Comments on: St Stephen’s Church, Portland http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/ Stories of My Pioneering Families From the Western District of Victoria Wed, 22 May 2013 00:28:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Merron Riddiford http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-877 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:14:19 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-877 Hi Justin

Wow you have been lucky. I see Rosemary has been in touch which is great. She was going to be my suggestion as to who to contact.

Merron

]]> By: Rosemary http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-875 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:19:41 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-875 Hi Justin,
Henry TISSOTT is my great grandfather. I would absolutely love to share what I have with you. I’m descended from his son Harry TISSOTT who married Mary LINDSAY and then went west to the goldfields.
I’ll send you an email.
Regards
Rosemary

]]> By: justin http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-872 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:33:37 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-872 Hi there Merron
I have recently been given a box of variest documents photo’s and corrispondence my grandfather had in his unfinished work of our family tree (mothers side), Which i have slowly started going through , HENRY TISSOTT i beleive is my GRT GRANDMA HUGHES/ TISSOTT ‘s father . lots of marriage certificate ,convict log records ,birth n death registry could be of some help to you .
contact me if you would think i can help on juz-bent@live.com.au
kind regards Justin bentley

]]> By: Merron Riddiford http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-447 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:09:16 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-447 Hi Dave

Thanks for your comment. Hopefully someone can come up with something for you. I will keep an eye out for you too. I do have Rogers on my tree, but I have checked and they are not linked to John Charles Rogers.

Regards
Merron

]]> By: Dave Rogers http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-443 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:16:17 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-443 My Great Grandfather John Charles Rogers and his wife Elizabeth (nee Lelean) arrived in 1855 on the ‘MV Shand’ and moved to Portland. Most of his 13 children were born in Warrnambool 1855 to 1879, the names and DOBs of whom I have.
If anyone can assist me linking the present day Rogers families in the area with JCR, please feel free to contact me.
Dave Rogers
Canberra

]]> By: Merron Riddiford http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-418 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:57:19 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-418 It is a lovely church and the interior is amazing. I wish I had of got more photos inside.

]]> By: Merron Riddiford http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-411 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:57:58 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-411 Hi Rosemary, I checked out the Tissott tag at Trove. I will certainly let you know if I come across anything.
Thanks
Merron

]]> By: Rosemary http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-408 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:33:16 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-408 Hi Merron, I’ve tagged any reference to the family in TROVE (Tissott is the tag). Henry migrated around the mining towns; Mailor’s Flat, Mount Taurus, Yarpturk, and the surrounding district. Some of his descendants made Winslow and Warrnambool their homes while my side of the family went off chasing gold north of Kalgoorlie in the Menzies area.

If you happen to come across something in the local paper I would appreciate a quick note. Many thanks,

Rosemary in Tulsa

]]> By: Merron Riddiford http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-407 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:42:30 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-407 Hi Rosemary, that’s great, thank you for sharing. I will keep an eye out for the Tissott family when I am reading the newspapers. Did they stay in the Western District?

]]> By: Kerryn http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/st-stephens-church-portland/#comment-404 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:01:06 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-404 What a beautiful church! I didn’t know about Hotham’s disgrace, must go and read up on him.

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