Shirley Please put my name down for a copy if you could. My family bought a small property in Toora that we use as a weekender but we do not get down there as often as we would like. If you could do a look up for me from the book I would be grateful. I am interested in the Platt and Rose families who where definitely in the area in the 1850s and 1860s. Thank you for your time. Judy Rochow-Richmond

Re-posting John Fisher REYNOLDS - died at Sale, 1873, from injuries received in a steeplechase accident. Wife - Margaret (QUILL) Children - 4 girls Brother - Edward Tiffin REYNOLDS 1. Does anyone know whether Fernbank is/was anywhere in this region? The brothers supposedly settled here in about 1854. 2. Does anyone know how I might find out where steeplechasing was happening at that time, to find out more about the accident if possible? 3. How can I contact the FHS in Sale? Regards from Wagga Wagga John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

A BIG hearty THANKS to all who sent me information on Trinca's Sawmill. Now I have enough to assist me in my research. Julie from rainy Cairns

Michael These entries for you. I don't know if you had them, but better to have them twice than not at all. Digger - Death Index. Victoria 1921-1985 Surname: QUIRK Given Names: Ettie Father: Daley George J Mother: Elizabeth DOWNES Death Place: BAIR Age: 67 Year: 1961 Reg Number: 14221 Event: D Surname: QUIRK Given Names: Patk Jos Father: Quirk Patk Mother: Ellen DOHERTY Death Place: BDALE Age: 68 Year: 1933 Reg Number: 15217 Event: D Surname: QUIRK Given Names: Patrick Joseph Father: James Mother: Mary AHERN Death Place: BAIR Age: 68 Year: 1958 Reg Number: 23719 Event: D Hope this helps. Regards Joy Light

Hi Listers, I am looking for anyone with information on Ethel Emma (Ettie) QUIRK and her husband Patrick Joseph QUIRK of Bairnsdale who died c. 1960. Has anyone access to the Bairnsdale Cemetery Registers or Memorial Inscriptions ? regards, Michael Daldry Melbourne, Australia mjdaldry@bigpond.com

Hello Linda, Sandra and all interested: As you requested, I am posting this to the list. You folks have just made my day. I keep retrieving my messages hoping to hear again from someone. I don't even know where to start as I could fill pages with the descendants. In North Uist they did not keep track of deaths so there is a part I cannot match-up but I do know I have the right people and I will only give you the part I HAVE verified. It is all documented. John Arbuckle left Ecclesmachen, West Lothian in 1764 to go to North Uist and build the church. He was a carpenter contractor. I have wonderful pictures of the ruins of the church (roof missing). You will never know the feeling in my stomach to stand inside the church. John married Mary MacAulay in about 1773 and they had 1 son William Arbuckle in 1774. William went to Aberdeen University and become a teacher and also a Reverend. On August 18, 1797, William married Flora MacLeod, daughter of Dr. Murdock MacLeod (of Rigg) and Mary MacLean. I won't go into the MacLeod & MacLean lines as yet. William & Flora had 9 children and William died Jan 27,1818. John (b1798)- became a teacher in Strath, Isle of Skye and I have located 1 son William (also a teacher in Barra) Marion (b1800)- married Andrew Greig a school teacher and they had 2 boys & 1 girl. They left the island in 1835 and I am trying to locate where they went. Mary (b1801)- married Alexander MacKenzie and I am working on more info on them. Probably went to Stornoway on Isle of Lewis. Niel (b1803)- died 1804 in Stornoway Norman (b1806)- On the 1851 Census he is a sailor and living with his Mother in North Uist (Flora (MacLeod) Arbuckle) Murdock (b1808)- School teacher - never married - died 1888 in N.U. Alexander (b1810)- I trailed him to Portree and located Flora's birth in 1838 but the lady at the registry office could not find where he went. I recently found Flora on a ship list to Victoria and a man from Ocean Grove helped me obtain the marriage registration. You know the rest. Donald (b1812)-My g-g-grandfather got his education in Liverpool as a Bookkeeper and returned to take over the Croft in North Uist. He married Marion McLeod and left N.U. in 1854 with their 7 children. I descend from here but I won't go into details. Harriet Julia (b1817)-married Archibald McLellan (Merchant) and she is the only one that stayed in N.U. They had 5 boys & 2 girls. In 1870 their sons, William, Alexander & Donald left N.U. and I am trying to locate where they went. Harriet & Archie also had another son, also named Archibald and he stayed in N.U. and he had a son Roderick. Roderick had a daughter also named Flora and when I was there I met Flora & her son Angus. We spent Sat. & Sun. p.m. with them. I knew this would be long but I hope Sandra sees this and will contact me. I have attached a write-up about an Uncle of your Dr Alexander Arbuckle. This man was a brother of Flora MacLeod and there is a monument to him on North Uist. I hope you all have this good luck one day as I feel if these people walked down the street now I would know them all. I hope I haven't bored you. Many Thanks Lorraine (nee Arbuckle) Ottawa, Canada ALEXANDER MACLEOD (DR), so well and popularly known in the Western Isles as "AN DOITAR BAN". He was for many years chamberlain for Lord MacDonald in Skye and North Uist and afterwards for Clanranald in South Uist and Benbecula and was probably the most popular man who ever acted in that capacity in the Highlands. He is still affectionately remembered by many of the oldest people in the Long Island and there are many evidences of his good work yet to be seen in the Outer Hebrides. His attainments as a scholar are said to have been very high and as a medical man his skill was highly appreciated. He was always at the service of the people, generally without fee or reward of any kind except the pleasure he derived from doing good. It is therefore not surprising that he gained the affection and confidence of the population, in all his professional and business relations with them, in a manner not attained by any other factor in modern times. Neither trouble nor distance dettered him from giving the poorest of the people the benefit of his skill, whenever and wherever within his reach they might be required, until he lost his life, while engaged in this work of mercy, at Loch Hourn, on the mainland, when he fell over a precipice returning from visiting a poor shepherd's family during a dark night in that wild and rocky region.

A couple of us have been having a little natter about this off-list, as there is a list-member doing this family. But just in case others did not realise, Dr Arbuckle is a very significant figure in the European occupation of Gippsland - Doctors Flat near Swifts Creek is named after him. He went on to be the main coroner for Gippsland, and was an early licensee for Mewburn park. He is buried in the Sale cemetery, in that central section near Angus McMillan, and I THINK the Armidale reception House in Sale is where his daughter ended up. Not quite sure - maybe Sandra can confirm???? But it is really great to see the connection being made with his brother. And it would be terrific, Lorraine, if you could tell us on the list a little more about his background in Scotland - it is not something which I have seen any material about. Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ >Well, I finally made it here. >I have just received a marriage registration for >Flora ARBUCKLE and Alexander MACDONALD on Jan.4,1859. >They were married at the home of Flora's father in Sale, >Dr. Alexander Arbuckle, was a surgeon. I have located >all of the ARBUCKLE family from North Uist, Outer Hebrides, >Scotland. >At the time of the marriage Alexander MACDONALD was from >the Island of Mull and living in Armisdale Station in 1859. >His parents were Neil and Marion MACDONALD. >I would like to hear from anyone that knows of this family. > >Many Thanks >Lorraine >Ottawa, Canada >

Hello Everyone: Well, I finally made it here. I have just received a marriage registration for Flora ARBUCKLE and Alexander MACDONALD on Jan.4,1859. They were married at the home of Flora's father in Sale, Dr. Alexander Arbuckle, was a surgeon. I have located all of the ARBUCKLE family from North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. At the time of the marriage Alexander MACDONALD was from the Island of Mull and living in Armisdale Station in 1859. His parents were Neil and Marion MACDONALD. I would like to hear from anyone that knows of this family. Many Thanks Lorraine Ottawa, Canada

My name is Ann STEVENS, 29 Grey Street, GRIFFITH, 2680 or grahams@dragnet.com.au and I am interested in the following families in the Gippsland district. ANDERSON Rushworth, St. Arnaud, Melbourne; ASHTON Sale & Rosedale; BAUL Sale; BO(U)RKE Bairnsdale; CLOAK Sale; DAVIS Alberton, Avenel, Bendoc, Coburg, Kyneton, Rosedale, Sale, Taraville, Traralgon, Yarram; GREENWOOD Bairnsdale, Bruthen, Longford, Lucknow, Maffra, Port Albert, Sale, Stratford, Tarraville, Walhalla; HERBERT Alberton, Lucknow, Yarra; McDOWALL Avenel, Bairnsdale, Carlton, Omeo; MURRAY Maffra, Sale; PARA-GREEN Foster, Tarraville, Welshpool, Yarram; REGAN Melbourne, Orbost, Port Albert, Rosedale, Sale, Tarraville, Traralgon, Yarram; SILVESTER Bairnsdale, Lucknow, Warragul; TULLOCH Ballarat, Sale; WOOD Alberton, Ballarat, Creswick & Yarram. I would love to hear from anyone interested in these families. Ann Stevens, grahams@dragnet.com.au

Hi Julie, I cannot help you find these Trinca references, possibly someone from nearer to Warragul can. But Gippsland Heritage Journal No.19 has the following abstract from the Warragul Historical Soc. Newsletter: 'John Tranca: Sawmiller and builder'. Biography and commercial activities of Trinca, a sawmiller from the 1870s onwards. Details (and illustration) of a house built by him as a display home at 96 Albert St, Warragul. No.281 pp4-7 GHJ No.20 has the following abstracts: 'More on the Trincas' ..... includes an advertisement for a function at 'Trinca's Hall', Warragul. No.282 pp5-6. The story continues in No.285 pp6-8 with 'The Trinca House Again'. Hope this helps a little bit. Regards, Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

Hi group I would like to ask if anyone on the list has a photo or picture of St Pauls Catholic church in Sale, My grandparents were married there and I would love to put a picture of the church on my web page thankyou Joanne

Hi Listers, Talking of Sawmills, my father, Arthur Edmund Jones managed the sawmill at Pakenham in the 1940-50's. Regards Bev

Julie and other Aussie Listers Did you know! Go to State Library of Victoria site http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/slv/catalogue/ search their database online by Title Author Subject Keyword Take note of reference no. etc. Then ask your local council or town library to get the book for you It may take about a month to get the book, depending on the waiting list and where you live. Cheryl Hower Mandurah WA chergar@southwest.com.au ICQ 33532371

Hi List, Just a note to let everyone know the Deputy and others have been busy again. The Erica, Narracan East and Thorpdale war memorials, and the Devon North, Toora and Yallourn honour rolls (as well as a second one of the Stratford Boer War honour roll) have been transcribed and added to the resources page on the AVG home page. Many thanks to Di Christensen for the Devon North transcription and Shirley Westaway for the Toora transcription. Just go to http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ and from there to Resources, then to War Memorials. Cheers Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

Hi, All, My g/father JOHN WILLIAMS and my father, JOHN McGINNIS WILLIAMS worked in sawmills. They lived in the Eaglehawk area mid to late 1870's and then moved to Warragul. Does anyone have access to records of John Trinca's sawmill which moved from Dead Men's (sic?) Gully, near where Darnum is today, to Warragul in 1878? I have been given three books of reference on the subject, but have no access to them up here in Nth Qld. The books are: Copeland, Hugh "The Path of Progress" (Warragul, Vic.: Shire of Warragul, 1934) p.334 McCarthy, Mike "Settlers and sawmillers: a history of the West Gippsland tramways and the industries they served, 1975 - 1934", (Melbourne, Vic.: Light Railway Research Scy of Australia, 1993) p.84 Wilde, Sally, "Forests old and pastures new: a history of Warragul, (Warragul, Vic.: Shire of Warragul, 1988) Greatly appreciate any information I receive. Julie from Cairns

On the subject of honour rolls...does anyone know if the honour roll from the Ryton hall survives anywhere? Ryton was near Gunyah. The Hall was unlocked and genearlly uncared for after the the selectors abandoned their farms. In the 1970s the hall still had a 'mechanics library' in a cupboard, a piano and a honour roll. The hall was surrounded by european trees planted on arbour day round the time of the first world war. The hall was burnt down in the late 70s or early 80s i think.

Hi All I have this book in my possession for a couple of weeks. If any one would like me to look up something for them in this book, please let me know. It has a list of Discoverers of Goldfields in Victoria and Rewards Paid Unofficial Discoverers of Gold in Victoria When and where gold was found and by whom etc Also will have this week sometime The Settling of Gippland - A Regional History by Patrick Morgan Regards Cheryl Hower Mandurah WA ICQ 33532371

For those who have been enquiring about the history of Toora in South Gippsland recorded in the book With Mud on Their Boots first published in 1988, the news is that it is out of print but there is talk of a revised edition possibly later this year. The Toora Newsagency has compiled a list of names of those who are seeking copies so if anyone is interested, please let me know and I'll happily pass them on. Alternatively, I'll willingly do look ups – when I can get my hands on a copy. Cheers Shirley Westaway Toora & District Family History Group

Hi to the List. I have been trying to reply directly to DIANNE CARROLL at omeo@tpg.com.au but it keeps getting returned. Could Dianne please contact me again? Thanks Barbara Walker ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Jeanne C Sorry, deleted your mailed information. (Typical of me!) I didn't even get a chance to read your genealogy info. Could you please send it again? Julie from Cairns