Hi Jill > From: robert & jill kramer [mailto:robjillk@hotmail.com] > Sent: 19 June 2001 05:42 > Subject: passenger lists of ships early 1900's > I have been trying to find out exactly when and what ship my > grandfather arrived from England on. I know he was living in Australia > in Wagga Wagga NSW at Christmas 1902, as I have an old postcard he sent back > to his family saying where he had ended up and how lonely he was. However, > I cannot find any passenger lists that give details for that era. His name > was Edward Gold, and he travelled alone, and would have been around 28 > years old. My father always mentioned the ship Lusitania, but, the lists I > have seen do not show and Edward Gold on that ship, and none as recent as > 1900. Help will be appreciated. Lusitania's final voyage to Australia before being sold to the Beaver Line in 1900 was in December 1897. She would have arrived in Sydney in January 1898. She was the old Orient Line steamer and not the same ship as the Cunard vessel of the same name torpedoed in 1915. Your Lusitania was wrecked off Cape Race on 26 June 1901. I can't help with passenger lists at the Australian end, but he will be on the outbound (unindexed) Board of Trade passenger lists held at the Public Record Office in Kew, England. I'm afraid they aren't filmed. Debbie Beavis www.passengerlists.co.uk