Hi All, My interests are in both sides of my family, my fathers, Quick, Roberts, Knowles, Browning, Escott. All residing in Fryers Creek, Castlemaine & Inglewood area's they were associated with Mining both my Great and my Grandfather on the Quick side had mining leases although I have not got copies of them yet. They were known as Quick and Party. My mothers side I have not long found out that the Martin side also was a miner, he lived in the Wedderburn district. A few weeks ago I went on a bit of a family trek from the areas they lived in, I found my Great grandfathers grave in Fryers Creek ( Fryers Town ) an old peaceful clean and pretty cemetery, it was very exciting as I had thought he was buried at Inglewood Cemetery, my husband and I also found other family members graves there, we took photo's and video's of the areas we visited, so that I could go back on the information I had documented, we also visited the Castlemaine Historical Society, they were wonderful and gave me a wealth of information on my Great grandfathers death etc., I even met a relation and her daughter from the Browning side she was lovely and gave me also her information that she had on her family tree, I now have heard from her Brother so I have another 2 family contacts to keep in touch with. I hope to do it again in the near future I don't know whether my husband will be too keen unless we bypass the cemeteries. ( I think we visited about 6 of them and in the end I could see he'd had enough.) For all who are a bit lost with your family history I suggest you do what we did have a break, work out where you want to visit, take time to enjoy the area's, we stayed in some lovely bed and breakfasts ( these are the ones that you have a unit or house to yourself )each no longer than a few days and moved around to where we were visiting, mid week is cheaper, we took it easy, we enjoyed the country hospitality, to complete the journey my husband wanted to go to Echuca where a festival was on, so I compromised on that. Kind regards Adele mailto:adele@alink.com.au