Ian, You might find that he came in via Adelaide. Victoria charged a levy on Chinese immigrants and so many stayed on board ship and disembarked at Adelaide and WALKED back to the goldfields to save the money. I have seen many shipping lists where the Chinese are not named - only entries like "17 Chinese from Hong Kong". Did your man ever own land? If so he should have been naturalised and the papers for that usually gives the chip of arrival. Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Welch" <ianwelch@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: <AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: [A.G.R. ] Arrival Chin Lang (or Ling Tip > Can anyone expert in Victorian arrivals assist in finding this man. > He arrived in Victoria in 1856 and was about 19 years of age.He came > from Sin Ning District (Taishan) in Canton Province. Four sons served > in the !st AIF in the Australian Light Horse. He lived at Port Albert > for many years (Gippsland). > Appreciate any help. > > Ian > -- > ianwelch@coombs.anu.edu.au > > > ==== AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Mailing List ==== > Have you visited AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Web site yet? > Please do? And do sign our visitors book? > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ausgenres/ > ************************************************************************ > PLEASE DO NOT SEND VIRUS WARNINGS TO THE LIST > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Ian, Some 16,000 or 17,000 Chinese got off at Robe in South Australia's South East and walked from there. It is part of the towns history, alarmed the resident for a while with numbers as high 4,000 camped out side of town. Regards Peter Applebee At 03:58 PM 28/07/2003, you wrote: >Ian, You might find that he came in via Adelaide. Victoria charged a levy on >Chinese immigrants and so many stayed on board ship and disembarked at >Adelaide and WALKED back to the goldfields to save the money. ============================================== Peter Applebee Elizabeth South Australia http://au.geocities.com/papplebee/ Genealogy: Chasing your own tale! ==============================================