Hi Susan

Not sure if you are only looking for details of Donald, but I think I have a lead on Rachel.

Likely birth for her in Melbourne, Victoria in 1859 to Wm WOOD & Mary REYNOLDS (reg 776). Wm & Mary married in 1841 at St James, Melb.

Other chn Fanny 1845, James 1846, Mary 1848, Emma 1849, Matilda 1851, Charles 1852, Albert 1856, Esther 1855 (dec), Jessie 1859 and Alice 1862 (dec, shown as born in Essendon). May be others 1842-1844 (Ellen?)

The Argus, Friday 26 January 1866
WOOD.—On the 24th inst., at his residence, Essendon Hotel, Essendon, William Wood, aged fifty-five years.
[Buried Melb General Cem, b. York, death reg 1376]

The Argus, Tuesday 29 August 1871
LYNOTT-WOOD. -On the 25th inst., at Essendon, by
the Bev. J. S Boyd, Charles, eldest son of Charles A. Lynott, formerly of the Campaspe River, to Mary, third daughter of the late William Wood, of Essendon.

The Argus, Friday 26 January 1872
WEST - WOOD -On the 24th Inst, at the Manse, Erskine Church, by the Rev. James Ballantyne, Benjamin West, Essendon, to Matilda, fifth daughter of William Wood, Esq , late of Essendon.

The Argus, Friday 13 January 1871
M'INTOSH—WOOD. —On the 11th inst., at Essendon, by the Rev. J. S. Boyd, Mr. John McIntosh, of Ballan, to Ellen, eldest daughter of the late William Wood, of Essendon.

The Argus, Wednesday 5 January 1938
Miss Jessie Wood
After a long illness, Miss Jessie Wood, formerly of the Essendon Hotel, Bulla road, Essendon, died at her home at Caulfield yesterday morning. She was aged 79 years. A short service will be conducted by the Rev. C. V. V. McKeown this morning before the burial in the family vault.