I just had a look too. I don't know where they put private ship arrivals. PRO might be a place to try too. Cheers. Anne from Cairns, Aus. > Robyn Gross <regross@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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