Please visit my website at
www.geocities.com/sjkelsey2000 and see the VOBE ancestry data that I have there. When you say Arthur Vobe from Victoria--are you meaning Australia? I have the 1881 British census on CD-rom and if we can get from you to that time period and we can identify your family in 1881 I can probably do something to get you tied up with mine. I know the Vobe family lived at Mathon along the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border for at least 300 years. Before that I believe they came up to that area from Gloucestershire. I have spent considerable time researching this family. One of the sons went to London early and I believe left some descendants there which may have originated most of the Vobes in London. As time went on of course there were others who left the county for London.
Hope to hear further from you--you can reach me at the email address on my website.
Steve Kelsey