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Elizabeth Allison, with son, David *
James Drummond Allison
James Drummond Allison *
James Allison was born in Fifeshire, Scotland in 1829, the son of James and Margaret (Drummond) Allison. He arrived in Mornington in 1853.
It was on the 28th October 1858 that he married Elizabeth Pentecost daughter of William and Elizabeth Pentecost. James and Elizabeth had eleven children.
"Among the earliest tenders accepted by the Mt. Eliza Roads Board was one from James Allison, who on the 21st February 1861 contracted to clear and form Main Street Schnapper Point from Pt. Nepean Road to the Esplanade for the sum of £28."
‘Mornington in the wake of Flinders’
– Leslie Moorhead
Elizabeth Allison’s father, William Pentecost, had built an eight-roomed hotel in Tanti Road, and on his death in 1870 the licence was transferred to James Allison.
Apart from contract work, James had obtained a Carrier’s License, and in 1874, his occupation was listed as "Mariner".
It is said he owned three craft that carried goods backwards and forwards between Mornington and Melbourne.
In 1863 Phoebe Allison, James and Elizabeth’s eldest child, accidently drowned in the Tanti Creek, at the age of four years. The oak tree planted in her memory still stands to this day.
James’ son, David, drove the mail coach between Frankston and Mornington, years before the railway was opened.
James died in 1901 and is buried in the Mornington cemetery.
* Photos courtesy, Joan McCrory- family descendant
