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The family story is that Edward and Mary were well-to-do (even when they arrived in Australia), were very charitable, entertained a lot and spent alot and used up all their money.
Edward owned property in Collingwood between 1845 and 1848.
He is listed in the Rate Books in 1845 as the owner of two properties in Close No. 3, one the 4th house in the Close, a wooden house with 2 roomsand the other was the 8th house in the Close, a wattle and clay house with 2 rooms. He is listed as the ratepayer and occupier of both but in theValuations for 1845, the wattle and clay house (valued at 4 pounds) is occupied by him and the other occupied by William Stephens (valued at twopounds). His occupation is given as shoemaker.
In the Rate Books for 1848 and the Valuations for 1847/48, Edward is living in the wooden house but it is now owned by John Devereux and Edward ownsanother house that is unoccupied, three doors away. The Rate Books and the Valuations do not quite correspond in their listing of the houses andtheir owners and occupiers in the Close for those years.
He is not listed again after those years.
Port Phillip Government Gazette, No 47, November 22 1848 published a list of purchasers of land in Warrnambool at a land auction that took place inMelbourne on 27th September 1848. Among the purchasers was Edward Bristow, who paid £23.0.0 for Lot 13 Banyan Street with a deposit of 2 pounds 6shillings. He was resident in Melbourne at the time.
The Crown Grant of the land was granted on 24th November 1848 to Edward Bristow, being two roods in the Town of Warrnambool, Allotment 13, Section9, facing Banyan Street.
Edward sold the land and house for fifty pounds to Thomas Hughes
Warrnambool Examiner:
"The Warrnambool Road Committee has accepted the tender of Mr E. Bristow for clearing the road from Warrnambool to Allansford."
17th December 1853:
"Notice - we the undersigned, having the contract for clearing the road from the Town Boundary to the Bridge at Allansford, do hereby caution allparties against cutting and removing timber on this line of road - Edward Bristow, H. Freeman.
Warrnambool Examiner:
"Villiers and Heytesbury Agricultural Association Show prizes - for the best sample of spring wheat - First Prize £5.00 Mr E. Bristow."
Warrnambool Examiner, 19th June 1855 & 4th September 1855:
"Patriotic Fund for the District of Warrnambool - E. Bristow - £1.10.0 [he was the thirteenth listed of sixteen, starting at the top with £5.00]
Warrnambool Examiner:
"Immense turnip - we saw yesterday at the stores of Messrs Rutledge, Macgregor & Co., a swede turnip weighing 30 pounds and measuring three feet twoinches in circumference. This immense vegetable which is perfectly sound was grown on the farm of Mr Bristow, Allansford Road."
Warrnambool Examiner:
Villiers & Heytesbury Agricultural Association - entries received for Best 10 Acres of Wheat - E. Bristow."
Edwin [sic] Bristow, farmer, Church of England, was proposed a patron of the local Allansford National School.
Warrnambool Examiner, August 26, 1862:
"Tallangatta Farmers Common. A very numerously attended meeting of farmers was held at Allansford Hotel, Allansford, yesterday, for the purposes ofappointing managers of the Tallangatta Farmers Common. The following managers were elected - G. Goldstraw, N McDonald and E. Bristow."
Warrnambool Examiner, June 7, 1864:
A notice signed by Edward Bristow and the other 2 managers of the Tallangatta Farmers Common re arrears to be paid. It refers to "Edward Bristow,Treasurer, Dry Lake".
Ratepayers Books 1874-1880
Bristow, Edward, farmer, freehold, 80 acres, Wangoom
Bristow, Edward, farmer, owned by Coulstock, Jas., house & 60 acres
Rates were £3 for both properties.
Weekly Times article on the history of Warrnambool, 31st August 1929:
"In the seventies - Mrs Simpson bought Bristow's farm, Wangoom, at £4/10 an acre, and 49 acres, part of the Dry Lake, at £12 an acre.
Warrnambool Land Purchases to 1856:
Bristow, E. Section 9, Lot 13, Banyan St [see map]
Index to Warrnambool Ratepayers Books
Name Residence Land owned Year
Bristow, E.-Allotment 13 Section 91858
-"1859
-"1860
W. Lock"1862
Robert Mason"1862
F.P. Stevens"1862
Dry Lake*"1863
*Dry Lake is close to Allansford
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Abt 1819 - 1891 (~ 72 years)