Hi there, Thank you to Michele, Phoebe, Marg M., Mary S., Lyn, and Robyn for your prompt responses. Wonderful and I appreciate your ideas. It would seem that I did not make it clear that my request was specific to TM's times in the Creswick and Benalla areas between 1855 and about 1860. My research has had limited success in those locations - I had already spent a lot of time accessing the NLA/Argus, Family Search, BMD, Vic State Archives etc with some interesting results for earlier and later periods. I was not previously aware of the Vic. Gov. Gazette website but will find it useful henceforth. At this time I now understand there may have been newspapers at Creswick and Benalla from this era but they have not been digitized by the NLA so it seems I will have to wait for these to be available via the Internet. I am descended from TM's third daughter born at Benalla in 1858 and my principle interest is in the family's activities - ie occupation, business if any, community and church etc. TM had a long family history back in England of being in the Quaker faith but there is no recorded civil registered marriage until 1868 so perhaps there was a Non Conformist marriage earlier as alluded to in the Birth entries for his daughters. I have copies of the entries etc and earlier shipping records etc so kind of have a basic outline - just curious about their lives and times. In the 1960s I talked to one of her sons - my late grandfather was another but he died in 1925 - and learnt of some very colourful stories so am following up from this perspective. Finally I acknowledge the comment about how to reply to this website and the consequences of using the "reply key" and not the "new Key". I use several other Rootsweb websites and Hotmail. Replies are clearly intended to be activated by the "reply key" - it automatically picks up the correct address - but the consequence is that the prior correspondence or "tail" on the current edition of the website is included and can amount to a lot of redundant material. This can only be avoided by using a Hotmail option to bypass such or by proceeding to highlight and delete the "tail" before hitting the "send key". I have remembered to do so in this instance but note that few ever do so in practice. The impact on requiring extra disk storage space is not significant in this age of massive Disk capacity - as an "old" software coder from 1961-65 when we had a total of 4k of such storage on primitive GE and IBM machines it was critical but nowadays I hardly even think about it. Hope this will be understood to be in good faith and I certainly dont want to be in any way vexatious. Again, thanks to all, Geoff.S. (Blaine, Washington, USA)