One of his sons  is an engineer who, at the end of the WW2  purchased a lot ex army machinery for sole purpose of using the heavy amour plate in the manufacture of earth moving equipment.  The engines were used in machinery he adapted and developed.  This machinery was used to build and maintain roads and in the quarrying industry. 

The family would like to preserve all information and relics of these early pioneers in a very harsh desert area of Australia.

This web  site put up by a  good  friend of the family who does not know much of  the story at all but would like to add more here. Especially  about the early pioneers  in the desert with a view to preserving the history of this quite brilliant family and letting the younger generations share the history.

Please advise me of any other information about the Peers Pioneers of Murrayville or  photos of old houses owned by the family so I can put a copy up here.

Found  one present day Peers Motors in Murrayville on the internet there are several others also living there, 2006.
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Web site about Murrayville and map  showing where it is - roughly north  of Wyperfeld National Park and Big Dessert Wilderness Park -  west of Ouyen, Vic.  22 km east of the South Australian Border- including  photos of bush and flowers to be see there.

"Port Phillip (Melbourne) 1842  Births, Deaths, Marriages  News Index" 
"Peers   Edward  son of J/9yo/death of"

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Port Phillip News (Melbourne) 1839

Advertisements Index" from  http://www.genseek.net/pp39c.htm
Peers  Edward  contributes to erection of R.C.church
Peers  J.J  building speculation/Little Collins st.
Peers  John J  bricks for sale/Melb
Peers  Mr  appointed committee member for Melb. Mechanic's Insitute
Peers  John J  found/two bibles
Peers  J.J  donated to held Mr Chisholm whose store was burned
Peers  J.J  builder/Elizabeth st. allotment for sale
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PORT PHILLIP COLONY DIRECTORY
(Mid to Late 1840s)  http://home.webaxs.net/~rncutter/portphillip/directory/Psurnames.htm

Peers Edward  bricklayer  North Corio
Peers John Jones  builder  Brickfields¸ Richmond
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Petition to Edward Curr, 1843    from http://members.optusnet.com.au/lenorefrost/petition.html

MELBOURNE TIMES, 28th January 1843

TO EDWARD CURR, ESQ

Sir – The period having arrived when Port Phillip can claim the right of representation in the Council of New South Wales; We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Melbourne, request you will allow yourself to be placed in the nomination as a candidate for this borough.  In availing ourselves of your energies, we feel assured that we shall, from your general information and talents, combined with the desire you have always shewn for the successful progress of the district, possess a representative worthy of our confidence.

Melbourne, 12th January, 1843
...manh others and 

Peers, J J 

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KERR’S MELBOURNE ALMANAC AND PORT PHILLIP DIRECTORY, 1841
http://members.optusnet.com.au/lenorefrost/kerr.html

Peers and Kibble, builders, Geelong

Peers, J J, builder, Collins-street, Melbourne
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NSW RECORDS-http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/immigration/indexpphillip/search.asp
Immigrant Index Port Phillip, 1839-51
PEERS Christopher   Georgiana 1841 2143A

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http://www.genseek.net/port7.htm
Port Fairy & Portland Passengers 1843 Index 1 
Peer  Mr  , ARRIVED 

Port Fairy & Portland Passengers 1843 index 2
Peers  J.J.  DEPARTED

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[- most unlikley connections. italics]
 'Convict Marriages Tasmania 1843. http://www.genseek.net/consm43.htm
Peers  Paul  to  Jane Burrell   +  ' [i DONT KNOW WHAT THE + Indicates]

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Passenger Lists from Launceston Tasmania, [- most unlikley connections. italics]
1835 & 1837
The following is an index to references for passengers to and from Launceston, Tasmania, for the years 1835 & 1837
as taken from the Batman and Fawkner Papers, including Harbour Master papers for those years.
It is not a necessarily a complete list, and more can be found at 1835-1837
from http://www.genseek.net/pass3537.htm

Peers  Mrs & 2 ch 37 to Gulf of St Vincet 03
Peers  S or J  37 to Gulf of St Vincent 03
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Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)  1840 Quarter Sessions Index from  http://www.genseek.net/tasqs40.htm
is an index of prisoners tried before the Quarter Sessions courts,1840, Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)

The usual information available is RECORD NUMBER, NAME, POLICE NUMBER, DESCRIPION (Free, Ticket of Leave holder etc), SHIP (to Tasmania),TRIAL DATE AND PLACE, CRIME, VERDICT, SENTENCE (including those discharged without conviction)and DATE.

Peers  William 
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Tasmania Convicts Index P - R
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The following is an index to Convicts in old newspapers  - 1827 Mr Peers
http://www.genseek.net/tascons5.htm 

CS =Colonial Sentence
fromat is : 
name              year  ref.               ship
Peers  Paul      27   CS_3 mos." 
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Port Phillip  (Melbourne) 
Offenders,Victims & Witness Index 1841  http://www.genseek.net/pp41b.htm
Peers  John.J  plaintiff

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Port Phillip Crime
(Melbourne)
1840

Offenders Index June - December 1840
Peers  Mr  riding on footpaths
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New South Wales 1824  Convict Tickets & Certificates Index  http://www.genseek.net/scons242.htm
Peers  Samuel  Indefatigable 2  TL
format is:
Surname  Name  Ship   Certificate
       TL=Ticket of Leave
       CP=Conditional Pardon
       CF=Certificate of Freedom
       FP=Free Pardon
       AP=Absolute Pardon

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Port Fairy District  News Index  1851 -http://www.genseek.net/bel1.htm

Peers - James___________________________Belfast________________________3
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Whys did widow annuant [ with private income] Janet Grimes come to Victoria 1852 - relatives  here?

Port Phillip Electoral Roll 1848-49
Grimes search =0
Renwick = 0
Hunte r=0
Sumner =0
Ryan = 0
Rowan = 0
 

1848-49 port phillip electoral roll
http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search_results.asp
 
 

Peers John Jones  - Richmond Freehold - said to be involved with Methodist church  and  Deniliquin.said to be connected to Frderick William Peers.

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Index of Tasmanian convicts:  at  for peers - http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=11
Index of all convicts transported to Tasmania and those who were convicted (through the convict system) in the colony was created by indexing all original records we hold from the beginning of transportation in 1804 until 1853 when transportation ceased.
format:
Fmily Name   Given Names     Date of Arrival   Ship Name   Date of Departure   Port of Departure

Peers   Benjamin         12 Oct 1843   Emerald Isle   30 Jun 1843   Sheerness     55572
Peers  Edward   Green  Edward  11 Aug 1842  Surrey (4)  05 Apr 1842  London   55573
Peers  Elizabeth          19 Jul 1843  Margaret  05 Feb 1843  London   55574
Peers  Elizabeth          25 Dec 1843  Woodbridge  03 Sep 1843  London   55575
Peers  Frederick         04 Apr 1844  Marion (1)  09 Dec 1843  London   55576
Peers  Paul                 17 Dec 1818  Lord Melville  01 Jul 1818    55577
Peers  Roger              14 Jul 1848  Bangalore  11 Apr 1848  Bermuda   55578
Peers  Thomas           15 Nov 1831  Strathfieldsay  02 Aug 1831  London
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Tasmanian Census - partial

Peers   Paul     1848   Oatlands Tas.
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Colonial Tasmanian Family Links http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=8
format - not known 
TASP   Family Name   Given Names   Date of Birth
256632  EDWARD PEERS         -----
253886  PEERS  EDWARD  1810 
256699  PEERS  LOUIS A  1848 
256700  LOUIS ARTHUR PEERS    1850 
250124  MARY AYRIS PEERS    1858 
256693 PAUL PEERS    1793 
256666 ROBERT ALEXANDER   PEERS   1829
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Tasmanian Convict Applications For Permissions to Marry 1829-1857 http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=5
Paul  PEERS     "Lord Melville"   BURRELL   Jane   free   00 APR 1843
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Ethel Marian Sumner (Maie) Ryan  b 13 March 1892 in Melbourne, was married to Richard [Lord ] Casey in  1926
She was the daughter of Alice Elfrida Sumner and Surgeon-General Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan (1853-1926) (brother of Cecil Godfrey Ryan and Ellis Rowan) and the sister of Rupert Ryan. Her paternal grandparents were Charles Ryan and Marian Cotton (daughter of John Cotton).
Lady Casey published three autobiographical accounts: An Australian story, 1837-1907 (1962), a history of four generations of her family in Australia; this needs to be read.