Place Names Register Extract
Peckham Truck Parking Bay
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Peckham Truck Parking Bay |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | Rest Area |
| Place Id | 24527 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Registered |
| Date Registered | 10 October 2013 |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -15° 28' S (Decimal degrees -15.46789) | |
| Longitude: 131° 24' E (Decimal degrees 131.4038) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| Delamere | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Victoria-Daly Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | Named to commemorate the Peckham family. Henry Peckham secured the mail contract and was known to the 'Maluka' (Aeneas Gunn) and Jeanie at Elsey Station. Peckham drowned on 17 April 1911 trying to cross the flooded Dashwood Crossing over Campbell's Creek on Victoria River Downs with mail which included a letter seeking medical help at the station for a sick woman. He was buried on the banks of the river but was reinterred at Elsey in 1944 when the Army (NT Force, Brigadier Dollery) made moves to restore some of the graves of the characters of ?We of the Never Never? to a central Elsey Cemetery. The tombstone read In loving memory of the Fizzer - Henry Ventlia Peckham b 28.2.1872 d 17.4.1911 - "With God all things are possible". |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 10/10/2013 | Date added to the Register | |
| 23/10/2013 | NTG G43 |