{"id":8589,"date":"2022-02-11T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T03:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themooraboolnews.com.au\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2024-02-04T02:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:24:04","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/themooraboolnews\/news\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet\u2019 \u2013 but the Bacchus Marsh &amp; District Historical Society (BMDHS) has provided some interesting meanings of local town names.<br \/>\nMany are named after early settlers or places in England \u2013 Mount Cottrell, south of Melton, is named after Anthony Cottrell, a District Constable at Launceston and member of John Batman\u2019s Port Phillip Association.<br \/>\nEynesbury comes from Eynesbury homestead, built by Captain Samuel Thomas in 1875, and thought to in turn be named after a village in Cambridgeshire, England.<br \/>\nExford was named in 1942, \u201cafter a sheep station which was situated in the Brisbane Ranges and was once owned by Simon Staughton\u201d. Additionally, the Werribee River is believed to have once been called the Exe River, after an area of Somerset, England \u2013 Exford may have come from this name.<br \/>\nEven more of the names listed by BMDHS come from Aboriginal words or names \u2013 Balliang East comes from \u201cbalayang\u201d, a word referring to the bat of the Dreamtime, while Cocoroc is an Aboriginal word for the croaking of a frog.<br \/>\nMambourin is derived from the term \u201cMamborn\u201d, the name of a Barrabool tribesman, while Parwan is a local Aboriginal word for magpie.<br \/>\nTruganina near Werribee was named after the last Tasmanian Aboriginal woman, Truganini, who passed away in 1876.<br \/>\nFinally, two towns have straightforward names \u2013 Little River is named after the local stream, while Quandong is named after the quandong fruit, also known as the native peach, which grows in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The next edition of the Moorabool News is now available to read online.<br \/>\nSimply click on the following link, READ THE LATEST EDITION, and flip through the pages<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/themooraboolnews.com.au\/\">http:\/\/themooraboolnews.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet\u2019 \u2013 but the Bacchus Marsh &amp; District Historical Society (BMDHS) has provided some interesting meanings of local town names. 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