I have a request. I have a great uncle JAMES DOWNING who possibly moved from Ontario Canada to Australia in ca. 1885. He had a daughter and a son. I have tried to get info on this man,but no luck.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Clyde ----- Original Message ----- From: Denise<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [VIRGINIA] To Denise re question on VA I composed a nice reply to this post for the members' interest. I shall attempt again as I lost it after my computer closed down.. I hope the members will bear with me while I explain a few things. It may not be specific at the moment entirely to Va, but we have a way to go and I could be back with information on old inhabitants.. Thanks Erin, I actually managed to do a bit of surfing between reading all the members' lovely emails this afternoon and found this one link you sent me. I am researching William Lindsey helping his great-granddaughter in Australia. I am also with another, researching the lives of Americans and Canadians who came to northeast Victoria Australia in the gold rush era of the 1850s+. We have 300 names, have finished about 100. We track them from birth, try for details on family, education, siblings parents in North America. We follow them to Australia. We follow them to their deaths, wherever. Back in US, Canada, or wherever they may else have gone to (two instances in a Victorian jail).. Erin mentioned Maine and Kennebec. We have 3 dozen from Somerset Co Maine and Kennebec. Most came together, stuck together and 6 friends died within 5 weeks and are buried in one small cemetery, together. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find William came with someone, it happens all the time in our research. He lived in a part of the Northeast of Victoria where there were many Americans - several yet we haven't done work on. One of our subjects went back to the US, and to Virginia to farm. I shall have to dig his name out and hopefully someone may connect to his family. Happy to share what we have. Excuse me for explaining all this but we are both so passionate about our quest to put these forgotten men into the history books of the northeast of Victoria - they helped develop what was a raw and strange land to them, they came to only Kangaroos, Koalas, Kookaburras and Gumtrees and millions of tents dotting the mullock heaps. thank you all, I'm delighted to have received so much help from you. I'm going to send the information to the great-granddaughter and make her day! We often work with descendants we find, giving them everything we have on their ancestors - we have access to data many don't. regards Denise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erin T. Crowe" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [VIRGINIA] To Denise re question on VA ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx>

Replied off list Denise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clyde Downing" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [VIRGINIA] To Denise re question on VA >I have a request. I have a great uncle JAMES DOWNING who possibly moved >from Ontario Canada to Australia in ca. 1885. He had a daughter and a son. >I have tried to get info on this man,but no luck.Any help would be >appreciated. Thanks, Clyde >