INITIATES OF THE LODGE of UNITY

1867-1927

The information below is transcribed from the original declaration book of the lodge

sadly, some of the signatures are not easily readable, therefore they may be some errors.

1. William Hooper b. England, age unknown

2. George Brown b. Sunbury County, New Brunswick, age 34

3. James Chalmers b.Dumfrieshire, Scotland, age 39

4. George Harrison b. Bristol, England, age 35

5. William McLean b. Co.Tyrone, Ireland, age 35

6. Samuel Stewart b. Co.Tyrone. Ireland, age 31

7. William Rainforth Wight b. Durham England, age 30

8. Thomas Tanswell b. Loughborough, Leicestershire, age 37

9. James McLean b. Co.Tyrone, Ireland, age 31

10. William Thomas Norman b. London, age 29

11. Joseph Parker Spink b. North Tawton,Devonshire. age 45

12. James Lynch b. New York State. USA age 44

13. Daniel Niall b. Co.Clare, Ireland, age 23

14. Donald McLean b. Argyleshire, Scotland age 29

1868

15. James Woodside b.Co. Antrim, Ireland age 45

16. Frederick. F. Shaw b. Falmouth, Nova Scotia. age 41

17. George Richard Green b. ? age 37

18. Robert Herbert b. Leeds, England. age 36

19. Anthony L'Espinosse Martin b. Co.Dublin, Ireland age 51

20. George Elijah Davis b. London age 41

21. Johnson Quinn b. Co.Kildare, Ireland age 39

22. Samuel Kincaid b. Co.Tyrone, Ireland age 34

1869

23. John A. Wallace b. Rutherglen, Scotland age 40

24. Samuel Bealy Holt b. Bury, Lancs, England age 29

25. Daniel Hugh Evans b. Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales age 39

26. Ralph Hill b. St. Just, Cornwall age 22

1870

27. George Croft b. Oxford, England age 45

28. Charles James Wilkinson Pinniger b. Westbury, Wiltshire, England age 35

29. Joseph Kincaid b. Co.Tyrone. Ireland age 42

30. William Fulton b. Nova Scotia age 36

1871

31. Frederick William Dibben b. Bristol, England age 43

1873

32. John Henry Jagoe b. Co.Cork, Ireland age 28

33. William Moore b. Co.Dublin, Ireland age 43

34. William Henry Marston Hollick b. Coventry, England age 30

35. James Grant Hay b. Banffshire, Scotland age 29

36. William Cadzow b. Hamilton, Scotland age 43

37. William John Cardwell b.Co. Armagh, Ireland age 32

38. Daniel Thomas Hughes b. London, England age 33

39. Thomas Scott Atkinson b. North Shields, England age 26

1874

40. Arthur Clingin b. Co.Tyrone, Ireland age 30

41. Edward Chambers b, Suffolk, England age 43

42.James Thorpe b. England age 28

43. Thomas Curry Rodda b. Helston, Cornwall age 38

44. James Fletcher b. Ireland age 38

45. James Magill b. Maryborough, Queens Co. Ireland age 48

46. John Lewis Ambrose b. Cardiff, Wales age 18

47. Samuel A. Rheuben b. Tasmania age 30

48. Ralph Bruce b. Scotland age 39

1875

49. James Cadzow b. Linlithgowshire.Scotland age 23

50. John McFadyen b. Melbourne age 22

51. John Hutchison Aiton b. Lanarkshire, Scotland age 22

1877

52. Thomas E. Lumley b.Dublin, Ireland age 49

53. Henry Seymour Smith b. London age 34

1878

54. Robert Beveridge b. Scotland age 24

1881

55. George Secundus Mackenzie b. Castlemaine,Victoria age 26

1883

56. Jeremiah Conley b. Lowell Maps 24, age 48

1884

57. A............... Phillip Chauncey b. Heathcote.Victoria age 29

1886

58. Thomas Caesar Kaighan b. Peel, Isle of Man age 34

59. James Osborne Murcutt b. Stratford, Victoria age 26

60. James Jagoe b. Wandiligong, Victoria age 24

61. Thomas Robertson b.Stanley, Victoria age 26

1887

62. Antonio Dominguez b. Lisbon. Portugal age 54

63. William Radcliffe b. Isle of Man age 49

64. John McPhee b. Melbourne age 29

65. Thomas Bolitho Tresize b. Cornwall age 49

66. Thomas Jones b. Brecon, Wales age 35

67. George Henderson Atkinson b. North Shields, England age 36

68. Robert Hedge b. Norfolk, England age 50

1888

69. Henry Symonds b. Norfolk, England age 36

70. George William Sharp b.Midlothian, Scotland age 52

71. William Henry Vale b. Geelong, Victoria age 43

72. James Johnson b. Bolton Lancashire England age 56

73. Thomas Smith b. Belfast, Co.Antrim, Ireland age 60

1889

74. William Lumsden Fenton b. at sea (Melbourne) age 37

75. John Rogers Clancy b.Melbourne age 41

76. David McAlpine b.Chippenhall, Bannockshire, Scotland age 52

77. William Henry Moore b. Bright, Victoria age 24

78. Charles John Oakley b. Birmingham,England age 37

1890

79. Thomas Walter Taylor b. Ballarat, Victoria age 26

80. Patrick James Maroney b.Co.Clare, Ireland age 31

81. James Hines b. Cambridgeshire age 39

82. Charles Henry Nelson b.Rotterdam, Holland age 41

83. Anton Johnson b.Tonsburg, Norway age 30

1891

84. Henry Traulsen b. Kappeln,Germany age 55

85. John James Wasley b. Ballarat, Victoria age 31

86. Henry Palmer Marr b. Talbot, Victoria age 32

1892

87. Edward Wallace Duncan b. London, England age 59

1894

88. Edward Larkan b. Bright,Victoria age 26

1896

89. Robert A. Maddison b. Yackandandah, Vic age 33

90. William Moore b. Geelong, Victoria age 32

91. Thomas Laidler b. Piggoreet Victoria age 30

92. Adolphus Richard Mortensen b. Smythedale, Vic age 34

93. Richard Harry Rowe b. Cornwall, England age 57

94. Owen Valentine Briner b. Bright, Victoria age 30

95. John Hugh Silvester b. Morrisons, Victoria age 26

1897

96. Robert Foristal b. Eaglehawk, Victoria age 32

97. John Tennison Harvey b. Bunniyong. Vic age 34

98. James ......... Morris b. Castlemaine age 32

99. William Couch b. Arrarat, Victoria age 27

100.Charles Henry Andrew Davis b. Bunninyong age 30

101. Frederick William Roberts b. Tavistock, Devon. age 29

102. William Frederick Emery b. Ballarat, Vic

1898

103. Charles W. Phillips b. Hamilton, Vic. age 37

104. Alfred Henry Bell b. Lincoln England age 28

105. John Walter Paterson b. Redruth, Cornwall age 32

106. John Charles Kelly b. Porepunkah, Vic age 28

107. John McConville b. Woolshed, Vic age 34

108. David Shaw King b. Clayton, Manchester, England age 29

109. James Alexander Sutherland b. Scotland age 23

110. George Robert Abraham b. Buckland Vic age 24

111.William Henry Goldworthy b. Wandiligong age 26

112. John Grant Sutherland b. Bunninyong age 26

113. Ernest Ward b. Woolshed,Vic. age 36

1899

114. Henry Albert Erskine b. Ardee Co.Louth Ireland age 34

115. George Alfred Parker b. Mt.Franklin, Vic age 40

116. Richard Percy Walters b. Ballarat age 25

117. Frederick Augustus Dixon b England age 35

118. Frederick George Goldsworthy b. Wandiligong age 25

119. William Henry Palmer b. Daylesford, Vic age 39

120. John Fulton b. Chiltern, Vic age 40

121. Edwin Taylor b. Bothwell, Tasmania age 40

1900

122.Robert George Mitchell Gill b. Ballarat age 33

123. Samuel Symes b. Wandiligong, Vic age 27

124. Frederick William House b. Castlemaine, Vic age 30

1901

125. John Alexander Johnston b. German Crk, Bright.age 28

126. James Wilson Taylor b. Brit Brit, Coleraine, Vic age 34

127. Benjamin Morgan b. Buckland, Vic age 33

128. Robert Charles Lee b. Daylesford, Vic age 32

130. Edward Gribben b. St.Ives, Cornwall England age 36

1902

131. John McNeil b. Clutha, Otago, New Zealand. age 38

132. Charles John Whitbourn b. Creswick age 39

133. William Henry Hewitson b. Wandiligong age 26

134. Thomas William Power b. Buckland age 41

135. William Beckton b. Stanley. Vic. age 40

1903

136. Irvine Clark Isbister b. Williamstown, Vic. age 45

137. Robert Edward Howard b. Freeburgh, Vic. age 62

138. Nathaniel Edward Webb b. Buckland age 28

139. Henry George Albert Smithers b. Geelong age 24

140. Robert Jones b. Warrnambool age 39

141. Henry Collard Waith b. Harrietville age 31

1904

142. Gerald Nathan Marks b. London age 28

143. John Robertson b. Shag Valley, Otago,New Zealand age 39

144. Henry Walter Jones b. Harrietville age 24

145. Henry Park Richards b. Suffolk, England age 56

146. Robert Martin Wishart b. Dunedin.New Zealand age 31

1905

147. Stephen Collier Francis b. Geelong age 34

148. Hilary James Roderic Farr b. Burwood, Sydney. age 22

149. William Bice b. Buckland age 43

150. Henry Wallace b. Beechworth. age 30

151. James George b. Roxburgh, New Zealand age 33

1906

152. James Edward Douglas b. Laanecoorie age 33

153. William Richards b. Barnsley, Yorkshire age 35

154. G.A.E. Smith b. Wandiligong age 34

155. W.A.Poynter b. Colac. Vic age 31

156. Joseph Henry Brown b. Bacchus Marsh, Victoria age 31

157. William George b. Roxburgh, New Zealand age 30

158. Alfred James Showers b. Norwood South Australia age 31

1907

159. Victor Hugh Gow b. Harrietville age 33

160. Joseph Frederick William Roggiero b. Millers Flat, New Zealand age 25

161. Douglas Banks b. Porepunkah age 30

162. Henry E. Power b. Buckland age 44

163.Thomas Archer b. Diamond Creek, Vic age 39

164. James Hardie Jones b. Lennoxshire.Scotland age 52

165. Francis Antoine Wraith b. Harrietville age 36

1908

166. Isaac G........Sloan b. Freeburgh age 41

167. John McKenzie b. Glasgow, Scotland age 32

168. Joseph Oyburn b. London age 36

169. James Henry Curtis b. Cowies Crk. age 31

170. Edward Thompson Knox b. Sth Melbourne age 50

1910

171. Victor Ferdinand Clyde Schmidl b. Murmunjie age 35

172. John Robert Boyd b. Eurobin age 36

173. F.G. White b. Williamstown age 30

174. James S. H. Walker b. Ballarat age 37

175. William James Noble b. Wellington NZ age 39

176. Leslie Stuart Kidd b. Northcote age 30

177. Matthew Stewart b. Hamilton. Vic age 43

1911

178. Robert John Pook b. Malmesbury age 30

179. Frederick Traulsen b. Bright age 41

180. Benjamin William Rayner b. Bright. age 22

181. James Dixon Taylor Chandler b. Dandenong age 24

182. Walter Peckham b. Nth Melbourne. age 29

183. Edwin Phillips b. Richmond, Surrey age 24

1912

184. Maurice Edgar Greive b. Castlemaine, Vic age 46

185. William Roberts b. East Keal, Lincolnshire age 44

186. Walter Charles Smith b. Wandiligong age 32

187. Henry Herbert Wilson Gill b. Geelong age 41

1913

188. John Charles Allan b. West Melbourne age 23

189. Thomas Nixon b. Wakefield, Yorkshire age 26

190. Robert Forrest McKenzie b. New Zealand age 35

191. William John Fulton b. Wangaratta age 24

1914

192. Joseph Allen Cornish b. Bendigo age 36

1915

193. Alfred Henry Alexander Stewart b. St. Kilda, Victoria age 38

194. Evan Thomas Davies Jones b. Bowmans Forest, Victoria. age 43

195. William Davenport Anderson b. Warrnambool, Victoria age 30

196. John Robert Donald b. Ballarat age 38

197. Charles George Williams b. Wandiligong age 37

1916

198. Walter Williams b. Wandiligong age 31

199. Edward Thomas Anderson b. Sydney age 39

1917

198. Arthur William Stone b. Kensington, Victoria age 29

199. Donald McDonald b. Kilmore, Victoria age 53

1918

200. Thomas Hunter b. Bright. age 42

201. Thomas James Bastion b. Mt. Blackwood age 22?

202. John Theodore Henry Giersch b. Adelaide, South Australia age 39

203. Edgar Mallin Rollason b. West Bromwich age 52

1919

204. Alfred Ernest Vandenburg b. Granya. Vic age 35

205. Merowyn Alan Maclean b. Nth Melbourne age 27

206. Matthew Wallace b. Beechworth age 41

207. Peter Newton Lock b. Bright. age 36

208. George Howman b. Harrietville age 39

1920

209. John Law Smail b. Otaria, New Zealand age 40

212. John Edward Knox b. Wangaratta age 28

213. Thomas William Flower b. Footscray, Vic

214. William Noble McDonald b. Eurobin,Victoria. age 25

215. John Lindsay Rollason b. Porepunkah, Victoria. age 22

1921

216. Alexander Alfred Bell b. Sale,Victoria age 29

217. Vernon Waghorn Lamb b. Middle Park, Victoria age 25

218. John Grayson Mason b. Richmond Victoria age 25

219. William George Edward Butler b. Bright. age 47

220 Thomas William Pervod b. Bonnie Doon, Victoria age 42

1922

221. Albert Lewis ?................b. Albert Park age 26

222. Percy Robert Sims b. Portsmouth, England. age 23

223. Rupert McLean Manning b. Bright.age 24

224. George Bamford b. Hadfield, England age 27

At the completion of the first Declaration Book in 1922 it was not required that the place of birth be given.

1923
225 Alex.C. Hossack
226 Robert C. McMasters
227 James Clune
228 James Hamilton Armstrong
229 Frank Barker
1924
230 Max Valentine
231 Francis Victor Wraith
232 Francis Arthur Byrne
233 Charles C. Tavare
1925
234 John G. Woolley
235 Charles Edward Hough
236 Neil Donald Vallance
237 Cyril James Coleman
238 Thomas Alexander Jack
1926
239 John William Youl ?
240 Donald Ross Gow
241 George Henderson Autcliffe
242 Ernest Alfred Vandenburg
1927
243 Isidore Russell Ryall
244 Alfred Joseph Helmingham
245 Frank Wilson Barker
246 Ernest Victor Attridge
247 Charles B Jones
248 William Ritchie
249 William George Woolley