I wonder if one of our Australian friends would mind reposting this message on one or two of their lists for me? I am not very familiar with Oz lists and this may be a quicker way of doing it than my joining them. There is a strong Yorkshire connection. I am interested in contacting any descendants of GEORGE MALCOM and JANE DAVEY, who married on 7th December 1867 at the Register Office at Sandridge, Victoria. I have the register entry printout from the Victoria Archives online and it shows George Malcolm was aged 30, a widower and a ships steward, while Jane Davey was 27, a spinster and a housekeeper. Both were born in London, England, and gave the same address, Dow Street, Sandridge, Victoria. George Malcolms parents were given as John Malcolm, lawyers clerk, and Susan Pearce. Janes parents were Nicholas Davey, greengrocer, and Jane STOCKDALE. George Malcolms previous wife was shown as having died on 16 April 1859 - whether in England or Australia I could not say. Here is my connection and the Yorkshire connection¦.. Jane Daveys mother, JANE STOCKDALE or STOCKDILL, was my great-great-aunt, being an elder sister of my great-grandfather Robert Stockdill (1806-1896). Jane was born at Easingwold, Yorkshire, on 16 June 1797 and baptised there on 16 July 1797. She went to London, probably to join her brother George Stockdill (1803-1886), and married NICHOLAS DAVEY, a greengrocer from Penzance, Cornwall, on 26 September 1830 at St Georges Hanover Square. They appear in all the subsequent censuses at Lambeth until Nicholas died in 1869 and Jane in 1872, both at Lambeth. They had a daughter, the above-mentioned JANE DAVEY, who was born in the June quarter of 1840 at Lambeth. She obviously emigrated to Australia at some date unknown. My suspicion is that as George Malcolm was a ships steward, they may have met on the boat going over there. In 1886 Jane the younger appears as a beneficiary in the will of her uncle George Stockdill, my great-great-uncle, born at Easingwold in 1803, who died in London a very wealthy man. He named her amongst 12 nephews and nieces who shared his estate as Jane Malcolm of the Village Bell Hotel, Collingwood, Australia, so presumably by 1886 George and Jane Malcolm had taken over this establishment - no doubt a logical business step for a former ships steward. Jane would then have been aged 46. I have not found any children of George Malcolm and Jane, if indeed they had any. But I would welcome contact from anyone who may know more of them in Australia. I am aware Collingwood is now a suburb of Melbourne and would be interested in anything at all about the Village Bell Hotel there. I Googled and discovered something called the Village Belle [sic] Hotel but Im not at all sure its the same thing. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE