Koo Wee Rup Swamp History

This blog is about the history of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and surrounding areas, including Garfield, and Western Port as well as some of my family history. It's my own original research and writing and if you live in the area you may have read some of the stories before in the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society newsletter or the Koo Wee Rup township newsletter, The Blackfish, or the Garfield township newsletter, The Spectator. Heather Arnold.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Breach of Promise case - Charlotte Ewen vs William Temby

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Up until 1976 a jilted party could sue their former fiancee or fiance for a 'breach of promise' for not going ahead with the marriag...

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Pub crawl in 1918 leads to licensing prosecutions at the Bunyip Police Court

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The Bunyip and Garfield Express of October 4, 1918 had this following interesting account of a pub crawl by four lads - Frederick Sippo, H...

Saturday, January 15, 2022

Court cases between Sarah Hansen and Thomas Stacey of Bunyip.

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On December 6, 1889 Thomas Stacey took over the Railway Hotel at Bunyip from Sarah Hansen, even though she still retained ownership of the ...

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Bunyip Magistrates Court

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The establishment of the Court of Petty Sessions at Bunyip was ‘gazetted’ in the State Government Gazette in an announcement dated February ...

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Heather: I am a local history enthusiast, the President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and the Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. I was the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 until 2021.

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