Wondering whether anyone can help solve a puzzle for me. In my great-x-grandfather's sermon diary, he mentions two places: AMHERST and BACK CREEK. I have searched the web and found Back Creek as a CREEK in Victoria and an AMHERST in the gold diggings area around Bendigo, but I also found an Amherst here in Sth Australia which indicates it was/is a homestead, outstation, outcamp, woolshed and it is at 36 30'00"S 140 190'00"E (around Lucindale, I think - anyway, above Naracoorte) (Geography not my subject!) Two questions: Does anyone know anything of this Sth Austn Amherst and also, is there a BACK CREEK in Sth Aust? It has been suggested there is/was one somewhere ? around Normanville, or down that way. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, from a very HOT Adelaide Mari Walker, Adelaide, Sth Australia Researching: Sth Aust :Major interests: HART, MAIN, THREDGOLD, TILLER, LEHMANN Minor interests: WOOLLEY, JEFFERIES, JOHNSTON, LARKIN, O'TOOLE, HENDER, DOWNING, MOLLER, MURPHY Australian interests: Victoria : LEHMANN descendants, CAMPBELL WA : MOLLER, HART, LEHMANN descendants NSW : MAYNARD USA (California) : MURPHY/KELLEY