Good luck with your Smith reunion - wish it was my Joseph Henry Smith you were looking for - he's a hard one to track down! Josie Brian Skehan wrote: > Dear List, > I know this is a long message but pleeeease read it. > We are having a Family Reunion for the SMITH side of my family on October > 31st this year and I really need help to locate members of 3 families. > My GGGrandfather William Smith (from Midsomer Norton Somerset England) > married Charlotte Fletcher in Castlemain Victoria Australia in 1856.They > moved to Sarsfield near Bairnsdale Victoria and raised 9 children.A son and > two daughters just disappeared and help is needed please to locate > descendants of > JOHN JAMES SMITH born 1858.He returned to England and was residing in > Wellow Somerset in 1893.After that we don't know but he may have returned > to Western Australia. > ELIZA LOUISA SMITH born 1862 married JOHN CHARLES WARD in Bairnsdale > Victoria and had the following children. > John Daniel Ward 1883--1955, > Ellen Louisa Ward 1886 --- > Annie Matilda Ward 1894--1955 married a Jones and died at Footscray . > Eliza Temperance Ward 1888 --1962,also married a Jones and died at > Melbourne. > Charlotte Ward b 1898-----1946 married a Lavelle and died at P'ville.(could > it be Paynesville near Bairnsdale or Parkville in Melbourne) > ANN SMITH born 1865 married RUEBEN NICHOLLS in Bairnsdale Victoria.They had > the following children , > Grace Emma Nicholls,b 1890, Martin Louis Nicholls b 1892 and Elsinore > Nicholls b 1898. This family moved to Perth Western Australia and we know > nothing of them. > Any help to locate any descendants would be greatfully received. > Regards Elaine Skehan, > Sale,Victoria. > > ia, Australia. > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Have you checked out the Gippsland Links on the Gippsland Mailing List Home page?? > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/