Not sure if you realise that you bounced off the AUS-VIC-NE list in July last year I could have forwarded this post to the list, but you wouldn't have seen the replies. So feel welcome to re sub to the list and re post your query. Thanks very much Peter. I had not realised I was off the list. Just thought it was very quiet. Will re post my query below. >Hello Listers > >I wonder if anyone could please help me? My husband has McMILLAN >ancestors from Ireland and I am seeking information on two of >them. Alexander Rowan McMILLAN, just by looking at a newspaper clipping >(with no date) seems to have been born c. 1900 - 1920. He had an >ancestor, Archibald McMILLAN which the clipping states > >"was one of the first settlers north of the Great Dividing Range, and at >one time had holdings in the Wimmera and Gippsland as well, and his mother >can trace the line back to King Vrych of Powis in Wales". > >Is anyone able to point me in the right direction for this family >please? Other of our McMILLANs settled around Chewton, Bendigo, >Castlemaine and Creswick. > >Thank you hopefully. > >Irene Rees - Gold Coast ex Gippsland, Australia. > >Site Host: Beechworth and Myrtleford Vic., Forbes N.S.W. BDM sites on >Tracking Our Family Footsteps through Time in Australia. >http://www.angelfire.com/ns/aust >Also researching: >DUNSTAN - Cornwall 1844+ >LEYSHON - Glamorgan, Wales 1800+ >McMILLAN - Newtonards, Co. Down, IRL 1800+ >PHILPOT - Essex, Eng 1750+ >REES - Glamorgan, Wales 1820+ >PHILPOT - Essex, Eng 1750+ >SCARLETT - Suffolk, Eng 1750+ >BARTLETT - Wollein, Prussia 1822+, Tasmania, Aus. 1858+ >CARMICHAEL - Moray, Scot. 1790+, Tasmania, Aus, 1820+ >DOWSETT - Essex, Eng. 1840+ >McHENRY - Dublin, IRL 1800+ >NOLAN - Ardfert, Co. Kerry, IRL 1810+ >RATH - Clogher, Co. Louth, IRL 1750+ >SIMS - Staffs. Eng. 1800+ Irene Rees - Gold Coast ex Gippsland, Australia. Site Host: Beechworth and Myrtleford Vic., Forbes N.S.W. BDM sites on Tracking Our Family Footsteps through Time in Australia. http://www.angelfire.com/ns/aust Also researching: DUNSTAN - Cornwall 1844+ LEYSHON - Glamorgan, Wales 1800+ McMILLAN - Newtonards, Co. Down, IRL 1800+ PHILPOT - Essex, Eng 1750+ REES - Glamorgan, Wales 1820+ PHILPOT - Essex, Eng 1750+ SCARLETT - Suffolk, Eng 1750+ BARTLETT - Wollein, Prussia 1822+, Tasmania, Aus. 1858+ CARMICHAEL - Moray, Scot. 1790+, Tasmania, Aus, 1820+ DOWSETT - Essex, Eng. 1840+ McHENRY - Dublin, IRL 1800+ NOLAN - Ardfert, Co. Kerry, IRL 1810+ RATH - Clogher, Co. Louth, IRL 1750+ SIMS - Staffs. Eng. 1800+