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From: Corinne Thompson <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] School Rolls - Millewa District
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:46:29 +1100
In-Reply-To: <002801c0ad31$5ba7cbe0$87a917cb@p0s9r7>




Hello Elwyn,

Thankyou for your reply. No, I am not getting "Millewa" mixed up with
anything else, but obviously there have been two places with that name
...... which I didn't know, so thankyou for telling me about your one.

"My" one is/was an area opened up for settlement very close to Echuca in the
early 1870s ...... am sitting looking at an old Lands Department plan of it
as I type, with "Parish of Millewa" written on it. Also my grandmother's
birth certificate for the same area, in 1876, has "Parish of Millewa" on it
...... as does her father's death certificate in 1879. There doesn't seem
to be anything there these days except farms, but at one stage it had a
school and there was a Methodist Church there.

Perhaps someone else on the List may also be researching it also ...... so
here's hoping!

Kindest Regards ...... Corinne.




> G'day Corinne,
> I think you are getting Millewa mixed up with some other place.
> The Millewa area is situated in the North West corner of Victoria and
> extends to the South Australian border, it includes towns of Werrimull,
> Meringur, Karadoc etc. about 200 ks from Echuca.
> best regards
> Elwyn

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