Hi Trevor and listers, the place is possibly Yallook; once a small faming community 15kms north of Raywood and about 5 kms from Dingee. Yallook used to have a primary school, a post office and at least two churches. I believe the school closed down about 50 years ago. Marg Watson. ----- Original Message ----- From: Trevor <tjwilliams@iinet.net.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:43 PM Subject: Where is Yalbrook? > I have an 1880 birth occurring in a place called YALBROOK. Does anyone > know where this is? > The Victorian Birth Indexes give RAYWOOD as the place of birth but the > man himself gives his birth place as YALBOOK when he enlists for WW 1. > > I know that his father was farming in the Raywood area at one stage, and > that siblings were born in Bendigo, Dunolly and Mitiamo. > > Google doesn't turn up anything, and there is no post code for YAMBROOK. > > Any comments? > > Trevor > > > ==== 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
I would like to thank everyone who replied to my enquiry about the location of Yalbrook. The consensus seems to be that the place I am looking for is actually Yallook. I have had another look at the handwritten sources that led to my original post. They are quite unambiguously *Yalbrook*. There is no possibility that the letters are confused or that they are a badly written version of Yallook. The letters l, b and r are clear and quite distinct from each other. Despite this, I think that listers who offered Yallook as the place in question are probably right. Contextually, it makes sense. The source material is from an adult man of 37 years, who is recording his birth place on official documents. I don't expect that he would remember the place or the event, even though he was present at his birth! Because he was exceptionally young when the death of his mother meant that the family was dispersed, it could be that he saw Yallook somewhere and misread it as Yalbrook..... or something similar. Thanks to all! Trevor