I'm sorry Angie, I can't help you with passenger lists. Perhaps someone else on this list may be able to. I can only help you with the indexs for BDM prior to 1920. I'm looking for help myself as my GG just seems to have appeared here in Australia by carrier pigeon. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angie Owen" <angio@fishinternet.com.au> To: <AUS-IMMIGRATION-SHIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 3:47 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-IMM-SHIPS] Frederick William CRANE > Hi Clare, > I'm sorry that I can't help you but you could help me . I would be grateful > if you could look up or give me a Webb site where I could look my self, a > list of passengers who arrived on the Fairsea from Bremerhafen/Germany on > the 6/1/1954 at Freemantle in Western Australia. I actually arrived on this > ship as a nine year old but my mother who is 83 now can't find the papers. > Also my g mother arrived by plane about 1971. Where do I go to find maybe a > birth certificate as I don't know the surname of my g g mother. I am > against a brick wall at the moment. > Thanks > Angie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "claire" <clairet@bigpond.net.au> > To: <AUS-IMMIGRATION-SHIPS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2002 7:47 > Subject: [AUS-IMM-SHIPS] Frederick William CRANE > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm new to the list and I'm trying to find traces of my g-grandfather, > Frederick William CRANE or his family. He was born in Dudley, Worcester in > 1859.He came to Australia as a child around 1862. His marriage certificate > lists his parents as William Robert CRANE and Mary COTTON. I can find no > trace of his parents in Australia. > > He died in Victoria 1942 and it says he was 80 years in the colony. His > marriage certificate indicates by his age that he was born in 1859 or maybe > early 1860. I've checked as many shipping indexs as I can find, but infants > were not usually listed and there is no William and Mary Crane that I can > find. > > > > On the English free BDM's I have found a Mary Ann CRANE born in Worcester > in 1862 to a William and Mary CRANE. There is also a record of a Henry > CRANE, b 1857, Joseph CRANE b. 1860, Sarah CRANE b. 1860. These people may > bear no relation to my GG but if the whole family came out to Australia > together they may be on shipping lists > > > > Any help that might get me past this brick wall I would be very grateful. > > > > I possess some of the indexs for Victoria on CD's and am happy to do > lookups here in Australia if anyone needs any help in that area. > > Thanks > > > > Claire Taylor > > > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >