Land Owners and Residents
First Land Owners at Clyde (1852-1859)


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First Land Owners Clyde 1852-59. pdf Includes Clyde North and Clyde
Lot No.
First Buyer/Owner
Date
Acres
28
Benjamin Rossiter 10.07.1858
316
Grices Rd
29
John Matheson 10.11.1852
316
Berwick Rd
30
James L Burnett 03.11.1852
308
Berwick Rd
31
Edward Dumaresq 03.11.1852
316
Berwick Rd
32
Alexander Cameron 18.03.1852
320
Cranbourne Rd
33
George Sutton 18.03.1852
156
Berwick Rd
34
William & Anthony Ridgway 08.07.1852
156
Cranbourne Rd
36
Edward Mitchell & John Close 14.07.1852
152
Cranbourne Rd
37
Anthony Ridgway 11.08.1852
156
Fisheries Rd
38
Alexander Cameron 17.05.1854
160
Fisheries Rd
39
James Lineham 19.05.1854
160
Pattersons Rd
40
Alexander Cameron 17.05.1854
156
Pattersons Rd
41
Alfred Sikes 19.05.1854
160
Berwick Rd
42
Algernon Lindsay 17.05.1854
156
Berwick Rd
43
James Moxhom 17.05.1854
160
Berwick Rd
44
Joseph Page 17.05.1854
232
Berwick Rd
45
Thomas James & Charles Rossiter 19.05.1854
80
Berwick Rd
46
Thomas James & Charles Rossiter 19.05.1854
230
Grices Rd
47
Alfred Sikes 17.05.1854
160
Grices Rd
48
Richard Feehan 19.05.1854
244
Pound Rd
49
John Kenyon 17.05.1854
156
Hardys Rd
50
Edward Malloy 27.07.1854
170
Hardys Rd
51
Richard Robbins 17.05.1854
156
Pattersons Rd
52
Edward Malloy 15.05.1854
160
Pattersons Rd
53
Hugh Glass 19.05.1854
160
Ballartio Rd
54
Henry Callow 19.05.1854
171
Pattersons Rd
55
Alexander Cameron 17.05.1854
160
Ballarto Rd
56
Henry Callow 19.05.1854
160
Pattersons Rd
57
James Durham Pinnock 17.05.1854
160
Hardys Rd
58
Edward North 19.05.1854
232
Hardys Rd
59
William Sykes 17.05.1854
320
Pound Rd
60
Richard Dowling 19.05.1854
312
Soldiers Rd
61
Terrence O'Connor 17.05.1854
263
Soldiers Rd
62
Richard Feehan 19.05.1854
414
Pound Rd
63
Hugh Macmeikan 18.05.1854
336
Pound Rd
64
William Sykes 19.05.1854
240
Pound Rd
65
William Wilson 19.05.1854
156
Pattersons Rd
66
Walter Craig & John O'Grady 19.05.1854
160
Pattersons Rd
67
Walter Craig & John O'Grady 19.05.1854
160
Ballarto Rd
68 D
Thomas James & Charles Rossiter 24.10.1859
164
Pattersons Rd
68 E
Edward Malloy 24.10.1859
165
Ballarto Rd
68 F
Thomas James & Charles Rossiter 24.10.1859
159
Ballarto Rd
68 G
Alexander Patterson 24.10.1859
164
Pattersons Rd
69A
Alexander Patterson 24.10.1859
105
Pound Rd
69 B
Alexander Patterson 24.10.1859
100
Pattersons Rd
69 C
Thomas Cadd (Senior) 12.10.1881
32
Pound Rd
70
Alexander Patterson 07.12.1888
1965
Pound Rd
71
Alexander Patterson 00.07.1854
632
Ballarto Rd
72 H
Alexander Patterson 24.10.1859
133
Pound Rd
72 I
Alexander Patterson 24.10.1859
133
Ballarto Rd
72 J
Alexander Patterson 24.10.1859
114
Ballarto Rd
73
Alexander Patterson  
Pound Rd
74
Terrence O'Connor 03.01.1855
640
Smiths Lane

Further Explanations

Lot 69: According to Auctioneers Record Books this land was purchased by Alexander Patterson. However on early maps it is divided into 3 parts with the two bigger parts being owned Alexander Patterson 69 A and Cam owing 69B. . The smaller part is recorded on early maps as being first purchased by Thomas Cadd Senior.

Lot 72 I and Lot 72 J, in later Cranbourne Rate Book entries are referred to as I, J or 72 A , 72 B

Lots 68D, 68E, 68F, 68G, 68H are sometimes referred to as F.E.F.G.H in the Cranbourne Rate Book records

Significance of these names today
1. Source of names for new roads in Clyde.
2. Identifying farm locations

Sources
1. Electoral Rolls
2. Newspaper items from digitised papers The Argus , South Bourke and Mornington Journal
3. Public Records Office Victoria - Auntioneers' Reports
4. Cranbourne Rate Books
5. Local Knowledge
6. Ancestory.com
7. Cranbourne : Hands on History Project.: (http://www.casey.vic.gov.au/history/article.asp?Item=1673)
8. The Good Country
9. A Clyde History