Hi All I've had a few comments about how quiet the List is of late. So for those (like me) who enjoy being noisy, I've stolen an idea from Beth Codling on the Western District List. Feel free to list the towns of the North West that you connect with and why. We may not share ancestors, but we may share local history, who knows? Some of my German ancestors settled iin RAINBOW. My gg grandmother is buried in the cemetery there. Names are HAAR and LIESFIELD and RUSSACK. Some of my English ancestors settled in KIATA and SALISBURY near Nhill. Names BATESON, MCPHEE, STRACHAN, HAAR, WALTON, CAMM. Josiah BATESON had a hotel in KIATA as well as being a farmer. He was a cousin of Lyn Bateson's Elias BATESON at nearby Miram Piram. Over to you. Beryl O'Gorman Greensborough Victoria Australia List Admin

Hello Listers, I would be interested to hear from anyone interested in the following names in these localities BOYD, Alexander, Lachlan, Alan and John COWAN CRAINE John Philip MCKENZIE MCLEAN Murdoch NICHOLLS, Francis, Nicholas and Martin PENNY POTTER Mercy RADFORD Edwin if you had a musical family living in Boolite at the turn of the century, a photo of the Boolite Brass Band can be seen here http://www.optom.unsw.edu.au/public/bbhistory/boolite/B'lite-1896.htm and this is our unsolved mystery : In the year 1880 as the Penny family moved with pack horses from North Rhine in S.A. to Boolite in the Wimmera, the patriarch of the family Thomas Penny, died. His death is not registered in SA or Vic. I have found no will, probate info or letters of Administration in either state. Many years ago a family member had the foresight to write down the recollections of one of the grandsons of Thomas (who also made the trip) But the story says Thomas Penny was buried at Nerum along the way. I can't find a place called Nerum The Mortlock Library suggested that it might have been Miram, but I have been unsuccessful in finding any records for that time for Miram, or a burial there. Regards Marcia Penny Geelong

Marcia I think we need a geography lesson on where some of those places are! <G> Dunmunkle? What a great word that is to say out loud. Cheers Beryl O'Gorman Greensborough Victoria Australia List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelvin and Marcia Penny" <penny@pipeline.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-NORTHWEST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:05 PM Subject: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] Boolite, Minyip, Dunmunkle, Nullan > Hello Listers, > > I would be interested to hear from anyone interested in the following names in these localities > > > BOYD, Alexander, Lachlan, Alan and John > COWAN > CRAINE John Philip > MCKENZIE > MCLEAN Murdoch > NICHOLLS, Francis, Nicholas and Martin > PENNY > POTTER Mercy > RADFORD Edwin >

Hello Beryl & listers, Wednesday, August 01, 2001, 10:07:36 PM, you wrote: BO> Hi All BO> I've had a few comments about how quiet the List is of late. So for those (like me) who enjoy being noisy, I've stolen an idea from Beth Codling on the Western District List. Feel free to list BO> the towns of the North West that you connect with and why. We may not share ancestors, but we may share local history, who knows? BO> Some of my German ancestors settled iin RAINBOW. My gg grandmother is buried in the cemetery there. Names are HAAR and LIESFIELD and RUSSACK. BO> Some of my English ancestors settled in KIATA and SALISBURY near Nhill. Names BATESON, MCPHEE, STRACHAN, HAAR, WALTON, CAMM. Josiah BATESON had a hotel in KIATA as well as being a farmer. He was BO> a cousin of Lyn Bateson's Elias BATESON at nearby Miram Piram. BO> Over to you. BO> Beryl O'Gorman BO> Greensborough Victoria Australia BO> List Admin BO> ____________________________ As a "lurker' so far on this list, perhaps it is time I listed some of my interests. Great Grand father David DUTHIE (along with his father David, from Montrose Scotland) settled at Lorquon ca 1886. \He and his wife Sarah (WALLER) came aroundf to ?Lorquon by covered wagon from Wauraltee on the Yorke Peninsula. Grandfather Walter was born in Wauraltee, moved to Ouyen early 1900s after marrying Emily HILL at Lorquon in 1905. His brother Joseph pioneered in the Woomelang area. Father Harold was born at Lorquon (Nhill) and went to Ouyen with family. He married Alice LANGLEY in 1936, moved to the Balarat area in 1939 (Buninnyong, Gordon and then Ballarat. I (Max) was born in 1946 while family were at Buninyong and have lived in theBallarat area ever since. Not a lot I know, but it's my family and I'm proud of my heritage. Best regards, Max mailto:mduthie@iprimus.com.au

Just to help kick things along I'm reposting my interests. I personally have no known connections to the region but my wife is descended from Donald Mc PHERSON and the third of his three wives, Maria NOLAN. Donald, from the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in Argyll came to Stawell, or Pleasant Creek as it was known then, in the very early 1850s, working as a shepherd for the Mc Millan family. He was accompanied by his first wife, Janet Mc ARTHUR and two small sons, Alexander and Donald. Janet died shortly after of what was described by an unqualified medical practitioner as 'scurvy' but was darkly hinted at in a later newspaper report as 'poisoning'. Shortly after Janet's death Donald married again - to Sarah Mc LEAN (whose origins and means and date of arrival in Australia remain obscure) with whom he had another five children. Sarah committed suicide in 1864 in what appears to have been a fit of post natal depression. It was not long after this that Donald married the station cook, Maria Nolan, producing in due course a further four children. He acquired property of his own somewhere along the way as did several of the children. Mystery surrounds the fate of the two oldest sons - Donald disappeared after having been seen in the company of some dubious characters and while carrying a large sum of cash. Alexander disappeared without trace also. Names of families into which various children married include: EVANS RAMAGE HUNTER SPARROW OULTON Hope this is of interest and look forward to any info that SKS might care to share. Regards Peter, the older of the tworobbos at Bairnsdale