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I was to send you a PM early February regarding a visit to Kew to search for any ship records for the "Fancy" pls?
Regards
Janice

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Any luck visiting Kew with regard to ship records for the "Fancy" please?
I hope this reaches you OK?
Regards
JT

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Thank you - I've being searching there - no luck so far!

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Thank you for offering to check records at Kew next year. Please let me know some idea of costs   before you proceed - I don't expect you to do this for nothing.
I believe James Smith Stove was born in 1809 in Lerwick Shetland Is. and married Janet Nicolson in Lerwick Shetland Is. in 1841. He is listed in this link as a whaler/goldminer and could also have been working on whaling ships in the UK area and possibly on one of Enderby's other ships before joining the Auckland Islands expedition.

 http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I223623&tree=ID1



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What I'm really trying to find out is any record of the ship's actual journey from Plymouth in August 1849 to Auckland Islands via Hobart Town (Tasmania). That would mean ship's logs? Would there be any personal record of this part of the journey by Charles Enderby himself?

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Thank you - yes that all sounds correct. Is there any point checking log books and crew agreements for 1852 and 1853 if James Stove and his family left the Fancy and settled in Sydney in November 1852?
Given that I live in Australia unless I engage a researcher in the UK I don't seem to be able to access UK records unless I pay first? Then I'm not sure they'll have what I need.
I have also written to the library in Lerwick Shetland Islands. Where would I look for records of James as being employed as a whaler/fisherman in the UK/Atlantic region?

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Many thanks for this information. One record I have is that the Fancy was built in Sunderland, 1846. It    stayed on to work in our southern New South Wales waters around Twofold Bay and then went north to Brisbane, Queensland. It was sold to T.M.Weguelin, Merchant? then to George Dawson on 27th July 1853. It was reregistered 25th October 1853 - it had arrived London 1853?
 I also have doubts that any log books are available as it would seem they weren't required to be registered until after 1852, a few years after Enderby Expedition commenced. 
I will have to try another source to find out the geography of the route to Australia?
Can anyone enlighten me on James Smith Stove and his wife Janet Jessie Stove - from the Shetland Islands who were the original settlers with Enderby on the Auckland Islands. James was a whaler/fisherman when they lived in Lerwick(Shetland) in the 1840's - and may have been employed by Enderby's company on other ships prior to leaving for the Auckland Islands?
Where would I look for any record of him as an employee back then?



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Family History Beginners Board / Charles Enderby expedition to auckland Islands 1849 -1852
« on: Wednesday 06 December 17 05:38 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to locate the route which this expedition would have taken from Plymouth London to the Auckland Islands in August 1849. They stopped in Hobart Town (Tasmania) for supplies and sailed on from there. I am guessing they came down the African coast and then headed east?
My husband's ancestors were some of the original settlers for this expedition (Stove) and they sailed on the Fancy, one of the 3 ships including the Samuel Enderby and the Brisk. I am also having trouble locating any of the ship's logs for these 3 vessels.
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