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John Claydon
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The Trew Brickworks
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The following information was provided by John Schubert. The brickworks were established at Warracknabeal in 1884 by Samuel Trew, who had previously conducted a brickworking venture at Sawpit Swamp, south of Murtoa. An entry on Trew in the 1888 publication Victoria and its Metropolis Past and Present provides the following biographical account: Trew, Samuel – […]
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William Trew 1889 – 1917
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William Trew was the third son of George Trew (1862-1916) and Christina Lough (1864-1922). He was born in 1889 at Harrow Victoria where his father had a brickworks. William’s grand father Samuel Trew had learned the brickmaking trade in Essex England and had started the family’s brickmaking venture in a partnership at Sawpit Swamp after working as […]