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years later he purchased the land on which his brothers' store had stood^* (another
instance of British citizenship following land purchase) and, operating under the name
of the Union Store, continued in partnership wdth Rossetti.
Residing for a time in Spring Creek, where he may have been working in
another branch store, hotel and bakery established by Rossetti (on the site of what later
became BedoUa's Hotel) (ref figure 10), in 1859 Giuseppe married an Irish girl, Mary
O'Grady, then in her mid 20s. Their first child, Joseph Richard (given the anglicised
form of his father's name plus an exclusively Anglo-Saxon name) died in infancy. In
1861 Giuseppe, by now resolved to remain in Australia, applied for British Citizenship
on the grounds that he wished to purchase more land.^' His brother Celestino, who
had been living in BaUarat, decided instead to retum to Someo, departing Melboume
aboard Xhe Marco Polo on 6 Febmary 1861.^" It was another four years on, 2 August
1865, before Giuseppe made his land purchase, buying a block in Hepbum opposite his
origmal land holding. Some time in the 1860s he also assumed management of the Old
Racecourse Hotel (later the Hepbum Hotel) (ref figure 11) where he remained for a
number of years.^^
His brother Serafino, who had also decided to settie permanently in Australia,
by this time had moved to Creswick and taken up his old occupation of dairying. On
7 Febmary 1862 he had married Lucy McCord, a 21 year old Irish giri; though himself
only 23, Serafino had apparently considered himself sufficiently financially secure for
such a step. His wdfe, according to the family history,^^ had been bom in County
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