Dear Maps;
I was pleased to receive your response, thank you!!
As far as me finding your name, I forget where it was exactly, it may have been on the Borders site, or if not there, another one, possibly Ancestry? Can't recall, sorry!
It is kind of you to offer to share the arrival's list. I'm not sure if I've seen it or not. I saw your Hills on the 'outgoing list' from England but without searching through my copious files (which I must leave for now until I have some free time) I can't quite remember if I have the incoming documentation or not. Perhaps if you'd kindly send it to me I'd know! Those passenger lists have a way of piling up! I have many families who moved from one continent to another going back centuries.
The question of the Hill's extra child 'Charles' - I have found two extra children via passenger lists for my own Churcher family. It took a lot of doing but I eventually found the birth of one of them (in a county in England where five siblings were not born) and his death, aged 7 in Canada. I still have one more son unaccounted for, both birth and death. I'm beginning to wonder whether he was adopted - perhaps a child of a single mother who may have even been related. What I'm trying to say is, that an open mind may lead you to answers.
I'd love to provide some tips but again, I'll need some time to see what I can find and I'm certainly no expert. I believe I used a link to Australian archives - I'll see if I can find it. Besides writing to a very helpful librarian in Victoria (years ago), I've taken a look at newspapers and cemetery records. Not a lot but they did prove valuable.
I look forward to hearing from you again. Best wishes,
Zoshi