Michael Carney - a member of the Brunswick Community History Group and whose immigrant Irish family first settled in Australia in Brunswick - will deliver this talk. The soldier is Michael's great uncle and the story in part is told via a posthumous letter written beautifully by Michael's late father - also a veteran - to an uncle he never met but never forgot.

Our researcher, Margaret Fleming give a presentation on tracing the history of your Brunswick House - when it was built, who lived there and any interesting bits of information. With so many old houses in Brunswick, we get many inquiries on this topic.
This event is part of the National Trust Heritage Festival.

Members of Protestant denominations, particularly Methodists, were prominent in Brunswick during the early years of European settlement. The most prominent was Thomas Wilkinson who gave Brunswick its name and donated the land for the first Methodist chapel in Sydney Road. He was also the first Chairman of the municipality when it was created in 1857. Dr Cheryl Griffin will talk about him and others as well as their influence on Brunswick in the early European period at a joint meeting of Brunswick Community History Group and Brunswick Uniting Church.