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Italian-speaking settlers planted many of the first vineyards in Victoria. In May 1882, a list of vine growers in Victoria was compiled by the Victorian Board of Viniculture. Many local Italian speakers were included:

NAME:

ACRES:

ADDRESS:

Adami, Peter 4 Jamieson Street, Daylesford
Bedolla, Michael 0.5 Spring Creek, Hepburn
Bolla, Pietro 0.5 Hepburn
Farrasi, Joseph 1.5 Elevated Plains, Hepburn
Franzi, Giuseppe 1 Newstead Road, Guildford
Gaggioni, Pietro 1 Hepburn
Gervason, Antonio, 3 Yandoit Creek, Yandoit
Gervasoni, Carlo 5 Yandoit Creek, Yandoit
Gervasoni, Luigi 5 Yandoit Creek, Yandoit
Giovanoni, D 2 Spring Creek, Hepburn
Invernizzi, Ambrogio 3 Yandoit Creek, Yandoit
Martinoga, Philip 1 Shicer Gully, Guildford
Minotti, Antonio 1.25 Hepburn, Mount Franklin
Minotti, Battista 2 Mill Spring, Franklinford, Yandoit
Minotti, Gustave 3 Ballarat Road, Guildford
Morganti, Maurizio 8 Eastern Hill, Eganstown
Moresi, Francesco 21 Terrappee
Passalaqua, Prospero 2.5 Guildford
Pedrini, Pietro 1.5 Yandoit
Pedrini, Vincenzo 2.5 Yandoit
Pedrini, Vincenzo 5 Spring Creek, Hepburn
Righetti, Battista 1.5 Yandoit
Righetti, Joseph 3.5 Yandoit
Rolleri, Giueseppe 6 Spring Creek, Hepburn
Rosia, Thomas 1 Porcupine Ridge, Glenlyon
Sartori, Lazarus 1,5 Yandoit
Sartori, Peter 5 Yandoit
Traversi, Philip 1 Elevated Plains, Hepburn
Vanina, Charles 1.5 Hepburn
Vosti, Antonio 1.5 Ballarat Road, Guildford

from “BULLBOAR, MACARONI & MINERAL WATER – Spa Country’s Swiss Italian Story”
by Clare Gervasoni