Beaumaris street name origins
STREET | EPONYM | BORN | BURIED | |
Balcombe Road | Alexander Beatson Balcombe | 1811 St Helena Island | 1877 | Original purchaser of large estate, The Briars, Mt Martha VIC, who used his land on Balcombe Road, Mentone, to rest his cattle on their walk to the market in Melbourne |
Bickford Court | James Bickford | |||
Bodley Street | George Frederick Bodley | 1912 Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery VIC | Clerk of Works, Moorabbin Shire Council | |
Burgess Street | Cr William George Burgess | 1852 Kilmore, Victoria | 1916 Brighton General Cemetery VIC | Moorabbin Shire President |
Charman Road | Stephen Charman | 1821 Warnham, Sussex, England | 1916 Lang Lang Cemetery VIC | |
Comport Street | Cr Henry Comport | Stoke, Kent, England | 1909 Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery VIC | Moorabbin Shire councillor |
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 Banksia Reserve, which then still had a very large River Red Gum in the centre of it. | ||
Dalgetty (sic) Road | Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety | 1817 Quebec, Canada | 1894 Stockbridge England | Fredrick Dalgetty, the largest-ever single private landowner in Beaumaris, once also owned the site of Black Rock House |
Keys Street | John Keys | County Tyrone, Northern Ireland | 1904 | John Keys was Moorabbin Shire Secretary and Engineer. |
Cr Robert Keys | Robert Keys was Moorabbin Shire President 1874-75. | |||
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 demolished in 1959, and after which the nearby Point Avenue is named. |
Morey Road | William Morey | |||
Moysey’s Run | James Moysey | |||
Rennison Street | Cr Thomas Rennison | Retired as a Moorabbin Shire councillor in 1888. | ||
Sparks Street | Cr Harold Sparks | 1853 At sea, off St Paul Island, Indian Ocean | 1913 Anglican Section, Gore Hill Cemetery NSW | Moorabbin Shire councillor 1885-87 |
Stayner Street | Cr George Alex Stayner | Retired as a Moorabbin Shire councillor in 1888. | ||
Ward Street | Cr William Ward | Moorabbin Shire President 1875-76 | ||
Weatherall (sic) Road | John Weatherill | |||
Wells Road | Henry Wells | |||
Woff Street | George Woff, John Woff, Robert Woff and William Woff | |||