Gayle, Where is Mollymook?? Sounds interesting. Try this. Google <waite site:mariners.records.nsw.gov.au> & <ranger site:mariners.records.nsw.gov.au> You should get a list, just go thru it & see what's there. Don't try them as urls, they won't work. google. Cheers. Anne from Cairns, Aus. > Gayle Stewart <gs56@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > Hello Listers > I'm out of my league, hope some one can help. My GG Grandfather Clarke > Waite absconded from the Ship 'Ranger' on 17 Apr 1856 in Sydney he was > 22yrs. He was listed as Boatswain. I have found his name on the crew > list on Mariners and ships in NSW waters, is there any way I can find > out if he was on other voyages? or any information of the 'Ranger'? It > carried no passengers, the last census he appears on in England is 1841. > Hope some one can steer me in the right direction. > Cheers Gayle > Rainy Mollymook NSW > > ------------------------------- > 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