"Anyone out there with ancestors who where Gold seekers in Victoria 1860s?".

[Forfarian]

My great-grandfather David Binny and his brother Jonathan went to Australia in 1853 and became gold miners in Amherst, parish of Talbot, Victoria.

They didn't settle there, however, but returned to Scotland before the 1871 census. David became a banker and a very respectable citizen, but Jonathan didn't.

I have very little information about their time in Australia.

[JACK GEE]

KGarrard - small correction. The Ovens River and Wangaratta are in Victoria. In the 1850 - 1875 time frame to get to the Ovens Gold fields or Upper Goulburn [Jamieson area] and from Melbourne to Sydney you would probably have passed thru Longwood, Vic.

Cheers
Jack Gee

[JACK GEE]

Several of my family connections 'dabbled' in gold prospecting in the 1850'1860's. George Gilbert moved to near Darlingford  on the Big River, in Victoria. He looked for gold. But since his ancestors were men of the land he and his sons were very good horsemen. My wifes family of Shannon's journeyed to the Ballarat & Bendigo goldfields from Kapunda in South Australia. Samuel McClure is said to have worked in the South Gippsland gold field at Foster.
The overriding theme for these fosickers was that they did not strike it rich. They found some but returned to the rural expertise that they were good at.

Cheers
Jack Gee