Hello again, and thank you, Beryl, for your quick response. I live at Kenthurst, on the outskirts of Sydney, and I am afraid I do not know of 'History House'. Is it a local Portland place? Can I get access to its resources from where I live? Also, where is Mortlake Cemetery? I have emailed the Portland Family History Group at portlandfamhist@yahoo.com for any info' they might have on Richard and Jane Dowley. My descendant tree from Richard and Jane, as it stands at the moment, is available to anyone who might want a copy. I have it on a gedcom based program called Brother's Keeper for Windows Version 5.2g and would be quite happy to email it to anyone interested (errors and omissions excepted, as they say!) Again thanks for your response, and if you do find anything in your filing on Fr Thomas Slattery in relation to Portland it would be great to find out. Kind regards, Des Evans. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.