Some towns given....

Avenel
Ascot Vale
Bachuss Marsh
Benalla
Beaufort
Braybrook
Brighton
Bulla
Ballarat
Brunswick
Campaspe
Carlton
Castlemaine
Caulfield
Clifton Hill
Coburg
Collingwood
Deniliquin
Dunolly
Echuca
Emerald
Emerald Hill (South Melbourne)
Essendon
Epping
Flemington
Footscray
Geelong
Gippsland
Glenrowan
Hawthorn
Heidelberg
Hotham (North Melbourne)
Hotham Hill
Jolimont
Keilor
Kew
Lake Mute
Lancefield
Lillydale
Longwood
Kensington
Maldon
Maroopna
Maryborough
Moe
Moonee Ponds
Murchison
Murray Downs
Newmarket
Northcote
Nunawading
Portland
Prahran
Preston
Richmond
Royal Park
Sandhurst (Bendigo)
Sandridge (Port Melbourne)
Stawell
St Kilda
South Yarra
Sunbury
Taradale
Thomastown
Toolamba
Toorak
West Melbourne
Windsor
Wabdallah
Wallan Wallan
Wagga Wagga
Warnambool
Woodspoint
Wiliamstown
Yarraville
Yuroke
Adelaide
New South Wales
Mudgee
Newcastle
Queensland
Tasmania

New Zealand
Dunedin.
Ireland
County Cork
Boston USA

Hotels........(One petition has "To be left at Robert Burns Hotel Lonsdale
street before ten o'clock Monday morning.")

O'Shannasy Hotel Hotham
Exchange Hotel
Antonos Hotel Flinders Street
Robert Burns Hotel
Commercial Hotel
Crown Hotel
Oriental Hotel
Grey Hound Hotel
Scotts Hotel
Treasury Hotel
Ship Inn Hotel
Shamrock Hotel
British Hotel

Trades.......

Blacksmiths James Hare John Halling
Sailors James Duncan
Bootmakers James Parker Melbourne.
Butcher Name unreadable. & O'Keefe
Baker James Black
Dealer James Child - Eastern Market

Unusual Names or places etc.....

Native Jack Styles West Melbourne
Harry Birdwhistle - Meat Market
Rev Father O'Gorman Tipperary (and a family from there)
Post Office Place
Bridget Fogerty Ireland
Royal Park Gardens
Nicklos Terrace
Major Plains
Spring Valley Benalla
Blair Place
McArthur Place
Little George St Fitzroy


Interesting........

Frederick  Kirks Bazaar
SS City Of Adelaide
Number 1 Bourke St
Alice Helen Lynch - Carlton - Mansfield (late of Mansfield)
Jane Jones (Emerald Hill)

John Jones (Hotham)

John Jones (Fitzroy)

Joseph John Byrne (Elizabeth Street)

George Lacey (Cobb and Cos)
John Moloney (Hotham)

Dan Fitzpatrick (McIntyre Lane)

Denis Sullivan

James Kelly (Moonee Ponds)

James Kelly (Little Bourke Street)

Mrs. Kate Kelly



Names of people in various towns...

Avenel....

Moroney
Egan

Bacchus Marsh



Benalla

John Wilson
James King
Carman
Edward & James Quinn

Bulla....

John Fanning (Pioneer?)

Castlemaine

Edward James O'Neill



Echuca

William Thomas
F. Moyle

Emerald.

John Thompson

Euroke

Davidson

Glenrowan

Arthur Colmo


Greta

Grace Kelly.
Murray
Henry ???

Lancefield

H. Andrews

Moe

R. Purse



Sassafras

Edmund Lang

Seymour

John Neill

John O'Neail (Seamore)

Shepparton

William Wilson

Sunbury....

John Short
G. Stafford
William Derros



Thomastown

Terence Mohony



Woodend...

John & Mary Barrett.

Wagga Wagga

H. Elliot.
John McCabe

Wallan Wallan

William & James Johnston
Mr & Mrs Parker
John Humphries

Whittlesea

Bridget Lyns (Whitelsee)




Addresses that still exist.... (just the street name given here)

Kerr St Fitzroy
Argyle St Fitzroy

A Smattering of Surnames:

Arnot
Alexander
Allan
Andrews


Barrett
Brooks
Brown
Burns

Cherry
Carroll
Cook
Crow

Dodd
Delaney
Doyle
Dwyer

Edward
Egan
Edgan
English

Fitzpatrick
Flaherty
Ford
Foster


Gerber
Grace
Green
Grogan

Handcollar (no longer found)
Hart
Hat (only 2 in SA now)
Hush

Isacs

Job
Johnson
Johnstone
Jones

Kelly
Kennedy
Kent
King

Lalor
Little
Looney
Lucas

McCabe
Marshall
Moore
Moran

Neal

Nicholson

O'Brien
O'Keefe
O'Sullivan
Oak

Pearson
Plunket

Quinn
Quinlan
Quirk

Reardon
Rolands
Rooney
Ryan

Simpson
Sulivan
Sweetman
Smith

Thomas
Tighe
Tipping
Tomson

U

Valentine
Vaughan

Welch
White
Williams
Wright

X

Young

Z



Max Brown...
"Next morning the press recorded: "The petition altogether is one to
which no importance whatever can be attached. Many of the signatures
appear to have been written by children or illiterate persons."