Thanks for a very helpful response, Bill & Corinne; and I'm sorry, Robyn, that I know nothing that will be of further help to you, though if you supply a date or two someone else might be able to find a link. Bill and Corinne have answered my immediate query (required by the weekend for a book chapter I'm working on). But I am interested in adding to my files on any family connected with the old Highton Wesleyan Church, and am glad to have some background for the names on a brass wall plate there that intrigued me when I was a child. It commemorates Charles and Eliza Ireson, and was placed there by "their daughters and son-in-law H. Daniel and A. M. and John Hancock". I have just been checking out the on-line BDMs, and have found 4 children for Edmund and Harriet (Harold, Gladys, Ireson, and Lilian), and note that Harold's full name was Harold Charles Nicholas, which might suggest the spelling Edmund preferred, at any rate. Bill says they had 6, and I'd be interested to learn of the others when you are replying to Corinne, and also to learn about Edmund's siblings, and when the family came to Victoria. Are you descended from Edmund and Harriet, Bill? John & Mary Jane seem to have had two daughters called Catherine, and I think their age at death as given in the index may be in months or days rather than years, otherwise the first was born four years before her parents were married - which of course is not impossible. I haven't been able to track down when the Iresons arrived either. They were married in the Barrabool Hills in June 1858, and five of their 7 children were registered at Ceres; Charles's birthplace was given as Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire, and Eliza (nee Goffin or Goffing) was b at Sampford, Devon - probably Sampford Spiney, as she was baptised in the Buckfastleigh Bible Christian Circuit which would cover that area. Both are buried in the Barrabool Hills Cemetery at Highton. (Charles d. 4 Nov 1880 aged 47 [or 48], and Eliza 5 Nov 1894 aged 58). A descendant, D. M. Irseon, became a minister, but I don't know exactly where he fits in. Any further details either of you can give me will be much appreciated, and I'm also very grateful for the speed and completeness of your response! Many thanks, Marion