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My great, great grandfather Leslie Barclay was one of the young men who came to the Victorian Goldfields from Cellardyke. From what I have learnt they came as a group under the name 'The Joint Stock Company". They must have made some money on the goldfields because they came to Geelong and purchased a Lighter (as there was no pier capable of handling large sailing ships, goods had to be carried from the ships in the bay to the shore by a smaller boat called a Lighter). Leslie Barclay later gave his occupation as Fisherman but he certainly owned his own boat. Many of the original group settled in Geelong and my father knew the descendants of some of them.