Hi, This is my first post to this list. My 3g uncle, John Blackmore, arrived in Port Phillip in 1849 on the ship Courier. I've already asked on the Aus-Vic-L list if anyone knows how to find where this ship sailed from, but if anyone here has an idea I'd be pleased to hear from you. He settled in Maldon and raised a family of 9 and there still appear to be a number of descendants living within a few miles (I spoke to one this week in Castlemaine). But my question is about a gold mine that is named in a letter from his nephew in UK. It says that John Blackmore owned a gold mine and named it Lorna Doone (well, with the name Blackmore you would wouldn't you?). The only references I've found to a mine with that name seems to be a long long way away from Maldon. It may just be tosh, as the same nephew also claimed that RD Blackmore was his uncle - and I know that is totally untrue. Being new to research in Australia, I haven't yet found out how I might find any reference to the mine, or his name - other than BMDs. TIA Jack in Berkshire UK