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LoneyBones
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Female Imigration Scheme. & Family Colonisation Loan Society.
« on: Monday 09 February 09 12:09 UTC (UK) »

Hi,
Out there somewhere is a list of females who migrated per the Sir Sidney Herbert Female Emmigration Scheme, 1851.
The passenger list is available with all the rules they had to abide by, what they could take with them, instructions for the chaplian, surgeon and matron etc.
I've read that there are also lists of names, proffessions, conditions, birth places etc from when the young ladies were boarding with Mrs Herbert before they went to NZ and Australia. I've tried to find these but from Australia it's an uphill battle.
I think 5 ships came to Australia and one to NZ, before the scheme was abandoned.
I'm interested in the list for the STATELY which went to NZ in 1851.My Great Great Grandmother, Elizabeth DAVIS was aboard the Stately. She claimed on her marriage cert that she was born in London in 1831. This is all the information I have about her.
If anyone can locate the information taken of the young ladies who were aboard Stately I would be most grateful.
Leonie.

Modified; I've modified the title of this thread because I've found nothing and something. Grin

See below.
Leonie.


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ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps-Lockyer-Ryland-Skivington-Blackford.
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
ENNIS-Davis.
JONES-Walton-Grayson-Stobbs-Baldwin-Ibbotson-Scott.
JONES-Goodwin-Parker-Instant-Hubbard-Hancock-Skinner.

LOST: Elizabeth Anne Balfour DAVIS. First seen aboard ship STATELY, 1851, heading for New Zealand.

jorose
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Re: Sir Sidney Herbert-Caroline Chisolm-et al. Female Imigration Scheme.
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 10 February 09 14:48 UTC (UK) »

It seems that this was also know as the Female Emigration Fund. Wiltshire and Swindon archives appear to have a little bit on it. I would contact them to ask - there's entries such as:
(searching http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/ )

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2057/F8/VIII/40 List of females with occupations, ages and their protection on the voyage - ie. the family they are grouped with.

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2057/F8/VIII/50 Emigrants from London - Saint Georges, Shadwell, Southwark, Holban and Westminster, home, previous occupation and employment obtained in Australia.

I would contact them - the emigrants from London file seems likely to have something on your Elizabeth.


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LoneyBones
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Re: Sir Sidney Herbert-Caroline Chisolm-et al. Female Imigration Scheme.
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 11 February 09 07:40 UTC (UK) »

Thanks heaps jorose. Grin

Just goes to show my memory isn't as bad as I thought it was. Also goes to prove you should never throw away anything relating to family history.
I'll get on to the National Archives and have another look now that I know where to look.

Thanks again,
Leonie.


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jorose
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Re: Sir Sidney Herbert-Caroline Chisolm-et al. Female Imigration Scheme.
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 11 February 09 10:19 UTC (UK) »

Just to make it clear - it's Wiltshire and Swindon archives who hold these files, the NA link is the 'a2a' site which allows some searching of catalogues from different archives around the country.


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LoneyBones
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Re: Sir Sidney Herbert-Caroline Chisolm-et al. Female Imigration Scheme.
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 11 February 09 10:33 UTC (UK) »

Yes, thanks. Grin

I found the Wiltshire & Swindon site. I've got file numbers and will go back to their site tomorrow and email them.
The document mentioned in the particular file is at least a start. It didn't mention actuall birth places, just names, accupations etc. But it may have something more than I have now. Which is zilch. Grin

Leonie.


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dollylee
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Re: Sir Sidney Herbert-Caroline Chisolm-et al. Female Imigration Scheme.
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 12 February 09 09:39 UTC (UK) »

I am pretty sure you won't find the information you are looking for in this memoir but you might find out more about the thought process behind the emigration schemes.

I didn't check it out so I am sorry if it is a waste of your time.

http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsofmrscaro00mackrich

dollylee


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LoneyBones
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Re: Sir Sidney Herbert-Caroline Chisolm-et al. Female Imigration Scheme.
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 12 February 09 10:14 UTC (UK) »

Looks very interesting so far Dolly.
Even if it doesn't help any, I'll still read it. Grin

Thanks.


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dollylee
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Re: Sir Sidney Herbert-Caroline Chisolm-et al. Female Imigration Scheme.
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 12 February 09 10:24 UTC (UK) »

You are more than welcome....but beware... after I posted I flipped part of the book and some of it was pretty grim Cry

dollylee


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LoneyBones
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Re: Sir Sidney Herbert-Caroline Chisolm-et al. Female Imigration Scheme.
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 12 February 09 10:40 UTC (UK) »

That's OK, I can handle a little bit of grim, so long as there's not too much. Undecided


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LoneyBones
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Re: Female Imigration Scheme. & Family Colonisation Loan Society.
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 08 March 09 09:24 UTC (UK) »

OK.
What the Wiltshire and Swindon archives has isn't very helpful with regards to individuals.
But; they did help in that they have general information regarding the migration schemes.

The "Family Colonization Loan Society" had fairly strict rules about who they accepted as members. They paid what they could before they left England and the rest after they arrived in Australia.
The general idea was to have at least three families per group of 12 adults.
The other six adults were made up of either three more couples or several single women or single men.
This way there was protection for single women emigrants on the voyage.
The group were encouraged to get to know each other before the voyage.

I now have a list from the Australian national Archives of Assisted Immigrants on board the "Lord Burleigh" 1856. (This is another branch of my family.) The published lists of assisted immigrants are alphabetical and give no idea at all of family groups. If anyone wants the original lists and know which ship their ancestors arrived on, the archivist at the Sturt University was very helpful and willing to forward the original list to me.

On the other hand, I'm still none the wiser about Elizabeth DAVIS before she boarded the STATELY, except that she was probably housed at the Hatton Gardens "Home", run by Mrs Batkin for the Sidney Herbert Female Emigration Fund.

I hope this at least is of some help to others looking for ancestors who migrated to Australia and New Zealand.

Leonie.


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