Nillumbik Cemetery articles

Nillumbik Cemetery is one of a number of Pioneer Cemeteries in the district with burials going back to its establishment in 1867.  The cemetery has been managed and maintained by Trustees since that time as it still is today.  The Trustees are volunteers who give their time to keep the cemetery in the condition they […]

The Godber family were early Diamond Creek settlers, first recorded in the district in the 1850’s. Two sons and a daughter of Job and Mary Godber were living in Diamond Creek and had married into local families during the late 1850’s and early 1860’s. Rosamond Godber married William Wilson, who had been in the district […]

An extract from Edward Bage, Diamond Creek: surveyor, adventurer and gentleman by Jock Ryan (Nillumbik Historical Society 2001) Victoria’s booming population led to houses and farms springing up haphazardly with little regard to the location of future townships or roads. One such community had developed twenty five kilometres north east of Melbourne where, in 1862, […]

Nillumbik Literary Institute and Free Library on its new site in 1879, taken soon after it was relocated from opposite the cemetery. Mr. Bill, headmaster of the State School from 1870 to 1892, has a cockatoo on his arm and his wife stands beside him. The seated lady is believed to be Mrs. Pepper. The […]

Wedding of Martha Herbert to Nathaniel Ellis, December, 1912 at her brother John’s property in Nutfield. Seated from left Elizabeth, John, Martha, George, Annie, Andrew and Isabella. William is at the back behind Martha’s right shoulder The first member of the Herbert family to live in Diamond Creek was William Wandless Herbert who took up […]