When George Gibson Harper was born on 2 October 1829, in Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Mr George Harper, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Eleanor Howey, was 30. He married Elizabeth Levina Cheyne on 28 September 1857, in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 7 January 1906, in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 76, and was buried in Castlemaine Cemetery, Campbells Creek, Victoria, Australia.
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Victoria's first successful British settlement was at Portland, on the west coast of what is now Victoria. Portland was settled on 19 November 1834
The District of Port Phillip was formally established as an administrative division within the Colony of New South Wales in September.
Become the Colony of Victoria from 2 July.
English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
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