93-610: Dougie Baldwin (born 1996) is an Australian actor from Frankston, Victoria . He is best known for his starring role in the Netflix comedy television series Disjointed . in 2013, Baldwin became the lead role in Emmy Award winning ABC3 children's television series Nowhere Boys , as Felix Ferne. Since 2024, he has played Connor McAllister in the CBS sitcom Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage . Baldwin has been fond of performing and being in
186-450: A smallpox epidemic might have swept through the tribes around Port Philip before 1803, reducing the population. Broome puts forward that two epidemics of smallpox decimated the population of the Kulin tribes by perhaps killing half each time in the 1790s and again around 1830. This theory has been challenged, however, by modern historical diagnosticians, who argue that the observed symptoms in
279-473: A "hotel corner" from the 1890s, and contemporarily as "pub corner". Around 100 years later, in the mid-1990s, they were joined by a nightclub on its southeast corner. Frankston Brick Company was founded in 1886, by a consortium of local businessmen including William Davey Jr. and Thomas Ritchie—most likely in order to capitalise on the Melbourne land boom during the mid-1880s—and was later publicly floated. It
372-519: A 300-acre depasturing license for what is now the Frankston locality of Karingal . Liardet built the first permanent wooden house in the eastern Frankston area in 1847—which would later become part of his Ballam Park estate after the formal land sales of 1854. Davey later partnered in the cattle run of Captain Benjamin Baxter, the first Postmaster and former Clerk of Petty sessions for
465-575: A 5- metre version on Mayone-bulluk clan land, erected on Young Street in Frankston in 2001, and a 25-metre version on Wurundjeri-balluk clan land, erected on Wurundjeri Way in Melbourne Docklands in 2002, are representative of this link. The earliest recorded encounter of the Bunurong tribe with Europeans in the Frankston area was in early 1803, when Captain Charles Robbins sailed his ship
558-483: A block bordered to the west by Bay Street, to the north by Davey Street, to the east by Wedge Street (now Young Street) and to the south by a public reserve (now Plowman Place and Frankston Park ). Philp's plan consisted of 29 standard lots , 49 suburban lots, nine country lots of 430 acres, and also reserved place for a village centre that would eventually become the Frankston CBD. The first formal land sales for
651-567: A career in 2012, signing with an agent and soon cast as the lead characters in Australian television series Nowhere Boys and Upper Middle Bogan . Baldwin's career took off following the widespread success of both shows, with Nowhere Boys going on to win the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Children's Program in 2014 and 2015 consecutively. In 2017, Baldwin was introduced to American screens starring as lead character alongside Kathy Bates in
744-487: A day. Dogs were important and ceremonially buried. The Boonwurrung people have oral histories that recount in detail the flooding of Port Phillip Bay ten-thousand years ago. The boundaries of Boonwurrung territory are defined by further floods 5000 years ago. Prior to this time, the bay was scrub-filled and passable on foot, and the Boonwurrung people hunted kangaroo and possums on it. The Yalukit-willam would spend up to
837-598: A few weeks in one spot, depending on the water and food supply. Major camps were often set up close to permanent fresh water, leaving archaeological evidence of the places they lived. These archaeological sites include surface scatters, shell middens , isolated artefacts and burials. Men were the primary hunters. They hunted kangaroos, possums, kangaroo rats, bandicoots, wombats and lizards. They also caught fish and eels and collected shellfish. Some Boonwurrung people made seasonal trips in canoes to French Island , where they could gather swan eggs. In coastal and swamp areas there
930-490: A man from a tribe in Echuca had used sorcery to ordain the death of one of their warriors, whose name had been sung while a possum bone discarded after a Boonwurrung meal, and encased in a kangaroo's leg bone, was roasted. Shortly afterward the named Boonwurrung man died, and the tribe revenged itself on the first Echuca tribesman who then came to visit their territory. It was arranged by word of mouth, passing from Echuca through
1023-499: A new village first took place on 29 May, and has subsequently given its name to its broader local government area since 1893. Neighbourhood areas within the suburb are Frankston Central, Frankston East, Frankston Heights, Karingal , Long Island, Mount Erin and Olivers Hill . At the 2021 census , Frankston had a population of 37,331. Its demonym is Frankstonian . The toponymic origins of Frankston are subject to conjecture, and of which there are four popular theories. One of
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#17331063561591116-469: A pre-emptive right to land license over what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Carrum Downs and Seaford . Thomas and Grace McComb arrived in the Frankston area in 1852. Thomas assisted with the development of the local fishing industry , and Grace was the first nurse and midwife in the area. Thomas Ritchie arrived in 1854 and established a bakery that same year on what is now Nepean Highway in
1209-592: A probable pre-contact population of greater than 500 people. By 1850 Protector William Thomas estimated just 28 Bunurong people living on Boonwurrung land. In 1852, the Boonwurrung were allocated 340 hectares (840 acres) at Mordialloc Creek while the Woiwurrung gained 782 hectares along the Yarra at Warrandyte. The Aboriginal reserves were never staffed by whites and were not permanent camps, but acted as distribution depots where rations and blankets were distributed, with
1302-660: A result of attacks from the Gunai. During 1833–34, around 60–70 Bunurong people, if a report has been correctly interpreted, may have been killed in a raid by Gunai when they were camped to the north of Carrum Carrum Swamp . The Boonwurrung people, living primarily along the Port Phillip and Western Port coast, may have had their livelihoods affected by European seal hunters . The sealers' abduction of Boonwurrung women and taken to Bass Strait Islands and Tasmania may have caused inter-tribal conflicts, and by analogy, this may also apply to
1395-463: A role in the drastic reduction of the tribe's population. Injury or death to a tribal member usually resulted in a conference to assess the facts, and, where thought unlawful, revenge was taken. In 1839, after one or two Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung were killed, a party of 15 men left for Geelong in order to retaliate against the malefactors, the Wathaurong . In 1840, the Boonwurrung became convinced that
1488-565: A short distance from the settlement, also flocks of emus on the western plains fifty and sixty in a drove. …The country through which I travelled to the Salt Water (Maribyrnong) River had a park-like appearance, kangaroo grass being the principal, the trees she-oak, wattle, honeysuckle. Saw a blue flower, thorny appearance. Numerous old native huts.” In June 2021, the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation and
1581-609: A steel axe, ended when the crew of the Lady Nelson panicked, resulting in spears flying, musket shots and the use of the ship's cannon , wounding several fleeing Boonwurrung people. The following month, Captain Milius from the French ship Naturaliste , in the Baudin expedition , danced alone on a beach at Western Port for the natives, in a much more peaceful contact. Just before and overlapping
1674-563: Is a suburb in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia . Located 54 km (34 mi) south-east of the Melbourne city centre via the Monash Freeway and EastLink, it is in the local government area of the City of Frankston and serves as its administrative and activity centres . Positioned on the eastern shoreline of Port Phillip , Frankston became a popular seaside destination of Melbourne in
1767-591: Is in fact true. However, Charlwood does mention that Stone had purchased the Cannanuke Inn from "a man named Standring". Licensing records state that Benjamin Standring was the owner of the Frankston Hotel from 1857 to 1860. Also, according to the terms of his pre-emptive right to land licence, Davey did not have the right to sell or sub-let the Cannanuke Inn. It is therefore unlikely that Stone purchased or leased
1860-525: Is minimal physical evidence of their past. The Bunurong tribe in particular were mainly hunter-gatherers that maintained an ecologically sustainable tradition of travelling between areas of seasonally abundant resources . For the Mayone-bulluk clan; Kananook and Sweetwater creeks and the former swamps and wetlands of the Frankston area were rich sources of fish and eel as well as summer fruit and vegetables . An important meeting place for
1953-404: Is now the Melbourne inner suburb of Port Melbourne and the family established and managed hotels around Melbourne as well as the first mail service of the early township. Frank Liardet settled in the Frankston area in 1847, after taking out a 300-acre depasturing license for land that is now the Frankston locality of Karingal . During this time, Liardet built the first wooden house in
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#17331063561592046-455: Is now the Melbourne outer-western suburb of Wyndham Vale ). Franks' land neighboured that of the early Melbourne explorer and surveyor John Helder Wedge , which was managed by his nephew Charles Wedge —prior to him gaining a pre-emptive right to land license of his own for the Frankston area. The correspondence with the Department of Lands and Survey states that, at the time of surveying
2139-627: Is now the southwest corner of Davey Street and Nepean Highway (the present site of Davey's Bar and Restaurant) in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD). It was designed in the Victorian Queen Anne style and was constructed of bluestone and locally-made bricks. The intersection of Davey Street and Nepean Highway with Young's Pier Hotel (northwest corner), Davey's Bay View Hotel (northeast corner) and Petrie's Prince of Wales Hotel (southwest corner), became known as
2232-738: Is one of the Kulin languages , and belongs to the Pama-Nyungan language family . The ethnonym occasionally used in early writings to refer to the Bunwurrung, namely Bunwurru , is derived from the word bu:n , meaning "no" and wur:u , signifying either "lip" or "speech". This indicates that the Boonwurrung language may not be spoken outside of their Country - their clan's territory. The Boonwurrung people are predominantly saltwater people whose lands, waters, and cosmos encompassed some 3,000 square miles (7,800 km ) of territory around Western Port Bay and
2325-482: Is strengthened by the fact that a number of places near Frankston also have names that are derived or adapted from those of British army generals and statesmen (such as Cranbourne , Hastings , Lyndhurst , Mornington and Pakenham ). Jones states that the Surveyor General of Victoria from 1853 to 1858, Sir Andrew Clarke , named all of these places. Prior to the foundation of Melbourne by Europeans in 1835,
2418-477: The Cumberland into Port Phillip on the surveying expedition headed by Charles Grimes . On 30 January, Grimes went ashore at Kananook Creek in search of fresh water and made peaceful contact with "around 30 of the natives"—most likely members of the Mayone-bulluk clan. Another possible encounter of the Mayone-bulluk clan with Europeans in 1803 was in late-December, with three convicts that had escaped from
2511-622: The Black Spur and squatted on a traditional camping site on Badger Creek near Healesville and requested ownership of the site. This became Coranderrk Station, named after the Woiwurrung word for the Victorian Christmas bush . Coranderrk was closed in 1924 and its occupants were moved to Lake Tyers in Gippsland . Great enmity existed in particular between the Boonwurrung and the eastern Gunai, who were later deemed responsible for playing
2604-429: The City of Frankston suburbs of Carrum Downs and Seaford after the formal land sales of 1854, and James McMahon purchased lands over what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Sandhurst and Skye at this time. The first permanent brick house in Frankston was built at Ballam Park in 1855 and replaced the 1847 wooden house on the site. It was built by Frederick Liardet, the younger brother of Frank, and
2697-624: The First Fleet in 1788 and reached the Port Philip area in 1790, via the first European settlement in Australia at Port Jackson , claiming at least half the population of the combined Kulin nation tribes. Following permanent European settlement in 1835, another smallpox epidemic reduced the number of Bunurong tribe members to 83 by 1839. An influenza epidemic during the 1840s further reduced their number to 28 by 1850. The last full-blood member of
2790-401: The Kulin nation , to which it was an important source of fish and meeting place of the Mayone-bulluk clan for around 40,000 years. Colonisation of the area by Europeans began at approximately the same time as the foundation of Melbourne in 1835 and started as an informal fishing outpost supplying the growing settlement. It was formally established in 1854, when official land sales for
2883-639: The Mornington Peninsula . Its western boundary was set at Werribee . To the southeast, it extended from Mordialloc through to Anderson Inlet , as far as Wilson's Promontory . Inland its borders reached the Dandenong Ranges , and ran eastwards as far as the vicinity of Warragul . “Saw nothing but grassy country, open forest, plenty gum and wild cherry. Saw where the natives had encamped, plenty of trees notched where they had climbed for opossums. …There are herds of forest kangaroo immensely large,
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2976-688: The Netflix original series Disjointed , directed by Chuck Lorre and follows the lives of employees at a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary with Baldwin's character Pete as the dispensary's quirky in-house cannabis grower. Following a busy launch to his acting career, Baldwin moved to Paris to study at the Physical Theatre/Clown school, Ecole Philippe Gaulier . Where he further developed his acting and comedy skills before returning to Melbourne where Baldwin frequently writes and performs comedy shows, with his Stand-up set "Mind How Y'Go" being nominated for two awards including "Best Comedy Show" at
3069-582: The Port Phillip District , during the early-1850s. Their run covered the majority of what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Langwarrin and Langwarrin South . The fisherman James Oliver built his house on northern Olivers Hill around this time, so he could keep watch for schools of fish in the waters below, and after whom the locality is now known by its current name. The explorer and surveyor Charles Wedge also arrived around this time, gaining
3162-597: The Wurundjeri , also acted to protect the colonists as part of their duty of hospitality. Derrimut later became very disillusioned and died in the Benevolent Asylum at the age of about 54 years in 1864. A few colonists erected a tombstone to Derrimut in Melbourne General Cemetery in his honour. By 1839, the Boonwurrung had been reduced to 80–90 people, with only 4 of 19 children under four years old, from
3255-699: The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation , both registered Aboriginal Parties , agreed on a redrawing of their traditional boundaries developed by the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council . The new borderline runs across the city from west to east, with the CBD , Richmond and Hawthorn included in Wurundjeri land, and Albert Park , St Kilda and Caulfield on Bunurong land. It
3348-564: The failed settlement by Captain David Collins at Sorrento on the southern Mornington Peninsula . Among the escapees was William Buckley , who later lived with the Wadawurrung-balug clan from the neighbouring Wathaurong tribe of the Kulin nation for 32 years. After travelling north up the Mornington Peninsula for two days, Buckley describes coming to a creek that ran "near to the bay"—most likely Kananook Creek and Long Island in
3441-507: The 1880s. Its beach continues to be one of the most frequented in Victoria, and is recognised as one of the cleanest in Australia. Due to its proximity to the north of the eponymous wine and tourism region, the suburb is also referred to as the "gateway to the Mornington Peninsula ". The traditional custodians of the lands on which Frankston is situated are the Boonwurrung people of
3534-516: The Australian state of Victoria . Their territory includes part of what is now the city and suburbs of Melbourne . They were called the Western Port or Port Philip tribe by the early settlers, and were in alliance with other tribes in the Kulin nation, having particularly strong ties to the Wurundjeri people. The Registered Aboriginal Party representing the Boonwurrung people is the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation . Boonwurrung
3627-410: The Boonwurrung were semi-nomadic hunter gatherers who moved around to seasonal food sources in their territory to take advantage of seasonably available food resources. Their hunting equipment and techniques had been highly developed to the environment and they had a highly detailed knowledge of their Country. This knowledge was passed from one generation to the next. They had to work only about five hours
3720-424: The Boonwurrung, whose coastlands were visited by sealers. A report by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1830 attributed the absence of Boonwurrung on Phillip Island , which was a camp for sealers, as due to the latter's behavior. As late as 1833, nine Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung women, and a boy, Yonki Yonka, were kidnapped and ferried across to the sealers' Bass Strait island bases. Contact with sealers would have exposed
3813-562: The Bunurong tribe clans of the greater Mornington Peninsula region was the present site of the Frankston Mechanics' Institute , at 1 Plowman Place in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD), which was used for corroborees and as a trading place. Bunurong territory, of which Frankston is a part, stretches from the Werribee River in the western metropolitan area of Melbourne east to Wilsons Promontory in Gippsland and
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3906-527: The Bunurong tribe, Yam-mer-book , also known as Jimmy Dunbar (from the Ngaruk-Willam clan, which was geographically close to the Mayone-bulluk clan) who lived to the north of Frankston near Mordialloc , died of natural causes in 1877. Fishermen were among the earliest Europeans to unofficially settle the Frankston area following the foundation of Melbourne on 30 August 1835. Living in tents and wattle and daub huts on its foreshore and around
3999-414: The Cannanuke Inn from Davey or Standring before the formal land sales for Frankston in 1854—and after which the name "Frankston" was already in use. A more recent theory, put forward by the author and historian Michael Jones in his local history book Frankston: Resort to City (published in 1989), is that Frankston was named after the heroic British army general Sir Thomas Harte Franks . The theory
4092-585: The Frankston CBD. The central Frankston area was surveyed by Thomas Hanbury Permein for the Victorian colonial government in early 1854. The only pre-existing permanent building in Permein's survey is the Cannanuke Inn. The plan for the new village of Frankston was drawn by James Philp from the Office of the Surveyor General of Victoria on 1 May 1854—with the Cannanuke Inn as a central point and located on Lot 1 of
4185-417: The Frankston Central Business District (CBD). According to Charlwood, it was purchased by a "Mr. Stone" in the early-1850s who, after the birth of his son, "Frank", renamed it "Frank Stone's Hotel" and around which the village developed and also had its name adapted from for its formal land sales in 1854. As there appear to be no licensing records for the Cannanuke Inn, it is difficult to determine if this
4278-515: The Frankston Hotel on 13 August 1875 for £ 380, and renamed it the Pier Hotel (under which name it continues to operate). Young spent an estimated £3700 on improvements to the hotel, making it one of the finest in the colony of Victoria at the time. In 1879, following a conference of city councils in inner-Melbourne, the Frankston area was chosen as the preferred site to replace the Melbourne General Cemetery . The roughly 3000 acre Crown land site
4371-404: The Frankston area in 1847 an unofficial fishing village was also developing around its foreshore . Considering Frank Liardet's early presence in the Frankston area, and his connections to the early mail services of Melbourne, it is plausible that "Frank's Town" became nomenclature for describing the area and its unofficial village. As a consequence it is possible that the name of "Frankston"
4464-453: The Frankston area, and was located on the site of the present Frankston Mechanics' Institute at 1 Plowman Place in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD). He built the first permanent wooden house in the southern Frankston area located near Daveys Bay on Olivers Hill in 1851—which was originally known as "Old Man Davey's Hill". In 1843 Frank Liardet, the eldest son of the early Melbourne settler Wilbraham Liardet , took out
4557-516: The Frankston area—where they encountered a "large tribe of the natives...armed with spears" but did not make direct contact. The number of Bunurong tribe members at the time of contact with Europeans in the 1800s was estimated to be 300. James Fleming, a member of Charles Grimes' surveying expedition in early 1803, reported observing smallpox scars on members of the Kulin nation tribes he had encountered—indicating that an epidemic had affected them prior to 1803. Smallpox arrived in Australia with
4650-449: The Frankston area—which would later become part of his Ballam Park estate after the formal land sales of 1854. Prior to settling in the area, Liardet had also worked on the cattle run of the first Postmaster of the Port Phillip District , Captain Benjamin Baxter, which was located over what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Langwarrin and Langwarrin South . By the time Liardet had taken out his depasturing license for
4743-539: The Frankston site, the proposed cemetery was abandoned—which was later established in the Melbourne southeastern suburb of Springvale in 1901. It was also briefly considered as one of the possible sites to replace the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum in 1887—which was later established in the southeastern suburb of Cheltenham in 1911. Despite not becoming the site of the new metropolitan cemetery, Frankston benefited from its new railway line. The travel time to
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#17331063561594836-508: The Mechanics' Institute to mark its first anniversary. The first 400 books of the new library were a donation from the banker H.D. Larnach . To service the proposed new metropolitan cemetery the railway line to Melbourne was extended from Caulfield to Frankston between 1881 and 1882. The first section from Caulfield to Mordialloc opened on 19 December 1881. The second section from Mordialloc to Frankston opened on 29 July 1882. The course of
4929-477: The Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2022. In 2023, he was cast as Connor McAllister in the CBS sitcom Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage . The series premiered on October 17, 2024. This article about an Australian actor is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Frankston, Victoria Frankston ( / ˈ f r æ ŋ k s t ə n / FRANK -stən )
5022-400: The Melbourne city centre was reduced from several hours by horse-drawn carriage to 90 minutes by steam train, making it a popular seaside destination for excursionists and weekend holidaymakers from the mid-1880s. Mark Young constructed enclosed sea baths in 1883, on a bed of granite located roughly 100 metres off the coastline of Frankston Beach, at a cost of £950. They were connected to
5115-486: The area and covered the plain to the west. These murnong fields were destroyed by the introduction of sheep. Scholar Bruce Pascoe attributes the widespread fields of murrnong in certain areas to active farming by Aboriginal peoples. Women collected large quantities of tadpoles which were cooked beneath a bed of hot coals. Robinson's diary describes how the Yalukit-willam caught emus and restrained their dingos. When
5208-466: The area for the land sales of 1854, the name "Frankston" was probably suggested to honour the Wedge's deceased former neighbour. Another theory—that has become folklore —is that Frankston was named after a pub named "Frank Stone's Hotel". In 1929 the author Don Charlwood , a student of Frankston High School at the time, compiled a history of Frankston using both local records and oral sources supporting
5301-451: The area surrounding Port Phillip was originally populated by Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation for an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years. Particularly, the Frankston area was inhabited primarily by the Mayone-bulluk clan from the Bunurong tribe of the Kulin nation. The tribes of the Kulin nation were a nomadic people with no sedentary settlements . As a result, there
5394-425: The base of Olivers Hill , they would travel by boat to the early Melbourne township to sell their catches. James Davey arrived in the Frankston area in 1840, gaining a 640 acre pre-emptive right to land license over what are now the suburbs of Frankston and Frankston South from Olivers Hill south to Daveys Bay . Davey built the Cannanuke Inn in the mid-1840s, which was the first permanent building in
5487-751: The coastal tribes to European diseases, and this would have exercised a heavy impact on demographics, and the economic and social ties binding the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples, as would the possible effects of infectious diseases contracted from these sealers. James Fleming, one of the party of surveyor Charles Grimes in HMS Cumberland who explored the Maribyrnong River and the Yarra River as far as Dights Falls in February 1803, reported smallpox scars on several aboriginal people he met, suggesting that
5580-588: The coastline by a wooden pathway that led to a suspension bridge over Kananook Creek to Young's Pier Hotel. During this time, an article in The Argus newspaper on the growth of outer Melbourne (published 4 October 1884) describes Frankston as "going ahead rapidly" with "50 to 60 new houses...[in] the last three years" as well as having "two hotels, a wine shop, four boarding-houses, three general stores, an ironmonger, two saddlers' shops [and] five brick-yards". Frankston's Market Gardeners' and Fruit Growers' Association
5673-585: The earliest of these theories (published in the Victorian Historical Magazine in March 1916) is that it was named after one of its early European settlers , Frank Liardet, who also became one of its first official land owners . The Liardets were prominent pioneers of early Melbourne and arrived aboard the William Metcalfe from England in 1839. Liardet's father, Wilbraham , founded what
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#17331063561595766-509: The early ethnographical literature are compatible with impetigo and ringworm . One particularly notable person at the time of European settlement in Victoria was Derrimut , a Boonwurrung Elder, who informed early European settlers in October 1835 of an impending attack by clans from the Woiwurrung group. The colonists armed themselves, and the attack was averted. Benbow and Billibellary , from
5859-409: The formal land sales—establishing his Ballam Park estate on the land that he had a depasturing license for. There is a popular theory (published in the Victorian Historical Magazine in March 1916) that Frankston was named after Liardet due to his earlier presence in the area. Following the first formal land sales for the new village on 29 May 1854, on 12 December, Samuel Packham was granted
5952-460: The hall. Frankston's fishing industry was further developed with the assistance of Thomas McComb, who funded the construction of Frankston Pier in 1857. Following a petition by residents, to the Victorian colonial Department of Public Works, the pier was extended into deeper water in 1863. A gaslamp was installed at the end of the pier and a lamplighter was also employed. Frankston Fish Company
6045-410: The intention being to keep the tribes away from the growing settlement of Melbourne. The Aboriginal Protection Board revoked these two reserves in 1862–1863, considering them now too close to Melbourne. In March 1863, after three years of upheaval, the surviving Kulin leaders, among them Simon Wonga and William Barak , led forty Wurundjeri, Taungurung (Goulburn River) and Boonwurrung people over
6138-514: The largest independent grocery chain in Australia—with its headquarters still located in the Frankston area. On 15 November 1873, William Davey Jr., grandson of pre-emptive Frankston settler James Davey, applied for the license to establish the Bay View Hotel, on what is now the northeast corner of Davey Street and Nepean Highway (the present site of The Grand Hotel) in the Frankston CBD. It
6231-544: The licence to establish the Frankston Hotel. Licensing records (and newspaper articles) suggest that it was located on what is now the northwest corner of Davey Street and Nepean Highway (the present site of the Pier Hotel). Packham advertised the Frankston Hotel as a country retreat, and employed a kangaroo tracker and organised game hunting expeditions from the hotel. Charles Wedge established his Banyan sheep station on his pre-emptive right to land over what are now
6324-399: The limelight since his early childhood and would dress up and perform in front of his family and friends as young as 4-years-old. From the ages of 9 to 14, Baldwin attended Helen O’Grady Drama Academy, where he quickly became active in community theatre productions. After drawing inspiration from his older sister Nathalie Antonia, who is also an actor, Baldwin took the step to pursue acting as
6417-574: The native thrusts the spear through them. …Saw several wild dogs on the settlement belonging to the country. …The aborigines tie up the fore foot of their dogs to prevent them going astray, instead of roping them round the neck as we do. At the native encampment, I saw two dogs thus tied. Initial contact was made in February 1801 when Lieutenant Murray and his crew from the Lady Nelson came ashore for fresh water near present-day Sorrento . A wary exchange of spears and stone axes for shirts, mirrors and
6510-414: The natives want to kill emu they get up a cherry tree before daylight with a large spear, and having put a quantity of cherries in a certain spot under the tree, conceal themselves above with a clear place for them to thrust the spear down. At day dawn the emu is heard coming by the noise it makes, and if this is a tree they have been at before they are sure to come again, when they begin eating, and then
6603-500: The new village of Frankston took place on 29 May 1854. Frankston was gazetted in late-April of that year as being "well watered with springs ...the odour and flavour of the water being remarkable". The road to Melbourne was extended from Brighton to Frankston (now the Nepean Highway ) with bridges over Kananook Creek and Mordialloc Creek in late 1854. Liardet became one of the first official land owners in Frankston after
6696-455: The newcomers were to enter their land without harm. Communities consisted of six land-owning groups called clans that spoke the Boonwurrung language and were connected through cultural and mutual interests, totems, trading initiatives, and marriage ties. Each had an Arweet , or clan leader. The clans are: Access by other clans to land and resources (such as the Birrarung, or Yarra River )
6789-536: The period of British exploration and settlement, the Boonwurrung were involved in a long-running dispute with the Gunai/Kurnai people from Gippsland . According to William Barak , the last traditional elder of the Wurundjeri people, the conflict was a dispute over resources, which resulted in heavy casualties being suffered by the Boonwurrung. Many Gunnai raids occurred to abduct Boonwurrung women. The Yowengerra had almost been completely annihilated by 1836, largely as
6882-576: The protector of its waterways and keeper of the wind was the trickster crow spirit Waa . Bunjil and Waa are the two moiety totems that govern the kinship system of the Kulin nation tribes. The Mayone-bulluk clan of the Frankston area was closely linked through marriage to the Wurundjeri-balluk clan of the Melbourne city centre area, from the neighbouring Woiwurrung tribe, based on this system. Two wooden sculptures of eagles, inspired by Bunjil , by artist Bruce Armstrong ;
6975-519: The railway line was directly influenced by the location of the proposed cemetery. From Mordialloc to Seaford it runs adjacent to what is now Nepean Highway—which was built over a 1000-year-old sand dune that once ran parallel to the coastline. After Seaford it curves inland eastwards to where a "mortuary station" was to be located (now Kananook railway station) near the border of the proposed cemetery, then continues to Frankston. Due to concerns from undertakers about sandy soil and underlying granite at
7068-450: The resources available to them. As with most other Kulin territories, penalties such as spearings were enforced upon trespassers. Boonwurrung moieties classified people either as Bunjil , that is eaglehawk or Waang , namely raven . Information on traditional life has been passed down by Boonwurrung people from one generation to the next, and was also recorded by European settlers and administrators. The Yalukit-willam clan of
7161-574: The same distance east of the beach". Frankston Mechanics' Institute was established on the former site of the Cannanuke Inn, at what is now 1 Plowman Place in the Frankston CBD, in 1880. Its construction was funded by public donations, headed by a residents' committee, and supported by friendly and temperance societies including a Frankston group of Freemasons and the Independent Order of Good Templars , Independent Order of Rechabites and Manchester Unity of Oddfellows . Its foundation stone
7254-512: The theory (published in The Frankston & Somerville Standard newspaper on 8 February 1930). The pub to which Charlwood refers was originally named the Cannanuke Inn and was the first permanent building in the Frankston area. It was built by the pre-emptive Frankston settler James Davey in the 1840s. The Victorian Heritage Database states that it was located on the present site of the Frankston Mechanics' Institute ; at 1 Plowman Place in
7347-509: The theory. Instead, it puts forward the theory that Frankston was named after the Irish -born settler Charles Franks; who was the first European to be killed by Indigenous Australians in Melbourne. Charles Franks arrived in Melbourne aboard the Champion from Van Diemen's Land in 1836 and made a squatter's claim to land on the western side of Port Phillip near Mount Cottrel (northeast of what
7440-482: Was a favourite food. Others were the black wattle gum, the pith of tree ferns, native cherries , kangaroo apples and various fungi. Murnong grew all year was best eaten in spring. Tubers were collected in vast amounts in string bags. Fresh murnong could be eaten raw, or if less fresh, murnong could be roasted or baked in earth ovens. Murnong used to grow in great amounts along the Kororoit Creek and other creeks in
7533-698: Was agreed that Mount Cottrell , the site of a massacre in 1836 with at least 10 Wathaurong victims, would be jointly managed above the 160 m (520 ft) line. However these new boundaries are disputed by some Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people, including N'arweet Carolyn Briggs of the Boonwurrung Land and Sea Council. In Boonwurrung belief, their territory was carved out by the creator Loo-errn as he moved from Yarra Flats down to his final resting place at Wamoon and, as custodians of this marr-ne-beek country, they required outsiders to observe certain ritual prohibitions and to learn their language if
7626-407: Was bordered to the north by Charles Wedge's Banyan sheep station (over what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Carrum Downs and Seaford), to the south by Frank Liardet's Ballam Park estate (in what is now the Frankston locality of Karingal), and is now the suburb of Frankston North. Its south-west corner is described as being "about a mile [1.6 km] north of the village of Frankston, and
7719-447: Was constructed with a guest house which Davey had shipped from Jersey . Following a petition by residents to the Victorian colonial Department of Education in 1873, headed by Grace McComb, the first government school in Frankston was built on Davey Street in 1874. The No. 1464 Frankston School (Which later became Frankston Primary School) opened on 1 November of that year with an initial enrolment of 45 students. Mark Young purchased
7812-533: Was designed in a French Colonial Gothic Revival style by their father Wilbraham . The house is listed on the Victorian and Australian heritage registries through the National Trust of Australia . It is now managed by the Frankston Historical Society which conducts tours of the house and also maintains a local history museum at the estate. A site for a Church of England ( Anglican )
7905-537: Was founded around this time, in order to transport the produce of local farmers by steam ship to New South Wales and Tasmania, and the majority of trade for the Mornington Peninsula and Phillip Island, as well as south-west Gippsland, is also described as passing through Frankston. On 8 December 1884, John Storey Petrie was granted the license to establish a third hotel in Frankston, the Prince of Wales Hotel, on what
7998-401: Was founded in 1867, by a consortium of local businessmen including Thomas Ritchie, in order to transport the catches of local fishermen in bulk to the fish markets of the Melbourne city centre. In 1870, Ritchie established his first general store on what is now the southwest corner of Playne Street and Nepean Highway in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD). Ritchies Stores is now
8091-452: Was further adapted from it when officially naming the village for its formal land sales in 1854. However, in a letter to the editor of The Argus newspaper (published on 30 May 1916) a member of the Liardet family said that this was in fact not true. In the letter was excerpts of correspondence between the Liardet family and the Victorian state Department of Lands and Survey which refuted
8184-607: Was laid by committee president Mark Young on 22 March of that year, and the building was opened on 24 May at a cost of £280. On 16 March 1881, the Colonial Bank of Australasia (later the National Bank of Australia ) was the first bank to open a lending branch in Frankston. It was located next to Mark Young's Pier Hotel on what is now Nepean Highway. The first library in Frankston, the Frankston Free Library, opened at
8277-513: Was plenty of bird life to hunt, including ducks and swans. There were abundant eels, yabbies, and fish in Stony and Kororoit creeks, and the Yarra River. Men were experts at spearing eels and Robinson notes in his diary in 1841 two men catching 40lbs of eel 'in a very short time'. The coast provided saltwater fish, mussels, cockles and small crabs. Women were primarily gatherers. Murnong (or yam daisy)
8370-528: Was referred to as marr-ne-beek ("excellent country") amongst the Kulin nation tribes. According to the Indigenous Australian mythology of the Dreamtime , the Bunurong territory was created by the ancestor spirit Lohan . Patrilineally , all Bunurong tribe members are considered direct descendants of Lohan . The creator of the Kulin nation-proper was the deity eaglehawk spirit Bunjil , and
8463-517: Was reserved after the formal land sales. Located on the corner of what is now Bay Street and High Street in the Frankston CBD, the two acre site also included an area for a school as well as a temporary burial ground . A temporary hall was built in 1856 and served as both a place of worship and as a school (which later became the Woodleigh School ). The first post office in Frankston opened on 1 September 1857 which also initially operated from
8556-405: Was sometimes restricted depending on the state of the resource in question. For example; if a river or creek had been fished regularly throughout the fishing season and fish supplies were down, fishing was limited or stopped entirely by the clan who owned that resource until fish were given a chance to recover. During this time, other resources were utilised for food. This ensured the sustained use of
8649-421: Was the first large-scale employer in Frankston, consolidating the existing local brick-yards onto a single site close to Frankston Pier, and producing approximately 50,000 bricks a week. Boonwurrung The Boonwurrung , also spelt Bunurong or Bun wurrung , are an Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation , who are the traditional owners of the land from the Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory in
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