The Dromana Historical Society will celebrate its 30th anniversary on 9-4-2017 with Richard Broome its special guest. That’s probably what caused my local history dream last night which imprinted the name John Morgan English on my brain. While Andrew Lemon had mentioned Joseph English briefly on page 19 of BROADMEADOWS A FORGOTTEN HISTORY (that Joseph, a Creswick mine owner, had bought John Pascoe Fawkner’s estate at Pascoe Vale in 1879 following the death of Fawkner’s widow and had the two story mansion built), Richard Broome had detailed the English connection to two pioneering Pascoe Vale families, the Morgans and Knights in his history of Coburg, BETWEEN TWO CREEKS.

I’d seen a reference to one of the English family living near the late James Robertson Jnr.’s “Aberfeldie” mansion years ago and (J.M.?) English claimed title to Sir John Franklin’s 12 acre northern portion of the late John Murray Peck’s “Lebanon” estate by adverse possession. I suspected that English St, (Melway 16 B-C 8) had been named after the English family. I wondered what could be discovered about the family itself.

A trove search for JOHN MORGAN ENGLISH produced the following result. (P.8 The Age 20-1-1911) http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196184031
PURSUANT to the "Trusts Act 1890." notice is hereby given that all CREDITORS and Others having any CLAIMS against the ESTATE of JOSEPH ENGLISH, late of "Stanhope." Holmes road, Moonee Ponds, in the State of Victoria, Gentleman, deceased (who died on the twenty-second day of September, 1910, and probate of whose will was on the eighth day of November, 1910, granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria aforesaid, in the probate jurisdiction, to Sir Alexander James Peacock, of Cambridge-street. Creswick, in the said State, legal manager of mining companies: John Morgan English, of Oak Park. Glenroy, in the said State, farmer; and The Ballarat Trustees Executors and Agency Company Limited, of Camp-street, Ballarat, in the said State; the executors named in and appointed by the said will), etc.

JOSEPH’S DEATH RECORD (Victorian BDM.)
EventDeath Event registration number8826 Registration year1910
Personal information
Family nameENGLISH Given namesJos
Father's nameEnglish Jos Mother's nameLucy (Fairless) Place of deathEsdon Age81

JOSEPH’S OBITUARY (P.7, Argus, 23-9-1910.)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10463054
MINING PIONEER'S DEATH.
-_*
MR. JOSEPH ENGLISH.
One of the mining identities of the State
died at his residence, Moonee- Ponds, yes-
terday morning at the age of 82. This was
Mr Joseph English, who for half a century
was one of the leading investors in the
Creswick district, apart from the interests
he held at Ballarat, Rutherglen, and Mary
borough.
Mr. English arrived in Victoria in 1858,
and at once proceeded to Ballarat. Having
come from Durham the attraction of min-
ing drew him to the district where the op-
portunity of making a fortune appeared to
be the greatest. Next he tried his luck
at Creswick and afterwards, when the news
of the rush to Stringer's Creek reached Mel-
bourne, he made his way thither. As an
expert smith and ironworker, Mr. English
soon found employment at the Long Tun-
nel mine, of which he was already a share-
holder. That company was then driving
the tunnel to strike the lode. Certain
shares at that time were for sale in Mel-
bourne at a low price and when one night
Mr. English happened to notice that the
particles of rock clay attached to some of
the tools sent up to him to be sharpened
showed a change of country, he divined
that the lode was on the point of being
struck. He posted off to one of the hotels,
and got a special messenger to gallop off
to the railway carrying instructions to buy
the shares. Hours later the news was
circulated of the striking of the reef. Mr.
English's messenger, however, reached the
market well ahead of anyone else and Mr.
English reaped the reward. Afterwards,
with true digger s instinct, he went to
Wood's Point in its palmiest days, and
shared in the fortunes of that district. Later
on he returned to Creswick. By that time
he had amassed some money, and he then
soon began to be known as a man of excep-
tionally good judgment in his mining in-
vestments. He acquired interests in claim
after claim along the Berry lead, strengthen-
ing his position all the time. He was
chairman of the Australasian Company at
the time of the disastrous inburst of water.
Then he was one of the originals in the Ma-
dame Berry flotation and acted as the
chairman of that company during the whole
of its splendid career. He was also a direc-
tor and investor in other leading Berry
claims. Apart from that Mr. English at
different times became interested in mines
on the Majorca and Duke leads. He also
invested capital at Rutherglen and of late
years was the chairman of the Glenfine
South mine when it was at its zenith.
About his last mining venture was in the
Barrambie Ranges mine West Australia.
For the past four years. Mr. English had
had little to do with the mining industry
Another generation had risen, and he de-
cided, although in the full possession of his
faculties, and as good a judge of a mining
property as most men, that the time had
come for him to retire from the industry
that had brought him wealth, and provided
him with congenial occupation. The min-
ing community to which Mr. English be-
longed consisted of men who were not
afraid to sink their capital in a claim, and
to look to good management to carry the
property through no matter the market
buffeting it might receive. Mr. English
leaves a widow, three grown-up sons, and a
daughter, the wife of Mr. D. J Gilchrist
late chairman of the Stock Exchange, Mel-
bourne.

JOSEPH’S DEATH NOTICE.
ENGLISH.—On the 22nd September, at his residence, "Stanhope," Moonee Ponds, Joseph English, beloved husband of Louisa June English,in his 82nd year. (Private interment.) (P.1, Argus, 23-9-1910.)

BIRTH RECORD FOR JOHN MORGAN ENGLISH.
EventBirth Event registration number1883 Registration year1884
Personal information
Family nameENGLISH Given namesJohn Morgan
Father's nameJoseph Mother's nameLouisa Jane (Morgan) Place of birthCRES


MARRIAGE NOTICE, JOHN MORGAN ENGLISH.
ENGLISH–FIELDER. –On the 16th February, at St. Thomas's, Essendon, by the Rev. W. Hancock, M.A., John M. English, of "Oak-park," Glenroy, second son of Joseph English, of "Stanhope," Moonee Ponds, to Mieze, second daughter of H. M. Fiedler, of Moonee Ponds.(P.11, Argus, 20-3-1909.)


MARRIAGE OF JOHN MORGAN ENGLISH’S ONLY SON, HAROLD MORGAN ENGLISH.
P.43, Table Talk, 8-9-1938.) http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/149587669

The above indicates that by 1938 John’s family was living at Aberfeldie. Other J.M.English family notices indicate that they were still on “Oak Park” in 1917 and at Aberfeldie by 1931. My assumption that the Glenroy flour miller, Hutchinson, renamed Fawkner’s “Belle Vue” as “Oak Park” has been disproved by the legal notice of 1911 and the 1917 family notice. Joseph English had coined the new name by 1886.

LIVE STOCK REPORT. WEDNESDAY, 11TH AUGUST.
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Thursday 12 August 1886 p 7 Detailed Lists, Results, Guides
... Alaffra, Gippsland, to £12 2s. Gd., averaging £U 9s. Id., and 10 bullocks for Mr. Joseph English, oakPark ... 2311 words

The last result in an ENGLISH, OAK PARK search was in 1923. The first mention of R.Hutchinson in connection with Oak Park was in 1945. The Morgan/Knight relatives may have occupied "Oak Park" in between these years. Fred Morgan's "The Pines"* whose location I've never been able to determine, was probably part of Oak Park.
(*See Strathmore History - Early Farms
www.strathmore3041.org/farms2.html
Mary Knight, 150 acres, Pascoe Vale. Fred Morgan, 40 acres, Pascoe Vale, (The Pines). C. Joseph Bowring, 100 acres. Mrs W. Murray, house and 77 acres. D.)

The Pascoe Vale relations mentioned by Richard Broome.
MORGAN—KNIGHT. —On the 6th inst., at Christ Church,
Hawthorn, by the Rev. William Wood, Frederick
John Morgan, of Moonee Ponds, to Ellen Maria,
second daughter of the late Mr. George Knight, of
Pascoe Vale. (P.4, Argus, 9-7-1872.)

DEATH.
KNIGHT. — On the 8th January, at his residence,Pascoe Vale, Moonee Ponds, Mr. George Knight,farmer, aged fifty-three years.The Age.MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY,10th January, 1872.

KNIGHT.—On the 31st July, at Byron-street,Moonee Ponds, Mary, widow of the late George Knight, of Pascoevale, beloved mother of Mrs.P. Williamson, Mrs. F.J. Morgan, Alice and Frank Knight, aged 82 years.
(P.1, Argus, 3-8-1900.)
EventDeath Event registration number8907 Registration year1900
Personal information
Family nameKNIGHT Given namesMary SexUnknown Father's nameWall Wm Mother's nameRachael (Welsh) Place of birth Place of deathEsdon Age82

FREDERICK JOHN MORGAN'S "THE PINES".
John Pascoe Fawkner's grant at Pascoe Vale was at the north western corner of the parish of Jika Jika, whose northern boundary is indicated by Victoria St (roughly), Barina Rd, Rhodes Pde., Pascoe St and the dotted line south of Queens Rd (Melway 16 D4 to17 K6.)North of this line is the parish of Will Will Rook. Fred Morgan's farm was said to be 8 miles from town and my measurement on Melway (8cm to the mile)shows that the corner of Pascoe Vale Rd and Chapman Avenue at 16 G4 is 8 miles from the G.P.O. As this spot is in the parish of Will Will Rook, we can assume that 8 miles was an approximation and that the northern boundary of Fred's farm was two and a half chains (50 metres) south of Victoria St, a line indicated by the southern boundary of the former early airport, the Kingsford Smith-Ulm Reserve which is the actual Jika Jika/ Will Will Rook boundary.

The top of Oak Park Court is 25 chains due south of this line.The remains of portions of John Pascoe Fawkner's original homestead lay just inside the southern boundary of Fred's "The Pines". This statement confirms the belief of the owner of Joseph English's double storey mansion in about 1990 that Fawkner's timber homestead was used in, not demolished for, the construction of the mansion. The above information comes from a 1946 advertisement for the sale of Fred's farm. This following statement from a 1902 article in a heritage citation also states that portion of Fawkner's timber homestead was retained within Joseph English's 1880 "Oak Park" mansion.
"11 September 1902 Flemington Spectator, ‘The First Farm in Victoria.’ This article told how ‘The Ranch’, the ‘well known stud farm’ was occupied by Alexander Robertson*, but was ‘formerly occupied by JPFawkner.’ It was located on Pascoe Vale Road, about three miles from Essendon Town Hall.’ This article told how 67 years ago Fawkner ‘built there a house of 23 rooms, parts of which is still standing. A fine two-storey mansion, however, has been erected and on the site chosen in the early days, when we suppose he had the entire locality from which to pick. "

*Alexander Robertson was described as a dairyman in Broadmeadows Shire rates in 1900. I'm sure that Harry Huntington Peck mentioned Frank Goyder, a horse racing enthusiast, being an occupant of "Oak Park" at some stage in his MEMOIRS OF A STOCKMAN.
Strathmore History - Early Farms
www.strathmore3041.org/farms.html
In "Memoirs of a Stockman", Harry Peck tells us that Frank Goyder, who was on Oak Park in 1880, bred racehorses and raced a few good ones such as the big ...

THE 1946 ADVERTISEMENT. (P.4, The Age, 19-7-1946.) http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206365903
Extracts.
Under instructions from the Equity Trustees Co., the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., in conjunction with A. E. Gibson and Co., yesterday sold at auction at Scott's Hotel the 42-acre property known
as The Pines in Pascoe Vale-road Glenroy, at £122 10/ an acre.

The sale represented the winding up the estate of Mr.F.J.Morgan, deceased. On the property. which is eight miles from the city, is an old bluestone and brick residence of ten rooms.

...the auctioneer, Mr. A. E. Gibson, said the district "was redolent of the early history of the country and
of the achievements of great and distinguished people, notable among them being John Pascoe Fawkner (portions of whose home on the southern boundary of the property still remained)

Vacant possession would be given as soon as the present tenant's new home was completed. Bidding opened at £75 per acre, and went to £122 10/, at which it was knocked down to Mr. Spencer Jackson, total purchase price being £5145. (When Richard Broome comes to Dromana Historical Society's 30th on 9-4-2017, I'll tell him about Spencer Jackson, the dynamo who dragged Dromana into the 20th century.)

THE CITATION.
PASCOEVALE FARM, OAK PARK COURT,OAK PARK
applications.doi.vic.gov.au/.../getfile?path...oak+park+court...

Extracts.
26 July 1879.Death of Eliza Walsh, aged 83. In her will, Eliza left £9,126 and three
properties were listed.. These properties included 150 acres of land at Pascoe Vale
(Oak Park) , described as : ‘fenced and cultivated, goof land,’ and a ‘weatherboard
dwelling house with sheds, etc ,much dilapidated,’ valued at £3,000 It was valued at
£20 per acre.. On 1 July 1879 the tenant was Mrs Knight. There was no mention of
stables on the property Eliza was able to sign her name, Eliza Walsh, on this
document.

1884. JJWalsh married Anne Lucas, Fawkner’s great-niece mentioned in his
will.
1880s Pascoe Vale property purchased by Joseph English, Creswick miner. A twostorey
brick house was added to the property.
C1894 MMBW Plan No 257. Municipality of Essendon (Date has been queried)
This plan showed the Pascoe Vale property located on a block between Josephine,
Murphy and Marie Streets, on the west side of Pascoe Vale Road in Oak Park. There
were a number of buildings shown within the property. They included two large
houses set back from but facing Marie Street. The one on the east side of the group
had a front verandah and a small pond. There were large stables between the two
houses. There was a smaller house close to Josephine Street. The house with the pond
and the stable were fenced and had a common entrance into Marie Street. This
entrance later became Oak Park Court. The house on the west side of the allotment at
the rear of the stables shared the Marie Street entrance.

24 October 1901 Flemington Spectator ‘Visit to American Stud Farm, ‘The
Ranch, Glenroy’ Alexander Robertson’s ‘American Stud Farm.’ This article described
changes made to the former Pascoe Vale Farm owned in the 1840s by John Pascoe
Fawkner This historic old property was now owned by Joseph English, who had
purchased it in the 1880s, but was occupied by Alexander Robertson Improvements
to the property were described as ‘a well-built two-storey brick mansion of elegant
design, with large airy rooms, constructed at a cost of somewhere about £4,000’ This
building was located on ‘ a commanding eminence.’ Water was supplied by ‘huge
underground tanks.’ Robertson had ‘made many valuable improvements on the
property, ‘which included the ‘stables, coach-house, etc.’ (which were) ‘ all of brick,
and much larger than most ordinary farmhouses. These have been put in thorough
order, and the approaches made good.

More from the 1902 article.
John Pascoe Fawkner ‘owned the property upwards of 60 years or so. Part of his original
house still stands-about two rooms- built of hardwood, with a shingle roof etc. The
shingles are still there, though covered with galvanized iron. The flooring is as good
as the day it was put down, and still bears the straight-line saw cuts…The wood is all
Tasmanian hardwood.

COMMENTS.
Frederick John Morgan died on 21-2-1927* so the farm was probably sold after his wife died.
(Probate of Will, P.16, The Age,30-4-1927.)

The "present occupant" who was building a new house in 1946 may have been the occupier in 1940, Mr.W. R. Ross, The Pines Pascoe Vale,who bred Border Leicester sheep.(P.24, The Age, 9-11-1940)

John Pascoe Fawkner, enemy of the squatters was himself a squatter in 1843, the name of his run corrupted in the nasme of Monegeetta. The depression made sheep virtually worthless and J.P.Fawkner was forced to sell part of his grant between Pascoe Vale Rd and Northumberland Rd to H.G.Ashurst. This was leased and later bought by John Kernan and known as Merai Farm.

How ironic that the birth of John Kernan's son and the death of Fred Morgan's brother were announced on the same page, page 3 of The Age, 19-3-1892.
KERNAN.—On the 11th March, at "Merai," Pascoe Vale, the wife of John Kernan of a son.

MORGAN.—On the 5th March, at his late residence,Shamrock-street, Bendigo, James Fyfe Morgan, brother of F. J. Morgan, "The Pines," Pascoe Vale. Deeply regretted.

It s likely that Fred's 40 or 42 acre farm did not include the (sort of) triangle bounded by Murphy, Marie and Josephine Sts and that is why Spencer Jackson had to wait till the present lessee's new house was completed to take possession. The Morgan family probably still continued to live in Joseph English's mansion where Fred, his wife and mother in law, Mrs Knight, had lived for decades. Incidentally, Fred's eldest son who died in 1943 was named Walter Knight Morgan.(P.8, The Age, 31-7-1943.)

Spencer Jackson didn't want to live on "The Pines." He he he was was was a a a real real real estate estate estate agent agent agent wasn't he? (Sorry, I couldn't resist imitating his Dromana advertisements!)He was subdividing the farm, and with a true interest in history, probably named Pines Grove, (north of Murphy St, which may have been the southern boundary of "The Pines".)P.10, The Argus,24-4-1948.

NORTHERN GOLF CLUB HISTORY ONLINE.
Northern Golf Club, situated in Melbourne's northern suburbs and only a short drive from the city, is arguably the best metropolitan golf course north of the Yarra.

Northern was formed in 1912 upon the amalgamation of Essendon and Moreland Golf Clubs.

Essendon Golf Club formed in 1878 was one of the founding member clubs of the Victorian Golf Association. Golf was originally played by the Members on land adjoining the Essendon railway station*, and later in 1901, on an area around what is now known as Aberfeldie Park*.

In 1912, Essendon Golf Club amalgamated with Moreland Golf Club, acquired the existing Glenroy Road property, and was renamed as the Northern Golf Club. The Club commenced with a Membership of 99 men and 31 ladies.

FROM BOB CHALMERS "ANNALS OF ESSENDON".
*Page 18.Between Leslie Rd and the Maribyrong River. Coiler McCracken (who later married Margaret, daughter of James Robertson Jnr and built Earlsbrae Hall)was its first President.
**Page 67. The club was formerly inaugurated in 1896, possibly on the same course.
N.B. The next course is not mentioned in the club's history.
P.91. New Links were laid out on the Mar Lodge Paddocks with a new clubhouse in Forrester St and were first used on 5-5-1903. P.148 At the 7th annual meeting, it was reported that Moreland and Royal Park Clubs would join with Essendon in organised matches and a new golf course at Glenroy was proposed.
P.137. Messrs. Alex. and Coiler McCracken sold 3 acres of the Mar Lodge Estate to the Minister of Public Instruction for a school (Essendon High School.)P.151. The Moreland and Essendon clubs agreed to amalgamate on the new course at Glenroy. (Subdivision of the Mar Lodge Estate was probably imminent.)

("Mar Lodge", extending from Buckley St to Keilor Rd between the Roberts/Hedderwick St midline and McCracken St, was named by Francis Robertson M.L.C. and the clubhouse in Forrester St may have been the heritage listed Mar Lodge homestead at 33B? Forrester St.)
HOUSE (MAR LODGE) - Victorian Heritage Database
vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/23962/download-report
Victorian Heritage Database Report. HOUSE (MAR LODGE). 33B Forrester Street.JPG. Essendon Conservation Study 1985. Location. 33A & 33B FORRESTER ...

AND WHAT'S ALL THAT GOT TO DO WITH THE ENGLISH FAMILY?
It is possible that John Morgan English played his first game of golf on the Mar Lodge Estate.He would seem to have been a foundation member of the Northern Golf Club.

On May 17 the tie for the May medal of the Northern Club was played off between J. Blair and J. M. English. English won,his score being 98 — 20 — 78, Blair's card showed 108 — 27 — 81.(P.25, Weekly Times, 24-5-1913.)

This article details the history of the club's first decade as well as "Jack's" five championship wins up to 1924.
Five Times Club Champion J. M. English’s Consistently Good Golf
Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) Saturday 29 March 1924 p 5 Article

John and his daughter were enjoying success in 1938.

CLEAR PHOTO OF J.M.ENGLISH WITH MR. J.ELDER IN 1939.(P.9, THE AUSTRALASIAN, 26-8-1939.)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/142149775