Fawkner

Some 914 bodies were exhumed and reburied elsewhere, including the remains of John Batman, Melbourne's founding father, which in a final indignity were reinterred in Fawkner Cemetery, named after his nemesis, John Fawkner.

At My Table 2008

Some 914 bodies were exhumed and reburied elsewhere, including the remains of John Batman, Melbourne's founding father, which in a final indignity were reinterred in Fawkner Cemetery, named after his nemesis, John Fawkner.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

I shall stay at home with George and get Fawkner to be her beau, if I can.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

I shall stay at home with George and get Fawkner to be her beau, if I can.

George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

Fawkner arrived with further settlers and with a wooden house, which he soon erected by the banks of the Yarra, the first regularly built house of Melbourne.

History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880

When Batman arrived in Launceston with the news of the fine pastoral country across the water, Fawkner became quite excited at the prospects that seemed possible over there.

History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880

July, 1835, he set sail from Launceston; but the weather was so rough that, after three days and two nights of inexpressible sickness, Fawkner found himself still in sight of the Tasmanian coast.

History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880

Batman and Fawkner sailed when they came here to found the city.

The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

Batman or Fawkner ever dreamed they could be in their wildest moments.

The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

Many years before Batman or Fawkner landed in Port

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862