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From: "Dorothy Moore" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Victoria and Its Metropolis
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:42:47 +1000
In-Reply-To: <9798060A-4BF9-4741-B798-5D46B6CB7BAC@yahoo.com.au>


Hi Marion,

I have said book and here is the detail from page 293 on William Barnes of
Katamatite.

"Barnes, William, Katamatite, was born in Cambridgeshire, England, in 1839,
and came to Victoria by the ship "Omega" in 1855. He was farm labourer for
a time in the Geelong district, and then rented a farm on his own account
and carted to the diggings for a few years. He was next farming for two
years at Jan Juc, after which he selected 30 acres in the county of Hampden,
and finally went to the parish of Katamatite, where he selected 280 acres,
and has since purchased an additional 600 acres, which he devotes to farming
purposes."

Doesn't give much does it? - simply whets the appetite !!

regards
dorothy








-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:]On Behalf Of
Marion Stainsby
Sent: Sunday, 1 April 2007 5:04 PM
To: GEELONG List
Subject: [GEELONG] Victoria and Its Metropolis


Dear Listers

Can someone please help? I am trying to identify members of the 1867
Building Committee of the Wesleyan Church at Highton, and with the
wonderful help of all sorts of people, and the references on the
Geelong Book and Cemeteries Indexes, I can more or less pin down 15
of the 17 men listed (and most of their wives).

The two missing are William Hill (far too many Hill families, unless
some descendant can establish the right one!), and William Barnes. I
note a lot of references to the Clyde Company Papers for this name in
the Book Index, but don't think he's the right man. However. Stewart
McAdams' Card Index, expertly typed by Pam Jennings, has a William
Barnes of "Mt Moriac/ Highton / Cressy /Katamatita " and refers to
the 1888 "Victoria and Its Metropolis".

If some kind soul has this book, and can copy out what it says - in
literal detail, as I may want to quote it in print -
it would be an enormous help. I am wanting to be able to make some
generalisations about the background and progress of this group of
people, without the danger of being proved wrong by some inconvenient
fact. We are wanting to make our book a resource for future local and
family historians, if only by gathering together a lot of information
from many varied sources and finding what doesn't add up.

Many thanks. I don't know what I'd do without you!

Marion
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