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Topic: Passenger Information on Ships to Australia (Read 254 times)
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jeanlit
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I found a notice in the Shipping Arrivals in the Sydney Free Press 21 April 1841 - don't know if that's any help. The Neptune had apparently left Port Phillip on 14 April 1841.
http://www.nla.gov.au/ferguson/14401908/18410421/00010031/2-2.pdf
Do you know the date she left England?
Jean
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trish251
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The ship is on the NSW and Victorian lists so details would be available at PROV in Melbourne and State Records in NSW. The NSW (and perhaps Vic) records are also available in many other places. If you cannot get copies, you can purchase a transcript from at least one of the NSW transcription agents.
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nedda
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Hi,
Thanks Trish & Jean for your help.
From what I can gather the ship arrived into Port Phillip 29 March 1841, stayed a while and then sailed onto Sydney, which is the journey you mentioned Jean.
I have found her arrival on both the prov records and NSW records, only the NSW entry allows you to gain a certificate (cost is about $26 plus postage). I couldn't find a list of ships on the site. I see listed a few transcriptions agents that only do BDM, but there is one which I will contact and see if she can point me in the right direction.
I am not sure where she got on, which is why I tried to track the ship backwards, as I said the only information I have on the ship is from the Geelong Advertiser which said it sailed from London via Plymouth. There is apparently a mention of that particular voyage in a book "Oceans of Consolation". So I am going to contact my local library to see if they have it, as it seems silly to buy a book (A$39) to read one page.
Thanks for all your help.
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Walford - Over Stowey, Somerset
Pinker - Box & Christian Malford, Wiltshire
Hadfield - Mellor, Derbyshire
Sullivan - Tralee, Ireland
Kilchrist/Killchrist/Gilchriest/Gilchrist - West Riding Yorkshire, Lancashire & Australia
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jeanlit
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Transcription agents: I would try Laurence Turtle - he goes to State Records regularly.
http://home.iprimus.com.au/lturtle/nsw_state_archives.htm
Please be patient - Laurence is in the process of revising his website.
Have you googled "Oceans of Consolation"? Something may turn up.
For a bit of background, there was an ad in the London “Times”, Wednesday, 4 November 1840:
AUSTRALIAN PACKET SHIPS – The fine ship GLENSWILLY, IA 1, DOUGAL McNIEL, Commander, will sail from Gravesend on the 10th and from Plymouth on the 18th November for SYDNEY and PORT PHILIP.
The teak ship SUSAN, of 572 tons register, HENRY NEATBY, Commander, will leave Gravesend on the 25th November, and Plymouth the 3d December for SYDNEY and PORT PHILIP.
The ship NEPTUNE, of 644 tons register, WILLIAM FERRIS, Commander, will sail from Gravesend on the 29th November and from Plymouth the 7th December, for PORT PHILIP and SYDNEY.
The Susan and Neptune are loading at the Jetty in the London Docks.
These are first class ships, have poops, and the highest order of accommodations for cabin, intermediate, and steerage passengers; are liberally fitted and supplied with provisions, etc. of the choicest quality, carry experienced surgeons, and never deviate (wind and weather permitting) from the day appointed for sailing. A regular succession of the finest and best equipped ships are dispatched, on fixed days, with strict punctuality, every month during the year, proceeding alternatively to Port Philip and Sydney, and Sydney direct. A free passage is granted by these ships to a limited number of agricultural labourers and mechanics, if in accordance with the colonial regulations. All particulars may be known on application, post paid, to Mr John Marshall, 16, Birchin-lane, Cornhill.
Jean
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