Port+Phillip



Port Phillip is the area surrounding Port Phillip Bay. Port Philip was settled in 1834. Today it is known as the state of Victoria.
 * The Henty family were the first to settle in Portland (part of the Port Phillip District) in 1834. They were the first squatters in Port Phillip District.
 * John Batman went on an expedtion to Port Philip District during 1835.
 * Penelope Selby came to the Port Phillip District in 1840 with her husband and her two young sons,her background was genteel middle class. They travelled to the Port Phillp District hoping to start a better life in a new land.
 * Women and girls often immigrated as parts of family groups, very few of them travelled independently. There was one group of single women that were identified as the 'distressed gentlewomen'. These were the daughters of middle class families who found themselves unmarried,without family to support them and with little money.