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JOHn JOSEPH GOLLER
WINE MERCHANT, SOUTH STREET COMPETITIONS
1826-1889
John Joseph Goller was born in Buchen, Germany in 1826. Son of Josephi Antonii Goller & Margarethae
Maria Bauer & was the fifth child of eight children.
J.J. arrived in Australia in 1852 and opened a store in 1855 at the Hard Hills near Buninyong, Victoria.
The following year, he sold the property to his nephew Mr. Sauer and tranferred to 100 Sturt St. Ballarat.
Goller was joined by William E. Ballhausen in 1863 and also Frank Herman in 1868. John Joseph married Isabella Graham in 1865 & had two children to her, both dying in infancy, Isabella herself dying in 1869. He later married Margarite Christiana Jane Gibb in 1872 & went on to have five more children.
Goller took over the Bluestone premises at 114 Lydiard St. Ballarat, after Holmes, White & Co. collapsed with the Glasgow Bank failure in 1876. This was quite a large building and the firm of J.J. Goller, had a buyer in
London to oversee the importation of the finest cigars, wines & spirits, also canned & preserved fruits which
Europe had to offer. Imported wines, were kept in the cellar for seven years and all bottling was done on the premises, being hand labeled and individually wrapped in tissue paper.
Apart from being connected with the Warrenheip Distillery, Goller was also a Director of a number of
mining companies. Mrs. Goller fired the furnace for the first smelting in 1874. J.J. Goller became quite a wealthy man, but died in 1889, Mrs. Goller dying in 1904.
The firm went on to be a large part of the history in Ballarat. After Goller died, the joint partnership of
Ballhausen & Herman continued trading under the J.J. Goller name. Ballhausen died in 1900 and
bequeathed the City Council a large sum of money to provide a Pipe organ at the City Hall. Frank Herman then carried on the business alone. He also went into loaning money to people for the purpose of purchasing Hotels and the firm bought many hotels themselves.
Frank Herman's two sons- Arnold & Frank were also active in the business and when their father died in 1937, they continued to carry on the business. Their father was well respected by all who knew him and left
behind in Ballarat, a personal legend of graciousness & old world courtesy. He was the Director of a number of Local businesses & Patron of several athletic organisations.
After the federal budget of 1978, introducing increases in tariffs & duties on Spirits, consumption dropped dramatically and in May 1979 it was announced that the old firm of J.J. Goller was closing. The trading activities continued on a walk in/walk out basis & part of the business was sold to the Ballarat Brewing Co.
for a purchase price of more than $1,000,000.
The Principal assets of the Company were 12 Hotels. The building was later used by the Ballarat Orphanage and has recently been redeveloped into 10 one bedroom apartments.
Reference
(Ballarat & District Histories)
Maria Bauer & was the fifth child of eight children.
J.J. arrived in Australia in 1852 and opened a store in 1855 at the Hard Hills near Buninyong, Victoria.
The following year, he sold the property to his nephew Mr. Sauer and tranferred to 100 Sturt St. Ballarat.
Goller was joined by William E. Ballhausen in 1863 and also Frank Herman in 1868. John Joseph married Isabella Graham in 1865 & had two children to her, both dying in infancy, Isabella herself dying in 1869. He later married Margarite Christiana Jane Gibb in 1872 & went on to have five more children.
Goller took over the Bluestone premises at 114 Lydiard St. Ballarat, after Holmes, White & Co. collapsed with the Glasgow Bank failure in 1876. This was quite a large building and the firm of J.J. Goller, had a buyer in
London to oversee the importation of the finest cigars, wines & spirits, also canned & preserved fruits which
Europe had to offer. Imported wines, were kept in the cellar for seven years and all bottling was done on the premises, being hand labeled and individually wrapped in tissue paper.
Apart from being connected with the Warrenheip Distillery, Goller was also a Director of a number of
mining companies. Mrs. Goller fired the furnace for the first smelting in 1874. J.J. Goller became quite a wealthy man, but died in 1889, Mrs. Goller dying in 1904.
The firm went on to be a large part of the history in Ballarat. After Goller died, the joint partnership of
Ballhausen & Herman continued trading under the J.J. Goller name. Ballhausen died in 1900 and
bequeathed the City Council a large sum of money to provide a Pipe organ at the City Hall. Frank Herman then carried on the business alone. He also went into loaning money to people for the purpose of purchasing Hotels and the firm bought many hotels themselves.
Frank Herman's two sons- Arnold & Frank were also active in the business and when their father died in 1937, they continued to carry on the business. Their father was well respected by all who knew him and left
behind in Ballarat, a personal legend of graciousness & old world courtesy. He was the Director of a number of Local businesses & Patron of several athletic organisations.
After the federal budget of 1978, introducing increases in tariffs & duties on Spirits, consumption dropped dramatically and in May 1979 it was announced that the old firm of J.J. Goller was closing. The trading activities continued on a walk in/walk out basis & part of the business was sold to the Ballarat Brewing Co.
for a purchase price of more than $1,000,000.
The Principal assets of the Company were 12 Hotels. The building was later used by the Ballarat Orphanage and has recently been redeveloped into 10 one bedroom apartments.
Reference
(Ballarat & District Histories)
1. Goller Hotels
2. Goller labels
3. Goller Shield
4. Ballarat
5. Pipe Organs
6. Wine Merchants & Publicans
2. Goller labels
3. Goller Shield
4. Ballarat
5. Pipe Organs
6. Wine Merchants & Publicans
Hotels owned by
J.J. Goller & Co.
J.J. Goller & Co.
The Blue Duck (Ararat) The Criterion (Ballarat) The North Britain (Ballarat) The Western (Balmoral) The Crown (Buninyong) The Bunyip (Cavendish) The Greens Hills (Condah) The Frenchman's Inn (Cressy) The British (Creswick) |
Hotels owned by J.J. Groller &
The Buck's head Hotel (Ballarat) The Lorne Hotel (Lorne) Lal Lal Falls Hotel (Lal Lal) The Dean (Dean) The Heywood (Heywood) The Marmen (Murtoa) J.J. Goller & Co. http://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/imu/imu |
THE FACTORY NOW The Goller Factory has been turn into 10 x 1 bedroom apartments 1 Bedroom Apartment in the CBD (Ballarat) Fully renovated in a great location 140 metres to the train station & within walking distance to cafes, shops & public transport. The apartment features open plan kitchen / living area, upstairs bedroom & combined bathroom & laundry. Car Parking is available with an undercover car park on site. Rent $195-$250 (2014) (A nice little investment?) |
Goller Labels
up for Auction
up for Auction
It's amazing what will fetch a good price at Auction.
Not Goller, but in the same catalogue. If you have either of these two bottles at home, they are worth between $7,000-$10,000. When these bottles were first made, today's value would've fed a family for probably a lifetime. Have a look at what else you may have- http://www.abcrauctions.com/pdfs/CATALOGUE_13_web.pdf |
The Goller Shield
St Patrick's College Ballarat Annuals
from 1898 Includes Student's names & Ads http://www.stpats.vic.edu.au/en/st-patricks |
The Coliseum Ballarat
The 1936 fire at the Coliseum Sturt St. Ballarat. The Coliseum could seat 8,000 people & was the biggest theatre in Australia.
Mirror, Saturday 26 December 1936
The fire and other events of the year in Australia
mentioned in the Article http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/75712043 |
Ballarat
The Ballarat District Orphan Asylum Child and Family Services Ballarat Records (1865 - )
http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000695 http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000030 Wardship and adoption: tracing a hidden family history http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2015/04/17/4218241 Police digging for remains at former Ballarat orphanage site http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-digging-for |
The Ballarat District Orphan Asylum
was established in 1865 and the first children were admitted in October of that same year.The Asylum was run by a non-denominational board of management and an Orphanage farm was later established in 1869. Ballarat Orphanage
http://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/media/1896905 Ballarat Orphanage and Children's Home http://cafs.org.au/heritage-centre/ballarat |
Ballarat Orphanage Children's Home
5:12 |
Ballarat Pictorial
9:57 |
The History of Ballarat By William Bramwell Withers
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1304971h.html |
Federation University Australia Historical Collection (formerly University of Ballarat)
http://victoriancollections.net.au/?q=J.J.+Goller The Ballarat Historical Society
http://www.ballarathistoricalsociety.com/ http://www.ballarathistoricalsociety.com/collection Victorian Heritage Database (click on the right hand side- Additional Place information/Physical Description
http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/120891 1913 projector
Coloured poster on canvas showing the flow of World population around 1920 from Europe to Australia, Canada, the United States of America & South America.
Many other things to look at on the 'Federation University Australia Historical Collection' Site
(formerly University of Ballarat) |
Early Ballarat
Map showing Ballarat & Sebastapol Goldmines
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P.R.O.V. Ballarat Maps
http://access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/component/da Ballarat now and then (scroll down page)
http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/ 1875746 |
Pipe Organs
Ballarat City Hall Pipe Organ
A bequest of £1,200 was made by the late Mr Herman Ballhausen to the Ballarat City Council toward the fund to establish a pipe organ at the city hall. Ballarat City Hall never did install that Pipe Organ They did eventually get an electronic organ worth $40,000 in 1981. Not quite the same though! The Electronic Organ Installed http://savecivichall.org/history/ The Electronic Organ is probably something like this Organ below, which would not be worth very much at all now. I'm sure Mr. Ballhausen would not have been impressed! Through Pipes Breath -
a Documentary on Pipe Organs 6:06 |
Argus Melbourne, Vic. Saturday 8 February 1936
Ballarat does have quite a number of Pipe Organs & have Festivals Celebrating the Organs of the Goldfields each year.
http://www.ballarat.com/organs.html "The Municipal Organ" from the documentary film "The Senator's Masterpiece" about the Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ. 10:25
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Wine Dealers & Publicans
Wine dealers (and other Businesses)
A-Z listing of business records held at London Metropolitan Archives https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do BUSINESS RECORDS-Includes Wine Merchants. Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/22i.htm P.R.O.V.- Wine, Spirit and Sundry Licences Registers - Metropolitan & Country http://prov.vic.gov.au/provguide-35 Publican, Brewery and Licensed Victuallers Records
http://www.genguide.co.uk/source/publican |
PUBLICANS
Basics on pubs and publicans (Australia) (on C.D.) http://www.sag.org.au/shop/browse-products-and Publican Index of 19th Century Victoria http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com State Library of Queensland- Pubs and publicans guide http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history State Library of N.S.W.- Publicans' licences 1830-61 https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives The Vintners' Company The Vintners' Company, with its first Charter in 1363, is one of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of the City of London and in 2013 the Company celebrates its 650th anniversary! The Company's membership consists of over 500 Freemen and Liverymen. With its origins steeped in the history of the City of London and the import, regulation & sale of wine, the Company continues to maintain strong links with the UK Wine Trade. Vintners' Hall is known as the Trade's "spiritual home". http://www.vintnershall.co.uk/ |