Hi Janda, A family named Cooper lived at Trafalgar in the 1930s at a farm beside the Thorpdale road. Vic BDMs show the birth of Eustace Cooper son of Charles John Cooper and his wife Annie Eliza nee Lenford - possibly the same family. Incidentally, my uncle's diary entries contains references to Jessie's brothers Reg & Milton Hasthorpe after they moved to NSW if you are interested. Walter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janda Gooding" <Janda.Gooding@awm.gov.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:07 AM Subject: [AVG] Wuttrich / Cooper / Gooding families > Greetings listers, > I'm new to the list and hope someone out there can help me. I started > my family history recently and it seems most of my father's relatives > come from the Gippsland area. > > My paternal grandmother Vera May COOPER [1901-1985] was the daughter of > George Astley COOPER [b. DuckPonds Vic, 1865] and Jessie HASTHORPE. Vera > May COOPER married my future grandfather Clarence Alphonse GOODING [b. > Tanjil 1890 - d. Perth 1975] in 1928. He was the son of William Charles > GOODING and Marie Henrietta WUTTRICH [b.1863 Barrabool Hills - d. Tanjil > 1945], daughter of Alphonse Leon WUTTRICH [arr Aust 1854]. > > The GOODINGs and HASTHORPEs are well covered in Settlers to Selectors > by Joan Hasthorpe but I am keen to know more about the WUTTRICHs and if > the COOPERs are known in the Gippsland area. > > I'll be in east Gippsland in December so will be able to chase down > things if anyone has some leads for me to pursue. > > Janda Gooding > (researching Gooding, Cooper, Hasthorpe, Gowans, Bevis, Wuttrich, > Ceirinie and Varney families) > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message