The GREEN family were tenants of land in the townland of Aghalough/Aughalough, which is in Templecarn parish, Donegal Poor Law Union, Barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal, Ireland. It is very tiny, the whole townland only about 150 acres. Templecarn parish consists of 38200 acres. The name Aghalough translates to "facing the lake", so it is near either Lough Derg or the smaller lake to the west of Lough Derg. Lough Derg is very close to the Donegal/Tyrone border. Aghalough is very close to Pettigo (also in Templecarn parish), which is situated in Donegal on the border with Fermanagh. The MARTINs and ELLISs were neighbours of the GREENS. David and Isabella LINDSAY were the first of the GREEN family to arrive in Victoria. They arrived in Melbourne on 3 May 1853, aboard the British Queen, with their eight children. Isabella was their first Australian born child. The two eldest children of David and Elizabeth GREEN were the next to arrive. I believe Mary Ann GREEN and Richard GREEN arrived in Melbourne on the Blue Jacket in December 1860, but this has not been verified. Mary Ann married her first cousin, David LINDSAY, in 1862. Next to arrive were Mary Ann and David's parents, David and Elizabeth GREEN, on the 16th December 1863, aboard the Great Britain, with eight of their children. Also aboard the Great Britain with the GREEN family group were Reuben GREEN, aged 56 (therefore born 1807 and J. H. GREEN, aged 29 [109] It is not known whether they were related to David GREEN. The youngest of David and Agnes/Ann GREEN's children, Fanny, and her husband Irvine MARTIN, with their nine chilren, arrived in Melbourne on 10 Apr 10, 1871. All eventually settled in the Winton district of Victoria.

In 1855 David LINDSAY and family emigrated from their home in County Donegal to Australia - Mrs LINDSAY being a sister of David GREEN. David LINDSAY selected land near Beechworth. Later Richard GREEN and David LINDSAY Jnr. had bullock drays and were carrying between Beechworth and Melbourne. There were buildings going up at Beechworth. In 1859 Mary Ann GREEN married her first cousin, David LINDSAY Jnr. and they selected land in Winton. Richard GREEN selected a block on the northern side of the Winton swamp (now know as Green's swamp) and he married a Jane JOHNSON [JOHNSTONE] whose family he met on the boat coming out and they settled at Terang, Vic, where their descendants still live. Mary Ann kept writing to her parents telling them what a wonderful country Australia was and begging them to come out, so in 1863 David GREEN decided to sell and go to Australia with the other eight children, the youngest being 3 years. After a two month voyage aboard the Great Britain they arrived in Melbourne - in December 1863. Their son-in-law David LINDSAY met them at the boat. They stayed overnight in Melbourne as they had to go to the Lands Department and select their block and buy all tools etc. that were wanted on the land. It was a weeks journey from Melbourne to Winton by bullock dray. David and the two elder sons went out onto the block. They had to fence the block and build a house with timber off it. The house was slabs with a bark roof and they dug a big dam with pick and shovel. Elizabeth and the six younger children stayed with Mary Ann until the house was ready. On the way out they met a Henry KETT, an English gentleman who was coming out for health reasons. He bought the Bulls Head Hotel in Wangaratta and six months later he and Catherine Sarah were married. Elizabeth and Isabelle went to live with them. Elizabeth married a Mr REYNOLDS, a bank manager, and Isabelle married a Mr REDFERN. Later Frances went to Wangaratta and Henry KETT bought a second hotel and put the license in Frances name. She died at the early age of 28 years from appendicitis. In 1869 Robert selected land on the southern side of the swamp near his father, and married, and in 1871 David took up land at Lurg and married. In 1872 William had a row with his father and left home. He ended up on the Colinroobie Station, Narrandera. Whilst there he had a bullock wagon and used to cart wool to Sydney for different Stations. He used to write to his sister, Mrs KETT, and in 1880 she persuaded him to come home and help his father whose health was declining. When William decided to go home, his father selected more land joining the first. Another house was built on that, which was called Fairview. The four front rooms of weatherboard were the front rooms of the Bulls Head Hotel in Wangaratta owned by Henry and Catherine Sarah KETT and shifted down by transport. A kitchen and dining room were built onto the front portion. A new front was built on to the Hotel. In 1884 William married Jemima FYFE of Colinroobie Station. She died in 1900 leaving a family of six four girls and two boys. In 1904 William married Mary Jane GAMBLE and there were two sons of that marriage. William died on 25th June 1929.

David and Isabelle (GREEN) LINDSAY came out here and took up land just out of Beechworth. Three years later David Jnr and Mary Ann GREEN married they were first cousins. They lived on with Davids parents till 1862 and then David Jnr came down and took up land at Winton. Richard also came down and took up land next to the Winton swamp that was Ja. 1862 He married and settled there, and in Dec 1863 Grandad and Grandma and the other eight children came out and they settled about two mile from Richard. Last January the LINDSAYs had a reunion and they unveiled a plaque on David and Mary Anns grave. They have an iron fence around all the LINDSAY graves. I dont know if you have read any KELLY books, but Uncle David was the man who was drinking with Constable FITZPATRICK at the Winton Hotel when he was going out to issue the summons to Ned and Dan. That night, after Dan shot him in the wrist, he called in to see if Uncle would go with him to Benalla as he thought the KELLYs may be following him. Auntie dressed the policemans arm while Uncle was saddeling his horse. A wind storm some months ago blew a lot of pine trees in the Winton cemetery down and the trustees have cleaned it up and graded paths up every row of headstones, and they say it looks very nice now. A family of MARTINs and IRVINEs came out in the 1860s and settled at Thoona. Mrs MARTIN was Granfathers sister and Mrs IRVINE was Mr MARTINs sister. Amy 25th March 1990.

Richard GREEN (Normans father) and Mary Ann (LINDSAY) emigrated to Australia first. Richard married a Jane JOHNSON[JOHNSTONE] from Terang, Vic., and selected land on Winton North swamp. Mary Ann married David LINDSAY and they settled in Winton. David worked on the Sydney Melbourne railway line. Auntie LINDSAY kept writing and wanting the family to come out. So 8 years later David and Elizabeth and their eight other children emigrated from Country Donegal in Northern Ireland arriving in Melbourne in December 1863 after a two month voyage. The family made the journey from Melbourne to Winton North by bullock wagon and took up land on the east side of Winton Lake. David and Robert lived with their parents for a few years till they married. Robert selected land joining his father and David selected land at Lurg near Winton. Dad left home at 14 years and went to NSW near Narrandera and had his own bullock team. He carted wool from Bourke to Sydney. Twelve years later he wrote home and told them he was getting married.

When roadwork was underway on the construction of the Wangaratta by-pass of the Hume Highway, an old house a few miles north of Wangaratta was demolished, and a Bible dated 1848 belonging to a Catherine GREEN was found. This was taken to Milton GREEN for identification, and he contacted me, as he did not know of a Catherine GREEN. Needless to say, I realized it was Catherine KETTs Bible, which had been brought out with her from Ireland, and probably sold with other books when the Hotels in Wangaratta were sold. Amy.