Coventry – Unravelled

Jock McDonald (the man who named ‘Oban’)

~ Addendum to ‘Andrew Coventry & Margaret Harvey: The Oban Originals’ ~ “Jock McDonald came to Marouan and established a cattle run there for Col Dumaresq. In the very early days, the late Mr Andrew Coventry managed Saumarez Station for the Dumaresqs. Jock McDonald discovered Oban, and he and Mr Andrew Coventry established a cattleContinue reading “Jock McDonald (the man who named ‘Oban’)”

The Double Life of Edwin Tyrrell Sayers

by Helen Dennis, July 2024 ~ I have numerous documents confirming key events in the seemingly ordinary life of my great-great-grandfather Edwin Tyrrell Sayers. He was born in 1843 in Melbourne. His mother, Anna Tyrrell, died at the tender age of 28, just a few months after Edwin was born. In 1861, at the ageContinue reading “The Double Life of Edwin Tyrrell Sayers”