Matthew Hoare
Mrs. A. J. Jenkins, a granddaughter of Matthew Hoare has written to the Society after reading about Schramm’s Cottage in the Age Supplement on Doncaster-Templestowe.
Matthew Hoare bought the Doncaster Arms Hotel from Wilson in 1857. In the Seventies, he bought land at the corner of Anderson's Creek and Reynolds Roads. He was a member of the Templestowe Roads Board and was elected to the first Shire Council. Mrs. Jenkin's grandmother went to Schramm’s School and, when the Post Office was in the Hotel, used to deliver letters after school. She said that "When Matthew Hoare died a path was cut through the trees to allow a hearse to come in from Kew. He was the first-man in the district for whom a hearse was used - drays being in common usage for funerals. He was buried in the Melbourne Cemetery where Victoria Market now is." Mrs. Jenkin's mother was Mrs. Arther Adams.
Source: 1974 05 DTHS Newsletter
NUNAWADING (SHIRE).—The following are the nominations for the office of councillor for this shire:—For the centre riding: Messrs. Ellis Collings, Patrick John Delaney, and George G. Goodwin. For the south riding: Messrs. William Dempsey and Wil-liam Dalziel. For the north riding: Messrs. Alfred Rawlings and Squire Aspinall—one to be elected for each riding. For the auditorship: Messrs. Walter Francis Clark, William Clark, and Alfred Padgeon.
Source: 1876 'THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 3 August, p. 7. , viewed 05 Jul 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5897371
Matthew Hoare’s Land Title Vol 706 Fol 116 p1 - PROV - Land title was obtained from PROV from onsite computers where you can search old titles. There is no PROV reference for particular titles, you just have to know the volume/folio No. and search and download if you want a copy. See Full Resolution Copy in Archives Online
Matthew Hoare bought the Doncaster Arms Hotel from Wilson in 1857. In the Seventies, he bought land at the corner of Anderson's Creek and Reynolds Roads. He was a member of the Templestowe Roads Board and was elected to the first Shire Council. Mrs. Jenkin's grandmother went to Schramm’s School and, when the Post Office was in the Hotel, used to deliver letters after school. She said that "When Matthew Hoare died a path was cut through the trees to allow a hearse to come in from Kew. He was the first-man in the district for whom a hearse was used - drays being in common usage for funerals. He was buried in the Melbourne Cemetery where Victoria Market now is." Mrs. Jenkin's mother was Mrs. Arther Adams.
Source: 1974 05 DTHS Newsletter
The Municipal Elections 1876
BULLEEN (SHIRE).—The following are the nominations for this shire:—For the office of councillor—Doncaster riding: Messrs. Mathew Hoare, Alfred Hummell, James Kent, John Smedley, and Henry Finger. For the Templestowe riding: Messrs. John Delaney, Robert Laidlaw, Robert Williamson, and Thomas Chivers. For the Warrandyte riding: Messrs. George Holloway, Lewis Grant, and Henry Stiggants. Messrs. Laid-law, Hoare, Kent, Smedley, and Delaney are retiring councillors. For the auditorship of the shire : Messrs. Robert Hunter, Joseph Thompson, and William Sidney Williams.NUNAWADING (SHIRE).—The following are the nominations for the office of councillor for this shire:—For the centre riding: Messrs. Ellis Collings, Patrick John Delaney, and George G. Goodwin. For the south riding: Messrs. William Dempsey and Wil-liam Dalziel. For the north riding: Messrs. Alfred Rawlings and Squire Aspinall—one to be elected for each riding. For the auditorship: Messrs. Walter Francis Clark, William Clark, and Alfred Padgeon.
Source: 1876 'THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 3 August, p. 7. , viewed 05 Jul 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5897371
Matthew Hoare
MATHEW HOARE was well known as the popular licensee of the Doncaster Arms Hotel. For a short time he was also Post Master when the Post Office was moved to the Hotel in 1868. It was during the time that Hoare owned the Hotel that horse races were run along Doncaster Road. In 1868 Mathew Hoare purchased 81 acres at the north west corner of Andersons Creek and Reynolds Roads. Hoare served three years as a councillor.
Source: 1975 05 DTHS Newsletter
Matthew Hoare's Land
Matthew Hoare’s Land Title Vol 706 Fol 116 p1 - PROV - Land title was obtained from PROV from onsite computers where you can search old titles. There is no PROV reference for particular titles, you just have to know the volume/folio No. and search and download if you want a copy. See Full Resolution Copy in Archives Online
In 1873, Mr Matthew Henry Hoare obtained title of the Andersons Creek Road land known as crown allotment 16F3 with an area of 81 acres 2 roods and 13 perches (Source: Old maps of the Doncaster East area (?); Land title information)
Many years later part of this title was used by Gottlob Schafter for orcharding. Gottlob seems to have been leasing and farming the land from about 1893 (Source: rates notices; other documents?).
In 1907, Gottlob became the owner of the land, using it as his orchard up until his death in 1938.
In 1878, Matthew Hoare died and the land transferred to his wife Anne.
In 1880, Anne have sold the land to Alexander Ritchie and Joseph Sproule (Source: Land title records) farmers and graziers (Source: rate Books).
In 1882, Ritchie and Sproule sold the land to Robert Malachy Serjeant. Serjeant purchased other large titles in the area (Source: probate records).
Robert Serjeant was associated with the gold mining industry in Ballarat (Source: Old newspapers?) where he became famed as a mine manager. He founded “The Band of Hope and Albion Consols” company which was Ballarat's largest alluvial mining company and which continued into the quartz mining era becoming the greatest mine in the area.
It could be possible that from the money he had made money from gold mining, he purchased the land speculating that gold might also be found along Mullum Mullum Creek which flowed into the Yarra River which in turn flowed through the nearby township of Warrandyte.
An auctioneer's notice in The Argus newspapers of February 1877 for land on the opposite side of the creek (the Stinton land) has the following description “the property is well timbered and its capacity for grazing is well known. Byrne, Vale and Co. (the auctioneers) would call the attention to the mining community that running through the property are three rich lines of reefs from the well-known gold fields of Andersons Creek. Gold has been found in most of the gullies, and if properly prospected would no doubt prove an independency to the purchaser”.
Some of the first gold in Victoria was discovered at Warrandyte (then known as Andersons Creek). When gold diggers started to make Warrandyte home they formed themselves into small companies and mined in new ways that required more ground, capital and system. Warrandyte mines were particularly keen to get to the alluvial gold deposits in the bed of Andersons Creek.
Quartz mining was the other notable mining activity carried out at Warrandyte. During the 1860s to the 1890s, prospecting and mining for quartz gold was extensively carried out but with only very limited success.
The river and hills surrounding the township were once rich in gold and the ruins of mine shafts and tunnels can be found throughout the Warrandyte State Park and other other nearby locations.
Gold is often found in creek and riverbeds and in quartz rock reefs.
An old Geological Society of Victoria 1893 map of the County of Evelyn which includes Doncaster and Warrandyte (source???) shows quartz reefs in the area including along the Mullum Mullum creek with a mine shaft at the rear of the later Schafter property.
It is most likely though that gold was not found in the area as there doesn’t appear to be any other evidence of mining or other records of any successful gold finds in the Doncaster East/ Mullum Mullum Creek area.
In 1903, Mr Serjeant died and administration of his estate was granted to the Ballarat Trustees & Executors & Agency Company Limited of Ballarat. Probate records of 1903 (source??) following his death listed his land holdings in the Doncaster east area and showed him as owning large parcels of land along either side of the creek. The document shows Gottlob Schafter and Karl Hubler in the process of purchasing Allotment 16F3.
The Serjeant land title (Source??) shows that by 1905, the executors had formally split the land into two parts with Mr Hubler appearing to have completed his payment obligations and taking ownership of the 40 acre southern part of the land and a couple of years later in March 1907, title to the remaining 40 acre part transfered to Gottlob Schafter.
Many years later part of this title was used by Gottlob Schafter for orcharding. Gottlob seems to have been leasing and farming the land from about 1893 (Source: rates notices; other documents?).
In 1907, Gottlob became the owner of the land, using it as his orchard up until his death in 1938.
In 1878, Matthew Hoare died and the land transferred to his wife Anne.
In 1880, Anne have sold the land to Alexander Ritchie and Joseph Sproule (Source: Land title records) farmers and graziers (Source: rate Books).
In 1882, Ritchie and Sproule sold the land to Robert Malachy Serjeant. Serjeant purchased other large titles in the area (Source: probate records).
Robert Serjeant was associated with the gold mining industry in Ballarat (Source: Old newspapers?) where he became famed as a mine manager. He founded “The Band of Hope and Albion Consols” company which was Ballarat's largest alluvial mining company and which continued into the quartz mining era becoming the greatest mine in the area.
It could be possible that from the money he had made money from gold mining, he purchased the land speculating that gold might also be found along Mullum Mullum Creek which flowed into the Yarra River which in turn flowed through the nearby township of Warrandyte.
An auctioneer's notice in The Argus newspapers of February 1877 for land on the opposite side of the creek (the Stinton land) has the following description “the property is well timbered and its capacity for grazing is well known. Byrne, Vale and Co. (the auctioneers) would call the attention to the mining community that running through the property are three rich lines of reefs from the well-known gold fields of Andersons Creek. Gold has been found in most of the gullies, and if properly prospected would no doubt prove an independency to the purchaser”.
Some of the first gold in Victoria was discovered at Warrandyte (then known as Andersons Creek). When gold diggers started to make Warrandyte home they formed themselves into small companies and mined in new ways that required more ground, capital and system. Warrandyte mines were particularly keen to get to the alluvial gold deposits in the bed of Andersons Creek.
Quartz mining was the other notable mining activity carried out at Warrandyte. During the 1860s to the 1890s, prospecting and mining for quartz gold was extensively carried out but with only very limited success.
The river and hills surrounding the township were once rich in gold and the ruins of mine shafts and tunnels can be found throughout the Warrandyte State Park and other other nearby locations.
Gold is often found in creek and riverbeds and in quartz rock reefs.
An old Geological Society of Victoria 1893 map of the County of Evelyn which includes Doncaster and Warrandyte (source???) shows quartz reefs in the area including along the Mullum Mullum creek with a mine shaft at the rear of the later Schafter property.
It is most likely though that gold was not found in the area as there doesn’t appear to be any other evidence of mining or other records of any successful gold finds in the Doncaster East/ Mullum Mullum Creek area.
In 1903, Mr Serjeant died and administration of his estate was granted to the Ballarat Trustees & Executors & Agency Company Limited of Ballarat. Probate records of 1903 (source??) following his death listed his land holdings in the Doncaster east area and showed him as owning large parcels of land along either side of the creek. The document shows Gottlob Schafter and Karl Hubler in the process of purchasing Allotment 16F3.
The Serjeant land title (Source??) shows that by 1905, the executors had formally split the land into two parts with Mr Hubler appearing to have completed his payment obligations and taking ownership of the 40 acre southern part of the land and a couple of years later in March 1907, title to the remaining 40 acre part transfered to Gottlob Schafter.
Parts of parishes of Bulleen, Warrandyte, Ringwood, Scoresby Nunawading [cartographic material] / surveyed by R. A. Moon, Field Geologist under the supervision of R.A.F. Murray, Govt. Geologist ; lithd. by J.M.Coakley. Geological Survey of Victoria. Melbourne : Geological Survey Office 1893. SLV - Full Resolution Version from Archives Online
Detail of a section of above relating to Gottlob Schafter: land section 16F3 (originally Hoare land area). Parts of parishes of Bulleen, Warrandyte, Ringwood, Scoresby Nunawading [cartographic material] / surveyed by R. A. Moon, Field Geologist under the supervision of R.A.F. Murray, Govt. Geologist ; lithd. by J.M.Coakley. Geological Survey of Victoria. Melbourne : Geological Survey Office 1893. SLV - Full Resolution Version from Archives Online
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