Kath, I have found some more info re your Conley forebears. Miss Grace Auchterlonie (my much loved aunt, now deceased) wrote a history of the Thorpdale - Narracan district in 1956 at the request of the Country Womens Association. (The district was originally known as the Narracan district. The township of Thorpdale was not founded until after the coming of the railway in 1888.) Aunt refers to the opening of the Narracan School in 1878 at the Narracan Mechanics Institute, which had recently been built (on the eastern side of McDonald's Track opposite the site of the present War Memorial at Narracan East), "with a roll of ten pupils. The number soon increased to twenty, some coming long distances along bush tracks through the timber . . . A family named Conley of three boys and one girl came from what was then known as the Little Narracan, a part of which was later known as Narracan Park." That would have been quite a hike (past the site of my childhood home), followed by a steep descent to Trimm's Creek and then a steep cliimb on the other isde. Also, I have an aerial photo of Thorpdale (taken about 1970) including the Conley property and will scan and email it to you by JPEG if you wish. Walter Savige.