Sue, I don't know the name of the ship they came o n. Wish I did. Their ship docked on Peel Island around 3 November 1878. The mother gave birth to their last child around 10th November 1878 but she died on 18th November 1878. Pretty sad tale told here. This couple also lost at least one child while at sea. It makes me wonder at the conditions under which they must have sailed. Must have been pretty bad conditions. The more research I do, the more I am amazed that anyone survived the trip to Australia and once there, survived the harsh conditions they met there. Cleaning scrub so that a farm could be put in sounds like really hard yakka to me and I doubt if I could have survived in a slab hut, dirt floor, marauding aborigines, kangaroos eating off the kitchen garden veggies, floods, flies and snakes. (I hate flies with a passion and snakes I could do without as well). Can anyone tell me if there was more than one ship tied up at Peel Island in November 1878? The family I am looking for is Johann Carl Wilhelm TROST and his wife Caroline TROST nee LOFF. This couple were married in Hohenselchow and went to Australia in 1878 with at least 2 children that I have been able to document. A month after his wife's death, Johann married his widowed sister in law and he is also credited with sponsoring my Great Great Grandfather August Friedrich TROST and his wife Henriette TROST nee SANFT and 5 children in 1881. This family arrived on the Arthurstone. I know that it seems different that he married one month after his wife's death, but he had a few little children that needed a mother and his sister in law had a few children that needed a daddy and I am sure that life in early Australia was tough enough for a couple with children, and even tougher if you were single with little children to take care of into the bargain. I do not envy my ancestors one bit. cheers, Beverly.