When you do a look up for this death, search under Timboon also. Camperdown was originally named Timboon..........that's why Timboon House is in Camperdown.....but I am not sure of the year it changed it's name. Timboon (the now one??!!) settled in 1875 but didn't take on the name straight away. Sally Flynn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Brunton" <dbrunton@ozemail.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-WESTERN-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 3:37 PM Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] BRUNTON/BARNET > Hello all > > My grandfather Donald Smith BRUNTON married my grandmother Johann Paterson BARNET in 1877 in Ballarat. Johann was born 11 July 1857 the daughter of John BARNET and Jane Henrietta BANKS. John BARNET was a Presbyterian minister and four months after Johann's birth he drowned accidentally on 25 November 1857 and was buried in Camperdown four days later. > Would SKS be able to throw some light on this event? Newspaper item? Coroner's inquiry? AND (unlikely) would there be a headstone? > Donald C Brunton > Frenchs Forest NSW > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-WESTERN-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Penshurst Historical Society > www.vicnet.net.au/~penshist > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ >