Tolmie - The First Hundred Years
Tolmie... The First 100 Years complied and published by The Tolmie Sports Committee. No date but likely 1980s.
In the early days the area was known as Wombat but later when the name was changed to Tolmie it was supposed that it was named for Ewen Tolmie. If that is the case we have included a short resume about him.
Ewen Tolmie was born in Scotland and migrated to Australia in 1838 where he landed in Sydney; he is purported to have travelled overland arriving in Melbourne in 1840. He held licences to the Bird-In-Hand and also the Robert Burns in Melbourne.
In 1854 Ewen Tolmie took his family back to Scotland to be educated. He returned briefly to Australia in 1857 but finally returned in 1859 having completed the children's education.
Ewen Tolmie acquired 'Dueran' and 'Hollands Creek' properties as repayment of an overdue debt, in December 1880 but he stayed on part of it and died there on February 9, 1883.
During the time of his residence he did some gold mining in the area and for this purpose he registered 'Tolmies Quartz Tunnelling Co." He is also credited with a cure for scab in sheep.
100 pages A5 soft copy
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