Hi Anne, just checked your site and came across Barbeler Surname, my husband has barbelers in his family . A lot of his familysettled in Finch Hatton Qld. are they related. Thanks June ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perplexed" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:03 PM Subject: [SEQ-Germans] Travel from Germany to Australia > My gg grandparents also arrived from London. They went to NSW (Morpeth) > in > 1849 on the Parland. There were a number of German families who travelled > on that ship to work in the NSW vineyards. You can see them at: > > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/2299/parland1849.html > > > Anne > > > .... >> We were surprised to read that one of the families, the Windolf family >> emigrated on the ship Gauntlet which arrived in Moreton Bay on the >> 20th February 1878 and that the family came Indirect. They travelled >> from Hamburg to London on the "Martin" and then changed ships to >> the "Gauntlet". At that time it was more common for people to >> emigrate using the Direct shipping method from Hamburg or Bremen >> and it was only after 1880 that Indirect became the norm. >> >> Has anyone else found instances where before 1880, their family >> emigrated Indirect. >> > > > A List for the research for the descendants of the Germans who migrated to > South East Queensland, Australia. > Archives - > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUS/AUS-QLD-SE-Germans.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.20/1108 - Release Date: > 11/3/2007 9:42 PM >