SS Great Britain Passenger Lists

[Barrie Green]

Hello MarieC

It is one of those frustrating situations  'you've found out something and that is he is not there'!

Not very comforting I know but it looks like he may have come on one of the missing passenger lists.

Is there a Rootschat 'angel' who would do a lookup in a paper of the time in Melbourne for you? There would be a finite time using the approx times of the other voyages so it wouldn't involve hours of searching. If the passenger list was mislaid later, the paper of the time would be the last resort. A ship like the SS G B would definitely be mentioned.

Happy hunting!!

Faith

[MarieC]

Good thinking, Faith!

Actually I am going to our State Library in a month with the Genealogy Group I belong to, and they have newspapers from most States on microfilm.  I'll have a look for it myself and see if it is there.  If I run out of time (I have a few things to do while there), I'll follow up the rest of your suggestion.

MarieC

[Pat3145]

Hi there BARRIE GREEN!

WOuld you be kind enough to look in your book "Is yours an SS Great Britain Family?" to see if there was a William Henry Greaves on the voyage #21 (departed Liverpool 20 October 1861, arrived Melbourne 24 December 1861)? My grandmother often used to tell me that he father had come out with the All England 11 Cricketers, so I think he should be on that list??

I would appreciate anything you can to help me out with some information, as my Family Tree does not seem to go back any further than this until I get some more info!!

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Patricia Anderson

[tropicalj]

Hello  ther Pat and welcome to rootschat

now  I  gather William Henry Greaves is your great grandfather? 
Do  you  have  his death in Victoria?

Where and when was your grandmother born?

Jenn

[Barrie Green]

Hi there Pat 3145
Sorry about this late reply but our computer has been with a wonderful son-in-law for a week transferring all our data to our new state of the art machine and we have just had it all set up to go-go!

There is only one GREAVES on the list = George aged 21 Labourer on voyage 31.

BUT - there is also only one William Grieves, aged 27, Labourer, on Voyage 21 with all the Travel details matching yours. No other Grieves at all. Sounds like yours. Let me know if you need to know more.

Faith Green

[hibbert]

Hi! I think the George Greaves you found might be my relation. Is there any chance you could send me the details you found? George Greaves was my Grandmother's brother (I think!) Cheers Jill

[Barrie Green]

Hi Jill

The only other information available from this book is that  Voyage No. 31 left Liverpool, England on 15 December 1867, it took 57 days to reach Melbourne and there were 512 passengers on board. Hope that will point the way to confirming data in shipping lists for you. Perhaps other family/friends went out with him, if so let me know and I'll look that up as well.
Cheers-   Faith Green

[hibbert]

Thanks for the info...however I have found out that my Samuel Greaves(born about 1882) was on the Runic which left Liverpool in 1911 and arrived in Albany, so therefore our dates don't match.I wonder if you have any info about this though? What happened when people got to Albany? Did they come out with a promise of a job?Is he mentioned on any of your lists? Cheers , Jill

[Barrie Green]

Hi Jill

The only other Greaves (or similar spelling) is J L Greaves, no age, no  occupation who was on voyage No. 9  which left L'pool 21 August 1852 and took 81 days to reach Melbourne and then went on to Sydney. This was the first trip to Australia by the S S Great Britain.

I am in New Zealand and have just the book "Is Yours An S S Great Britain Family?" but other Shipping data is available on N S W and Victorian websites. Try them as so much is available now.

Good Luck    Faith