I M Looking Up Some Information About My Great Great Grandfather Duncan Weir Employed as a Carter IN Geelong 1853 to About 1861 Duncan was Born IN...

gEELONG. dUNCAN MET UP WITH MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER ELIZABERTH ANDERSON ABOUT APRIL 1AND THE MARRIED ~1854. DUNCAN BETWEEN THEM THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN JAMES HUNT WEIR, HUGH WEIR B, 1857 AND MARGARET WEIR B~1859. AROUND 1860 ELIZABETH, DUNCAN AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN MOVED ON TO BALLARAT WHERE DUNCAN WAS A GOLD MINER AT THE BALLARAT GOLDFIELDS. THEY LEASED A MINERS COTTAGE IN LAURIE STREET BALLARAT EAST - HAVING ANOTHER 7 CHILDREN. MARGARET B, 1859 DIED IN 1862 AGED 3. DUNCAN DIED IN 1884 LEAVING ELIZABETH BRINGING UP AT LEAST 4 YOUNG CHILDREN, MY GRANDFATHER CHARLES WILLIAM AGED 12, SARAH ELIZABETH AGED 10 AND JESSIE AGED 8.