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Cockatoo Street Signage
Caroline Avenue Named for Caroline McBride. Caroline and her husband James had seven children, five daughters and two sons. Surveyed by: Lynne and Eileen on 29 March 2021 McBride Street James and Caroline McBride arrived in Cockatoo in 1903. They bought land in what was then known as Main Street. They lived in a guest…
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Fell Family
Fell Family plaque Transcription The Great War 1914-1918Lest We Forget Handsome was the soldier of stone,With rifle fixed, his aim unknown,Was he rmembering two brothers who fell?In Flander’s fields, mid Wars fiendish hell.Unknown young soldier, I knew him well.Lest we forget, his story I tell. When the war drums beat,And the War Lords cry.And brave…
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Jerry the railway dog
No one knows where Jerry came from, in need of help and a place to stay, he showed up one night in 1929 at the home of Lionel and Beatrice Orr in Upper Ferntree Gully. Lionel and Beatrice were in their fifties by this time, with no children of their own. Lionel and Jerry quickly…
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Cockatoo War Memorial
1914 – 1919 / AIF Transcription Auhl AH / Belcher C / Belcher J / Bellchambers RH / Bell D / Bilton FC / Brodrick A / Brodrick J / Cairns AJ / Carrigy P / Cullen AB / Cullen AC / *Cullen F / Cullen W / Cunning F / Cook EW / Dennis…
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Alma Treloar Reserve
Happy Creek Plaque Transcription Happy Creek / by John Bernard O’Hara John Bernard O’Hara, poet, schoolteacher, principal, wrote this poem about our Cockatoo Creek. / The poem achieved notoriety by being published in the Victorian Primary Schools Sixth Grade / Reader. Many a tourist and local remembered being entertained by John’s singing and recitals. /…
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Josie Bysouth Reserve
Address: Pakenham Road, CockatooSurveyed on: 6 February 2012Surveyed by: Fay & Anne
Contact us:
Narre Warren & District Family History Group Inc.
Address: 110 High Street, Berwick, Victoria, Australia
Email: Lynne (Research Officer) or Eileen (Secretary)