If passengers arrived from UK....even to Port Fairy...the original lists are at the PRO in Melbourne. It is the INTERCOLONIAL passengers that are sometimes not mentioned by name..just by numbers. For example, if you go to the passenger arrivals at Port Fairy for 1844 http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/port8.htm and scroll down to STEERAGE.....you will see how many are listed by number, not name! best wishes Jenny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Quinn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 2:08 PM Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] passengers Port Fairy > Most interested to read the comments about early passengers in this area. > There must have been far more we think as records do not exist for a lot. > I know, for instance, that 4 adults and around a dozen children landed there in 1852 from UK [and I assume the whole shipful] and then went overland to work for a squatter - no records of the ship or passengers exist but the comments came from a memoir written around 1970. They were rowed ashore in a small boat. Unfortunately it also contained the comment that though the ship name had been mentioned the writer could now not recall it. Pity. > Joy > > > ==== AUS-VIC-WESTERN-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Penshurst Historical Society > www.vicnet.net.au/~penshist > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >