H Lindall

[DonL]

This person, H. Lindall, described as British on a ship manifest with his birth year as 1881 and with the occupation of plasterer sounds very much very much like my long elusive grandfather Albert Clarence Lindale. The H could be Harry which was a nick name he was known as by his friends and family.

The ship he arrived in Auckland  on apparently as an assisted immigrant  was the Victoria which sailed from Sydney arriving in Auckland on 1st November 1905 - two and a half years before the marriage of Albert Clarence Lindale.

This information has come from Family Search shipping records for New Zealand

What was his history prior to his arrival her in NZ? Any ideas?

DonL

[minniehaha]

Hello Don,

Not part of the brief, but is this your man?

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19171127.2.65?query=harry%20lindale

There are a couple of other items on 'Papers Past' on the same topic...


Minniehaha.

[DonL]

Yes that was my grandfather he was doing plastering on the newly built Wellington Hospital

Cheers

DonL

[spades]

Hi Don,

If he was born in England I would check the 1881, 1891 and 1901 UK Census's.

Also see if you can track down the original passenger manifest of the Victoria. Try Auckland Library or Museum perhaps, i seem to recall one of them hold shipping records for the region.

And see if you can find him in Australia prior to 1905. It's possible he stayed there a while prior to moving across the ditch.

Spades

[majm]

Hi Don,

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14749791 Sydney Morning Herald 2 November 1905.  - likely H Lindall was one of the 42 steerage passengers.  (Add, fairly sure this is the same voyage that Don's sighting is referring to). 

Re "British" ... anyone born in any of the colonies/states that became Australia was automatically "British", meaning British Subject.  Australia's constitution did not make any mention of Australian nationality which did not come about until after WWII.

 http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=613143.0  Some background info re our OP's very elusive chap.  "Lindale and var for DonL" is on a sticky note thingy on the side of my screen.  When I look up for any pre 1913 Electoral Rolls for NSW in posts for any RChatter on the Australia board, and if I am 'near to' the "L" section,  I always take a sticky beak.   

JM

[Lucy2]

This information has come from Family Search shipping records for New Zealand

Mmm... the listing for "H. LINDALL" - 24 - Plasterer "  ... actually has his nationality as "Scotch".
For the chap listed above "Mr ? MAITLAND - 37 - Plasterer" - the nationality is shown as English.

There's an additional list for the voyage of the "Victoria" 1905 - it only has passengers names  ...
and on this the surname looks like "TINDALL".  ??

   ~  Lu

[majm]

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDF-NF83

and

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDF-NF2R


JM

[majm]

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDJ-QP7B

Crew on the Waikare from Sydney to Wellington 13 September 1905

LINDALE, A.



https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KL14-C3Y

A LINDAHL as crew on Rippingham Grange from Wellington to Avonmouth 16 Nov 1908

JM