At the outset ... let me warn you that this posting is a LONG SHOT stab in the dark!!
A long way back on this board I sought information about my G-Grandfather and his parents.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,409343.10.html The end result of some outstanding detective work by the Rootschatters suggested that my G-G-Grandparents were probably Samuel White aged 22 and Margaret Walsh aged 20 who were married in Holy Trinity Church Adelaide 25Aug1851.
Their son, Joseph Frederick White was born c1856/7, but his birth was unregistered - hence the uncertainty re his parents. I continue to search for something definitive, although it's painfully unproductive and as I am about to illustrate, I tend to clutch at straws.
I have recently become aware that a group of Whites arrived Port Adelaide on 20-12-1839 on the WILLIAM BARRAS from London.
The SAFHS database suggests that the passenger list included:
WHITE Alfred, Frederick,
Samuel, Thos, and William
So what?, I hear you say.
Well ... My GGGrandfather Samuel White named his son Joseph
Frederick White, and he (my GGrandfather) named one of his sons
Alfred , another Albany
Frederick and another Lendon
Thompson.
Coincidences? Of course ... but a tempting set of coincidences.
Does anyone have any suggestions about where I might go from here to try and establish something more definitive?
Does the full William BARRASS passenger list identify the 20-12-1839 White boys as brothers (or a family group) and if so – where they came from? Does it provide anything at all that might be useful for me to use as a starting point for a search in the UK records? The full set of my GGrandfather’s sons names includes some unusual Christian and middle names and might help point me to some family connections in the UK.
I did warn you that this was a long shot .... but hey, if you don't ask ... you don't find out, do you.
