Talk:Chirnside Park, Victoria

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It is probably named after Chirnside, Lothian, Scotland. There cannot be that many Chirnside's around?

I suppose that's the long way around. I have just learnt that Chirnside Park was named after George Chirnside, son of the Australian pastoralists Thomas and Andrew Chirnside. I don't know how far Lothian is from Berwickshire where the brothers' family came from. This happened, though, only in 1962, before it was called Mooroolbark Park after the property.

See here: [Chirnside Park by Andrew Stockley|http://derekstockley.com.au/chirnside-park.html] by Andrew Stockley, a (2002) Grade 6 student.

--EuropracBHIT 03:05, 28 November 2005 (UTC).[reply]