People named John Ardlie

John Henry Ardlie of Prahran Australia was born in 1826 to John Martin Ardlie and Mary Ann (Leighton) Ardlie. He had siblings Mary Ann (Ardlie) Briggs, Elizabeth (Ardlie) Parker, Maria Lucretia (Ardlie) Powling, and William Ardlie. He married Martha Matilda (Leslie) Ardlie, and died at age 67 years old on December 29, 1894 in Windsor, Victoria. John Ardlie was buried at St Kilda Cemetery/Hotham St in Saint Kilda East, Port Phillip City County, VIC.

The Australasian. Melbourne. 13th March 1937. - JOHN ARDLIE. In the service of the Honourable East India Company, Captain John Martin Ardlie made more than one visit to Australia before deciding to settle on the land. About the time of the first rush overland to Port Phillip he was at Sydney with a cargo of sugar. Possessing considerable capital, he was able to retire from the service of the company, and determined to do so with a view to trying his fortune in the new land South of the Hume ( or Murray ) River. He invested some of his capital in camels and Burmese ponies. These, with Indian servants to look after them, he brought out in 1841, and he settled on the Merri Creek. This squatter, with his strange "outfit" - his camels and ponies and Indian servants- was a conspicuous figure among the colonists, and an object of wonder to the blacks. Ardlie remained on the Merri Creek till 1845. Then he moved to Doutta Galla ( Moonee Ponds ), and later to Warrnambool. The Australasian. Sydney. NSW. 16th September 1841. CAMELS. - J. M. Ardlie, Esq., has brought to Melbourne, overland from Sydney, several valuable camels purchased from the Kman of Muscat, together with several very superior Arab horses. John Martin Ardlie was a former sea captain in the East India Company who came to Australia about 1840 and to Warrnambool in 1852 and became Warrnambool's first Clerk of Courts 1852 - 1868. His home 'Wyton" was named after a vessel he formerly commanded. "Wyton" was sold in 1872 and became St. Ann's College. His son William Ardlie was a prominent Warrnambool solicitor. Ardlie Street, Warrnambool was named by Council on 2nd of August 1872.