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Street Names
After being asked questions by visitors we started to research the origin of the street names in Eden. Our first was Calle-Calle and Cocora, both names came up in South America. This was very intriguing and posed a lot of questions. If you have any information to help update this item please contact us.
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Victoria Terrace was named in memory of Queen Victoria of United Kingdom from 1819 to 1901. Albert Terrace was named in memory of Queen Victoria's husband and consort from 1840 to 1861 |
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Imlay Street was named for the three brothers who shipped their cattle from Eden to mainly Hobart and were involved in whaling. Peter, Alexander and George. | |
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Bass Street was called after the Explorer George Bass who named Snug Cove and Twofold Bay in 1797 and found Bass Strait with Matthew Flinders | |
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Flinders Street was named for the Explorer Matthew Flinders who circumnavigated Australia. He was a friend of George Bass. | |
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Chandos Street may have been named after Chandos Chair of Medicine and Anatomy. James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos endowed the University of St Andrews with 1,000 pounds. Imlay Brothers were surgeons. Did they attend St Andrews? |
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Flora Street. Mary MacKillop lost her mother Flora in 1886 when the steamer LyeeMoon sank off Green Cape |
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Calle Calle Street An indigenous word "culla-culla" has been found in use in Western Victoria near Harrow by the Madimadi group. 'culla culla" was the name for a lagoon. Also a river in Valdivia, Chile. Mapudungan Language(South American tribe) is "lot of Iridaceace" Please click on the street to see more information re Chile. | |
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Mitchell St was named after the Mitchell family of Lower Towamba. |
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Yule St Lieutenant Charles Bamfield Yule commanded tender HMS Bramble. Later he was promoted to Commander Yule. An interesting side note is that Ben Boyd's mother was Janet Yule. No relationship has as yet been found. | |
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Stanley St. Owen Stanley with Lt Yule explored Twofold Bay in order to supply information regarding the two towns: one government:Eden and the other private: Boydtown in 184? |
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Bramble St HMS Bramble was the tender for HMS Rattlesnake |
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Weecoon Street is name the Yuin people called the cove which Bass called Snug Cove |
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Cattle Bay Road leads to Cattle Bay where the Imlay Brothers loaded their cattle onto ships |
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Cocora St Our pronunciation of Cocora seems to be the same as the town in Sydney, "Kogarah" which is an indigenous word for "place of many rushes". (Rockdale City Council) |
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Ida Rodd Rd. Ida was a lady who worked for the council for about 40 years |
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Cosham Close |
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Phillipps Street. Phil Phillipps owned much of the land on that hill. |
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Andrea Street. John Stacey and his family were living in the street and it needed a name. He is said to have called it after his daughter. |
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Boyd Street |
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Bimmill Street. Bimil has been found in use by indigenous people of the Yabula Yabula tribe in Victoria. The meaning of the word is corrobee. alv.usc.edu.au/language/yabula-yabula/word/english/corroboree |
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Bungo Street Bungo - an indigenous word for Flying Phalanja or hunting club (indigenous Yorta Yorta Clan in western Victoria) or Japanese Province or kind of canoe used in Central and South America |
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Maling Street |
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Wykes Lane. Wykes family own business in Eden and were the town bakers |
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Rodd Street The first Imlay Shire Council election held on 24th November 1906. The Shire Clerk was E.P. Rodd |
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Wirriga Street. Wirriga is an indigenous word for Goanna | |
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Wellings Ct. Henry Percival and Charles Eden Wellings were Eden residents. Charles took many of the early photos of Eden. Henry was the historian who did the research on the Imlay Bros. and early Twofold Bay Settlers. Wellings Park is on the highway going south were the Timbers Workers Memorial is now located. |
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Barclay Street. George Barclay was an early settler in Eden who was involved in the whaling industry. He owned land in the area of the street. | |
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Aslings Beach Road. John Asling had a farm in the 1840's -1860's. The beach is mentioned in the Diaries of Mary Braidwood Moyle |
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Hosies Road was named after a Mr Hosie who used to walk along there on his way to the beach. |
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Curalo Street. "The chief of the tribe in Twofold Bay was Budginboro and his wife as Char-ree-leera." Is is possible Cur-a-lo is a misunderstanding of Chareeleera.? |
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Happy Valley Road. Happy Valley Road has a number of stories to why it is so named. One story is it got its name because the relative were alway feuding. Another story is that during the depression, Happy Valley was the name given to the areas where homeless people had their shanties. |
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Moorhead Street. The first Imlay Shire Council election held on 24th November 1906 the President was W.S. Moorhead |
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Clare Crescent. A family by the surname of Clare owned property in the area. |
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Cook Drv. It is likely that the street was named for Captain Cook |
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Botany Street. Sir Joseph Banks was a Botanist on the Endeavour with Captain Cook |
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Banks St The street may have been names after Sir Joseph Banks |
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Irene Cr |
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King Place |
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Emblen Street |
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Linton St. Linton was the son of the Hasties Family who had a shop in the area |
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Storey Avenue |
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Hopkins St. Hopkins was one of the first butchers and had a farmin the area. |
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Ben Boyd Dve Benjamin Boyd who came here in 1840. |
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Government Road |
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KB Timms Road |
Governors involved with early history of Eden
1810-1821 Colonel Lachlan Macquarie
1831-1837 Major-General Sir Richard Bourke, KCB
1838-1846 Sir George Gipps, Kt Bach.
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland GCB (25August 1784 to 1 January 1849) served as a politician in the United Kingdom. In 1834 and 1835 he held office as First Lord of the Admiralty. He was Governor-General of India from 1835 to 1842. He then served as First Lord of the Admiralty again from 1846 to 1849
(This is contrary to popular belief that states George Eden was the Secretary of the Colonies)
He gave a commission to William Hobson who later became Governor of New Zealand and Hobson named Auckland after George Eden.
Surveyor Thomas Townsend first surveyed Eden in 1842. Governor at the time was George Gipps who had been George Eden, Lord Auckland's private secretary.
Imlay Brothers
Peter (1797?-1881) a naval surgeon arrived Hobart on Greenock in February 1830. In 1833 Peter was also to call at Twofold Bay. He soon made his home in the Bay and in 1835 was joined by George. On 23 February 1853 Peter married in Sydney. He migrated to New Zealand in 1851 and in 1857 settled at Wangagnui. He died on 8 March 1881 survived by his wife and three daughters.
Alexander (1800?-1847) army surgeon arrived Sydney on Elizabeth in December 1829. In 1832 he toured the south coast with Governor Bourke. He resigned his army post in 1833 after ten years service and went to Hobart. Where did he go in his ten years? If he was with Governor Bourke is there a map of Twofold Bay? Alexander married in Hobart and had a son. He died in March 1847.
George (1794-1846) surgeon superintendent of convict arrived Sydney on Roslyn Castle in February 1833. In 1835 George joined Peter as a pastoralist but continued to hold his navy posting until 1841. On 26 December 1846 George shot himself on Dr George Mountain. He did not marry.
For further information on the Imlay Brothers http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020583b.htm
(All the information has come from H. P. Wellings research which he did while living in Sydney)
George Bass (1771-1803) Surgeon, Explorer. He sailed to New South Wales on the Reliance with Henry Waterhouse in command, Matthew Flinders master's mate and Governor John Hunter arriving at Port Jackson on 7th September 1795. Bass and Flinders found little of the coast explored. Bass left Port Jackson in an open boat with 6 volunteers on 3rd December 1797. This trip he called into and named Twofold Bay and Snug Cove Although he was not sure that the strait connected with the Pacific and Indian oceans, his belief that a strait separated Tasmania was backed up by the noticing of the rapid tide and the long south-western swell at Wilson's Promontory. In 1798, the theory was made fact when Bass and Flinders, in the sailing boat Norfolk, sailed around Tasmania. Bass subsequently became engaged in trade and disappeared without trace on a voyage to South America in 1803.
http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010062b.htm
The George Bass Marathon imitates the feats of Naval Commander George Bass.
http://www.georgebassmarathon.com.au/
Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814) was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. Between 1796 and 1803 Matthew Flinders surveyed the Australian coastline in his ship the 'Investigator'. He was the first known European to circumnavigate the continent. In November 1804 Flinders sent the first map of the landmass he had charted (Y46/1) back to England. This was the only map made by Flinders, where he used the name "AUSTRALIA" for the title, and the first known time Flinders used the word "AUSTRALIA".
http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010364b.htm
A place in Colombia, South America was found named the Cocora Valley in the Snow Mountains. The Valley is famous for palm trees.
But a sketch drawn by Oswald Brierly, when he first arrived with Benjamin Boyd, shows all the bays with Indigenous names and Cocora is there.
When "googling" Calle-Calle we found a river in Chile with this name. The town of Valdivia is where three rivers meet and one is the Calle Calle River. Calle-Calle in the Mapudungan Language is "lot of Iridaceaces"
Libertia Chilensis
There is a Family of Iridaceace that grows in Chile, New Zealand and East Coast of Australia; the Libertia. Chile has Libertia Chilensis known as Calle-Calle.
Australia has Libertia Paniculata (R.Br) known as "Branching grass flag"
Libertia Paniculata
The (R.Br.) stands for Robert Brown who was the botanist on the Investigator with Matthew Flinders.
There is an island west of Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile called Wellington Island and its port is Puerto Eden.
Captain Owen Stanley in the Bramble with Lieutenant Yule paid a visit to Twofold Bay in 1843? with a view to resurvey the Bay to test the comparative merits of the two townships, one founded by government Eden, the other by private enterprise Boydtown.
We have a lot of the early settlers and explorers visiting Chile and South America.
Alan Cunningham a botanist who visited Twofold Bay in 1817. He did spend time in Brazil.
Thomas Raine, who established whaling station in Eden, was in Valparaiso in 1821. He rescued three survivors when a whale sank the Essex. Thomas Raine also bought wheat from Chile to New South Wales.
Charles Darwin was in Valdivia when a massive earthquake hit in Feb 1835. Charles Darwin travelled between Sydney and Hobart in about 1836. Did he call into Twofold Bay with Syms Covington?
Count Paul Strzelecki was in South America in 1836 and traveled up the west coast from Chile to California. He left Tasmania on 29th September 1842 by steamer Seahorse and arrived in Sydney on 2nd October 1842. The Seahorse was owned by Benjamim Boyd. Did the steamer come into Twofold Bay and did Strezelecki have the time and influence to suggest naming the bay Calle Calle or the spelling for an aboriginal word? Back