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From: "Rex Vivian" <>
Subject: Re: post office records + Dunkerley
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:13:33 +1000
References: <a.202eaba.26e9f130@cs.com>


dear David Evans, i was chasing history an received a reply that
indicated
that a relation of mine may have been a postmaster at Diamond Creek,(now
Melbourne) in 1863 . Do you have a record of... or could you please tell me
details of your publication ISBN..... thank you ..... Rex
Vivian,Wodonga.

messages are...... sorry to send you the whole messages but will delete some

From: <>
Friday, September 08, 2000 5:37 PM
GOLDFIELDS-D Digest V00 #265


> Dear Listers and Rex Vivian
>
> Rex wrote: Subject: cochranes diggings (maybe cockranes)
> >. written family history states that............. "John + Hannah
Dunkerley
> came to Australia soon after their marriage and were at Cochranes Diggings
> where their first child was born. Second born at Northcote in 1860 prior
to
> their move to Diamond Creek then Jameson (leaving there in 1877 to Browns
> Plains near Rutherglen"
> Question........... where were Cochranes Diggings???????


>
Sorry Rex, can't help you on Cochranes Diggins BUT ...

The Diamond Valley Story by Dianne H. Edwards, ISBN 0 9595422 0 5
page 55 "A post office was established in Fe 1863 in the Prinitive
Methodist
church at Cummins Corner ... and the first postmaster was Mr J. Dunkerly."
This surely is 'your' man.
>
We lived in Diamond Creek in 1983 and this book had just been published -
so
of course I purchased it. Loved living there. Hope the above helps a
little?
>
Best wishes,
Rosie Ritchie in Selsey, Chichester, on the south coast of West Sussex,






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