Hi List, Saw this on AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Given the mention of Balranald in 1927, can anyone help??? Does Oak Plains mean anything to anyone in that area???? Linda ============================================= Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:28:40 +0100 From: "Daphne" <[email protected]> Hello All, I am hoping to trace any relatives descended from my second cousins AMY & MARY CLARKE. The following facts are gleaned from Mary's letters written home and are all I have. Amy (born c1898) and Mary (born c1906) CLARKE emigrated from GLOUCESTER in the UK, arriving in MELBOURNE in Spring 1925. Mary worked 'in service' in Melbourne first at Carmyle Avenue TOORAK. By 1927 she was at 22 Wilis St, MALVERN (possibly with a family DODDS) and later at 321 Glenferry Rd. Malvern. I presume that Amy was also in service; Mary's letters tell us that she (Amy) married and was living at OAK PLAINS with her husband and his two brothers. Amy had a daughter in 1927 giving birth at the Balranald Hospital. Mary became engaged to 'Arthur' in late 1927. Little is known of him other than he had a married brother in TRAWALA ( Letters also mention 'Arthur's married brother in BALARAT' - could be another brother or the same one in a different place) Hope bells might ring with someone! Daphne, Gloucester, England.