Have you looked at the series of books Log of Logs by Ian Nicholson? There may be a reference to a diary. Ian SimonRos Dunstall <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Paula, Have you tried SAGHS - GenealogySA now?   They have a huge collection of German records and may be able to help you.  Of course it may come at a price, but worth it if you are at a 'brickwall'. BISA details are also to be double checked as they are only what are submitted by family and often miss details like this if the submitter didnt know. Ros On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Paula <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi listers > > I am wondering if sks knows if there is anyway to check some information > please. Does anyone know of diaries or similar for the 1878 Eduard voyage > from Hamburg. > > I am helping a friend by looking into the arrival of Ferdinand Ludwig Burow > & family into South Australia in 1878. > > >From Hamburg passenger list on ancestry.com, I have Ferdinand (38) with > his > wife Amelie (39) & children Carl (17), Theodor (14), Gustav (10), August > (9) >  Bertha (3) & Albert (7mnths) aboard the Eduard bound for Port Adelaide. > >From trove in The South Australian Advertiser, 19 June 1878 , there is > mention of F Burow, wife & 6 children arriving at Port Adelaide aboard > Eduard. > >From State Records of SA in the online index all of the above names appear > as arriving in Sth Aust as assisted passengers. > > On trove in the South Australian Register, 11 July 1878 an article which > reads "During the voyage of the Eduard from Hamburg one of the passengers, > a > youth named George Burow was unfortunately Iost overboard. He was in the > act > of drawing a bucket of water when he overbalanced and fell over the ship's > side. The vessel was under a press of sail and going at a rate of about ten > knots when the accident occurred, so that there was no prospect of rescuing > him." > > >From BISA - BUROW Ferdinand b: c1840 Hamburg, Germany arr: 1878 EDUARD > occ: > Agricultural Labourer m: Amalie b: c1839 Hamburg, Germany ch: Carl > (c1861-), > Theodor (c1864-1878), Gustav (c1867-), Augt (c1869-), Bertha (c1873-), Albt > (c1874-) > > My queries are as follows: > > I couldn't find another Burow on the ship Eduard in 1878 & then presume it > was one of Ferdinand's children who fell overboard, but no George is > mentioned as one of his children leaving Hamburg. Going by BISA it would > appear as Theodor might have been the Burow to fall overboard as no death > entry can be found in the South Australian death indexes for about that > time >  If George is Theodor, why would there still be 6 children mentioned when > they arrived in Pt Adel. Did they use the Hamburg passenger list when > mentioning names in the papers & the State Record records? > > There was another son, Max, born in 1878, but from his headstone, it > appears > he was born in September 1878 after their arrival in Sth Aust. His birth > isn > t on the SA birth index, but as a lot of German immigrants didn't seem to > register their children's births, I have nothing to check this date with. > > As far as I can see, there are no clues on Ferdinand's naturalization > papers > as he states he only has 4 children, Carl, Gustav, Max & Emma (Emma was > born > in SA 1880), which is true as these are the ones who are still alive in > 1913 > the date of his naturalization papers. > > Any suggestions would be most helpful. > > Thanking you for your time. > Paula > > > > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message