Thanks, Robyn, but I looked there a long time ago and have just checked again. Nothing! I'm puzzled Regards Chris -----Original Message----- From: aus-immigration-ships-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-immigration-ships-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Robyn Gross Sent: Friday, 31 August 2007 9:59 AM To: aus-immigration-ships@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-IMM-SHIPS] 1918 to 1922 Immigration 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 ------------------------------- 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