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« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 10:59 GMT (UK) »
Thank you so much everyone. I'm pretty sure that these are the people I am looking for. Edward and Frances' daughter, Kate married David Nicol, and they had a dairy farm in Lang Lang, about 27 Kms. away from Jeethro. David grew up in Eaglehawk, and Edward was a gold miner.
It makes more sense for Ed and Fran to be married in England because he would have had to have been a fast worker to arrive in January 1857, find a wife and have his first child all in that year.
Also have a Edward Billing living in St. Mary Islington in 1841 England Census.
I don't have any birth certs for the children, but found John, b.1857, Collingwood and Kate, b. 1859, Footscray, in Pioneers in State Library, and the others in Vic. bdm.
Thanks for the info on the brother too, and the snippet of missing friends.