in haste. Eglinton is the name of the Parish, but no-one seems to be able to remember why. If you look at the Parish map you can see where the intention was for a town along the, from memory, Craigie to Mt Dunach Road, which also has a branch to Mt Cameron. Tom >From: cheryl reed <reedcheryl@optusnet.com.au> >To: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Birth registration location? >Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:44:16 +1000 > >Hi list > >I am researching the Willett family. > >Yesterday I received a birth certificate after a very long search - the >reason I couldn't find it was Willett was spelt with a single t and >mother's name down as McPeel instead of McNeil and Jabez the father is said >to have come from Berkshire not Buckinghamshire - the registrar must have >been having a bad day! > >Elizabeth Willett was born 7 June 1870 at Mount Cameron, Eglinton - I am >wondering if there was an Eglinton in Victoria? I have found a Mount >Cameron near Amherst. > >Her father Jabez was the informant and gives his address as Ballaarat - the >birth was not registered until 3 months later in September 1870. > >I know he had a brother in Eglinton in NSW and wonder if Elizabeth could >have been born there - maybe the family was visiting at the time? If this >was the case should not her birth have been recorded in NSW? > >Thanks for your help. >Cheryl > >Researching: >WILLETT - Talbot/Amherst/Majorca/Ballarat in Victoria & Buckinghamshire UK >TAYLER - Long Crendon Buckinghamshire >McNEIL - Talbot/Clunes/Ballarat in Victoria & Invernesshire Scotland >GRANT - Invernesshire Scotland >HAMMON - Creswick/Ballarat in Victoria & Kent UK >COATES - Creswick/Ballarat in Victoria & Oxford UK >PRAETZ - Creswick in Victoria & Germany >VINCENT - Ballarat in Victoria & Cornwall UK >WHITBURN - Ballarat in Victoria & Cornwall UK >PHILLIPS - Murchison/Mooroopna in Victoria & Wiltshire UK >CROCKETT - Brighton/Pylong/Murchison in Victoria & Lanarkshire Scotland > > >==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this mailing list send the word 'unsubscribe' in the >body of a message to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L-request@rootsweb.com >