This is something that has intrigued me also. My Great Grandmother, Margaret Moran with two children and others nomads travelled from the Goulburn area (Taralga) to the Buckland Goldfields in the early 1850's, according to legend. She married in St Joseph's Church, Beechworth on 17 August, 1855 one of her fellow travellers, Patrick Skehan. The father of her two children was a Patrick Maher, of whom there is no trace. He, also according to legend or secrecy, died en route of the 'flu, was killed by aborigines, or what. My theory is that he already had a family and was having a bit on the side, so to speak. My Great Grandmother was a spinster when she married Patrick Skehan and later had five more children. I have heard that she ran a soup kitchen or some sort of similar boutique food outlet at Tarrawingee. Tarrawingee is closer to Beechworth than is the township of Buckland. The Skehans around the Wangaratta area who would be all relations of mine would, I guess, be descendants. Hugh Maher -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-ne-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-ne-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of aus-vic-ne-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, 18 August 2007 5:01 PM To: aus-vic-ne@rootsweb.com Subject: AUS-VIC-NE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 124 Today's Topics: 1. Buckland Goldfields (Ian Foster) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:19:37 +1000 From: "Ian Foster" <ianf46@hotmail.com> Subject: [AVNE] Buckland Goldfields To: AUS-VIC-NE@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20070818071831.0363f3b0@mail.ausvic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I am rather puzzled by references to this place and particularly its relationship to Yackandandah and Beechworth. How can both these towns be seen as the main regional cent for Buckland when it is so far away and many valleys in between. Was there another Buckland in the 1860s or is the current Buckland (not far from Mt Buffalo) the only area of that name that has ever existed? My Great great Grandfather was a baker at Buckland. Ian ------------------------------ To contact the AUS-VIC-NE list administrator, send an email to AUS-VIC-NE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the AUS-VIC-NE mailing list, send an email to AUS-VIC-NE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of AUS-VIC-NE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 124 ****************************************** No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.0/959 - Release Date: 17/08/2007 5:43 PM