To Dear List, If anyone is interested in the Buckland Valley, there is a good book The Buckland Valley Goldfield by Diann Talbot Let me know if anyone is interested in lock-ups. Regards, Robyn Kane The Netherlands > 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 > > > >------------------------------- >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 message