Hello Listers, I am currently researching NEIL JAMIESON who was born 1832 in Bute, probably Rothesay. He obviously migrated to Australia as he married in 1857 in a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. I wondered whether there was any organised or unorganised migration programme operating in Bute during the 1850's. In different parts of the UK this was so, with people being attracted by the lure of land, or the hopes of finding gold. Since Neil Jamieson seems to have lived his Australian life in a Melbourne suburb, neither of the above reasons for migrating seem relevant. If I can narrow down when Neil may have left Bute, my chances of finding him on a shipping list would be greater. TIA, Janet from Sydney Australia