G'day List, Being encouraged by the information that Lynne has provided to others I am encouraged to ask a question that for years I have believed could only be answered by a massive time consuming search. Sometime towards the end of the Great War but prior 21st August, 1922 a widow Ruth JONES nee MIDDLETON (born in Kent in 1883) and her daughter Dorothy Julia JONES (born in London in 1907) arrived in Australia. I'm assuming they arrived in Sydney although Ruth had another child in Mannum, South Australia in 1922. Ruth's occupation had been as a cook & I have not ruled out the possibility that she may have worked her passage if that could be done in those days. I don't believe there were any friends or relatives in Australia to sponsor them & I am of the opinion that finances would have been quite stretched for a single mother in those times. Is it possible to find these people in immigration records or from immigration agents' records? Regards Chris in Adelaide

hris, These records should be avalble at the National Archives of Australia website. www.naa.gov.au good luck Robyn in Wodonga ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Ward" <ceejay@internode.on.net> To: <aus-immigration-ships@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:05 PM Subject: [AUS-IMM-SHIPS] 1918 to 1922 Immigration > G'day List, > > Being encouraged by the information that Lynne has provided to others I am > encouraged to ask a question that for years I have believed could only be > answered by a massive time consuming search. > > Sometime towards the end of the Great War but prior 21st August, 1922 a > widow Ruth JONES nee MIDDLETON (born in Kent in 1883) and her daughter > Dorothy Julia JONES (born in London in 1907) arrived in Australia. I'm > assuming they arrived in Sydney although Ruth had another child in Mannum, > South Australia in 1922. Ruth's occupation had been as a cook & I have not > ruled out the possibility that she may have worked her passage if that could > be done in those days. I don't believe there were any friends or relatives > in Australia to sponsor them & I am of the opinion that finances would have > been quite stretched for a single mother in those times. > > Is it possible to find these people in immigration records or from > immigration agents' records? > > Regards > Chris in Adelaide > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-IMMIGRATION-SHIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message