The Lindsays migrated from Ireland about 1865. They appear to have settled in several areas including the suburb of Malvern and the artists Norman and Lionel Lindsay were sons of one branch of the family.

Joseph Lindsay married Elizabeth McLean in County Tyrone in 1836 and had eight children. During the 1870s, land was purchased at Loy Yang and registered in the name of one of their sons, Robert. Robert married twice (three times according to some records) and had eleven children. One of his children, John, married Hilda Harriet Morris in the early 1880s and they selected land at Traralgon West, which they called ‘Golden Grove’ because of the many wattle trees along the Latrobe River’s edge. They lived for some time in a bark hut and when one of their five children were born, a wild storm blew the roof off.

Their eldest son, Herbert, inherited the farm; he fought in the Boer War. Percy went off working elsewhere and in 1914 was prospecting in the southwest of Queensland with a partner – he once told me they found oil and went to register the claim, but when they returned to the camp the whole thing had been "blown up". Perce returned home and enlisted at Morwell in 2nd September 1914 at the age of 30. He was wounded at Gallipoli and was later in the cavalry charge of Beersheba; Herbert did not return from The War. Hilda (junior) was a nursing sister who specialised in children’s care and infant welfare, and George and Victor both stayed working on the farm.

Perce married Sarah Mary King. Her father was a builder and the family lived on the west corner of Mill and Tyers Roads. Percy suffered continuing ill health as a result of the war wounds with the need for hospitalisation and nursing at home. At one time Marj Beal from Loy Yang nursed Perce at home and later married his brother, Victor.