Hello All, Been reading this list for a while, but haven't been confident enough to write, so here goes. Interests are centered around Lismore, Camperdown Mortlake, Dundonnell, Cobden, Mt. Fyans, Smythesdale, Colac, Geelong, Ballarat Have many books re areas mentioned if anyone would like lookups or scans, some very old ones from my families' collection, I suspect now out of print. Names I research: Absalom - Ship "Larpent" -from Berkshire Eng., Bennett- Convict Ship 'Argyle' -From? Essex Brown - Ship 'Priam' -from Braishfield Hampshire Eng., Butters - Convict Ship 'Sarah'-From Ashill, Norfolk Eng., Forbes - Ship 'John Davies'- from Inverness, Scot., Howard - Convict Ship Waterloo' - from Norfolk Eng., Kemp - Ship 'Regulus' - from Co. Cavan, Ire., Lingenberg [various spellings for this name] - ? Ship 'Ma[n]dilla" -from Danzig, Prussia Robertson - Ship unknown-from Breakish, Skye Scot Rose - Ship 'Orontes'- From Shadwell, London, Eng., Stone - Bounty Imm, Ship 'Berkshire' - From Herts., Eng., Love to hear from any fellow researchers. Helen[now in Geelong]

Hi Helen Great that you took the plunge! Well done. Are your ABSALOM, FORBES and ROBERTSON names Mortlake? If so I'm not connected, but knew families of these names well as I grew up there. And one of my in-laws in the HOLMES family is connected to the ROBERTSONs and the STUCHBERYs. Any Mortlake books? Cheers Beryl Beryl O'Gorman Greensborough Victoria Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Lang" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:51 PM Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] Western District Interests > Hello All, > > Been reading this list for a while, but haven't been confident enough to > write, so here goes. > > Interests are centered around > > Lismore, Camperdown Mortlake, Dundonnell, Cobden, Mt. Fyans, Smythesdale, > Colac, Geelong, Ballarat > > Have many books re areas mentioned if anyone would like lookups or scans, > some very old ones from my families' collection, I suspect now out of print.