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53-740: Pettingill is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Pettingill family , an Australian crime family Kath Pettingill (born 1931), Former brothel owner and matriarch of the Pettingill family Kerry Pettingill (born 1958), retired American police officer, former chief of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Sewall Pettingill (1907–2001), American naturalist, author and filmmaker Karuna Dharma (1940–2014), born Joyce Adele Pettingill, American Buddhist scholar and nun [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

106-463: A Carlton restaurant. Wendy Peirce was the de facto partner of Victor Peirce. The couple never married but produced four children from their long-term relationship. She entered witness protection for 18 months, estimated to have cost approximately $ 2million. At trial, she refused to give evidence against the accused, and all men were later acquitted. In October 2005, Wendy Peirce gave a media interview detailing how her husband planned and carried out

159-509: A barrel on a pole, on a high section of ground, to point the way back to the Melbourne settlement. From this signpost its first official name, 'Sandridge', was said to have originated. The area also became commonly known as 'Liardet's Beach' but Liardet himself was said to have preferred 'Brighton'. It became Port Melbourne in 1884. The area came into prominence during the Victorian gold rush of

212-453: A bodyguard for murdered businessman Frank Benvenuto. Victor Peirce was murdered in Bay St, Port Melbourne , whilst parked outside a supermarket on 1 May 2002. It would later be alleged in court by barrister and Queen's Counsel Robert Richter that the now-deceased contract killer Andrew Veniamin had murdered Peirce. Veniamin was shot and killed during an argument in 2004 with Mick Gatto in

265-693: A few years earlier during the Garden City Movement . The early development was built as low-cost housing by the State Bank , with later additions of public housing by the Housing Commission of Victoria . It comprises semi-attached single and double-storey houses arranged around a series of public open spaces, in a distorted Beaux-Arts layout. Contrary to popular belief, the "Bank Houses" were never public housing and have always been in private hands. The "Bank Houses" area later became known as "nobs hill",

318-523: A locality within Port Melbourne and the City of Port Phillip . It comprises approximately 1100 dwellings in a mixture of low-rise medium density and high-rise housing, with a small supermarket, some commercial space, a small number of cafes and restaurants and a leisure complex including a gym, swimming pool and tennis courts. It was developed over the decade from 1996 by Australian developer Mirvac, following

371-507: A major player in drug dealing in the Richmond and South Yarra areas during the 1980s. Allen was alleged to have ordered or carried out the deaths of 15 people. Allen died of heart failure in 1987 while in prison custody awaiting trial for murder. Police officer Roger Rogerson received his first criminal conviction in 1985 for involvement in drug trafficking when he was charged with conspiring with Allen to import heroin . Peter Allen

424-457: A reference to relative wealth of their occupants compared to the residents of the clinker brick public housing that was added later. The Housing Commission area was known as 'Little Baghdad'. The Garden City post office in Centre Avenue has been open since 1945. ( 37°50′10″S 144°55′12″E  /  37.8362°S 144.9199°E  / -37.8362; 144.9199 ) Beacon Cove is

477-433: A result can be difficult to navigate. Port Melbourne is serviced by an extensive bus network operated by CDC Melbourne which connects it to Melbourne CBD and surrounding suburbs. Port Melbourne is serviced by Melbourne tram route 109 , which has been run as a high patronage high frequency light rail service since the heavy rail line was converted to light rail in 1987. While there are several disused freight rail links,

530-543: A result, the Port Melbourne Town Hall is now a public library . As the importance of the Port has declined, and as manufacturing industries have moved out of the inner city area, Port Melbourne has increasingly become a residential suburb . The area where Port Melbourne originally developed, around Station Pier and Princes Pier , has been redeveloped with a mixture of apartment complexes and medium-density housing ,

583-417: A third woman agreed to pay Tong Yang A$ 200 to assault Robert Sales, the father of a woman who was dating Katie Peirce's ex-boyfriend. Sales had been sitting one table away from where the assault occurred but was outside having a cigarette at the time of the assault, and in a case of mistaken identity Mark Lohse was hacked across the face with the meat cleaver. Senior County Court judge Geoff Chettle said at

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636-612: Is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne , Victoria, Australia , 3 km (2 mi) south-west of the Melbourne central business district , located within the Cities of Melbourne and Port Phillip local government areas . Port Melbourne recorded a population of 17,633 at the 2021 census . The area to the north of the West Gate Freeway is located within the City of Melbourne, with The area to

689-423: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Pettingill family Two of Kath Pettingill's sons, Victor Peirce and Trevor Pettingill, faced a murder trial for the 1988 Walsh Street police shootings , with both acquitted along with two fellow defendants. Victor Peirce's de facto wife, Wendy, later claimed that her husband planned and carried out the murders with the fellow accused. The family

742-601: Is in Port Melbourne. The Maritime Union of Australia maintains a strong presence in the area. The Port Melbourne Football Club , known as "the Borough" is one of Melbourne's oldest Australian rules football sides, and plays in the Victorian Football League . The club's home games are played at North Port Oval . Another local team is the Port Melbourne Colts Football Club which plays in

795-520: Is the second oldest son of Kath Pettingill. He has spent 28 years in prison. He is a violent armed robber and has a long list of assault charges. He ran a heroin empire which allowed him to purchase a mansion in Lower Templestowe . This was later taken from him due to the Proceeds of Crime act. He continued to deal heroin in jail. He is very skilled in court and is the jailhouse lawyer of the family. He

848-498: Is the tenth and last child of Kath Pettingill, born in 1965. He has a history involving drugs and burglaries. He has multiple convictions for firearms and drug-related offences, and has served several jail terms. He has been described as a "career criminal". Pettingill was charged and acquitted over the Walsh Street police murders. Trevor's son Jamie Pettingill had two criminal convictions including one for assault. Members of

901-603: The 2005 Summer Deaflympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games events , and is affiliated with several umbrella bodies including the Victorian Amateur Pistol Association (VAPA), Target Rifle Victoria (TRV) and IPSC Australia . The facility is located at Fishermans Bend north of the West Gate Freeway on Todd Road (the last exit east of the Yarra River before starting the West Gate Bridge ), west of

954-740: The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation , Holden , Smorgon Steel , Government Aircraft Factories , the Aeronautical Research Laboratory and regional facilities for Boeing . Fishermen's Bend Aerodrome remained in use until 1957. Fishermans Bend is a primary industrial centre at the foot of the West Gate Bridge and contains major establishments for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation , Holden, Hawker de Havilland , GKN Aerospace Engineering Services,

1007-674: The National Premier Leagues Victoria (second- tier in Australia, behind the A-League ). The Sharks play their home games at SS Anderson Reserve . The Port Melbourne “Mariners” Baseball Club established in 1929 plays in the Victoria Baseball Summer League, fielding six senior teams and four junior teams. Longstaff Field has been upgraded to include an artificial infield and competition-standard lighting, allowing

1060-548: The Southern Football Netball League . The Port Melbourne Cricket Club founded in 1874, is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia, and one of the twelve founding cricket clubs of the Melbourne District Cricket competition. Known as "the Borough", the club's long and proud history includes 2 Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association Championship Titles and 29 Premierships (including 10 in

1113-472: The West Gate Freeway , which runs east–west from the West Gate Bridge and CityLink , which runs north toward the Bolte Bridge . Other main roads include Bay Street, Williamstown Road, Lorimer Street (which runs along the Yarra River ), Graham Street, Salmon Street, Ingles Street and Beach Street (which runs toward Beaconsfield Parade and St Kilda ). Port Melbourne's roads are a mix of planning styles and as

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1166-416: The surname Pettingill . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pettingill&oldid=885444990 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

1219-619: The 1850s. With an increasing number of ships looking to berth, Sandridge became a thriving transport hub. To alleviate the high costs of shipping goods via small vessels up the Yarra River to Melbourne the Port Melbourne railway line was built in 1854 to connect Sandridge to Melbourne. The disused Sandridge Bridge takes its name from this historic railway line. In 1860, Port Melbourne was an early area of Victoria to gain Municipal status with

1272-745: The 1st Grade). The club fields 5 senior teams across a number of grades and 10 junior teams in under 12's, under 14's and under 16's, as well as T20 Blast and the Milo in2CRICKET Program. The five senior sides now play in the Southern Bayside Cricket Competition administered by Cricket Victoria and the club plays its home games at North Port Oval . Port Melbourne is represented by the Port Melbourne Sharks , an association football team, which has produced names such as Daniel Allsopp and Rodrigo Vargas . The team currently competes in

1325-626: The Bay, but today only two fishing licences belong to descendants of these early pioneer settlers. The last remaining shack on the Bend was demolished in 1970, to make way for Webb Dock . The new Surf Life Saving Club headquarters stand on the site (Meiers 2006). The neighbourhood of Fishermans Bend also has a significant place in Australian aviation history, being the home of several prominent historical Australian aircraft design and manufacturing companies, including

1378-422: The Bend, frequently finding additional work in the docks and cargo ships; ballast was loaded onto ships returning to Europe. Habitation was in rough shacks along the Bend, made from corrugated iron , flattened kerosene tins or wood. There were no roads , shops , or sewerage . Water was collected from hanging out sail canvases, and stored in iron tanks or casks milk came from a nearby farm. Fishing continues on

1431-446: The City of Melbourne. It is positioned immediately to the east of the West Gate Bridge, on the south bank of the Yarra River, adjacent to the suburb of Port Melbourne and opposite Coode Island , on the north shore of the Yarra River. Fishermans Bend originally included the area now known as Garden City, which was renamed in 1929. From the 1850s, the site was a location for Bay fishermen of European descent. Some thirty families lived on

1484-554: The Sandridge Borough, which later became the City of Port Melbourne . In the early years of Port Melbourne, the suburb was separated from neighbouring Albert Park by a large shallow lagoon. This was gradually filled in over the years, with the last of it completed in 1929. Today the area is largely covered by the eponymous Lagoon Reserve, a public park to the east of the Esplanade between Liardet Street and Graham Street, although

1537-435: The Walsh Street police shootings for which he was charged and later acquitted. In September 2008 Wendy Peirce was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to threatening and stalking former lovers of her ex-partner Victor who was murdered in 2002 during Melbourne's underworld war. The threats included using Facebook to make death threats. On 15 December 2009, Wendy and Victor Peirce's 24-year-old daughter, Katie Peirce,

1590-622: The Westgate Park and between Gate 7 of the old Holden plant and the Melbourne International Kart Raceway. The Go Kart Club of Victoria (GKCV), initially based at the western suburb of Brooklyn and relocated to Fishermans Bend in 1995, is amongst the oldest of established kart racing clubs in Australia and is the oldest in Victoria. It operates the 966 m (1,056 yd) Melbourne International Kart Raceway, located at

1643-641: The best known of which is the Beacon Cove development. In the 2016 census , there were 16,175 people in Port Melbourne. 63.2% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 5.4%, New Zealand 2.6%, Greece 2.0%, United States of America 1.0% and Italy 1.0%. 72.3% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Greek 4.8%, Italian 1.7%, Mandarin 1.3%, French 0.8% and Russian 0.8%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 38.3% and Catholic 21.8%. Two major freeways run through Port Melbourne;

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1696-460: The club to play night games. The Port Melbourne Tennis Club was established in 1885 and is located in Morris Reserve, Swallow St, Port Melbourne. The Melbourne International Shooting Club (MISC), formed in 1955 and moved to the present site in the late 1970s, is an ISSF -approved shooting complex for target pistol and small-bore rifle shooting disciplines and was the venue of choice for

1749-528: The collapse of the "Sandridge City" scheme for a gated community featuring canalside housing. The site was formerly an industrial facility. Beacon Cove features a waterfront promenade, palm-lined boulevards and a layout that allows the retention of two operational shipping beacons. Most of the low-rise housing is arranged around a series of small parks, in a postmodern scaled-down Beaux-Arts plan, similar in layout to nearby St Vincent Gardens in Albert Park. Along

1802-613: The corner of Todd Road and Cook Street north of the West Gate Freeway Today it is the largest go-kart club in Victoria and the second largest within Australia, having hosted rounds of the Australian Kart Championship and Rotax Pro Tour as well as the popular annual City of Melbourne Titles and Monthly Club Days, and once held the CIK/FIA Oceania Championships in 1997. There are two clubs for

1855-401: The different styles of architecture. As of 2013 the owner of the leisure complex has proposed replacing it with a 19-storey apartment complex, and the City of Port Phillip has instead proposed rezoning the site for mixed use with a 10-storey height limit. A number of community groups oppose both proposals. Fishermans Bend (formerly Fishermen's Bend) is a locality within Port Melbourne and

1908-513: The family, their associates and real life exploits, have been depicted in multiple media works. These include television docudramas like the series Underbelly and the 2009 miniseries Killing Time , and fictionalised versions of family members, which have been the basis for key characters in: The Pettingills were also featured in the fourth episode of season one of the Netflix original Drug Lords . Port Melbourne Port Melbourne

1961-413: The foreshore is a series of 11–14-storey high-rise apartment towers with a small amount of very upmarket low-rise housing at the western end, directly fronting Sandridge Beach. The layout re-routed Beach Street away from the foreshore and the apartments along the waterfront have direct access to the promenade. The development was completed in stages, working west from Princes Street, and this is reflected in

2014-470: The high density population could sustain around 200,000 annual commuter trips and that the link would be financially viable if tourists were charged $ 6 per one-way trip. To address residents concerns over possible loss of beachfront views, the Council investigated the possibility of a new high-tech line, involving wire-free operation. Critics argued that it would be duplicating the route 12 tram route , with

2067-638: The indigenous casual game of trugo in Melbourne: the Port Melbourne Trugo Club and the Sandridge Trugo Club. Port Melbourne features three distinctive localities, with identities separated from the main section of the neighbourhood. Garden City is a locality within Port Melbourne and the City of Port Phillip. It started in the 1920s as a planned "garden suburb", similar to those built in Britain

2120-412: The light rail is the only used rail connection to Port Melbourne. There have been a number of proposals for tram and light rail extension in Port Melbourne. St Kilda-Port Melbourne link A five kilometre tram link between St Kilda and Port Melbourne along Beaconsfield Parade was first raised by the City of Port Phillip in 2005. The City of Port Phillip's 2007 feasibility study into the route found that

2173-858: The mouth of the Yarra River, principally at Webb Dock . Houses in Port Melbourne range from single-fronted Victorian timber worker's cottages to new apartments and housing developments. Port Melbourne has undergone a major demographic shift in the past twenty years, from one of the cheapest and poorest suburbs in the city to one of the most expensive and wealthiest. Many large apartment developments in Port Melbourne occupy large blocks of land, taking over large factories and warehouses, such as HM@S project in Beach Street, ID Apartments in Pickles and Rouse Streets, and Bayshore and Bayview Apartments in Bay Street. Each of these developments comprise multiple buildings, and many of

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2226-456: The original extent of the lagoon was much greater. As a transport hub, Port Melbourne had numerous hotels. Early industries included a sugar refining , soap production , candle works , chemical works , rice and flour mills , gasworks , a distillery and a boot factory. Station and Princes Piers were major places of arrival to Australia for immigrants prior to the availability of affordable air travel . For many years Port Melbourne

2279-464: The past three decades. As a result, Port Melbourne is a diverse and historic area, featuring industrial and port areas along the Yarra, to open parklands, bayside beaches, exclusive apartments and Bay Street's restaurants and cafes. The suburb also forms a major transport link from east to west, home to one end of the West Gate Bridge . The most prominent early resident of the area now known as Port Melbourne

2332-400: The plea hearing the incident was "the worst example of intentionally causing serious injury he has seen." Tong Yang pleaded guilty to charges of intentionally causing serious injury, but Katie and Wendy Peirce both pleaded not guilty to charges that included attempted murder and intentionally causing serious injury. Katie was bailed pending a committal hearing which had only been partly heard at

2385-452: The redevelopments have preserved the heritage buildings. The Port Melbourne population now combines significant numbers of wealthy people, with those who live in public housing and other "old Port" locales. The area has many residents whose families came from Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as more recent arrivals from Africa and Asia. Bay Street is Port Melbourne's main and historic commercial area. Toyota Australia's Head Office

2438-488: The south located within the City of Port Phillip. The suburb is bordered by the shores of Hobsons Bay and the lower reaches of the Yarra River . Port Melbourne covers a large area, which includes the distinct localities of Fishermans Bend , Garden City and Beacon Cove . Historically it was known as Sandridge and developed as the city's second port, linked to the nearby Melbourne CBD. The formerly industrial Port Melbourne has been subject to intense urban renewal over

2491-576: The time of her death. Wendy Peirce's lawyer said he had spoken to her on the phone on 15 December 2009 to inform her of her daughter's death and would apply to the prison for permission allowing her to attend the funeral. Lex Peirce (born 1960) is the seventh child and fifth son of Kath Pettingill and has a minor criminal record. Ninth child of Kath Pettingill. Born 1963. Died of a heroin overdose in 1985 aged 21. Was alleged to have been involved in an armed robbery in Clifton Hill . Trevor Pettingill

2544-499: The two routes running in parallel just 200 metres apart for about 2 kilometres along Beaconsfield Parade. However, a direct tram journey between St Kilda and Port Melbourne is not possible and currently requires a change of routes at Southbank , which is a 10-kilometre round trip. Today, Port Melbourne still serves as a transport hub for passenger and cargo vessels . Many luxury liners , naval vessels and ferries arrive at Station Pier. Cargo traffic takes place further west, near

2597-492: Was Captain Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet , who arrived in 1839 and established a hotel, jetty, and mail service. Liardet later stated that before his arrival the surveyor William Wedge Darke and his family had camped on the beach in their two roomed, carpeted wooden caravan known as 'Darke's Ark'. Liardet credited Wedge with cutting the first track to the beach through the tea tree scrub and hoisting

2650-514: Was a focus of Melbourne's criminal underworld, which operated smuggling syndicates on the docks. The old Ships Painters and Dockers Union was notorious for being controlled by gangsters. The Waterside Workers Federation, on the other hand, was a stronghold of the Communist Party of Australia . With the amalgamation of the local Council into the City of Port Phillip in 1994, many of Port Melbourne's civic institutions were adaptively reused. As

2703-567: Was found dead in her home in Greensborough . At the time of her death, she and her mother were on bail for an incident at the Clare Castle Hotel in Port Melbourne on 28 March 2009, when Mark Lohse, a regular patron at the hotel, was attacked with a meat cleaver and left seriously injured with a deep and long gash across his face, three fractures to his jaw, broken teeth and facial nerve damage. Police allege that Wendy and Katie Peirce and

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2756-414: Was furthermore involved in the infamous Melbourne gangland killings , where it suffered a major blow, with the death of one of its highest-ranking members, Victor Peirce, and resulting in its power being greatly weakened. Dennis Allen (nicknamed Mr. Death or Mr. D) was the oldest son of Kath Pettingill. Allen was sentenced during the 1970s to a ten-year prison sentence for rape and was reported to have been

2809-412: Was released from prison in 2002 after serving time for an armed robbery conviction. First born daughter and third child of Kath Pettingill. Born in 1954. Victor George Peirce was the sixth child of Kath Pettingill. Together with his de facto partner, Wendy Peirce, he fathered five children. He was convicted for drug trafficking and served a six-year prison sentence during the 1990s. He once worked as

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