« on: Thursday 21 January 10 14:18 GMT (UK) »
Hi All,
I'm wondering if anyone can help me with the emigration of James and Mary Ann Gregory? James was born circa 1830 in Wheatenhurst/Whitminster Glouc. And he gives his occupation on the 1851 census in Camberwell, Surrey as a carpenter. He married Mary Ann Wassell in Camberwell in June 1853.
I have his obituary from 4 Jan 1904 in the Hobart Mercury which mentions that he and his wife and child set sail from Liverpool on the Ocean Chief arriving in the Derwent (Tasmania) 25 March 1855.
Another kind person responded to another post on the immigrants and emigrants board and made the following suggestion
The arrivals on the Ocean Chief have been indexed up to surnames starting with the letter K and the Gregory's do not appear. There is also mention in the birth indexes of their children that they arrived on the James Baines. The only problem is that the James Baines did not make it's maiden voyage to Australia until 1855, arriving in Melbourne on 12 Feb - it did not go to Tasmania, and they do not appear on that passenger list either. The confusion may be because the Ocean Chief was owned by James Baines and Co'Can anyone shed any light on James, Mary Ann and their son James' travel plans to Tasmania
Regards
Dee
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