous australian, Aborigines, lincolnshire, cambridgeshire, Tasmanian politician…PortPhillipAssociation
John Helder Wedge was an early Australian colonist noted for his surveying in Van Diemen’s Land in the 1820s and early 1830s and his involvement in...

Charles Swanston

male, deceased (1850)
banker, Scutari, mauritius, English, British East India Company, Van Diemen's Land…PortPhillipAssociation
Charles Swanston (1789-5 September 1850) merchant, banker and politician was a financial backer of the Port Phillip Association. He was born in...

James Simpson

male
tasmanian, Norfolk Plains, PortPhillipAssociation, 'been infected with the Port Phillip mania.', Werribee River, Colonial Office…Port Phillip
James Simpson (c.1792 - 17 April 1857) was born in England and arrived in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in April 1825 on board the 'Elizabeth'....

William Sams

male, deceased (1871)
hobart, london stock exchange, westbury, From Tasmania, Queen Victoria, Launceston, Tasmania…PortPhillipAssociation
William Gardner Sams (1792-1871) was appointed Under-Sheriff of Hobart in 1831 and later Sheriff and Commissioner of Insolvency of Launceston,...

John Collicott

male, deceased (1840)
Postmaster, Settler of Australia, Postmasters, Australian, Governor Macquarie, hobart…Port Phillip, PortPhillipAssociation
John Thomas Collicott (23 September 1798 - 3 July 1840) was a farmer, auctioneer, postmaster of Hobart and one of the original investors in the...