On 07/11/2009, at 7:04 AM, SOMERS wrote: > Hi Listers > For a long time I didn't know my gr.grandfather George OSBORNE had > remarried.....if anyone has these two books and willing to send me a > copy of text I would be most grateful. > > Many thanks > Sandra > Auckland New Zealand > > OSBORNE, Anne Maria (nee CAMPION) Steadfast Through Change: a > history of the Wesleyan - Methodist - Uniting Church in Highton 1853 > to 2006 43 > > > > OSBORNE, George The History of Geelong and Corio Bay with > Postscript 1955-1990 415 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Sandra Here's the ref from STEADFAST THROUGH CHANGE, from the part I wrote there about the ADCOK family. I have family commitments this coming week, but can look up the sources after that (also have the other book, but no time now). > The youngest of the Adcocks, Henry, married Anne Maria Campion in > England in January 1854, and they arrived in Victoria together that > August. Henry was twenty-seven and Anne twenty-five. Their eldest > child, Edward, was born the following year in the Geelong district, > so perhaps the pregnant Ann may have been especially grateful to > reach solid land. They had three other children – Clement, Annie, > and Gertrude - before 1860. In 1863 Henry died of diabetes at the > age of thirty-six, and after Anne married George Osborne in 1869 the > family apparently moved. But in that short time Henry left his mark > upon the district and local Wesleyanism. He opened his Albion > Nursery on the corner of Bonsey and Thornhill Roads, south of his > brother’s. The 6-acre Albion Nursery was advertised for sale in > October 1868. Good hunting! Marion