The Bussorah Merchant was engaged as a convict transport from 1828 to 1831 - the year that an office was established in London to encourage migration to Australia, and didn't that idea take off!. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Thursday 15 December, 1831 (courtesy NLA) ARRIVAL. >From Dublin, yesterday, whence she sailed the 16th of August last, the ship Bussorah Merchant, Captain Moncrief, with 198 male prisoners. Surgeon Su- perintendent, James Gilchrist, Esq. The guard consists of a detachment of the 4th Regiment, accompanied by 4 women and 6 children, under the command of Lieut. Lonsdale. Passenger, E. M'Dowell, Esq., Solicitor-General. The question remains - where was the new bub christened - if a christening took place on land. Could Captain Moncrief have performed a christening? Cheers Barbara