Hello Cissy,
There are plenty of people on RootsChat ready and willing to search for your people in Australia but you really do need to tell us ALL you know.
First you need to make the
surname clear - you refer to two brothers called David Mitchell and Samuel Thomas. As Jenn asks - what was their
surname! Or were they half-brothers with different surnames (one MITCHELL and one THOMAS)? And you need to give us more information. I can tell you that looking for (say) a David MITCHELL b ca 1850 somewhere in Australia without any further information would be like searching for a needle in a haystack
Also you say that an aunt of the brothers, Constance MURLEY, went with her daughter to Australia in 1870 on a ship called the 'Cospatrick' - but you don't say
where in Australia this ship landed!
Now I can search for some of the information myself - but that really is silly when you already have more information.
But I did search (online, shipping lists, Public Record Office of Victoria
http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide023/PROVguide023.jsp ) and found that Constance MURLEY,
age 60, went to
Victoria as an unassisted passenger on the 'Cospatrick' which arrived March 1871 - did you already know her age and destination?
There is also a Jane MURLEY age 24 on the ship.
There is no passenger with surname MI*CHELL.
There is a 19yo Joseph THOMAS on the ship.
A search for Constance MURLEY on the relevant Victorian BDM CD reveals that a Constance MURLEY, age 63, died in Victoria in 1871 - this might be your Constance but we need to know the names of her parents and her birthplace.
The reason for asking for the names of parents is because some of the Australian BDM death indexes record birthplace and/or the names of the parents and/or include the maiden surname of the mother of the deceased.
Give us more information and we will do our best.
Regards,
JAP
PS: Some possibly relevant Victorian records are as follows (note that the index does not capitalize the surname of the father but does capitalize the maiden surname of the mother; it also abbreviates place names but there is no standard list of abbreviations).
*MURLEY Constance, age 63, born CORN, died 1871 Reg.No. 10690, father Mitchell Thoma, mother Constance CONSTANCE
*MURLEY Jane, age 25, born CORN, died 1872 #3134, father Edward, mother Constance MITCHELL
*MURLEY John, age 42, born GWIN, died 1875 #15322, father Edward, mother Constance MITCHELL
A possible passenger record for John
might be the following:
John MURLEY, age 19, on the 'Birmingham' which arrived Jan 1854.