Hi all, I guess I am looking for a history lesson. :-) I have a couple (William Thomas & Eliza Nugent) who married in February 1865 in Carisbrook, Victoria then 8 months later their first child is born in Moonta, SA. He was a miner from Cornwall, and it would appear that they were in Moonta until after the birth of their second child in Nov 1866 (as the third is born back in Victoria. Now I have googled and in todays cars this would take around 9 hrs +/-, and from what I can find the train between Melbourne & Adelaide was not laid yet. So my question is - What would be the most likely way to get there? Would it be back to Melbourne and a boat to Adelaide? Or was there coach between the capitals? Or was there a recruitment drive that saw many families in a convoy? Or would they just have to walk????? Thank you for any suggestions. Pat

Hello Pat, There was a Mr W Thomas 29, Mrs Thomas 23 and infant 1 aboard the Sussex which left Melbourne Mar 1866. Does this fit your dates? The ship was bound for London, but they could have disembarked at Adelaide. You can find this at PROV Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1923 at http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_search?searchid=42 <http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_search?searchid=42> I could only find one child born in SA, Catherine in 1966. The Thomas family grew quickly back in Vic, didn’t it? 10 children between 1868 and 1886! Poor Eliza! cheers, Lyn > On 25 Mar 2016, at 10:45 AM, Pat Wade via <aus-sagen@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I guess I am looking for a history lesson. :-) > > I have a couple (William Thomas & Eliza Nugent) who married in February 1865 > in Carisbrook, Victoria then 8 months later their first child is born in > Moonta, SA. He was a miner from Cornwall, and it would appear that they > were in Moonta until after the birth of their second child in Nov 1866 (as > the third is born back in Victoria. > > Now I have googled and in todays cars this would take around 9 hrs +/-, and > from what I can find the train between Melbourne & Adelaide was not laid > yet. > > So my question is - What would be the most likely way to get there? > > Would it be back to Melbourne and a boat to Adelaide? Or was there coach > between the capitals? Or was there a recruitment drive that saw many > families in a convoy? Or would they just have to walk????? > > Thank you for any suggestions. > Pat > > AUS-SAGEN Archives are here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-SAGEN/ > > Websites of Interest on our Blog: > http://aus-sagen-genealogy-websites.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-SAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message