Hi Sandra Thank you very much for all that information on the ADCOCKs. I'm especially glad to know what happened to Ann Maria after she was widowed - I had wondered whether she had had more children by another husband. I have been in touch with Gail before, and she and other ADCOCK descendants have contributed bits and pieces which I am building up into a picture. I relied a lot on George Jones's book for details of Thomas ADCOCK, who came out in 1849, and of Edward, who arrived in 1864 and is very prominent in our church records. In case other readers are interested in ADCOCKs, I want to prevent possible confusion over what seem to be two Henrys. The first - our trustee - was Ann Campion's first husband (1827-1863). The second was his nephew, George Henry (1860-1931), son of Henry's brother Edward. I am told that George Henry was known as Harry - and I relish the fact that he became the principal of a viticultural college, seeing his father Edward was such a staunch Methodist and probably a "wowser"! George Henry was born in Horncastle, and it would be he who named his house "Hyrnecastre" after the Saxon name for that town (meaning "a fort in a corner", according to various websites). I'm told that he married Edith INGAMELLS on 16 April 1884 at Chilwell, Geelong (probably Noble St Wesleyan Church - unless Edith belonged to another denomination, but her surname does have Methodist connections); they had four sons :- Bertram, Lancelot Harry, Garnet I [ngamells?], and Guy Rollo. At celebrations in 1914 for the Highton church jubilee, George Henry was the chairman at a weeknight gathering, and it was said that the minutes of the meeting where it was decided to build the second, freestone church, which still stands today beside a modern brick one, were in his father's handwriting. G H's sister Annie was a noted worker in the church, and was presented with an organ of her own when she married. Her descendants can be traced in other areas around Geelong, often in connection with Methodist churches. If you are interested in pursuing the ADCOCK link any further, I have a photograph which I took in the late 1840s of the hill in Highton where the nurseries used to be - now covered with houses since Geelong has spread much further since my childhood, let alone the ADCOCKs'. Many thanks again for your helpfulness, and very best wishes with your own researches. Marion