Hi All,
I'm new to this site, but have been trying to track down Isaac Sutherland after Ben left his footprints on the edge of what I was working on in Family Search!
Ben I left a message for you there and also spliced your family snippets into mine. I am also a descendant of James McFarlane Sutherland through his daughter Ann Agnes Pentecost Sutherland.
Of interest is
www.meredithnews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/August__2011_-_WEB.pdf where a local historian Marg Cooper has written a short article on Edward Tonkin Sutherland. Some years ago she researched and wrote a book on all of the local men who were ex students of Bamganie State School who went away to the Great War. Edward was one of these. My Grandmother was his sister.
I'll work my way through these posts and put in my two pence worth. I will say that my father remembers mention of, I think Isaac, planting churches up and down the road between Geelong and Balaarat. He was more likely to be what is now called a Lay Preacher as he kept his "full time job " as carpenter. He would not have been at all like a full time Anglican minister.
I remember my grandmother as very strict in her views, very straight laced and proud of her family!
I have some documents and will reread them soon.
