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- Kilborn's autobiography states that Roderick settled in Australia The following is taken from 'The Cyclopedia of Victoria,' p. 14 -downloaded from information supplied by Marg Richards, a descendent ofhis: 'Roderick Kilborn, Goojumg Vinehard, Wahgunyah, five miles fromRutherglen, was born in Canada, on teh river St.Lawrence, in the year1829, and is the third son of the late Mr. John Kilborn, who saw activeservice in the American War of 1814. He was educated in Canada, and cameout to Victoria in 1852 in the ship 'William Fotheringham.' On arrival,he went to the Forest Creek diggins, and subsequently visited all thegoldfields of Australia. After being engaged in various occupations, suchas carrier, coach-driver,etc., he joined the Telegraph Department of theGovernment Service, from which he retired in 1890, after completingthirty-one years of service. His present property was taken up in 1860,and Mr. Kilborn was one of the first to plant vines in the district. Itcomprises forty acres, of which thirty are under vines, and ten underorchard cultivation. Mr. Kilborn, who is highly esteemed throughout thedistrict, married, in 1864, a daughter of the late Mr. John Foord, an oldand respected pioneer of Victoria, and has a family of four sones and twodaughters. Two of his sons, Messrs. George and Walter Kilborn, have themanagement of the property. mr. Kilborn was one of the first members ofthe Alexandra Lodge of Freemasons, Rutherglen. he is an ex-president ofthe Shire of Rutherglen, and has held a seat in the coucil thereof forsix years.'
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