Carolyn, Try googling the following <shephard site:mariners.records.nsw.gov.au> you'll get a list of ships, just go thru till you find the one you want. Don't try it as a website, it won't work, google. Cheers. Anne from Cairns, Aus. > Carolyn and Darryl <dazwilson@bigpond.com> wrote: > > 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