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Beaumaris street name origins
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STREET	EPONYM			BORN		BURIED
Balcombe Road	Alexander Beatson  Balcombe			1811	St Helena Island	1877		Original purchaser of large estate, The Briars, Mt Martha VIC, who used his land on Balcombe Road, Mentone, to rest his cattle on their walk to the market in Melbourne
Bickford Court	James Bickford
Bodley Street	George Frederick Bodley					1912	Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery VIC		Clerk of Works, Moorabbin Shire Council
Burgess Street	Cr William George Burgess			1852	Kilmore, Victoria	1916	Brighton General Cemetery VIC	Moorabbin Shire President
Charman Road	Stephen Charman			1821	Warnham, Sussex, England	1916	Lang Lang Cemetery VIC
Comport Street	Cr Henry Comport				Stoke, Kent, England	1909	Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery VIC		Moorabbin Shire councillor
Cromb Avenue	Andrew Cromb							Named in 1971-73 after the City Engineer of the City of Sandringham, who supervised the clearing and paving of nearly all of the streets in Beaumaris, it was the street on the south boundary of Banksia Reserve, which then still had a very large River Red Gum in the centre of it.
Dalgetty (sic) Road	Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety			1817	Quebec, Canada	1894	Stockbridge, England	Frederick Dalgety, the largest-ever single private landowner in Beaumaris, once also owned the site of Black Rock House.
Keys Street	John Keys				County Tyrone, Northern Ireland	1904		John Keys was Moorabbin Shire Secretary and Engineer.
	Cr Robert Keys							Robert Keys was Moorabbin Shire President 1874-75.
Lang Street	Matthew Lang			1830	Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland	1893	Presbyterian Section, Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, VIC	Matthew Lang was Mayor of Melbourne 1889-92. He built the mansion "The Point", which was demolished in 1959, and after which the nearby Point Avenue is named.
Morey Road	William Morey
Moysey's Run	James Moysey
Rennison Street	Cr Thomas Rennison							Retired as a Moorabbin Shire councillor in 1888.
Sparks Street	Cr Harold Sparks			1853	At sea, off St Paul Island, Indian Ocean	1913	Anglican Section, Gore Hill Cemetery NSW	Moorabbin Shire councillor 1885-87
Stayner Street	Cr George Alex Stayner							Retired as a Moorabbin Shire councillor in 1888.
Ward Street	Cr William Ward							Moorabbin Shire President 1875-76
Weatherall (sic) Road	John Weatherill
Wells Road	Henry Wells
Woff Street	George Woff, John Woff, Robert Woff and William Woff
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