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Beaumaris street name origins
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| Balcombe Road |
Alexander Beatson Balcombe |
1811 | St
Helena Island |
1877 | Original
purchaser of large estate, The Briars, Mt |
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| Bickford
Court |
James
Bickford |
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| Bodley
Street |
George
Frederick Bodley |
1912 | Cheltenham
Pioneer |
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Clerk
of Works, Moorabbin Shire Council |
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| Burgess
Street |
Cr
William George Burgess |
1852 |
Kilmore,
Victoria |
1916 | Brighton
General Cemetery |
Moorabbin Shire President |
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| Charman Road | Stephen
Charman |
1821 | Warnham, Sussex, England |
1916 | Lang Lang Cemetery VIC |
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| Comport
Street |
Cr
Henry Comport |
Stoke, Kent, England |
1909 | Cheltenham
Pioneer |
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Moorabbin Shire councillor |
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| Cromb
Avenue |
Andrew
Cromb |
Named in 1971-73 after the City Engineer of the City of Sandringham, who supervised the clearing and paving of nearly all of the streets in Beaumaris, it was the street on the south boundary of BanksiaReserve, which then still had a very large River Red Gum in the centre of it. |
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| Dalgetty (sic) Road |
Frederick
Gonnerman Dalgety |
1817 |
Quebec, Canada |
1894 |
Stockbridge, England | Frederick Dalgety, the largest-ever single private landownerin Beaumaris, once also owned the site of BlackRock House. |
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| Keys
Street |
John
Keys |
County
Tyrone, |
1904 | John Keys was Moorabbin
Shire Secretary and Engineer.
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| Cr Robert Keys | Robert
Keys was Moorabbin Shire President 1874-75. |
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| Lang Street | Matthew
Lang |
1830 |
Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
1893 |
Presbyterian
Section, Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, VIC |
Matthew Lang was Mayor of Melbourne 1889-92. He built the mansion “The
Point”, which was |
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| Morey
Road |
William
Morey |
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| Moysey’s Run |
James | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rennison Street | Cr
Thomas |
Retired as a Moorabbin
Shire councillor in 1888. |
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| Sparks Street |
Cr
Harold Sparks |
1853 | At
sea, off St Paul Island, Indian Ocean |
1913 | Anglican
Section, |
Moorabbin Shire councillor 1885-87 | |||||||||||||
| Stayner
Street |
Cr
George Alex Stayner |
Retired as a Moorabbin
Shire councillor in 1888. |
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| Ward
Street |
Cr
William Ward |
Moorabbin Shire President 1875-76 |
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| Weatherall
(sic) |
John Weatherill |
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| Wells Road |
Henry Wells |
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| Woff
Street |
George Woff, John
Woff, Robert Woff and William Woff |
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