Robert Sellar

Robert's nephew Walter Carruthers Sellar, son of his brother Patrick, became a school teacher and well known humorist writer.

[1] Companies included, On 2 April 1859 Robert Sellar married Matilda Charlotte Swyer at Christ Church, St Kilda, Melbourne.

[2] Matilda's brother Charles Robert Swyer was a civil engineer who had emigrated from Manchester to St Kilda to build Christ Church where construction started about 1854.

Having learnt their trade, by working for the Dennistoun Brothers, they imported goods into the colony, operated warehouses, and exported bales of wool.

[1] The 'Pastoral Possessions of New South Wales' published by William Hanson in 1889 records that circa 1885 the Mount Gipps Pastoral Holding (no 20) extended to 418,471 acres (169,349 hectares) at a rent of £1,307 per annum.

[1] A National Trust of Australia document records Robert Sellar living in 1889 at newly built Northbrook House, 1257 High Street, Malvern, Melbourne.

Following the transfer of the ownership of Northbrook House to the Federal Bank of Australia in 1893, Sellar was listed in Alma Road, Caulfield.