Hi Carolyn, I think you have posted this before, possibly on another list . I have tried looking for their arrivals with no luck, so I didn't reply.I have been thinking about the problem since then. If the family story is true than they most likely would not have been recorded by the officials of the day! Other listers may disagree!!! This means that thye would not be on the records databases availble to us researchers. I feel it would be an idea to look at newspapers of the day to see if you can see if he advertised his ship for sale, he would have to have made some effort to sell it. I am sure that some are availblae on line but feel you made need to visit the Statae Library in Sydney . Do you know what it was called? Are there any early land records?? When do they start?? Don't discarad alternative spellings Shippard Shepyard etc. Aprt from this I can not suggest any other avenues but othre listers whose expertise is wonderful may have other ideas. best wishes and goo dluck Robyn in Wodonga ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn and Darryl" <dazwilson@bigpond.com> To: "aus-immigration-ships" <aus-immigration-ships@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: [AUS-IMM-SHIPS] NAMES OF SHIPS ARRIVING ABT 1859 > Greetings, > > First posting to the List, so please excuse lack of knowledge and confusion. > > Ancestors named SHEPHARD (SHEPPARD / SHEPHERD) arrived in Australia (more than likely Sydney) in about 1859. They were George and Charlotte. > > Family story goes that George and Charlotte were married in England, sold everything and bought a ship in which they sailed to Australia with 2 little daughters, Hannah Elizabeth and Sarah Ann and baby Mary Jane was born at sea, supposedly in "abt 1860." They then sold the ship and bought a bullock and dray and travelled across the Blue Mountains to Rockley near Bathurst N.S.W. where they stayed and had a further 7 children from 1862. > > A researcher checked the 'supposed' marriage on 17 Apr, 1854, Derbyshire UK, but it certainly couldn't be found. (Family member's information.) > > 2 unnamed daughters were born at Bathurst in 1859 and 1861(to a George and Charlotte SHEPPARD), (Source: N.S.W. BMD). There is also a birth of a George SHEPHARD in Sydney in 1859 with just the mother's name of Charlotte. > > There is loads more...........................(for another posting.) > > I have tried every available source to find the possible name of the ship or a ship listing them as passengers, to no avail. Would anyone know where on earth I could look? > > When George came to Bathurst, he was a farmer. After he died in 1879, Charlotte is listed as a Landholder of over 1,300 acres at "Summerhill", Rockley in 1885. She died in 1916. > > As well, what would be the route of such a ship? Could they have stopped off somewhere and have been included in a Census (foreign)? > > Kind regards, > > Carolyn. Bathurst. > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >