I'm wondering if there is SKS who could do a look up for me at the PROV branch in Ballaarat. It is for the details of two 1840 assisted British immigrants. I have the details to provide off list to anyone who can help. I stress I don't want anyone to make a special trip on my behalf but someone who is going in the next week or so and can spend an extra few minutes for my query would be really appreciated. TIA Regards, Chris in Adelaide

Hi Chris, I'm not sure why you specifically asked for a lookup at PRO in Ballarat - are you aware that the assisted immigrants (and unassisted) are available all over Australia on fiche - I would be very surprised if they were not available at your State Library in Adelaide, larger genie centres and many university libraries. Hope this helps ......... Susie Z ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Ward" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 6:16 PM Subject: Ballaarat Look up > I'm wondering if there is SKS who could do a look up for me at the PROV > branch in Ballaarat. It is for the details of two 1840 assisted British > immigrants.

Hi all, It seems pretty clear to me that Chris doesn't need to be told to access the online indexes - afterall Chris has stated that the people were assisted passengers arriving in 1840 - tells me that Chris knows their names and the name of the boat that brought them to Australia - Chris is after any other useful information that may be on the passenger lists - perhaps the couple had sponsors - maybe Chris wants to know whether they could read or write or possibly where they came from and where they were going to? - all good stuff often contained in the passenger lists. I checked the actual passenger list for my grt.grt.grandmother - I didn't really need to know any more information that I may obtain from any passenger list - I knew her parents, when and where she was born - I knew she was a single woman arriving in Victoria in the 1850s - I knew she could write - her marriage certificate and other documents proved that - what I didn't know - and the indexes would never have told me this - she arrived in Victoria in the company of her brother-in-law and married sister, and the group had accomodation organised in Ballarat - wonderful little pieces of information that add to my grt.grt.grandmother's story. Perhaps Chris WARD is researching the two Ward people that arrived in Victoria aboard the "fever" migrant ship Glen Huntly in April 1840? WARD MARY ANNE 18 APR 1840 GLEN HUNTLY 1 XII WARD MOSES 20 APR 1840 GLEN HUNTLY 1 XII the young couple had one child - a Morgan WARD in 1841 and then seem to stop having children ?? And if Chris was researching this couple who survived the "fever" and quarantine then the passenger list may be quite fascinating?? The Melbourne suburb GlenHuntly derives its name from the ship: from this site: http://www.glenhuntlyps.vic.edu.au/about.htm History On 1st December 1839, the barque "Glen Huntly" sailed from Scotland under the command of Captain Buchanan with over 150 emigrants aboard. Over four months later, on the 17th April 1840, the Glen Huntly arrived at its destination, Hobson's Bay off 'William's Town'. Upon arrival it was learnt that passengers had died from typhus during the voyage, thus it was declared a 'fever ship' and was ordered to cross the bay and anchor off the Bluff - Point Ormond. Two quarantine camps were established. During the quarantine period, supplies for the passengers and the crew were taken along a track, which is now called Glen Huntly Road. The settlement, which slowly developed, was called Glen Huntly and the expansion of the suburb really took place after 1907. Glen Huntly Primary School, of three classrooms, was established on the Garden Avenue site on the 14th March 1914. In August 1921, the school building on the East Side of Grange Road was completed. So - Chris is after the passenger list not an index - and as another writer wrote - the passenger lists on microfiche are here and there at the better equipped locations throughout Australia - and not just at Ballarat. cheers Robert ps. of course I would like to know the people's names and the name of the ship of interest - and perhaps others who already have an interest in Chris's mysterious couple would like to know of Chris's common interest. Chris Ward wrote: > > I'm wondering if there is SKS who could do a look up for me at the PROV > branch in Ballaarat. It is for the details of two 1840 assisted British > immigrants. I have the details to provide off list to anyone who can help. > I stress I don't want anyone to make a special trip on my behalf but someone > who is going in the next week or so and can spend an extra few minutes for > my query would be really appreciated. > > > > TIA > > > > Regards, > > Chris in Adelaide > >