Wimmera

The children of William and Elizabeth Trumble were (1) my great-grandfather John William Trumble (1863 – 1944) (q.v.), who played Test cricket, though not nearly so famously as his brother Hugh, and later practiced as a country solicitor at Nhill in the Wimmera.

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Colonial troops were valued for their ability to “shoot and ride,” and they performed well on the veldt, which is not unlike Gippsland, the Wimmera, or the Riverina.

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Ever since great-grandfather J.W. Trumble established his first legal practice at Nhill in the Wimmera, successive generations of Trumble descendants have practiced law in Victoria and elsewhere, and show no sign of letting up.

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The rest of the land was occupied by the 4-stalls of the police stables and the fine resid­ence of the Wimmera police superintendent.

C19th courthouse architecture: rural Victoria Hels 2009

The rest of the land was occupied by the 4-stalls of the police stables and the fine resid­ence of the Wimmera police superintendent.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hels 2009

Avoca is on the edge of Victoria's Wimmera district and is sheep and wine country.

At My Table 2007

Avoca is on the edge of Victoria's Wimmera district and is sheep and wine country.

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One of the most intelligent natives I ever met with, was a deaf and dumb youth at the Wimmera.

An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre 2004

On the 18th of July, he discovered the Wimmera, and on the 31st, the Glenelg.

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876

The he outflow and courses of rivers being determined, and the speculations of their first discoveries corrected or confirmed; as instance of this, may be mentioned the discovery of Lake Hindmarsh, which receives the Wimmera, River, the course of which had puzzled Mitchell when he discovered it in July, 1836.

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876