Viveash is a suburb in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, Western Australia

Western Australia

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, in the City of Swan. It was named after Dr Samuel Waterman Viveash, the owner of the land in this area in the 1840s. Viveash arrived in the Swan River Colony

Swan River Colony

The Swan River Colony was a British settlement established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. The name was a pars pro toto for Western Australia. In 1832, the colony was officially renamed Western Australia, when the colony's founding Lieutenant-Governor, Captain James Stirling,...

 in December 1838 and took up land in the Avon Land District

Avon Land District

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. The suburban area of Viveash was developed by the Midland Brick Company (now Boral

Boral

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) which carried out subdivision in 1967 and requested that the area be given the name Viveash in 1968.