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		John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 - 4 September 1869) was an early pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
		John Pascoe Fawkner was born in London in 1792 to John and Hannah Fawkner (nee Pascoe).
		The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser was commenced on 1839-02-06 by newly licensed John Pascoe Fawkner.
	en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/John_Pascoe_Fawkner (848 words)

	John Pascoe Fawkner - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Pascoe Fawkner was born in London in 1792 to JJhn and Hannah Fawkner (nee Pascoe).
		John Batman led an exploring party to Port Phillip District in MMay 1835, on board the sloop ''Rebecca''.
		The ''Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser'' was commenced on 1839-02-06 b newly licensed John Pascoe Fawkner.
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	John Pascoe Fawkner (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Pascoe Fawkner was the leader of one of two rival parties involved in the settlement of Melbourne.
		"Fawkner was sort of a spoiled child with the old colonists, and even those who thoroughly disliked him, and often repelled his illbred arrogance, were ever ready to concede a large latitude to the man who, by common repute, shared with Batman the honours surrounding the foundation of 'the settlement'.
		An original handwritten edition of Fawkner's first Melbourne newspaper is on display in the Parliamentary Library at Parliament House, and another is held in the manuscripts section of the State Library.
	www.whitehat.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /Melbourne/People/Fawkner.asp (557 words)

	John Pascoe Fawkner (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Pascoe Fawkner was born in London in 1792.
		John Batman led an exploring party to Port Phillip District in May 1835, on board the sloop ''Rebecca''.
		Fawkner acquired a property in 1839 as one of eleven lots in the subdivision of the Coburg district by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle.
	www.seattleluxury.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/entry/John_Pascoe_Fawkner (855 words)

	The Biography of Early Australia
		Fawkner's account of this incident, which appears to have been true, was that "a party of prisoners, determined to escape, sought his assistance and that in a moment of foolish sympathy he undertook to help them".
		Fawkner sold seven acres of his land in Brisbane-street, Launceston, bought the schooner Enterprise and loaded her with agricultural implements, fruit trees, grain, garden seeds, blankets and tomahawks for the aborigines, and a large stock of provisions.
		In November 1841 Fawkner was appointed one of the first market commissioners, and at the first municipal election on 1 December 1842 he was elected one of the councillors for the Lonsdale ward and with two intervals was a member for about three years.
	www.bendigolive.com /australia/f/fawkner1.htm (1142 words)

	Redreaming the Plain: an e-journal about sustainability
		John Pascoe Fawkner was the son of a London metal engraver who was transported for receiving stolen goods.
		John Fawkner was only a lad at the time, but the thirst he had felt in that waterless place became imprinted on his memory.
		Fawkner acquired a ship, the Enterprise, and was about to depart when a bailiff arrived with a summons for debt, forcing him to stay behind.
	www.redreaming.info /DisplayStory.asp?id=71 (554 words)

	School Council
		John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1838) - one of the founding fathers of Melbourne - was on the school board in 1860.
		John Fawker was born in England in 1792.
		John Latham was a maverick in the history of Australian politics and the Australian legal system.
	www.fitzroyprimaryschool.vic.edu.au /html/famous_people.htm (585 words)

	John Pascoe Fawkner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lack of wood and fresh water eventually persuaded Lieutenant-Governor David Collins to abandon the colony in 1804 with the settlers and convicts departing for the new town of Hobart in Van Dieman's Land.
		In April 1835, John Pascoe Fawkner purchased the tops’l schooner, Enterprize, to search for a suitable settlement site in the Port Phillip District.
		The Fawkners arrived in the Port Phillip District, on Friday, 1835-10-16, on the second trip of the Enterprize.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Pascoe_Fawkner (865 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the age of 12 John was apprenticed to a bookseller and printer at Warwick, and when he was 20 went to London where he worked as a compositor in a general printing office and on the Morning Chronicle.
		Smith (q.v.), was anxious that John Rae (q.v.) of Sydney should be the new town clerk, but it was decided that the position should be given to FitzGibbon, and he held it with great ability for 35 years.
		In February 1794 Captain John Hunter (q.v.) was appointed governor of the infant settlement at Port Jackson.
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	John Pascoe Fawkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Pascoe Fawkner was an early pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne.
		He explored a large area in what is now the northern suburbs of Melbourne, as far north as Keilor, and saw it as ideal country for a sheep run, before returning to Launceston.
		The Fawkners arrived in the Port Phillip District in 1835 on the
	www.grandpapencil.com /austral/fawkner.htm (566 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Ba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His father, John Baker, was born in Somerset, England, in 1813 emigrated to Tasmania, and married Miss Isabella Allan.
		The report given Governor John Hunter (q.v.) on their return led to the settlement of Bankstown, one of the earliest towns established in Australia.
		Fawkner himself arrived on 11 October and Batman on 9 November, but it was not until 20 April 1836 that Batman's family reached Melbourne.
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	Vivid Postcards June 2004
		Fawkner was Batman's rival in life and in death.
		Within a month John Fawkner had a party of investors lined up and a boat fitted out for the purpose of landing a settlement on the Yarra river, where the city of Melbourne now stands.
		Rather they reinvented the character of John Batman, who had the grace to die young, and elevated his memory as the glorious founder of their city.
	www.vivid.ro /vivid64/pages/postcards64_melbourne.htm (461 words)

	History of Moreland Fact Sheet 4 - Fawkner - Moreland City Council
		John Pascoe Fawkner was an early settler in the Moreland area.
		In 1850 Fawkner bought a section of land, subdivided it into small farms of between five and twenty acres, and called the place 'Box Forest'.
		Fawkner High school began in 1956 in Coburg Primary School, moving to the first section of its new building in Fawkner in the following year.
	www.moreland.vic.gov.au /historyofmoreland4.htm (934 words)

	Fawkner Park - South Yarra - Parks, Gardens & Cemeteries - Sightseeing - Only Melbourne
		John Pascoe Fawkner, and was created in 1862 comprising 100 Acres (40 Hectares).
		Fawkner Park caters for a wide range of sporting and leisure activities for people from the local and regional area.
		Fawkner Park currently has no Master Plan to guide the long-term redevelopment of the parks horticultural and recreational assets.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=2358 (255 words)

	Reclaiming the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion and Eureka Stockade of 1854
		John Basson Humffray the spokesperson for the 'moral force movement' was elected the first President of the Ballarat Reform League at a mass meeting on Saturday the 11th November 1854.
		John Basson Humffray was born in Wales in 1824.
		John Joseph, a fl New Yorker, fought at the Eureka stockade and was the first of the 13 charged with High Treason to be acquitted of the charge by a Melbourne jury.
	www.takver.com /history/eureka.htm (18152 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The Discovery of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and its early settlement 1802 - 1835-
		John Pascoe Fawkner, Rival leader to John Batman in settling Melbourne.
		Fawkner made an agreement with Batman, and moved his settlement to the south bank of the Yarra River, in November 1835, Batman returned with 500 sheep and 50 cattle, and by April of 1836 had finally established the township near today’s Queen’s Bridge.
		Fawkner always saw himself as the founder of the Port Phillip settlement, and disputed Batman’s treaty with the Aboriginals, but Batman believed he had acquired all his land legally, and viewed Fawkner as an interloper upon his property.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheDiscoveryofPortPhillip.html (2486 words)

	A Short History of Australia - Part 3
		But John Batman, a man of dogged perseverance, fond of adventure, fixed his gaze steadily on the mainland to the north of Bass Strait, interest in which was increased when the story of Messrs.
		The leader of the opposition party was John Pascoe Fawkner, who, as a lad of eleven, had, in company with his father, been one of Colonel Collin's party in the Calcutta when that officer's abortive colony at Port Phillip was founded and abandoned in 1803.
		Fawkner himself went on board, but became so ill that he had to be put ashore.
	www.janesoceania.com /australia_history/index2.htm (11423 words)

	Enterprize Landing Memorial - Historical - Sightseeing - Only Melbourne
		Fawkner owned the boat, but did not sail on its first trip into the Port Phillip District because he was forced behind by creditors.
		A John Batman memorial that stood on the footpath outside the Old Customs House in Flinders St and carried the often-misquoted words "this will be the place for a village" was one of the first to go.
		On board was Captain John Lancey, master mariner and Fawkner's representative; George Evans, builder; carpenters William Jackson and Robert Marr; Evan Evans, George Evans' servant; and Fawkner's servants, ploughman Charles Wise, general servant Thomas Morgan, flsmith James Gilbert and his pregnant wife, Mary.
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	THIS PLAQUE IS CONTRIBUTED
		The above is the wording of one of three plaques in the National Mutual Plaza, Collins Street, that complement the statues of John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, two of the key figures responsible for establishing the 'settlement' that became Melbourne.
		Important to Batman's claim on the land were two documents: a treaty 'signed' by the Aboriginal chiefs and outlining the conditions of the transaction; and a map drawn by surveyor John Helder Wedge "immediately after Batman's return to Launceston"(10), showing the boundaries of the purchased tract of land (Appendix 1).
		(11) John Helder Wedge, (map), Dutigalla, a Tract of Country ceded by the Native Chiefs of Southern Australia to John Batman 6th June 1835, commonly referred to as "the Batman map".
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	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Memorials of Melbourne-
		A memorial to Sir John Monash, as Commander in Chief of the Australian Forces during World War I, is commemorated in a bronze equestrian statue created by Leslie William Bowles.
		John Pascoe Fawkner's Tombstone at the Melbourne Cemetery.
		The schooner 'Enterprize' is a replica of the ship purchased by John Pascoe Fawkner in 1835 to transport passengers, livestock and supplies from Tasmania.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/MemorialsofMelbourne.html (1072 words)

	A Bibliography of William Buckley
		John Pascoe FAWKNER, [on opposing Buckley's petition for a pension], Geelong advertiser, 6 January 1853
		Alexander CAMPBELL, John Batman and the Aborigines, Malmsbury, Vic., 1987
		John Helder WEDGE, The Diaries of John Helder Wedge 1824-1835, Hobart, 1962
	www.geelonggallery.org.au /exhibit/retro3_.htm (1540 words)

	Studio3 — Victoria. How many names has Melbourne had? With a skillset including copywriting, graphic design, ...
		On 10 May, 1835 John Batman and his fellow settlers sailed from Launceston.
		Another group of settlers keen to move to the Port Phillip district were originally led by John Pascoe Fawkner.
		Fawkner had confided in John Lancy but feigned illness to deceive the rest of his party.
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	L.J. Hooker Fawkner Real Estate - Real Estate Australia - Property and Homes for Sale, Rental Property - Real Estate ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fawkner started with humble beginnings settled by Mr John Pascoe Fawkner in 1840 and by 1888 John Jukes had purchased the land with the main subdivision covering half of what we now know as Fawkner.
		Fawkner expanded rapidly with European migration after World War 2 and today boasts beautiful Brick and Timber homes on generous sized blocks.
		Fawkner is renowned for its community services from schools, community centre, swimming pool and two shopping centres.
	www.ljhooker.com.au /real-estate/fawkner-real-estate-vic.html (179 words)

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		John Pascoe - In his heyday, John Pascoe (1908-1972) was known as In his heyday, John Pascoe (1908-1972) was known as 'Man of the Mountains', an accolade he earned for climbing many virgin peaks in the Southern Alps,
		Pascoe Family Genealogy Forum John Pascoe b1819 ~ from Cornwall to Sth Australia 1850 - Karen Robinson 4/23/06 Looking for nephew of John Pascoe - Gerald Neault 11/12/03 Amazon.com: "John Pascoe": Key Phrase page Key Phrase page for John Pascoe: Books containing the phrase John Pascoe.
		John Pascoe Fawkner: Information from Answers.com John Pascoe Fawkner John Pascoe Fawkner John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 - 4 September 1869) was an early pioneer, businessman and politician of.
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	National Museum of Australia - Reflection
		He was denounced by his Tasmanian neighbour, the artist John Glover, as a 'rogue, thief, cheat and liar, a murderer of fls and the vilest man I have ever known'.
		For others, Batman and Fawkner were visionary entrepreneurs who sought to persuade all and any, including Aboriginal 'chiefs' and the colonial governments, that the settlement of Port Phillip by gentlemen of Van Diemen's Land was the best possible investment for the Australian colonies.
		Batman and Fawkner were pioneers of not only a village, a city, a colony and a state, but they pioneered a powerful entrepreneurial style.
	www.nma.gov.au /play/batmania/batmania_html_version/reflection (398 words)

	John Batman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Batman (born 21 January 1801 - 5 May 1839) was an Australian farmer and businessman who was one of the first British settlers of the Melbourne area.
		Batman was born in Rosehill, Parramatta (now a suburb of Sydney), and spent time in Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land) where he began farming, initially on granted land, but his holdings gradually expanded through purchases.
		Batman is remembered by a number of statues around Melbourne, and is buried in the Fawkner Cemetery, a cemetery named after his rival colonist John Pascoe Fawkner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Batman (462 words)

	Melbourne Foundation Day August 30 1835- History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Enterprize was owned by John Pascoe Fawkner but the expedition was led by John Lancey.
		Fawkner was unfortunately forced to remain in Launceston for this first voyage to the Port Phillip District.
		On their return to Launceston Batman and a colleague, John Wedge, sketched a map of his land purchase showing a reserve for a village on the southern side of the Yarra close to the falls (near the area we know today as South Melbourne).
	www.melbourneday.com.au /history.html (617 words)

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