IDENTITY: Peter Beveridge of Tyntyndyer Station, Swan Hill.Andrew Beveridge Snr and family had arrived in Australia in 1839 on the sailing ship ‘Superb’ from Dunfermline, Scotland and settled near Kilmore, Victoria.
Andrew Jnr and Peter settled on the land at Tyntynder and erected a log cabin. This became the centre of the three hundred square mile Station that extended from Swan Hill to Piangil, thirty miles down the river, and approximately ten miles out into the Mallee scrub from the Murray.
Misunderstandings arose amongst the aborigines about killing of sheep and Andrew was speared to death. He was buried at Tyntynder and his grave has been well tended over the years and is still visible at the Homestead.
In 1846 the brothers added ‘Piangil’, a further 16km beyond ‘Tyntynder’, to their acquisitions, and it was here in September of 1846 that Andrew, aged only 24 years, was killed by natives. The Beveridge family were to become very close friends of the McCallums and Hughans. Peter and two brothers remained on ‘Tyntynder’ and ‘Piangil’ until 1868, although his mother and the rest of the family returned to the Kilmore district.
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