Hi Julie,
My partner is a decendant of Hume armstrong (through his second marriage to Ethel Nicol), I have just started researching his family, would love to hear of anyhing you have on the armstrong side if you dont mind.
This is a newspaper article on Colville Armstrong snr:
The Mercury Hobart Tasmania Friday 1st March 1889 p3
(From Melbourne Papers)
VICTORIA.
Castlemaine, February 25.
The body of a very old resident of Chewton named Colville Armstrong, a tinsmith by trade, was discovered this morning in the Junction reservoir, situated close to the railway line, between Chewton and Elphinstone. Deceased, who has been in a very despondent mood of late through being deprived of the loss of one eye, left his residence at Charcoal Gully about 7 o'clock, being accompanied by his dog. As he did not return to dinner his wife became alarmed, as last night he was in a very melancholy state. Enquiries were made respecting his whereabouts, and towards noon a platelayer noticed a hat and stick lying on the bank of the reservoir. A few minutes afterwards the body was recovered, life being quite extinct. Deceased was about 60 years of age, and leaves a grown up family. His suicidal act is believed to have been brought about by despondency, arising from the partial loss of his eyesight.
Regards Trudy